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Abram Brown @ The Information 1 place · 10/04/2025 10:00 EDT

OpenAI, Sora—and the Internet’s Cheetos Brain

Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Can Reed Jobs be more than the son of Steve?•  Electric Vehicles: The Chinese flying car that should worry Detroit—and Silicon Valley • Plus, our Recommendations: “The Romesh Ranganathan Show,” “When It All Burns” and “The Eastern Gate”The ultimate winner from the artificial intelligence wars remains hard to distinguish, but none of the contenders has displayed a more consistent ability to win the battle for the zeitgeist than OpenAI. That obviously ca

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