Video Generation

Today's Stories

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   OpenAI shutters ChatGPT Atlas browser after less than a year

   OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser launched in October, with deprecation targeted for August 9th. The company is rolling the lessons learned from Atlas into updated browser features in the desktop ChatGPT app and a new cloud browser for work mode. Atlas was designed to help users accomplish tasks on the open web on their behalf. OpenAI is consolidating what it learned from the experiment into more integrated productivity tools as it works to reduce side projects and catch up with Anthropic on work-focused features.

   The August 9th sunset date for Atlas marks one of several recent product shutdowns by OpenAI, including the video generation app Sora and a paused ChatGPT "adult mode," suggesting the company is refocusing its priorities.

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   Wistron chief: AI demand broadening beyond US as sovereign AI gains traction

   Wistron chairman Simon Lin stated that AI demand is expanding beyond the US as sovereign AI projects gain traction in more countries, and that the industry is entering a new phase rather than a bubble. The shift suggests wider adoption of AI services globally, more paid services, and a longer runway for spending on AI infrastructure, which has implications for equipment makers and service providers worldwide.

   The expansion of sovereign AI projects—government-backed AI initiatives in individual countries—as an indicator of sustained, geographically distributed demand for AI infrastructure.

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   Apple researchers tackle text-to-video synthesis challenges

   Apple researchers published a study addressing two key bottlenecks in text-to-sounding-video generation—the process of creating synchronized video and audio from text descriptions. The work identifies text conditioning as a limiting factor, where shared captions between video and audio cause interference, and proposes solutions for improving cross-modal feature interaction. Text-to-sounding-video generation is an emerging capability in AI systems; solving these alignment and interference problems could improve the quality and usability of AI-generated multimedia for content creators and media companies relying on automated production tools.

   The research is published on Apple's Machine Learning Research site, making the findings publicly available for the research community to build upon.

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   OpenAI shuts Sora video app, Disney deal scrapped

   OpenAI announced Tuesday it is shutting down the Sora app, the video generation tool the company launched in December 2024. The $1 billion（約1600億円） partnership deal with Disney, announced in December 2025 to let users create videos with Disney characters, is also being terminated. OpenAI did not confirm reports that Sora would move into ChatGPT, but promised to share timelines for the app and API soon. Sora faced steep competition from other AI video tools like Google's Veo and Luma Ray and never captured the early momentum from its launch. The sudden exit and Disney deal cancellation, just months after CEO Bob Iger was promoting the partnership in February 2026, signal internal turmoil at OpenAI—a company also dealing with wrongful death lawsuits tied to teen mental health concerns.

   OpenAI has promised to share more details soon, including timelines for preserving user work. The deal was originally set to last three years; Disney said it "respects" OpenAI's decision to exit video generation and shift priorities elsewhere.