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For the uninitiated, watching a Jeffrey Epstein truther such as Laura Loomer have such influence over the White House's decisions is nothing short of baffling. ABC News attributes "the ouster of at least 15 individuals from Trump's second administration" to Loomer's influence - partially, at least. For Washington veterans who grew up in quote-unquote normal times, it's unprecedented. If...
Tesla is dissolving the team that was developing its Dojo supercomputer, according to Bloomberg. The change, which reportedly includes the departure of Dojo head Peter Bannon, marks a notable shift away from using in-house technology to train the AI models powering Tesla’s self-driving features and its Optimus humanoid robot.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk first introduced Dojo in 2019, which he...
Here's the tricky part about assessing an AI system's deception rate: if the system is really good at deceiving you, you might not notice.
This week on The Vergecast, Adi Robertson and Alex Heath join me to discuss the launch of GPT-5 and GPT-OSS… and the strange charts we saw along the way. GPT-5 is a fascinating launch for OpenAI: one where the company is promising improvements across...
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During a recent discussion of Labubus on Slack (yes, this is the kind of topic that comes up...
Is that a back penis?
While Microsoft was busy updating Copilot yesterday with OpenAI's new GPT-5 model, it also quietly launched Copilot 3D. It's a free-to-use feature that can transform a regular 2D image into a 3D model that can then be used in game creation, animation, 3D printing, VR / AR, and much more.
Copilot 3D just needs a good clean 2D image, and you don't even need to use any...
This year’s Xperia 1 VII has been plagued by problems.
CFO Lin Tao mentioned Sony’s beleaguered phone brand at the company’s recent financial results presentation, calling it “a very important business for us,” according to CNET Japan.
You could have fooled me. Sony’s last two Xperia 1 flagships have skipped the US market entirely, and it appears to be pulling back in Europe too. It doesn’...
Japan doesn’t want Apple to give it the EU treatment.
We might finally see the first iPhone browsers built on top of third-party engines now that Japanese regulators have taken up the issue.
Apple’s malicious compliance in the EU has so far prevented Chrome, and its Blink engine, for example, from coming to iOS, but recently published guidelines related to Japan’s Smartphone Act could...
The day before the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman surprised employees with a message in the company's Slack.
"As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we have been looking at comp for our technical teams given the movement in the market," wrote Altman, according to a copy of the message that was shared with me. He announced that OpenAI would give a "special one-time award" to researchers...
Something’s off with that chart on the left.
During its big GPT-5 livestream on Thursday, OpenAI showed off a few charts that made the model seem quite impressive — but if you look closely, some graphs were a little bit off.
In one, ironically showing how well GPT-5 does in “deception evals across models,” the scale is all over the place. For “coding deception,” for example, the chart...
The Browser Company — the makers of the Arc browser — just launched a $20 per month subscription to its new AI-powered web browser, Dia, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. The new Dia Pro subscription comes with unlimited access to the browser’s chat feature, which lets you ask questions about the content in your tabs.
People who use Dia for free will still have access to the same...