Prompt and Circumstance

News for October 14 and a Sora deep dive


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David and Ilan catch you up on the flurry of AI news from mid-October, from Anthropic's latest Sonnet release to OpenAI's Dev Days announcements. Plus, they dive deep into Sora 2's video generation capabilities and share the structured prompting techniques that actually work for creating multi-shot videos (including mountain-biking dogs).


Chapters

[00:38] - Anthropic Sonnet 4.5 and Full-Stack Coding Tools

[03:19] - Microsoft's Text-to-Audio Models

[06:09] - OpenAI's Big Announcements: Commerce, Sora 2, and Dev Days

[12:24] - AI Slop Goes Corporate and Lionsgate's Failed Experiment

[14:56] - Sora 2 Deep Dive and Video Creation Techniques


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Links

Anthropic Claude - https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-5

Lovable - https://lovable.dev/cloud

Bolt - https://bolt.new/blog/bolt-v2

Microsoft Copilot Labs - https://copilot.microsoft.com/labs

OpenAI - https://openai.com/devday/

Sora - https://sora.chatgpt.com/

Runway & Lionsgate - https://3dvf.com/en/generative-ai-one-year-later-the-runway-lionsgate-alliance-faces-reality/
Deloitte & AU government - https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/deloitte-ai-australia-government-report-hallucinations-technology-290000-refund/


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Prompt and CircumstanceBy David Vuong and Ilan Rotenberg