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Sora’s Siren Song: What an AI-First Video Feed Reveals About Energy, Law, and the Limits of Synthetic Attention
OpenAI’s Sora—an invite-only app that serves an endless feed of exclusively AI-generated, up-to-10-second videos—has rocketed to the top of the App Store. It looks like a neat trick, but under the hood it’s a stress test for compute infrastructure, copyright law, and the social systems that will have to police machine-made reality.
Fast-Track Fulfillment: How Six-Month AutoStore Deployments and a $7.5B Packaging Boom Rewrite the ROI Playbook
A warehouse floor that used to require months of downtime now filled a 20,100‑bin AutoStore grid in six months — live, integrated with SAP, and without major renovations. That deployment is a symptom: packaging and logistics automation is accelerating, forcing procurement teams to treat speed, not just unit cost, as the primary line item in ROI models.
Humanoids at the Power Threshold: Why New AI Stacks, Wireless Charging, and Big-Money Deals Are Suddenly Changing What Robots Can Do
A week of headlines — NVIDIA-powered AI stacks, SoftBank’s purchase of ABB Robotics for $5.375 billion, and CE approval for wireless ‘power-in-motion’ — pulled humanoid robots out of lab demos and into industrial strategy documents. The missing piece: reliable power, edge autonomy, and safety-ready engineering that turn plastic prototypes into 24/7 workers.
Essential reporting on the robots, companies, and policies shaping the next industrial era.
Prime Deals, New Headphones, and AI in Your Home: What to Buy — and What to Wait For — During October Big Deal Days
It’s October Big Deal Days (running through Oct. 9, 2025).
When an FDA Nod Becomes a Signal Fire: Leucovorin, Autism Hope, and the Policy Vacuum
On Sept. 22, 2025, the U.S.
AI & Machine Learning
Sora’s Infinite Scroll: Why AI-Generated Video Breaks the Model (and the Law)
OpenAI’s Sora—an invite‑only app that stitches endless 10‑second AI videos into a TikTok‑style feed—surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store in October 2025.
Sora’s Siren Song: What an AI-First Video Feed Reveals About Energy, Law, and the Limits of Synthetic Attention
OpenAI’s Sora—an invite-only app that serves an endless feed of exclusively AI-generated, up-to-10-second videos—has rocketed to the top of the App Store. It looks like a neat trick, but under the hood it’s a stress test for compute infrastructure, copyright law, and the social systems that will have to police machine-made reality.
Sora’s Infinite Scroll: Inside OpenAI’s Video App and the Compute, Climate, and Copyright Storm It’s Stirring
OpenAI’s Sora serves an endless feed of AI‑made 10‑second videos — hyperreal cameos, trademarked characters, and surreal micro‑memes streamed at scale. The app is a technical stunt, a legal lightning rod, and a potential emissions problem all at once — and it’s forcing a reckoning about what unrestricted generative video might cost.
Sora’s Infinite Scroll: The technical, legal, and climate bill of AI-generated video
OpenAI’s Sora—a TikTok‑like app that serves an endless feed of exclusively AI‑generated videos—shot to the top of Apple’s App Store within days of its October release. Its promise is simple and strange: ten‑second cinematic hallucinations on demand, populated by hyperreal cameos of real people and copyrighted characters.
Sora’s Short Films, Big Questions: How OpenAI Turned Video into an AI Compute Gamble
In early October 2025, OpenAI quietly launched Sora — an app that feeds an endless stream of AI‑generated, 10‑second videos — and climbed to No. 1 on Apple’s US App Store.
Sora’s Siren Song: Why OpenAI’s Infinite AI-Video Scroll Is a Test of Tech, Money, and Law
When OpenAI launched Sora in October 2025, it promised an endless feed of AI‑generated 10‑second videos you know are fake — and, perversely, might prefer that way. The app rocketed to the top of Apple’s charts within days and left technologists asking a blunt question: can anyone afford to run a platform that streams synthetic video by the billion?
Sora’s Infinite Scroll: Why OpenAI’s AI-Video Feed Is a Tech, Legal, and Carbon Test
OpenAI’s Sora — an invite-only app that serves an endless stream of exclusively AI-generated videos — shot to the top of Apple’s US App Store days after its October 2025 debut. The product stitches short, hyperreal clips (each up to 10 seconds) that include deepfakable cameos and copyrighted characters, and it is already straining three fragile seams: compute costs, copyright law, and human trust.
