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OpenAI is readying GPT-4.1 and a full version of its o3 reasoning model for release soon. GPT-4.1, a revamped version of GPT-4o, will launch along with smaller mini and nano versions. While OpenAI is still not yet profitable, it is currently valued at $300 billion. ChatGPT was the most downloaded app on app stores last month.
A team of Spanish engineers has created a 3D hologram that can be physically interacted with. The technology allows users to control holographic objects using common phone gestures. Users testing the system were faster and more confident when manipulating objects compared to existing methods. A video showcasing the technology is available in the article.
The popularity of GLP-1 drugs for weight loss has led to companies competing to make new and improved anti-obesity medications. Boston-based Syntis Bio has created a daily pill that mimics the effects of gastric bypass without actual surgery. The drug is designed to redirect the absorption of nutrients from the beginning of the small intestine to its end, changing how the body absorbs food and leaving people feeling fuller from eating less. Early data from animals and a small group of humans shows that the pill is safe and may be able to suppress hunger.
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Datastar uses the simplicity of server-side rendering and the power of a full-stack SPA framework to build reactive web applications. It is only 14.5 KB but it can provide the functionality of both Alpine.j and htmx. Developers can easily add custom plugins to the core. There are official software development kits available to help developers get up and running quickly.
No- and low-code abstractions promised to democratize software creation, but the technology didn't even come close to replacing code or traditional programming. A decade later, vibe coding is showing that prompt-to-code workflows are possible. Large language models allow people to create actual code not locked into proprietary runtimes. They can generate code written to open standards, leverage industry best practices, and deploy to open infrastructure.
It's been a decade since the release of Apple's most recent commercial successes - the Apple Watch and AirPods. The company's services lag behind rivals in subscriptions and half of its sales still come from the iPhone. Vision Pro sales were disappointing, but it was the company's issues with Apple Intelligence that exposed the dysfunction within the organization. There seems to be a breakdown of leadership, communication, and internal processes at Apple.
OpenAI's user base has doubled in just the past few weeks. The company plans to release a powerful open-source model near the frontier in response to DeepSeek. It is becoming much less restrictive on speech harms and taking a more permissive stance due to feedback that people don't want censorship. Sam Altman says that having a child changed a lot in him - but he doesn't think his kids will ever be smarter than AI.
ChatGPT installations jumped 28% from February to March to reach 46 million new downloads.
The layoffs were announced earlier this year and employees had been offered buyouts rather than being immediately laid off.
Investing in any one of Elon Musk's companies isn't about a quick return on investment, it's about buying into Musk's empire.
The first AGI will be dumb and largely underperform on all benchmarks, disappointing almost everyone, but it will be the first non-human system where you can meaningfully apply a measure of IQ.
Safe Superintelligence, an AI startup led by OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised an additional $2 billion in funding at a $32 billion valuation.
Mastodon is an instantiation of an open standard called ActivityPub, a way to asynchronously distribute data so that the data is available locally.
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OpenAI is rolling out improvements to ChatGPT's memory and making it a default for the chatbot to reference past conversations. The chatbot will now draw on past conversations to deliver more relevant and useful responses across all modalities on the platform. While AI long term memory could be useful for many tasks, some users are concerned with the privacy implications of the feature. Users are able to turn the feature on or off in ChatGPT settings.
Google's new Pixel 9a has most of what makes flagship Pixel phones so good at a $499 price point. While the cheaper price point means a trade-off in materials, charging, and the on-device AI capabilities the device has compared to its pricier siblings, none of those are deal-breakers. The modestly-priced phone, which will have lengthy support, could be the perfect purchase in a period of uncertainty for imported gadgets.
A new study published in the journal Science sets a new upper limit for the mass of a neutrino. Neutrinos are prolific across the cosmos - they are created virtually anytime atomic nuclei snap together or rip apart. They carry no electric charge and are notoriously difficult to detect. Learning more about neutrinos will help cosmologists fill in more knowledge about the universe, including how galaxies clustered together and what influences the expansion of the cosmos. Uncovering the exact values of the mass of neutrinos could lead to new physics.
Mitochondrial transfer - when mitochondria skip from cell to cell on demand - has been observed in a wide variety of cells and in organisms as diverse as yeast, molluscs, and rodents. It isn't clear yet why mitochondria are so mobile, but there are hints that cells donate their mitochondria to neighbors during times of need. The implications for human health are still a mystery. It is unclear whether mitochondrial transfer happens inside the human body.
smartfunc turns docstrings into LLM-functions. It features schemas, inner function prompt engineering, support for async functions, and a debug mode. A video demo is available in the repository.
It's possible to configure private, custom domains for local webapps, so instead of having to remember and type 'localhost:4333', you can simply navigate to 'appname.localhost'. The process involves setting up each app as a launchd daemon that listens to a unique port, configuring /etc/hosts to redirect traffic to 127.0.0.1, and then redirecting traffic from 127.0.0.1 to the right port for the domain. This post provides more details on the process.
Apple experienced a major internal shake-up related to Siri last month. The company's struggles in AI were partly tied to its militant stance on user privacy and also poor leadership. Members of the Siri team at Apple were surprised at the features that the company demoed at WWDC last year as they didn't even have working prototypes. There seems to be more optimism within Apple that Siri is in good hands now.
