💬 ChatGPT's Social Experiment Begins

🦾Plus: US must go open source to beat China in AI: Databricks co-founder

November 15, 2025

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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

  • 🇩🇪 Google Must Pay €572M For Violating Antitrust Rules

  • 🤖Databricks co-founder:US must go open source to beat China in AI

  • 💼 Oracle's Answer to Database Complexity

  • 🔍 LinkedIn Adds AI People Search

  • 💡 AI Tutorial:How to create viral Sora videos

  • 🤯 6 new AI Tools

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ChatGPT group chats launched across Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan letting users collaborate directly within the app. The pilot turns ChatGPT into a social platform using GPT-5.1 Auto across mobile and web.

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Huch, as the Germans would say. A German court found that Google has abused its dominant market position in the price comparison sector and ruled that the company must pay a total of €572 million ($665.6 million) in damages to two German price comparison companies.

Andy Konwinski is concerned that the U.S. is losing its dominance in AI research to China, calling the shift an “existential” threat to democracy. Konwinski is a Databricks co-founder and the co-founder of the AI research and venture capital firm Laude. Major AI labs, including OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic, continue to innovate significantly, yet their innovations remain largely proprietary rather than open source.

Ask Oracle turns complex database queries into simple conversations where you ask questions in everyday language. The chatbot handles the technical work while generating charts plus explanations for business users.

LinkedIn launched AI-powered search for premium users in the U.S. that accepts natural language queries to find people more easily. The feature aims to enhance professional networking while it plans further expansion.

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AI Tutorial

How to create viral Sora videos (without an invite code)

  1. Go to Higgsfield and create your account.

  2. From the dashboard, navigate to Video → Sora 2.

  3. Write your prompt or upload a reference image. Select the duration and aspect ratio for the video.

Sample Prompt: “A robot walking through a neon-lit Tokyo street, cinematic lighting, 4K realism.”

  1. Head to ‘Sora2 Trends’ and pick a trending viral template to speed things up.

  2. Click 'Edit at the bottom to add visuals, text, and sound.

  3. Type your topic or idea, then click ‘Generate’ and your viral short will be ready in seconds!

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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup

🚀 Perplexity Launches GPT-5.1 for Pro and Max Subscribers

💰From $12 billion to $50 billion in four months: Murati’s startup chases meteoric growth

⚡Spotify’s new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far

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