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OpenAI’s Sora 2 Unveiled: 10-Second AI Videos with Sound & Selfie Cameos

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Unveiled: 10-Second AI Videos with Sound & Selfie Cameos

What is Sora 2? Sora 2 is OpenAI’s flagship video-and-audio generation model, building on the original Sora released in late 2024. It accepts text (and optionally images or videos) and outputs short videos with high-fidelity visuals and sound. According to OpenAI, Sora 2 is “more physically accurate, realistic, and controllable than prior systems,” and it synchronizes dialogue, sound effects, and background audio with generated video Openai. In practical terms, Sora 2 can handle complex scenes that obey real-world physics (gymnastics routines, paddleboard flips with correct buoyancy, realistic ball rebounds, etc.) that earlier models could not consistently simulate Openai Venturebeat. OpenAI
30 September 2025
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Meta’s $2B AI Chip Bet: Acquiring Rivos to Challenge Nvidia’s Dominance?

Meta’s $2B AI Chip Bet: Acquiring Rivos to Challenge Nvidia’s Dominance?

Meta’s move to acquire Rivos comes amid a major push by Big Tech to own the chips that power AI. The Santa Clara–based startup Rivos is a “stealth” AI-chip developer whose founders include former Apple and AMD engineers reuters.com waldencatalyst.com. Rivos’ CEO Puneet Kumar explains the company’s strategy: by targeting smaller installations, Rivos can offer cost-effective AI chips “where Nvidia might seem like an overkill from a cost perspective,” providing a solution “that works well enough and can compete quite well” waldencatalyst.com. In practice, Rivos is designing its chip around software for large-scale AI models. As Kumar told Reuters, “usually
30 September 2025
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AI Models Are Scheming – Inside OpenAI’s Plan to Stop Deceptive AI Behavior

OpenAI’s New Sora App Turns You and Friends into AI-Generated Movie Stars

What is Sora? From Text Prompts to Hyperreal Videos Sora began as an OpenAI research model (announced Feb. 2024) that could turn text or static images into short, realistic video clips. It was first offered to ChatGPT users and researchers to showcase “hyperreal” video generation openai.com sciencefriday.com. The original Sora showed surprisingly high fidelity – so much so that Science Friday’s AI reporter noted it was “nearly impossible to distinguish” the AI clips from real footage sciencefriday.com. However, early Sora had limitations (struggling with physics and longer action scenes). The new Sora 2 model (just announced alongside the app) greatly
30 September 2025
UNFI Stock Rockets to 52-Week High on Q4 Earnings Beat and Organic Growth Tailwinds /update: 1:20 PM ET/

UNFI Stock Rockets to 52-Week High on Q4 Earnings Beat and Organic Growth Tailwinds /update: 1:20 PM ET/

UNFI is modernizing its distribution fleet – for example, rolling out electric-powered delivery trucks (pictured above) as part of its sustainability and efficiency efforts. Stock and Market Overview United Natural Foods, Inc. (NYSE: UNFI) has seen its stock price surge on Sept. 30, 2025, reaching new 52-week highs after the company released its fiscal Q4 results. The rally reflects investor relief that UNFI met or beat expectations despite a recent cyber disruption. At close on Sept. 30, UNFI traded around $35.4, up roughly 12% from the prior day marketbeat.com. This put the stock at its 52-week peak of $36.21 marketbeat.com.
30 September 2025
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Crown Electrokinetics (CRWV/CRKN) Surges Amid Takeover Buzz – Key Facts & Analysis (Sept 30, 2025)

Crown Equity Holdings (OTC:CRWE) Surges Into Spotlight: Joint Ventures Spark Speculation – Stock Update (1:20 PM ET Sept 2025)

Citations in the summary above: company business summary tipranks.com, market stats tipranks.com tipranks.com, financials mlq.ai, press releases crwepressrelease.comcrwepressrelease.com crwepressrelease.com crwepressrelease.com, analyst commentary newswireindiaonline.com newswireindiaonline.com, and regulatory filings crownequityholdings.com crwepressrelease.com crwepressrelease.com. Company Profile and Stock Overview Crown Equity Holdings, Inc. (CRWE) describes itself as “an online multi-media publisher” providing advertising, branding, and marketing services worldwide tipranks.com. It operates in the digital/media consulting space (after originally being named Micro Bio-Medical Waste Systems, Inc. before 2006). The company also touts its developing CRWE WORLD platform for news and business launches. Crown Equity is traded over-the-counter (OTCPink) and as of Sept 30, 2025 has
30 September 2025
Wolfspeed’s Wild Ride: From Bankruptcy Plans to EV Boom – What’s Next for WOLF Stock?

