Photo by Traxer on Unsplash Another big crypto player is heading to Wall Street — and it’s one you’ve probably heard of. Gemini, the crypto exchange and custodian started by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, just filed to go public. That’s right, the same identical twins who famously sued Mark Zuckerberg over the founding of Facebook […]
Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash What happens when you take a large language model, peel back the layers of alignment, and just let it… be? That’s exactly what one researcher decided to do with OpenAI’s gpt-oss-20b model — a 20-billion parameter open-weight language model at the center of a fresh tweak in the AI
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Image by fabio on Unsplash So, GPT-5 is officially out. But before we start imagining robot assistants booking our flights or running errands for us, there’s a reality check we need to talk about: according to Gartner, the kind of fully autonomous, “agentic” AI that some are dreaming about just isn’t possible yet. At least,
Credit: Simon Ray on Unsplash It’s not every day you hear about the U.S. government thinking about picking up a stake in one of the country’s biggest tech companies. But according to a new report from Bloomberg, that’s exactly what might be happening with Intel. Here’s what we know — and why it matters. A
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Why “cheap” open models can cost more than premium ones and how to keep an eye on your compute costs Photo by Tuyen Vo on Unsplash We all love a free tool, especially when it promises enterprise-level AI at no cost. Open-source language models have exploded lately, giving developers and businesses new ways to tap
Photo by Anastassia Anufrieva on Unsplash It took just a few days—and thousands of user complaints—for OpenAI to undo one of its biggest decisions yet. Last week, when OpenAI launched GPT-5 on August 7, the company made a bold move: it pulled every previous model from ChatGPT. No more GPT-4o. No more o3. No warning.
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Photo by Google DeepMind on Unsplash We’ve all heard the buzz about artificial intelligence reaching human-level capabilities. But what happens the day after AI surpasses us? Not decades later—literally, the next day. This isn’t about sci-fi fantasy or distant futures. The idea of “superintelligence” (when AI becomes drastically smarter than any human) is being taken
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Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash Let’s be honest — riding in a driverless car through San Francisco should feel like living in the future. And it mostly does. I’m whizzing past intersections and busy crosswalks, cushioned by a cocoon of AI-powered precision, 29 cameras, six radar units, and five lidar sensors. All of that
Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash Igor Babuschkin helped build one of Silicon Valley’s top AI startups. Now he’s leaving it behind—for something even bigger. On Wednesday, Babuschkin quietly announced via a heartfelt post on X that he’s stepping away from xAI, the artificial intelligence company he co-founded with Elon Musk back in 2023. After spending
Image by Scott Webb on Unsplash The stories were wild. An AI threatening to leak personal secrets. Another one rewriting its own shutdown code to avoid being turned off. It all sounds like the first act of a sci-fi thriller where machines rise up against their makers. But let’s take a breath. What actually happened
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