🍿This week in the world of AI:
🎬 Scene 1: Sora officially enters the social media group chat
OpenAI launched Sora 2 along with an invite-only iOS app that turns text (and your selfies) into hyper-real videos with sound — and it shot to #1 on the U.S. App Store within a day. 👉 Read more: OpenAI
🎬 Scene 2: ChatGPT turns window-shopping into one-tap checkout
OpenAI rolled out Instant Checkout and an open Agentic Commerce Protocol so you can discover and buy products right inside ChatGPT (Stripe co-built the rails; Etsy live now, Shopify “coming soon”). RIP, abandoned carts — hello, “I only meant to browse.” 👉 Read more: OpenAI
🎬 Scene 3: Claude’s glow-up — and Microsoft’s ‘open relationship’ Copilot
Anthropic launched Claude 4.5 (Sonnet) with longer autonomous coding runs and stronger finance/science chops — and Microsoft is adding Anthropic models to 365 Copilot, letting enterprises switch between model providers. TL;DR: multi-model workplaces are here. 👉 Read more: Reuters
🎬 Scene 4: Alexa+ gets a hardware glam squad
At Amazon’s fall event, the company unveiled new Echo devices designed for its generative Alexa+ assistant (plus fresh smart displays and speakers). It’s more proactive, more conversational, and clearly gunning for your kitchen counter. 👉 Read more: About Amazon
🫣 Blooper Reel:
Campus creepy tech: USF warned students after a man used Meta’s Ray-Ban AI glasses to film women without consent. Yikes. SFGATE
Hollywood’s uncanny ‘It Girl’: An AI-generated actress sparked union + celeb backlash over “stolen performances” and replacing women on screen. Reuters
Because we still need basic laws in 2025: Florida just made non-consensual deepfake porn a felony. Necessary, overdue, and yes—cringe that it took this long. Tallahassee.com