Wolfspeed’s Wild Rebound: Stock Jumps 33% as Chipmaker Escapes Bankruptcy /1:20 PM ET/

Stock Performance Wolfspeed’s share price has been extremely volatile. After peaking near $134 in late 2021, WOLF plunged on operational setbacks, falling into low single digits by mid-2025 eetimes.com. It briefly hit multiyear lows (around $0.39) during the summer bankruptcy period reuters.com. The Sept. 30, 2025 trading day saw WOLF trade up around 46% intraday (close ~$32.39) reuters.com, fueled by the Chapter 11 exit announcement reuters.com. This dramatic rebound put the stock roughly 80% above its prior 52-week low and firmly at a one-year high. Trading volume has spiked accordingly, reflecting frenzied investor interest. (For context, Wolfspeed’s market cap is now on
30 September 2025
Kazakhstan’s Crypto Gambit: State Launches BNB-Fueled Digital Reserve Fund

Kazakhstan’s Crypto Gambit: State Launches BNB-Fueled Digital Reserve Fund

Kazakhstan’s bold move into crypto reserves reflects its ambition to become a regional digital finance hub. The Alem Crypto Fund is explicitly designed to accumulate high-grade crypto assets over the long term. By choosing BNB (market cap ~$138 billion) as its first holding, Kazakhstan is not buying Bitcoin or an obscure token, but a leading utility coin at the heart of Binance’s network gov.kz cointelegraph.com. BNB’s functions – from transaction fuel to staking and governance – give the fund both financial upside (fees, staking rewards) and strategic influence in a major crypto ecosystem. As a result, the fund serves as both
30 September 2025
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Capital One Savers Cheated Out of Billions – $425M Settlement Payout Deadline Fast Approaching

Capital One Savers Cheated Out of Billions – $425M Settlement Payout Deadline Fast Approaching

Capital One’s $425 million settlement stems from a years-long fight over alleged bait-and-switch tactics. The crux of the case is that Capital One promoted its “360 Savings” account as a top high-yield product, yet kept its rate locked at about 0.30% even as national rates climbed. At the same time, the bank quietly introduced a nearly identical “360 Performance Savings” account, which did pay much higher interest (reaching 4.3% by early 2024) reuters.com consumerfinance.gov. Existing 360 Savings customers were largely kept in the dark – for example, Capital One reportedly removed most references to the old account on its website and
30 September 2025
China’s DeepSeek Unveils AI Model Halving Costs by 50% – The ‘Sparse Attention’ Revolution

China’s DeepSeek Unveils AI Model Halving Costs by 50% – The ‘Sparse Attention’ Revolution

DeepSeek’s New V3.2-Exp Model Hangzhou-based DeepSeek burst onto the AI scene earlier in 2025 with its R1 model (a heavily RL-trained chatbot) techcrunch.com. This time, DeepSeek’s announcement focuses on efficiency. On Sept. 29 the company published a post (on Hugging Face) unveiling DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, an experimental large language model built on its V3 series techcrunch.com techcrunch.com. According to DeepSeek, V3.2-Exp maintains similar reasoning performance to V3.1 but uses far less compute for long inputs. The key innovation is a “DeepSeek Sparse Attention” (DSA) mechanism: rather than comparing every token to every other in a long document (the dense attention used by
30 September 2025
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Trump Unveils ‘TrumpRx’ Plan with Pfizer Deal to Slash Drug Prices

Trump Unveils ‘TrumpRx’ Plan with Pfizer Deal to Slash Drug Prices

What Is “TrumpRx”? A Direct-to-Consumer Drug Website “TrumpRx” is a planned federal website that will let Americans buy prescription medicines directly from the government at cash prices. According to administration officials, TrumpRx will negotiate discounted rates with drugmakers and allow patients to pay out-of-pocket for certain drugs, bypassing insurers and middlemen wbtv.com reuters.com. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on social media that Trump will announce TrumpRx, and a Wall Street Journal report says the site will be branded TrumpRx newsweek.com reuters.com. It is not yet clear which medications will be offered, but the idea is to force prices
30 September 2025
Pokémon GO’s Steel Skyline Event Unleashes Shiny Dynamax Duraludon – How to Catch the New “Alloy” Pokémon

Pokémon GO’s Steel Skyline Event Unleashes Shiny Dynamax Duraludon – How to Catch the New “Alloy” Pokémon

