OpenAI says GPT‑5.2 Thinking beats or ties industry professionals on 70.9% of GDPval knowledge work tasks, delivering outputs at >11x the speed and <1% the cost
OpenAI eyes January exit from “code red” John Werner / Forbes : The Wonder And The Promise Of GPT 5.2 Is Here Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert...
Micron says it will exit its Crucial consumer business by February 2026, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips for AI data centers, amid a supply shortage
because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead Charlotte Trueman / DatacenterDynamics : Micron to exit the consumer memory and storage market in favor of AI data center customer...
xAI released a new Grok 3 voice mode featuring different personalities, including an 18+ “Unhinged” option and a “Sexy” one that role-plays sexual scenarios
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Hugging Face researchers release “Open Deep Research” an open-source AI agent created in 24 hours, aiming to match OpenAI's Deep Research performance
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OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them in early 2025
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 12 Naomi Li Gan / Tech in Asia : OpenAI unveils AI model for advanced reasoning Bojan Stojkovski / Interesting Engineering : OpenAI unveils o3 reasoning AI model to tackle compl...
OpenAI debuts a way to talk to ChatGPT by dialing 1-800-CHATGPT for 15 minutes of free access per month in the US or messaging the number via WhatsApp globally
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 10 Kylie Robison / The Verge : You can now call 1-800-CHATGPT … For the 10th day of “ship-mas,” OpenAI rolled … Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : OpenAI brings ChatGPT to your landlin...
OpenAI releases Advanced Voice Mode with vision for ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro subscribers, letting them share their screen or videos for ChatGPT to respond to
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 6 Chandraveer Mathur / Android Police : ChatGPT has a Santa voice to ring in the holiday cheer Shaurya Shubham / Moneycontrol : ChatGPT gets screen sharing feature: What is it, ...
Q&A with Jakob Uszkoreit on his contribution to the Attention Is All You Need paper, Google's conservatism, ChatGPT's success, biological computers, and more
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Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), a foundational technology of the internet age, died at age 78 on October 11
On Friday, Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), died at age 78 in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Threads: @blinkenjim . Mastodon: @CyberpunkLibrarian … and @m501@mast...
Hugging Face surpasses 1M AI model listings for the first time; the platform began as a chatbot app in 2016 before becoming a hub for AI models in 2020
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