Industrial Robotics
Fast-Track Fulfillment: How Six-Month AutoStore Deployments and a $7.5B Packaging Boom Rewrite the ROI Playbook
A warehouse floor that used to require months of downtime now filled a 20,100‑bin AutoStore grid in six months — live, integrated with SAP, and without major renovations. That deployment is a symptom: packaging and logistics automation is accelerating, forcing procurement teams to treat speed, not just unit cost, as the primary line item in ROI models.
Warehouse Robots Meet Capital Markets: Rapid Deployments, Rising RaaS, and the ABB Sale That Changes ROI Calculus
Warehouses are shifting from pilot projects to full production in months, not years. Right-fit boxers, AMRs and robot-as-a-service deals are pushing packaging automation toward a $7.5 billion market, while investors rewrite valuations — and ABB’s $5.375 billion divestment to SoftBank reframes how OEMs monetize robotics.
Warehouse Gravity: How M&A, RaaS and Faster Deployments Are Rewriting Automation ROI
A $5.4 billion divestment, 7,000 robotics jobs changing hands, and warehouse robotics growing faster than the factories that made them — the automation market is tilting toward mobile fleets, subscription models and rapid deployments that shave months off integration timelines and years off payback periods.
Warehouse Automation’s Fast Lane: How Right‑Fit Robots, RaaS and Rapid Deployments Are Rewriting ROI
Warehouses and end-of-line packaging are moving from proof-of-concept to profit in months, not years. Right-fit boxers, robot-as-a-service fleets and turnkey AutoStore installs are collapsing payback windows while new safety and AI standards reshape deployment risk and cost.
Warehouse Robots, Right-Fit Packaging and the $5.4B Signal: Where Industrial Automation Money Is Flowing Now
Warehouses are no longer experimental testbeds for robots — they’re procurement battlegrounds. Between a $5.375 billion corporate recalibration, double-digit AMR adoption in logistics, and record-fast AutoStore installs, industrial buyers face a new calculus: invest in end-to-end automation now, or pay escalating labor and compliance penalties later.
Humanoids
Humanoids at the Power Threshold: Why New AI Stacks, Wireless Charging, and Big-Money Deals Are Suddenly Changing What Robots Can Do
A week of headlines — NVIDIA-powered AI stacks, SoftBank’s purchase of ABB Robotics for $5.375 billion, and CE approval for wireless ‘power-in-motion’ — pulled humanoid robots out of lab demos and into industrial strategy documents. The missing piece: reliable power, edge autonomy, and safety-ready engineering that turn plastic prototypes into 24/7 workers.
SoftBank’s Big Bet and the Missing Pieces for Practical Humanoids
When SoftBank agreed to buy ABB Robotics for $5.375 billion, it signaled a new phase: industrial-robot expertise migrating into a physical-AI playbook that includes humanoids. The deal exposes an uncomfortable truth — hardware, control and industrial scale are proven; continuous power, safe autonomy, and regulatory readiness are not.
Humanoids at the Edge: Power, Perception and the Corporate Moves That Will Decide If They Scale
Humanoid robots are exiting lab demos and reaching a real deployment crossroads: edge AI stacks that squeeze perception into a backpack, wireless power systems that promise 100% fleet uptime, and a wave of corporate consolidation that will determine who gets to own the market. The next 12–18 months will test whether humanoids become useful tools or exotic prototypes.
Humanoids at the Edge: Why 2025’s Deals, Chips and Wireless Power Move Robots Out of the Lab
From SoftBank’s $5.375 billion bid for ABB Robotics to new edge‑AI stacks and wireless charging that promises “100% uptime,” humanoid robots are moving from demonstrations toward everyday duty. The question now is engineering, not hype: can power, perception and safety be solved at scale so humanoids stop being prototypes and start being productive?
SoftBank, NVIDIA stacks and the missing links: Where humanoid robots really stand in 2025
SoftBank’s $5.375 billion bid for ABB Robotics and a flurry of platform launches from NVIDIA partners are colliding with hard engineering realities: power, sensing, and safe interaction. The next 12–18 months will test whether capital and edge‑AI stacks can push humanoids from lab demos into repeatable industrial deployments.
Consumer Tech
Prime Deals, New Headphones, and AI in Your Home: What to Buy — and What to Wait For — During October Big Deal Days
It’s October Big Deal Days (running through Oct. 9, 2025).
