AI Updates: Feb 12 - Feb 18

This weekly roundup covers several AI developments from February 12 to 18, led by OpenAI's introduction of Sora, a text-to-video model that OpenAI describes as designed to simulate the physical world in motion. Sora is said to generate videos up to a minute long that maintain high visual quality and closely adhere to user prompts. The roundup also reports that Runway is producing videos approaching Pixar-level quality, that Paramount and Disney are adopting AI for effects and actor dubbing, and that AI-generated election disinformation, including deepfakes, is being used in campaigns from Argentina to the US.