Event Overview: Steel Skyline Launch Niantic’s official announcement confirms that the Steel Skyline event will run from September 30 to October 7, 2025, with Dynamax Duraludon as its centerpiece pokemongo.com pokemongo.com. In a news update, the Pokémon GO team stated: “Dynamax Duraludon will make its Pokémon GO debut in four-star Max Battles!” and reminded trainers that, if they’re lucky, “you may encounter a Shiny one!” pokemongo.com. In other words, this event marks the first appearance of Duraludon (and its rare shiny variant) in Pokémon GO. The schedule confirms that all local timezones will see the event begin at 10 AM on
30 September 2025
Black Ops 7 Multiplayer Unveiled: 18 Maps, Insane New Overload Mode & Beta Dates Revealed

Black Ops 7 Multiplayer Unveiled: 18 Maps, Insane New Overload Mode & Beta Dates Revealed

Overload Mode & Map Lineup In its multiplayer deep dive, Treyarch and Raven have detailed every major mode and map coming to Black Ops 7. The standout is Overload, a brand-new 6v6 mode described as a “push-and-pull” game of keep-away. Players must grab and carry the single Overload Device into enemy zones to score. Treyarch’s blog teases that “momentum swings sharply as the device changes hands, making every pickup, player escort, and interception a pivotal moment” callofduty.com. The HUD even highlights the device on the mini-map and grants a personal radar to whoever holds it callofduty.com, so expect constant skirmishes
30 September 2025
Inside Salesforce’s Generative AI Revolution: How Marketing GPT and Einstein GPT Are Reshaping CRM

Salesforce (CRM) Stock News: Shares Slide 3% on Weak Guidance, AI Ambitions Tested

Sources: Stock prices and trading data from Investing.com investing.com; company press releases and financial results salesforce.com salesforce.com; news reports and analysis from Reuters, Salesforce Ben, and MarketBeat reuters.com salesforceben.com marketbeat.com capital.com marketbeat.com. These provide the latest market info, expert quotes, and forecast estimates.
30 September 2025
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Bugatti Veyron Turns 20: How the Hypercar Icon Is Being Celebrated with Spectacular Festivals and Record-Breaking Auctions

Bugatti Veyron Turns 20: How the Hypercar Icon Is Being Celebrated with Spectacular Festivals and Record-Breaking Auctions

Origins – Piech’s “Impossible” Hypercar The Veyron traces its roots to one man’s audacious idea. In the late 1990s, VW Group chairman Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Piëch (grandson of Ferdinand Porsche) sketched on a train a vision for “a 736 kW [1,000 PS], 400 km/h road car” motor1.com drivencarguide.co.nz. His engineers thought he’d “lost the plot,” but Piëch had a history of defying convention. After VW bought Bugatti in 1998, he pushed several concept studies (EB118, EB218, EB 18/3 Chiron, and an in‑house EB 18/4 “Veyron” concept) toward a final production car motor1.com news.dupontregistry.com. The result was unveiled at the 2005 Frankfurt Motor Show
30 September 2025
Pfizer Stock 2025: 7% Dividend, Obesity Gamble, and Wall Street’s Verdict

Pfizer (PFE) Stock Soars on Trump’s Drug-Price Pact and $7.3B Weight-Loss Deal

Stock Performance (Sep 2025) On Sept 30, 2025 Pfizer closed around $24.40 reuters.com. Over the past year PFE underperformed the pharma sector (latest 52-week range ~$20.91–30.43 reuters.com). Its trailing P/E is 12.64× reuters.com (ex. special items) and forward P/E ~7.7× reuters.com, compared to ~19× for J&J and ~12× for Merck (see table). Pfizer’s dividend yield (~7.2%) reuters.com is by far the highest in big pharma (JNJ ~2.9%, MRK ~4.1%). The stock rallied on strong earnings in early August s206.q4cdn.com reuters.com and on the Sept 30 Trump pricing news. Q2 2025 Financial Results and Corporate Updates Pfizer reported Q2 2025 revenue
30 September 2025
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SoFi Stock Plunges on September 30 – What’s Going On?

SoFi Stock Plunges on September 30 – What’s Going On?

