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For the first time in thirteen years, ICANN is accepting applications for new generic top-level domains, and the price of entry is steep. At two hundred twenty-seven thousand dollars just to be considered, this is not a program for the casual dreamer. The last round, back in two thousand twelve, gave us dot-app, dot-news, and hundreds of others — so the stakes for whoever gets through this time are genuinely significant.
Meanwhile, the Musk versus Altman trial is underway, and the implications stretch well beyond two billionaires settling a grudge. At its core, the case questions whether OpenAI's shift from nonprofit to for-profit structure was legally sound — and the answer could reshape how AI companies are allowed to organize themselves and chase capital going forward.
On the creative side, ChatGPT's image generation tools are finding a surprisingly enthusiastic audience in India, where users are generating personalized avatars and cinematic portraits at a notable clip. Adoption elsewhere remains modest for now, but the regional enthusiasm offers an interesting signal about where AI-generated visuals may gain cultural traction first.
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