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- Sora Turbo AI video generator released for ChatGPT Plus, Pro
- Google unveils Willow quantum chip, calls it parallel universes evidence
- TikTok seeks to halt U.S. ban pending Supreme Court review
- Internet traffic worldwide +17.2% in 2024, with Google leading
- American workers falling behind others on basic skills
- China may set highest budget deficit next year since 1994 tax reform
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1. Sora Turbo AI video generator released for ChatGPT Plus, Pro subscribers
Pro users get 1080p and more usage vs Plus.
<=20 seconds per video.
UK, Switzerland, and EU excluded at launch.
Signups are disabled due to higher-than-expected demand.
Sora rejects requests for generating videos involving under-18 individuals
Strict thresholds for moderation if under-18 individuals appear in videos.
Only a āsubsetā of users can generate real people videos.
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3. Google unveils new Willow quantum chip, calls it evidence of parallel universes
ā[Willow] performed a computation in under five minutes that would take one of todayās fastest supercomputers [10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000] years.
āIt lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, in line with the idea that we live in a multiverse, a prediction first made by David Deutsch.ā
The error rate dropped by a factor of 2.14 as the lattice size increased from 3x3 to 7x7
Bitcoin and other encrypted systems could be threatened by future quantum computers.
Google said this was Milestone 2 in their 6-step roadmap to a functional quantum computer
4. TikTok seeks to halt U.S. ban pending Supreme Court review
Give the incoming Trump administration time to review, the TikTok said in its filing.
āNo imminent threat to national securityā by pausing the law, it said.
The court should quickly deny TikTokās request, the government argued.