Stock Performance (Sep 25–30, 2025) SOFI opened Sep 30 near $27.50 and slipped to close around $26.04 reuters.com, down ~5.5%. Trading volume was elevated (~36.1 million shares that day reuters.com), compared to a 3-month average of ~1.48 million. The drop on Sep 30 extended a slight pullback from late-September highs near the $30.30 52-week peak (set earlier in September reuters.com). Over Sep 25–29, the stock was fairly flat: it closed $27.55 on Sep 29 (−1.5% that day nasdaq.com) and $27.98 on Sep 24. Tuesday’s decline lagged the broad market: the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite was up ~0.5% on Sep 30 nasdaq.com
30 September 2025
Realme 15T vs the Competition: 7000mAh Battery Beast Takes on Samsung, Xiaomi & OnePlus

Realme 15T vs the Competition: 7000mAh Battery Beast Takes on Samsung, Xiaomi & OnePlus

Realme 15T Overview and Key Features Realme’s new 15T 5G is positioned as a value-packed mid-range smartphone that aims to stand out in 2025’s crowded market. Launched in September 2025 at a starting price of ₹20,999 (about $250) for the 8GB/128GB model 91mobiles.com gadgets360.com, the 15T is the successor to last year’s 14T and brings several notable upgrades: In summary, the Realme 15T offers a mix of standout strengths and a few compromises. Its biggest draws are the marathon battery life, sleek design with durability perks, and high-quality display – attributes that make it a superb everyday smartphone for users
30 September 2025
Battle of the Mid-Range 5G Titans: Honor X9b Faces Samsung, Xiaomi, OnePlus & More in 2025

Battle of the Mid-Range 5G Titans: Honor X9b Faces Samsung, Xiaomi, OnePlus & More in 2025

Honor X9b at a Glance (vs Key Rivals) Honor X9b 5G in Sunrise Orange (vegan leather back) – a phone built for longevity with its toughened glass and robust frame Business Standard Business Standard. It launched in late 2023 as a durable mid-range option focused on battery life and resilience. The Honor X9b 5G made its debut in October 2023 (global) and early 2024 in markets like India. Priced around ₹18,999 (~$230) in India Indiatimes (or ~SAR 1,399 in Mideast), it significantly undercuts some competitors while packing strong specs. Honor’s X9 series refreshes annually (the X9c in 2024, and X9d
30 September 2025
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Logitech MX Master 4 vs. The World: Ultimate Productivity Mouse Showdown

Logitech MX Master 4 vs. The World: Ultimate Productivity Mouse Showdown

Logitech MX Master 4 – A New Flagship for Productivity Logitech’s MX Master series has long been the gold standard for productivity mice, and the MX Master 4 is its most advanced iteration yet. Announced in late 2025, this flagship mouse “carries over everything we loved about the 3S” – such as the comfy sculpted shape, dual scroll wheels, multi-device pairing – “while adding haptic feedback and an ‘Action Ring’ menu” for shortcuts Tomshardware. Key Features & Improvements: The headline addition is customizable haptic feedback, a first for any MX mouse Logitech. A vibration motor in the thumb rest provides subtle tactile
30 September 2025
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BP Bets Big on Oil with $5B Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Platform

BP Bets Big on Oil with $5B Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Platform

Project Details and Timeline BP’s announcement marks a milestone in the Gulf of Mexico, a region long known for deepwater oil riches. The Tiber-Guadalupe platform will be located roughly 300 miles southwest of New Orleans, at water depths over 6,000 feet bignewsnetwork.com spglobal.com. BP originally discovered the Tiber field in 2009 and the Guadalupe field in 2014; combining them with six new wells (Tiber) and two tie-back wells (Guadalupe) gives the hub its 80,000 bpd capacity bignewsnetwork.com oilprice.com. First oil is targeted for 2030, after a multi-year construction and commissioning phase. According to BP, the project is fully funded within its
30 September 2025
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Stock Market Today

Energy stocks set for a geopolitical week after Iran warning and oil rebound

Energy stocks set for a geopolitical week after Iran warning and oil rebound

7 February 2026
U.S. energy stocks rose Friday, with the S&P 500 energy sector up 1.88% and Exxon Mobil gaining 2.03%. Brent crude settled at $68.05 a barrel after Iran threatened U.S. bases if attacked. Saudi Aramco cut March Arab Light crude prices to a five-year low for Asia. Kazakhstan’s CPC Blend exports may drop 35% this month due to Tengiz oilfield disruptions.
Financial services stocks rally as XLF jumps, Dow hits 50,000 — what to watch next week

Financial services stocks rally as XLF jumps, Dow hits 50,000 — what to watch next week

7 February 2026
U.S. financial stocks rose Friday, with the XLF fund up 1.8% and the Dow closing above 50,000 for the first time, gaining 2.47%. Goldman Sachs jumped 4.3%, JPMorgan 3.9%, and Citigroup 6.0%. The Federal Reserve held rates steady, and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly signaled possible cuts this year. Investors await January jobs and inflation data next week.
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