What is Sora and why did it explode?

Say this for OpenAI: it's very good at raising money, and it's very good at getting attention. David and Jake are joined by The Verge's Hayden Field to talk about OpenAI's demo day, the company's app store plans, why it's trying to build every possible ChatGPT feature all at the same time, and more. After that, the hosts talk about the ongoing popularity of the Sora app, and whether OpenAI has truly built a new kind of social network. Then Hayden has to leave, so David and Jake take on the lightning round to discuss Intel chips, Alex Cooper's Google deal, Starry internet, and more.

Further reading:

• OpenAI will let developers build apps that work inside ChatGPT

• ChatGPT apps are live: Here are the first ones you can try

• OpenAI: all the news about the makers of ChatGPT
  

• OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT said it will significantly evolve in the next six months. 
  

• OpenAI will eventually allow “mature” ChatGPT apps. 

• OpenAI and Jony Ive’s secret device won’t be ‘your weird AI girlfriend’
  

• AMD teams up with OpenAI to challenge Nvidia’s AI chip dominance

• Sam Altman says there are no current plans for ads within ChatGPT Pulse — but he’s not ruling it out

• A busy week for OpenAI’s social video machine.

• Sora now lets users limit how their AI double is used
  

• OpenAI teases licensed fictional characters on Sora
  

• OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama
  

• Developers can bring Sora 2’s AI video generation into their own apps. 
  

• Katie Notopolous on Threads

•  Sora’s Slop Hits Different

• A new iPhone setting will stop CarPlay from stealing your AirPods’ audio 
  

• Here is Panther Lake, Intel’s 2026 laptop chip with next-gen graphics\

• Facebook is turning into TikTok 

• Alex Cooper is making ads for Google / Pixel
  

• Here’s how Apple is locking down iPhones to comply with Texas’ age verification law
  

• Verizon buys the not-quite-5G wireless ISP Starry to expand wireless broadband 

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