OCTOBER 23, 2025

• PromptCraft: Build Better Characters for Storytelling, Check Out the New 'Memory Interface,' and Try Prompt Programming Instead of Engineering
• NewsDive: Sora 2 on Desktop Is a Much Better Experience: Here's Why ​
• THE HEADLINES: Strange Bedfellows Calling for Ban on AI 'Superintelligence'; Student Cuffed After AI Mistakes His Doritos Bag for a Weapon; Meta Slashes AI Ops Jobs; ChatGPT Atlas Arrives to Challenge Chrome; Amazon Launches PhD in AI Program at UW; Netflix 'All In' on AI
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Build Better Characters for Storytelling, Check Out the New 'Memory Interface,' and Try Prompt Programming Instead of Engineering

• Intent-first trick for character prompts: Instead of “do X,” lead with purpose and constraints—why you want the prompts and how they’ll be used. The example (sci-fi characters) shows richer personalities and details when intent is explicit, yielding better creative seeds across writing and art.
• New Memory UI: first-look (Japan, Web, Plus): Field report of a refreshed Memory Management UI: “Manage automatically” toggle, “Show history,” revert options, and visible edits that immediately affect model behavior. No capacity percentage shown. Thread asks others to confirm availability and behavior across regions.
• Program your AI, don’t just prompt: Treat prompts as micro-programs: define variables, constraints, goals, and output format. Add continuity (“summarize what you remember”), time-pressure framing, and explicit evaluation. The result is more consistent, testable behavior than generic “act as an expert” instructions.
• Hack “helpful prompts” into playful closers: Rather than disabling ChatGPT’s auto-suggested follow-ups, instruct it to end them with a whimsical line. The tactic turns a nuisance into a creative flourish that keeps sessions engaging without changing the substance of suggestions.

Sora 2 on Desktop Is a Much Better Experience: Here's Why

Since Sora 2 dropped on Oct. 1, millions have flocked to the app to create 10-second videos, including cameos with themselves and their friends.

For me, it took about a week for the new to wear off as AI sloppification took hold, resulting in a "seen one, seen 'em all" feeling that accompanied each new post.

But then, I discovered it on desktop, and I have to say, it's a completely different experience. For starters, you have more control over the overall length, making videos from 10-25 seconds in length.

Secondly, you have access to more than one model. That's right, if you've been using Sora 2 solely on your mobile device, you've been missing out on the more advanced model, Sora Pro.

Then, there's the resolution. You can choose from Standard and High.

(All of the above assumes you have a paid account.)

But perhaps the coolest feature is one just added in the last week or so: Storyboards.

How Storyboards Work

On the desktop version of Sora 2, you will have a screen like this one:

Notice in the bottom righthand corner of the screen, there's a clickable Storyboard button. When you click, this is what you get:

Now you can build your video scene-by-scene for better control over where each beat happens within the video. I tried it with a 25-second horror movie opening.

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HIGHLIGHTS: Strange Bedfellows Calling for Ban on AI 'Superintelligence'; Student Cuffed After AI Mistakes His Doritos Bag for a Weapon; Meta Slashes AI Ops Jobs; ChatGPT Atlas Arrives to Challenge Chrome; Amazon Launches PhD in AI Program at UW; Netflix 'All In' on AI

1. How Trump’s Use of AI Videos Is Changing His Political Playbook
2. ‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’
3. Applied Digital Announces $5 Billion AI Factory Lease with U.S. Based Investment Grade Hyperscaler at Polaris Forge 2 ND Campus
4. ‘Just holding a Doritos bag’: Student handcuffed after AI system mistook bag of chips for weapon
5. Unseeable prompt injections in screenshots: more vulnerabilities in Comet and other AI browsers
6. Designing AI Products and Features: Study Guide
7. The Department of Commerce Announces American AI Exports Program Implementation
8. Meta slashes jobs in its AI operations
9. Amazon launches AI PhD Fellowship program with UW
10. Introducing ChatGPT Atlas
11. Anthropic, Google in talks on cloud deal worth tens of billions, Bloomberg News reports
12. Airbnb CEO says ChatGPT isn’t ready
13. OpenAI Is Paying Ex-Investment Bankers $150 an Hour to Train Its AI
14. YouTube’s likeness-detection technology has officially launched
15. Start learning all things AI on the new Google Skills
16. US chip investments to overtake Taiwan and China by 2027
17. Netflix goes ‘all in’ on generative AI as entertainment industry remains divided
18. AI models misrepresent news events nearly half the time, study says
19. New study: AI chatbots systematically violate mental health ethics standards
20. Get ready for AI on the TV
21. Alan Hamel Creates AI Clone of Late Wife Suzanne Somers 2 Years After Her Death: ‘You Can’t Tell the Difference’ (Exclusive)
22. Starbucks CEO Teases Major Change to Coffee Orders
23. AUDIO: AI chatbots could be accelerating the loneliness epidemic
24. OpenAI launches AI browser Atlas in latest challenge to Google
25. Sources: Multimodal AI startup Fal AI already raised at $4B+ valuation
26. Shield AI unveils X-BAT, a VTOL stealth loyal wingman drone
27. Don’t ask AI for advice on how to vote, Dutch watchdog warns
28. NYU confirms use of AI art in alumni donation letter
29. When my kids wrote a song using AI, all I could think was: you missed the fun part
30. Many big names in a group of unlikely allies seeking a ban, for now, on AI “superintelligence”
31. AI in Japan—OpenAI’s Japan Economic Blueprint
32. Virginia GOP candidate stages ‘debate’ against AI-generated opponent
33. Ask Your Students Why They Use AI

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