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Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel ...

OpenAI will soon shut down its Sora AI video-generation app, the company said in a surprising announcement Tuesday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and ...

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OpenAI is winding down Sora, the video generation app it launched to much fanfare last year that signaled a bigger push into creative tools and social media. OpenAI is shuttering the standalone app to ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Sora's abrupt shutdown is largely due to internal pressure with OpenAI executives ...

OpenAI has closed a deal to raise $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation, its largest funding round to date as the company is expected to hit the public markets this year. The round will add to ...

OpenAI has acquired the online technology talk show TBPN, an unusual purchase for the artificial intelligence model developer aimed at driving the conversation around AI. OpenAI and TBPN didn’t ...

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OpenAI (OPENAI) plans to discontinue offering its AI-powered short video generation app Sora. "We’ve decided to discontinue Sora in the consumer app and API," said an OpenAI spokesperson in an email ...

Disney‘s much heralded $1 billion investment in OpenAI is over as the Sam Altman-led tech giant said Tuesday that it will be shuttering its stand-alone Sora text-to-video app. “The deal is not moving ...