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OPENAI LAUNCHES FLEX PROCESSING FOR CHEAPER, SLOWER AI TASKS

OpenAI's Flex processing is a new API option that provides lower AI model usage prices in exchange for slower response times and occasional resource unavailability. It is available in beta for the company's recently released o3 and o4-mini reasoning models. Aimed at lower-priority and non-production tasks, the feature reduces API costs by exactly half. In the email announcing the launch of Flex processing, OpenAI also indicated that developers in tiers 1 to 3 of its usage tiers hierarchy will have to complete ID verification to access o3.

AT META TRIAL, SHERYL SANDBERG DEFENDS TACTICS WITH RIVALS

Lawyers for the FTC pressed Sheryl Sandberg, who was second in command at Meta from 2008 to 2022, on the witness stand on Wednesday during the company's landmark antitrust trial. She was asked to explain an email chain in which executives disallowed Google+ from advertising with the company. She said that it was a scary time for the company and that Google's new tool was being promoted on its main search page. The FTC's volume of internal communication evidence is compelling as it shows that Mark Zuckerberg had an interest in buying a competitor.

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