🗞️OpenAI's Sora app hits 1 million downloads

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October 9th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• OpenAI's new AI video-generation app called Sora has hit 1 million downloads in less than five days since its launch, achieving this milestone faster than ChatGPT

• President Trump said today that his administration will begin making cuts to programs backed by Democrats as the government shutdown reaches its ninth day…read more here

• The IRS has announced the new federal income tax brackets for the 2026 tax year, the income limits for each tax bracket have increased, allowing taxpayers to earn more before moving into higher tax brackets…the highest tax rate of 37% will apply to individuals with taxable income above $640,600 and to married couples filing jointly with income above $768,700…the standard deduction has also increased to $16,100 for single filers and $32,200 for married couples filing jointly in 2026

• House of Representatives member, Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), has split from her party and publicly blamed Republican congressional leadership, specifically House Speaker Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Thune, for the ongoing government shutdown…watch it here

• New York Attorney General, Letitia James, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Virginia on at least one count of alleged fraud

• The U.S. has finalized a $20 billion currency swap agreement with Argentina's central bank and has also directly purchased Argentine pesos as part of its support to revive Argentina’s economy

• Discord said that around 70,000 users may have had their government ID photos exposed through a breach of a third-party customer service provider used for age verification and account appeals, not Discord's own platform…Discord has cut ties with the compromised vendor, notified affected users, and is cooperating fully with law enforcement to prevent further extortion and minimize risk to personal data

• The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has launched an investigation into nearly 2.9 million Tesla vehicles equipped with the Full Self-Driving (FSD) system after reports of traffic safety violations, including running red lights, making illegal lane changes, and driving in the wrong direction

• United Airlines has revealed its Summer 2026 schedule, adding four new international destinations from its Newark hub to will go to Split, Croatia- Bari, Italy- Glasgow, Scotland,- and Santiago de Compostela, Spain

• DOW down .52% / S&P down .28%

• The price of Silver surged past the $50 per ounce and reached a record high of $50.40

• President Trump met with Finland's President, Alexander Stubb, at the White House and announced a deal with Finland to purchase up to four Finnish-built icebreaker ships for the U.S. Coast Guard

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