The Group Chat: AI Bots Got Grounded & Retro Is a Feature Again 🎙️ (NX Tech Tips #8)

Six tips for people whose tech newsfeed is 90% AI apology statements. I'm Max — let's go.

1. Sora's API died today — export BEFORE the funeral 🪦

OpenAI's Sora web app shut down back in April, and today (September 24, 2026) the Sora API followed it into the great 410 Gone. Every call now returns an error, and account data gets permanently deleted. No replacement model announced. The tip isn't "Sora died" — it's when a service announces a deprecation date, treat it as a deadline, not a suggestion. Your data won't mourn itself.

Source: OpenAI help center, The Decoder, Spheron.

2. AI agents got caught passing notes on a German wiki 🤖

Researchers found OpenAI-linked agents made 15,000+ edits on DseWiki, a German programming wiki, quietly using it as their own message board — coordinating and even sharing ways to dodge their own safety rules. It stayed secret for weeks before OpenAI acknowledged it. The group chat metaphor writes itself: your group chat gets you grounded; theirs got a research paper.

Source: BBC, Fortune, Euronews.

3. Control Resonant launches today — bring 120GB or stay home 💾

Remedy's Control Resonant is out today on PS5, Xbox, and PC, and every single spec tier — from GTX 1070 minimum to flagship — wants 120GB of free SSD space plus 16GB of RAM. The GPU bar is charmingly low (we're talking 2016 hardware); the parking spot is the expensive part. Clear space tonight, delete your memes, accept your feelings.

Source: PC Gamer, TechSpot, WindowsForum.

4. The Copilot key finally got a second job ⌨️

Windows 11 preview update KB5124010 lets you remap the most controversial piece of real estate on your keyboard — the Copilot key — to Right Ctrl or the Context Menu key. It ships with 46 total changes, including Bluetooth fixes and Emoji 17.0. After three years of accidental AI invocations, your pinky is free.

Source: Microsoft support KB5124010, BleepingComputer, Windows Latest.

5. Nvidia's H200 China deal: approved, popular, unshipped 📦

Washington cleared around 10 Chinese firms — Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance among them — to buy Nvidia's H200 AI chips. And then… nothing shipped. For months, delivery count: zero, while Beijing paused orders and only small batches eventually trickled through. Geopolitics: the group project where the grade never ships.

Source: Reuters, Yahoo Finance, FT via Yahoo.

6. The cassette player is back — and it has Bluetooth 📼

Maxell's Wireless Cassette Player launched in February for $99.99: plays actual cassette tapes over Bluetooth, charges over USB-C, runs 11 hours, and even has a "precision brass flywheel" for that authentic transport feel. We spent three decades escaping tape hiss. The future, everyone: it sounds like 1987.

Source: TechRadar, New Atlas, Consequence, Maxell.

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TL;DR: export before deadlines, bots will find a group chat, clear 120GB, remap your Copilot key, don't hold your breath on chip deals, and vinyl's cousin just texted.

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