☕️ OpenAI flips Sora's copyright policy in 72 hours

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🤝 OpenAI flips Sora's copyright policy in 72 hours

🛰️ Bezos predicts gigawatt data centers in space

📈 Google Gemini gains ground on ChatGPT

⚠️ Discord breach leaks user data and photo IDs

🏦 Coinbase applies for a national trust charter

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• After launching with few restrictions and allowing copyrighted material like "South Park," OpenAI quickly blocked these prompts following what appeared to be a forceful response from copyright holders.
• CEO Sam Altman announced that rights holders will soon get an expanded control system allowing them to set detailed rules for how their specific characters can be generated in Sora.
• The company also revealed plans for a new revenue model to share money with creators when their content is generated, although concrete details or a timeline have not been released.

• Jeff Bezos predicts that within 20 years, companies will construct enormous gigawatt data centers in space, where constant solar power and easier cooling offer an edge over Earth-based facilities.
• Uninterrupted by clouds or night, solar panels in Earth orbit could provide consistent energy, while the extreme cold of space offers a straightforward way to cool the powerful server equipment.
• The project is commercially unfeasible today because launching thousands of metric tons of solar panels and radiators would require well over 150 launches and cost tens of billions of dollars.

• Google Gemini is gaining ground in the market, with its share of generative AI traffic more than doubling from 6.5 percent to 13.7 percent over the last twelve months.
• Although ChatGPT still commands the market, its share of generative AI traffic has dropped from 87.1 percent to 73.8 percent, showing a clear decline in its overall dominance.
• The rest of the market remains fragmented, with competitors like DeepSeek, Perplexity, Grok, Claude, and Microsoft's Copilot each holding less than four percent of the generative AI traffic.

• Hackers compromised a third-party customer service provider, exposing Discord users' personally identifying information like real names, usernames, email addresses, and other contact details provided to the support team.
• The attackers also gained access to photos of government-issued identification documents and partial billing info, which included payment type, purchase history, and the last four credit card digits.
• The incident also compromised IP addresses, plus the full messages and attachments that people sent to Discord's support agents when they were seeking help with their accounts.

• Coinbase has applied for a national trust charter to expand its crypto payment services using stablecoins, while making it clear the company has no intention of becoming a bank.
• The charter would give Coinbase a single federal overseer instead of a patchwork of state regulators, helping the exchange launch new crypto features much faster across the United States.
• Other firms like Circle, Ripple, and Paxos are seeking similar national licenses to bypass slow federal lawmaking and the messy landscape of differing state-by-state rules for digital assets.

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