OpenAI’s Sora may have gone out of business, but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos. On Thursday, the tech giant announced an update to Google Vids that will let you create a custom digital avatar that looks and sounds like you based on
A White House teleprompter operator is being investigated for allegedly using inside information to place bets and make nearly $100,000 on US President Donald Trump’s speeches. Gabriel Pérez, who had worked in the White House since 2016, is accused of placing bets on the words the president would use during major public speeches, including the
Whatever its other benefits, Santa Monica hasn’t been a big music destination since the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium stopped hosting concerts and especially since the coastal city’s famous Twilight Series on the Pier came to an end a dozen years ago. But tens of thousands of music enthusiasts from across the Southern California area can
In the race to bring autonomous robots into the home, Sunday Robotics says it has solved one of the field’s toughest problems: getting a robot to work in homes and handle objects it has never seen before. On Thursday, the Bay Area-based startup unveiled ACT-2, a new artificial intelligence model that powers Memo, its wheeled
BP has had an on-again, off-again relationship with climate technology. Now, it’s definitely “off.” In addition to moving away from clean energy earlier this year, the oil giant announced today that it would sell most of its portfolio of companies (more than 10 companies, according to BP) to Verdane, a Nordic private equity firm. Since
At least one person has died in flooding in Central Texas, the same area that saw more than 130 deaths in flash floods last summer. “Large and deadly” flooding from the Guadalupe River is expected to hit the region after days of torrential rain, the National Weather Service in San Antonio reported. Last year’s flash
