OpenAI Launches GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT—It’s Huge and Compute-Intensive
GPT-4.5 is here, and OpenAI’s newest generative AI model is bigger and more compute-intensive than ever—it’s supposedly also better at understanding what ChatGPT users mean with...
Boston Dynamics Led a Robot Revolution. Now Its Machines Are Teaching Themselves New Tricks
Reinforcement learning is a decades-old way of having a computer learn to do something through experimentation combined with positive or negative feedback. It came to the...
A Team of Female Founders Is Launching Cloud Security Tech That Could Overhaul AI Protection
While working on internet-of-things security in the mid-2010s, Alex Zenla realized something troubling. Unlike PCs and servers that touted the latest, greatest processors, the puny chips...
This Refinery Wants to Make Sustainable Aviation Fuel Mainstream. Trump’s Cuts Could Kill It
Follow the 10-inch pipeline that stretches south from Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, and after 13 miles you’ll find yourself at a potentially major future hub for...
Ads Popped Up on Drivers’ Screens. There May Be More on the Way
Last week, a Jeep driver turned to Reddit to do what people do best on the site—complain. Every time they hit the brakes on their Jeep,...
After a Violent Kidnapping, Crypto Elites Hire Bodyguards
In the early morning of January 21, David Balland and his wife were forced at gunpoint into separate vehicles outside their home in Méreau, a commune...
‘OpenAI’ Job Scam Targeted International Workers Through Telegram
“Regrettably, I found no available source online to know more about this organization except for those registrations,” wrote the complainant. “They are collecting huge amounts of...
Anthropic Launches the World’s First ‘Hybrid Reasoning’ AI Model
The difference between a conventional model and a reasoning one is similar to the two types of thinking described by the Nobel-prize-winning economist Michael Kahneman in...
AI Assistants Join the Factory Floor
The basic machine for grinding a steel ball bearing has been the same since around 1900, but manufacturers have been steadily automating everything around it. Today,...
BYD’s Free Self-Driving Tech Might Not Be Such a Boon After All
Strictly speaking, God’s Eye is the camera, ultrasonic radar, and lidar array alone, split into A, B, and C variants, with A being best. The system’s...