Hey Reader, A super-quick share for today – last night I got access to Sora, the new video-generation model from OpenAI. I handed the keyboard to my 10-year-old son to see what he'd do with it, and here are the results: Watch: Our First Look at Sora Video AI ••• (By the way, be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for lots more free tutorials and walkthroughs like this.) Enjoy! And if you have time this weekend, I highly recommend creating an account and getting some of your own video-generation playtime on the books! ••• That's all for today! As always, if you have any questions or topic ideas for next week, just reply. Have a great day, – Rob Howard |
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