From CNET: Disney is bringing more than 200 of its biggest characters, from Marvel to Star Wars and Pixar, to OpenAI's Sora AI social media app and AI images in a $1 billion equity investment deal, the companies announced Thursday. That means Sora users will soon be able to generate AI videos...

From PC Mag: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has very strong feelings about the typeface used in his department, and has demanded that diplomats dump Calibri and return to Times New Roman, according to a memo obtained by The New York Times.

Rubio calls Calibri "informal" compared to Times New...

From ExtremeTech: Although the Trump administration plans to allow Nvidia to sell its powerful H200 AI GPUs to China, chip smuggling remains a major problem. And as it turns out, Nvidia has been working on a technology that could help combat that problem. Reuters, which broke the story, notes that...

From PC World: YouTube TV is about to get skinny—that is, it’s set to add skinny bundles of live streaming TV channels next year, including a sports package with every ESPN network.

More than 10 of these “genre-specific” bundles are coming to YouTube TV next year, but for now, YouTube is only...

From eWeek: Google appears to be gearing up to release a new, more efficient version of its image generation tool, tentatively named Nano Banana 2 Flash.

According to a report from TestingCatalog, Nano Banana 2 Flash will be the next lightweight model within the Gemini ecosystem. It is expected to...

From CNET: Travelers visiting the US may be required to disclose five years of their social media history under a proposal filed on Tuesday by the US Customs and Border Protection agency. The Department of Homeland Security said in a notice that visitors from several dozen countries would be...

From ExtremeTech: Microsoft has cut its sales targets for its agentic AI software after struggling to find buyers interested in using it. In some cases, targets have been slashed by up to 50%, suggesting Microsoft overestimated the potential of its new AI tools. Indeed, compared with ChatGPT and...

From The Verge: Reddit is starting to test verified profiles, the company announced today. Users who are verified as part of this “limited alpha test” will have a gray checkmark next to their username “across profiles, communities, feeds, post detail pages, and search results.”

For this “initial...

From TechCrunch: After a string of disturbing mental health incidents involving AI chatbots, a group of state attorneys general have sent a letter to the AI industry’s top companies, with a warning to fix “delusional outputs” or risk being in breach of state law.

The letter, signed by dozens of...

From PC World: A new study from the Pew Research Center shows that three in 10 American teens use AI chatbots every day, Techcrunch reports. Four percent say they do so almost constantly.

Among respondents, 59 percent say they use Open AI’s ChatGPT, more than twice as many as runner-up Google...