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OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, its next simulated reasoning models

o3 matches human levels on ARC-AGI benchmark, and o3-mini exceeds o1 at some tasks. Credit: Benj Edwards / Andriy Onufriyenko via Getty Images On Friday, during Day 12 of its "12 days...

Google goes “agentic” with Gemini 2.0’s ambitious AI agent features

Google barrels ahead with a push into AI systems that take action for you. Credit: Google On...

Itch.io platform briefly goes down due to “AI-driven” anti-phishing report

Domain registrar failed to respond after offending content was taken down. Losing your domain is...

OpenAI announces full “o1” reasoning model, $200 ChatGPT Pro tier

OpenAI's full "o1" AI model is "smaller and faster," and ChatGPT Pro users get...

Soon, the tech behind ChatGPT may help drone operators decide which enemies to kill

OpenAI and Palmer Luckey's weapons company sign agreement to explore lethal drone defense for...

Before launching, GPT-4o broke records on chatbot leaderboard under a secret name

Anonymous chatbot that mystified and frustrated experts was OpenAI's latest model. On Monday, OpenAI employee William Fedus confirmed on X that a mysterious chat-topping AI chatbot known as "gpt-chatbot"...

Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot

New GPT-4o model can sing a bedtime story, detect facial expressions, read emotions. On Monday, OpenAI debuted GPT-4o (o for "omni"), a major new AI model that...

Exploration-focused training lets robotics AI immediately handle new tasks

Maximum Diffusion Reinforcement Learning focuses training on end states, not process. Reinforcement-learning algorithms in systems like ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini can work wonders, but they...

OpenAI revs up plans for web search, but denies report of an imminent launch

The search.chatgpt.com URL is being set up, and Google employees are being poached. OpenAI is eventually coming for the most popular website on the Internet: Google Search....

Robot dogs armed with AI-targeting rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation

Quadrupeds being reviewed have automatic targeting systems but require human oversight to fire. The United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is currently evaluating...

OpenAI’s flawed plan to flag deepfakes ahead of 2024 elections

OpenAI is recruiting researchers to test its new deepfake detector. As the US moves toward criminalizing deepfakes—deceptive AI-generated audio, images, and videos that are increasingly...

Microsoft launches AI chatbot for spies

Air-gapping GPT-4 model on secure network won't prevent it from potentially making things up. Microsoft has introduced a GPT-4-based generative AI model designed specifically for...

New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini

In project headed by former Inflection chief, MAI-1 may have 500B parameters. Microsoft is working on a new large-scale AI language model called MAI-1, which...

GPT-5 might arrive this summer as a “materially better” update to ChatGPT

Sources say to expect OpenAI's next major AI model mid-2024, according to a new report. When OpenAI launched its GPT-4 AI model a year ago, it created...

Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet

OpenAI's GPT-2 running locally in Microsoft Excel teaches the basics of how LLMs work. It seems like AI large language models (LLMs) are everywhere these...

What happens when ChatGPT tries to solve 50,000 trolley problems?

AI driving decisions are not quite the same as the ones humans would make. There’s a puppy on the road. The car is going too...

NYT to OpenAI: No hacking here, just ChatGPT bypassing paywalls

OpenAI’s claim that NYT “hacked” ChatGPT is “irrelevant” and “false,” NYT says. Late Monday, The New York Times responded to OpenAI's claims that the newspaper "hacked" ChatGPT to...

OpenAI CEO Altman wasn’t fired because of scary new tech, just internal politics

As Altman cements power, OpenAI announces three new board members—and a returning one. On Friday afternoon Pacific Time, OpenAI announced the appointment of three new members to...

Microsoft accused of selling AI tool that spews violent, sexual images to kids

It looks like Microsoft may be filtering violent AI outputs flagged by engineer. Microsoft's AI text-to-image generator Copilot Designer appears to be heavily filtering outputs...