Tag: AI development

On Wednesday, November 12, 2025, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.1, a major mid-cycle upgrade to its flagship ChatGPT models. The update introduces two new variants — GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking — both designed to make conversations faster, smarter, and more natural. According to OpenAI, GPT-5.1 is built to feel “warmer” and more human-like in tone, while also improving instruction-following and reasoning. The Instant model […]

If you’re graduating college in the next few years, you’re entering a job market that’s changing faster than anyone can predict. Half of entry-level white collar jobs could be automated within five years according to some AI leaders, while others argue this generation has access to tools that could help them build billion-dollar companies as […]

Two Anti-AI activists are currently more than 10 days into hunger strikes outside major AI company headquarters, refusing to eat until their demands about artificial intelligence development are heard. Guido Reichstadter has been camped outside Anthropic’s offices while Michael Trazzi protests at DeepMind, both arguing that the path toward artificial general intelligence poses existential threats […]

One in four young adults is now having regular conversations with AI romantic partners, spending an average of 50 minutes per week chatting with artificial companions. This is happening right now, according to a new research lead by Brian Willoughby, a professor at Brigham Young University. The team surveyed nearly 3,000 American adults about their […]

On August 5th, 2025, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1, which quietly climbed to the top of the rankings. Though the model didn’t get any over-hyped marketing campaigns, today, it sits at the top of LMArena’s leaderboard across all domains. LMArena is a platform where thousands of users compare AI models in blind tests to determine […]

The question hanging over Silicon Valley right now is one that makes investors nervous – are we living through another tech bubble? With AI companies burning through hundreds of billions in funding and Nvidia alone worth more than the entire GDP of Canada, the scale of investment feels weirdly familiar to anyone who lived through […]

Predicting the future has always felt like something out of science fiction, but AI models are now being tested on exactly that – and the results are quite surprising. Two new benchmarks, Prophet Arena and FutureX, have been putting leading AI models through their challenges on real-world prediction tasks, from sports outcomes to political events […]

2025 has been an amazing year for AI, with new models landing almost every month—and it’s not slowing down yet. The biggest labs all have something in the pipeline: Google’s DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and DeepSeek are lining up their next releases. Most will be more about steady progress than big breakthroughs, but they’re still […]

People are really confused about how smart GPT-5 actually is. Social media posts show IQ scores anywhere from 57 to 148 – that’s a huge 91-point difference that has users wondering what’s really going on. Some people are excited about GPT-5 Pro and call it a major step up. Others are writing off the whole […]

In what may be the most expensive job rejection in tech history, an AI researcher at San Francisco startup Thinking Machines turned down a staggering $1 billion offer from Mark Zuckerberg‘s Meta. The offer was part of a systematic recruitment blitz targeting the entire company. According to a Wired report, Meta approached multiple researchers at […]