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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleOct. 9, 2025, 5:15 AM EDT / Updated Oct. 9, 2025, 9:34 AM EDTBy Alexander Smith and Freddie ClaytonPresident Donald Trump’s announcement that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire deal was widely welcomed Thursday by world leaders, the families of hostages and Palestinians who have endured more than two years of war.But huge questions remain about whether Trump’s 20-point plan can successfully resolve the long-term future of the Gaza Strip, with uncertainty over its directive for Hamas to disband, as well as the governance of the shattered enclave.The plan, which was mediated by Qatar, Turkey and Egypt, will also need formal agreement at 5 p.m. local time Thursday (10 a.m. ET) by Israel’s government, an Israel official briefed on the matter told NBC News. That does not appear a sure thing, with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich vowing to vote against it.A spokesperson for the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a ceasefire would then take effect 24 hours after the Cabinet had agreed the deal and hostages would be released after 72 hours. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to President Donald Trump during a roundtable discussion in the State Dining Room of the White House on Wednesday.Anna Moneymaker / Getty ImagesTrump said in a social media post Wednesday that the sides had taken the “first steps toward a strong, durable, and everlasting peace,” calling it “a GREAT Day for the Arab and Muslim World, Israel, all surrounding nations, and the United States of America.”Among those to welcome the announcement was United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, who urged “all concerned to abide fully by the terms of the agreement” and described it as a “momentous opportunity” to recognize “the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people.”Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “praised the great efforts made by President Trump and all mediators to reach this agreement.”Palestinians celebrate the news in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Thursday.AFP via Getty ImagesIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had “a very moving and warm conversation” with Trump in which they “congratulated each other on the historic achievement of signing the agreement to release all the hostages,” his office said in a statement.”If indeed this deal can hold, it’ll bring in an era of peace that we haven’t seen now in the Middle East for several years, ever since that terrible attack on Oct. 7,” Col. Steve Warren, former principal deputy chief of public affairs at the Pentagon, told NBC News on Wednesday.Celebrations and cautious optimismThe announcement came after indirect talks involving Israel, Hamas and Steve Witkoff, U.S. ambassador at large, and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Trump announced the breakthrough one day after the second anniversary of the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which 1,200 were killed and another 250 were kidnapped, and the start of Israel’s war on Gaza in which more than 67,000 people — mostly women and children — have been killed, according to local health officials.While many governments defended Israel’s initial right to respond to the attack, the scale of civilian death and suffering wrought by its war have drawn increasing international condemnation and isolation for the Jewish state. Last month, the United Kingdom became the latest Western nation to recognize Palestine as a state, joining a majority of countries that now do so worldwide.What happens next in Israel-Hamas ceasefire process?01:58Much of Gaza is now a rubble-strewn wasteland, with most of its buildings damaged or destroyed, according to the U.N. And the world’s leading body on hunger, Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, has declared that a famine is now playing out inside the cramped territory.Israel’s military operation has been deemed a genocide by a U.N. commission of inquiry, the world-leading International Association of Genocide Scholars, and human rights groups such as Amnesty International. Israel denies the charge, saying it is only attempting to destroy Hamas, which it blames for putting Palestinians in harm’s way.After news arrived that the first ceasefire phase had been agreed to, some Palestinians on the ground inside Gaza were celebrating — cheering, dancing and singing, video showed.The first phase of Trump’s deal would see the return of the remaining 48 hostages, around 20 of whom are believed to be alive, while the Israeli military said it was poised to withdraw from Gaza to an agreed-upon line.There were celebrations in “Hostages Square” in Tel Aviv early Thursday, the culmination of two years in which families and friends of the remaining captives have angrily campaigned for their government to prioritize their loved ones over the continuation of the conflict.Relatives of Israeli hostages celebrate in Tel Aviv after the announcement Thursday that Israel and Hamas had agreed to the first phase of a peace plan.Emilio Morenatti / APThey could be heard in video chanting “Nobel prize to Trump” — a reference to Trump’s long-standing ambition to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which is being announced Friday.The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which represents the families of Israeli hostages, said its members were feeling “a mix of excitement, anticipation, and concern” at the news. It expressed its “profound gratitude to President Trump and his team for the leadership and determination that led to this historic breakthrough: an end to the war and a comprehensive agreement to return all the hostages.”Ruby Chen, father of hostage Itay Chen, a U.S.-Israeli dual citizen, said on “Stay Tuned NOW” that while he shared this cautious hope, the captors had not “provided any sign of life” for his son.Lasting agreement unclearWhile Hamas has agreed to participate in the hostage and prisoner exchange, it has not said it will disarm and disband — a key stipulation of Trump’s proposal. The first phase also does not address Gaza’s medium- and long-term future. Trump’s plan says the enclave should be temporarily governed by a “technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee” overseen by a “Board of Peace” led by Trump and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. That is until the Palestinian Authority, the chief political organ in the region, can be “reformed.”The Israel Defense Forces said it was moving to “adjusted deployment lines soon” but warned that parts of Gaza were “still considered a dangerous combat zone” and that its troops were “deployed and operating anywhere in the Strip.”Israel shattered the previous ceasefire — which lasted from Jan. 19 to March 18 — by launching a barrage of deadly airstrikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, ending two months of relative calm and plunging Gaza into a renewed humanitarian crisis. Israel blamed Hamas for the resumption of hostilities, citing the militant group’s refusal to meet Israel’s demand to release more hostages.Alexander SmithAlexander Smith is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital based in London.Freddie ClaytonFreddie Clayton is a freelance journalist based in London. 