Companies are using AI agents and reasoning models to take on real enterprise workflows. Startups are moving from AI that merely responds to prompts to AI that solves problems and completes entire workflows, producing real business results. Startups focused on robots have made meaningful strides as they integrate models built using transformers with hardware. Companies this year will prove that AI can be trusted with meaningful workloads and deliver real results - next year, enterprise gains will start spilling into everyday life.
Thinking Machines Lab recently emerged from stealth and has no product or revenue, but it does have dozens of high-profile AI researchers in its ranks.
The Liberty Phone, made by a company called Purism, is almost completely made in the USA - it costs $2,000, with specs that reviewers say are pretty outdated.
Reasoning models, which are supposed to be more capable than their non-reasoning counterparts in specific domains, are much more expensive to benchmark, making it difficult to independently verify claims.
The RWD Cybertruck has a longer range but lesser suspension and no rear screen for the backseat.
DoorDash partnered with Coco Robotics to provide sidewalk deliveries sourced from over 600 participating merchants in Los Angeles and Chicago.
Thomas Kurian was President of Product Development at Oracle, where he worked for 22 years, before he joined Google to lead its cloud division in 2018.
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There are dozens of project management systems available today. But more than ever, even the simple stuff feels like a grind - and tools are either overkill, inadequate, or frustratingly chaotic.
Samsung plans to launch its Ballie robot, which leverages Google's Gemini, this summer in the US and South Korea. The company first showed off Ballie in early 2020 but the project was delayed and reimagined in the years since. Ballie will leverage Gemini's multimodal features to assist users. It can process images and respond with recommendations. A video demonstration from Samsung is available in the article.
Google has unveiled the latest version of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), a custom chip built to run artificial intelligence. The Ironwood TPU is positioned for inference rather than training. Inference is considered a high-volume market in the chip world. While Google pays Broadcom for each TPU in commercial production, it still saves more money using TPUs when compared to paying Intel, AMD, and Nvidia to use their chips for inference.
Zipline is launching an airborne delivery service in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburb of Mesquite. The company plans to expand to Seattle by the end of the year. Zipline's automated drones can be loaded in seconds, carry small packages for miles, and deposit them with pinpoint accuracy. The company has already flown more than 1.4 million deliveries and covered over 100 million miles.
Intuitive Machines will launch its fourth moon lander along with two relay satellites for a NASA lunar communications network on a Falcon 9 rocket in 2027. The company recently crashed its second moon lander near the Moon's south pole. It plans to launch a third moon lander in 2026. Intuitive Machines' first moon lander tipped over after breaking a landing leg while attempting to land in 2024.
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Hyperautomation allows developers to modernize legacy systems, replace homegrown solutions, and automate complex workflows. But it comes with challenges – from untangling RPA bots to ensuring seamless system integrations. Camunda's guide [9] reveals how to deal with common hyperautomation scenarios, where to apply AI, and the best hyperautomation tech for designing, automating + analyzing processes.
Google's Firebase Studio is a cloud-based development environment that brings Gemini-powered AI agents, customizable coding workspaces, and end-to-end deployment tools into the browser. It combines prototyping, coding, and deployment in a single-browser-based IDE and provides always-on AI assistance across the entire development workflow. Firebase Studio can be used to generate full apps using natural language, images, or drawings.
xAI has made Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini with 'reasoning' capabilities available via API. Grok 3 is priced at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens. xAI has been accused of being misleading in its benchmark reporting for Grok 3 and several users on X have pointed out that Grok 3 via xAI's API has a smaller context window than advertised - the API maxes out at 131,072 tokens.
Isomorphic Labs was spun out of Google DeepMind after the tech giant achieved one of the biggest biological breakthroughs in the last 50 years - AlphaFold2, an AI system that can predict the structures of proteins. The company recently made AlphaFold3 available to the scientific community for non-commercial use. It claims that the new system can predict the structures of and interactions between all life's molecules. The company aims to eventually solve all diseases through AI-powered drug discovery.
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Claude Max offers up to 20 times more usage limits than the Pro plan for Anthropic's Claude AI assistant.
Google will add support for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) to its Gemini models and SDK, but the company has not provided a timeline for the integration.
A local taxi fleet operator, Nihon Kotsu, will drive about 25 vehicles manually for the purposes of gathering mapping data - the first has already been spotted in a parking lot in Tokyo.
When marketing channels work, everyone jumps on them, but then they start to degrade because customers stop responding over time.
Figure is seeking to raise $1.5 billion in a funding round at a $39.5 billion valuation despite having no revenue last year and just a few dozen robots in production.
The new Llama models released on Saturday are so disappointing people thought they were misconfigured.
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For too long, marketing has been about creating messages that people don't want to hear, delivered via interruption. RAD Intel [4] is an AI-driven disrupter putting the human touch back in marketing, and generating huge amounts of investment [4] in the process.
Late last month, Elon Musk announced that he was merging X with xAI in a deal that valued the newly combined company at more than $100 billion. This article reveals the string of events that helped Musk announce the deal before Trump's tariffs effectively closed the market for deals. The deal moves Musk closer to his longtime goal of turning X into an 'everything app'. The combined company will initially focus on more tightly embedding xAI's Grok chatbot into X, making it more central to the app experience.