Prime Big Deal Days: How to buy headphones without buyer’s remorse
If you’ve ever bought headphones at a “too-good-to-miss” price and immediately regretted it, welcome to Prime Big Deal Days. With steep discounts on Sony, Bose, Apple, Sennheiser and budget brands, the sale can be a minefield — but there are clear wins if you know which specs to prioritize and when to pull the trigger.
How to Shop Headphones This Prime Day When New Audio Tech and Smart-Home AI Change the Rules
Discounts this Prime Day are juicy: AirPods 4 for about $119, Sony and Bose over-ear cans up to 70 percent off, and sub-$60 true wireless earbuds that actually sound fine. But price alone won’t make the right buy—new wireless codecs, multi-device needs, and AI-driven smart-home assistants are rewriting what “good” headphones mean.
Prime deals meet smarter homes: how AI assistants, October discounts, and new headphones change what you should buy now
This October’s Prime Big Deal Days brought two competing forces: steep discounts on headphones, tablets, and earbuds, and a wave of AI-powered assistants promising a smart home that actually understands you. Together, they reshape what to buy, when to wait, and which purchases will still work a year from now.
Prime Big Deal Days: Which headphone deals are actually worth buying — and which to skip
If you’ve been hunting for noise-canceling headphones or budget earbuds, Amazon’s October Prime Big Deal Days have turned the audio aisle into a clearance rack. From $35 Echo Buds to $499 Sennheiser preorders, this two-day sprint ending Oct.
China Robotics & AI
ExcelLand Opens Shanghai Hub for Exporting Collaborative Robots
Shenzhen-based ExcelLand Robotics opened a Shanghai integration hub to accelerate exports of its collaborative robots, bundling localized training and CE certifications for European buyers.
Gotion Integrates Robotics Logistics at Hefei Battery Gigafactory
Battery giant Gotion High-Tech installed an autonomous logistics system that links mobile robots, gantries and digital twins across its Hefei gigafactory, reducing material dwell time by 18%.
DJI Agras V50 Drone Targets Regenerative Rice Farming
DJI expanded its Agras line with the V50 drone, optimized for regenerative rice farming with AI-based spraying that minimizes water usage while distributing biofertilizers.
Meituan Expands Campus Delivery Robots with 5G Remote Ops
Meituan is rolling out its fourth-generation campus delivery robots across 30 Chinese universities, adding 5G remote operations and AI courtesy prompts to improve safety and service quality.
CloudMinds Launches Smart Hospital Platform at Peking Union
CloudMinds deployed a smart hospital robotics platform at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, orchestrating logistics robots, telepresence units and cleaning fleets under a unified command center.
Other
When an FDA Nod Becomes a Signal Fire: Leucovorin, Autism Hope, and the Policy Vacuum
On Sept. 22, 2025, the U.S.
Approval Without a Roadmap: How the FDA’s Leucovorin Move Opened an Information Vacuum and a Market of Hope
When the FDA cleared leucovorin calcium for cerebral folate deficiency on Sept. 22, thousands of parents poured into a single Facebook group looking for dosage charts, prescribers and hope.
When an FDA Nod Meets a Facebook Frenzy: Leucovorin, Autism, and the Policy Risks of Hope
On Sept. 22, 2025, an FDA decision to approve leucovorin calcium tablets for cerebral folate deficiency rippled far beyond regulators: tens of thousands of parents flooded online groups, clinicians were swamped with requests, and a chaotic patchwork of advice filled the gap left by federal guidance.
When a Drug Becomes a Promise: Leucovorin, Facebook, and the Thin Line Between Hope and Hype
Within hours of the FDA relabeling leucovorin for cerebral folate deficiency, tens of thousands of parents flooded a Facebook group seeking answers — dosage, doctors, success stories and conspiracies. The scramble reveals more than online chaos; it exposes how policy, limited evidence, and social media converge to remake hope into de facto clinical guidance.
When an FDA Nod Meets Facebook Panic: The Ethics and Policy of the Leucovorin Rush
On September 22, 2025, an FDA action set off a tidal wave: tens of thousands of parents flooded a Facebook group overnight seeking dosing tips, video testimonials, and doctors willing to prescribe leucovorin for their autistic children. The result was a chaotic mix of earnest hope, medical ambiguity, and opportunistic commerce.
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