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Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleOct. 2, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT / Updated Oct. 2, 2025, 8:41 AM EDTBy Jared PerloSam Altman singing in a toilet. James Bond playing Altman in high-stakes poker. Pikachu storming Normandy’s beaches. Mario jumping from his virtual world into real life.Those are just some of the lifelike videos that are rocketing through the internet a day after OpenAI released Sora, an app at the intersection of social media and artificial intelligence-powered media generation. The app surged to be the most popular app in the iOS App Store’s Photo and Video category within a day of its release.Powered by OpenAI’s upgraded Sora 2 media generation AI model, the app allows users to create high-definition videos from simple text prompts. After it processes one-time video and audio recordings of users’ likenesses, Sora allows users to embed lifelike “cameos” of themselves, their friends and others who give their permission. The app is a recipe made for virality. But many of the videos published within the first day of Sora’s debut have also raised alarm bells from copyright and deepfake experts.Users have so far reported being able to feature video game characters like Lara Croft or Nintendo heavyweights like Mario, Luigi and even Princess Peach in their AI creations. One user inserted Ronald McDonald into a saucy scene from the romantic reality TV show “Love Island.” The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the app would enable users to feature material protected by copyright unless the copyright holders opted out of having their work appear. However, the report said, blanket opt-outs did not appear to be an option, instead requiring copyright holders to submit examples of offending content.Sora 2 builds on OpenAI’s original Sora model, which was released to the public in December. Unlike the original Sora, Sora 2 now enables users to create videos with matching dialogue and sound effects.AI models ingest large swaths of information in the “training” process as they learn how to respond to users’ queries. That data forms the basis for models’ responses to future user requests. For example, Google’s Veo 3 video generation model was trained on YouTube videos, much to the dismay of some YouTube creators. OpenAI has not clearly indicated which exact data its models draw from, but the appearance of characters under copyright indicates that it used copyright-protected information to design the Sora 2 system. China’s ByteDance and its Seedance video generation model have also attracted recent copyright scrutiny.OpenAI faces legal action over copyright infringement claims, including a high-profile lawsuit featuring authors including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jodi Picoult and newspapers like The New York Times. OpenAI competitor Anthropic recently agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims from authors who alleged that Anthropic illegally downloaded and used their books to train its AI models. In an interview, Mark McKenna, a law professor and the faculty director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law, and Policy, drew a stark line between using copyrighted data as an input to train models and generating outputs that depict copyright-protected information.“If OpenAI is taking an aggressive approach that says they’re going to allow outputs of your copyright-protected material unless you opt out, that strikes me as not likely to work. That’s not how copyright law works. You don’t have to opt out of somebody else’s rules,” McKenna said.“The early indications show that training AI models on legitimately acquired copyright material can be considered fair use. There’s a very different question about the outputs of these systems,” he continued. “Outputting visual material is a harder copyright question than just the training of models.”As McKenna sees it, that approach is a calculated risk. “The opt-out is clearly a ‘move fast and break things’ mindset,” he said. “And the aggressive response by some of the studios is ‘No, we’re not going to go along with that.’”Disney, Warner Bros. and Sony Music Entertainment did not reply to requests for comment.In addition to copyright issues, some observers were unsettled by one of the most popular first-day creations, which depicted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stealing valuable computer components from Target — illustrating the ease with which Sora 2 can create content depicting real people committing crimes they had not actually committed. Sora 2’s high-quality outputs arrive as some have expressed concerns about illicit or harmful creations, from worries about gory scenes and child safety to the model’s role in spreading deepfakes. OpenAI includes techniques to indicate Sora 2’s creations are AI-generated as concerns grow about the ever-blurrier line between reality and computer-generated content.Sora 2 will include moving watermarks on all videos on the Sora app or downloaded from sora.com, while invisible metadata will indicate Sora-generated videos are created by AI systems.However, the metadata can be easily removed. OpenAI’s own documentation says the metadata approach “is not a silver bullet to address issues of provenance. It can easily be removed either accidentally or intentionally,” like when users upload images to social media websites.Siwei Lyu, a professor of computer science and the director of the University of Buffalo’s Media Forensic Lab and Center for Information Integrity, agreed that multiple layers of authentication were key to prove content’s origin from Sora. “OpenAI claimed they have other responsible use measures, such as the inclusion of visible and invisible watermarks, and tracing tools for Sora-made images and audio. These complement the metadata and provide an additional layer of protection,” Lyu said.“However, their effectiveness requires additional testing. The invisible watermark and tracing tools can only be tested internally, so it is hard to judge how well they work at this point,” he added.OpenAI addressed those limitations in its technical safety report, writing that “we will continue to improve the provenance ecosystem to help bring more transparency to content created from our tools.” OpenAI did not immediately reply to a request for comment.Though the Sora app is available for download, access to Sora’s services remains invitation-only as OpenAI gradually increases access. Jared PerloJared Perlo is a writer and reporter at NBC News covering AI. He is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism.
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