Some LLM takeaways for 2025: reasoning as a signature feature, coding agents were useful, subscriptions hit $200/month, and Chinese open-weight models impressed
It's that time. It's been a hell of a year. — At the start we barely had reasoning models. X: Simon Willison / @simonw : Here's my enormous round-up of everything we learned about LLMs in 2025 - th...
OnePlus 15R review: the new $700+ device is fast with a big battery and a vibrant 165Hz OLED, but one less camera than 2024's 13R and only four years of support
The tradeoff is an even worse camera than the OnePlus 15. — I know what you're thinking, didn't OnePlus release a new phone just last month?
GPT-5.2 models have a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens, like GPT-5 and 5.1, but have an August 31, 2025, knowledge cutoff, vs. September 30, 2024
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Apple says ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US App Store, up from fourth in 2024, followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Instagram
but is it better? Keval Shukla / MakeUseOf : These 5 free Fire TV apps unlock features Amazon doesn't include Abhijith M B / Windows Latest : WhatsApp is logging more Windows 11 users out to push its ...
Google debuts Workspace Studio, a no-code tool for creating, designing, managing, and sharing AI agents, for users on Business, Education, and Enterprise plans
After teasing at I/O 2024 and announcing this April, Google today is launching Workspace Studio as a new automation tool that lets you …
DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got gold-medal level status on the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 and Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 2024
where models prove formal mathematical theorems—GPT-5 scores 20%. Gemini Deep Think IMO Gold hits 65.7%. DeepSeek Math V2 (Heavy) scores 61.9%. That's second place—but Gemini isn't open source. Th...
DeepSeek says its new DeepSeekMath-V2 model got gold-medal level status on the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 and Chinese Mathematical Olympiad 2024
Chinese startup Deepseek reports its new DeepseekMath-V2 model has reached gold medal status at the Math Olympiad …
Uber starts deploying fully driverless WeRide robotaxis in Abu Dhabi, after launching its robotaxi service with safety drivers in the UAE in December 2024
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Google launches Cameyo by Google, after acquiring the software virtualization company in June 2024, to help organizations run legacy Windows apps on ChromeOS
Cameyo by Google makes it easier to run Windows-based apps on Chromebooks. … After acquiring software virtualization company Cameyo last year …
Sony rolls out PlayStation Portal cloud streaming, letting PlayStation Premium Plus members stream select titles without a PS5 connection, in testing since 2024
Cloud streaming PS5 games to your PlayStation Portal is out of beta, and includes streaming for some games you own.