Tracy Mumford

People made a lot of Sora videos, but the app never matched the popularity of OpenAI's breakout hit, ChatGPT.

And running a video generation service like Sora is enormously expensive.

It requires way more computing power and electricity than other apps or internet services.

Essentially, hyper-realistic pizza parachutes have a high cost, and OpenAI seems to have decided it wasn't worth it right now.

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I'm Tracy Mumford.

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From The New York Times, it's The Headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

Today's Tuesday, March 24th.

Here's what we're covering.

in the Middle East.

A recent wave of attacks on energy infrastructure has marked a new phase in the war.

And economists are raising the alarm that the damage to the global economy could be long-term.

Until now, much of the attention has been on the Strait of Hormuz, whether oil tankers and other ships can get in or out.

The idea is if that's resolved, things will get flowing again.

Fuel prices will come back down.

But with targets like refineries and gas fields coming under fire, the effects could be felt for years.

Yesterday, the head of the International Energy Agency said the war is the biggest threat to global energy security in history.

One site that's been hit, for example, is a vast Qatari complex that produces roughly a fifth of the world's liquefied natural gas.