Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Thursday, October 2nd, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

More fallout from the SORA explosion, including my own take on using it.

Open AI is the biggest startup in all the galaxy. We now know what Mira Miradi's new startup is building.

The Brave browser is hitting some impressive user milestones,

and why are young people flocking back to Czech's notes?

AOL?

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Well, the internet continues to be a buzz with SORA stuff.

Two quick observations. First,

how is it that OpenAI seems to have nailed an AI-based social network on its first try,

while meta hasn't been able to do anything similar yet? And second, OpenAI's Sora 2 seems to be

generating a lot of copyright infringing content.

Quoting 404 Media.

Video after video shows Pikachu and South Park's Cartman doing ASMR,

a pixel perfect scene from The Simpsons that doesn't actually exist.

A fake version of Star Wars, Jurassic Park or Lallaland, Rick and Morty in Minecraft,

Rick and Morty in Breath of the Wild,

Rick and Morty talking about Sora, Toad from the Mario Universe, deadlifting, Michael Jackson

dancing in a room that seems vaguely Russian, Charazard signing the Declaration of Independence

and Mario and Goku, shaking hands. You get the picture. With Sora 2, think OpenAI, like X's GROC, has completely given up

any pretense that this is anything other than a machine that is trained on other people's work

that it did not pay for, and that can easily recreate that work, end quote. Well, actually,

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