2025-04-21
Inside OpenAI’s o3 and o4‑mini: Unlocking New Possibilities Through Multimodal Reasoning and Integrated Toolsets
On April 16, 2025, OpenAI released upgraded versions of its advanced reasoning models. These new models, named o3 and o4-mini, offer improvements over their predecessors, o1 and o3-mini, respectively. [...]
2025-04-21
Fyre Festival is becoming a music streaming service that might not be a scam this time
The Fyre Festival saga is getting an unexpected new chapter. Shawn Rech, who co-founded the TruBlu streaming network for crime and investigative content, is planning to leverage the Fyre Festival name [...]
2025-04-21
Using generative AI will 'neither help nor harm the chances of achieving' Oscar nominations
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decide that its official stance towards AI-use in films is to take no stance at all, according to a statement the organization shared outlining chan [...]
2025-04-21
Go read this to learn how reinforcement learning makes LLMs better at reasoning
AI researcher Sebastian Raschka has published a new analysis that looks at how reinforcement learning is used to improve reasoning in large language models (LRMs).<br /> The article Go read this [...]
2025-04-21
Bluesky is getting blue checkmarks and an official verification system
Bluesky is adopting an official verification system after all. In an update, the company said it plans to grant blue checkmarks to “authentic and notable” accounts. It will also allow some “trus [...]
2025-04-21
Meta is using its AI age-detection tech to shuffle more young users into teen accounts
Meta says it's doing more to make sure as many of its younger users as possible are using the teen accounts that it has rolled out for Instagram, Facebook and Messenger. Starting today, it's [...]
2025-04-21
Trump’s ‘war on science’ hands Europe major tech talent opportunity
As the Trump administration ramps up what academics call a “war on science,” US researchers are increasingly looking to Europe for new opportunities — which could be good news for the continen [...]