OpenAI reboots ChatGPT experience with GPT-5.1 after mixed reviews of GPT-5

ChatGPT is about to become faster and more conversational as OpenAI upgrades its flagship model GPT-5 to GPT-5.1.OpenAI announced two updates to the GPT-5 series: GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking. [...]

Weibo's new open source AI model VibeThinker-1.5B outperforms DeepSeek-R1 on $7,800 post-training budget

Another day in late 2025, another impressive result from a Chinese company in open source artificial intelligence.Chinese social networking company Weibo's AI division recently released its open [...]

Quantum computing tech keeps edging forward

IBM follows through on its June promises, plus more trapped ion news. [...]

An Aurora Is Coming Tonight: Here's Where You Could See It

The far-reaching aurora is projected to hit around 25 states on Wednesday. [...]

These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found

Hunter-gatherers probably derived the poison from the milky bulb extract of a Boophone disticha plant. [...]

British Churches Are Putting Their Faith in Heat Pumps

Ancient buildings and old bones aren’t getting in the way of the transition. [...]

Tracking the winds that have turned Mars into a planet of dust

Tracking winds across Mars' surface and their association with dust storms. [...]

LLM-referred traffic converts at 30-40% — and most enterprises aren't optimizing for it

For more than two decades, digital discovery has operated on a simple model: search, scan, click, decide. That worked when humans were the ones doing the web searching; but with the advent of AI agent [...]

Trump orders the military to make agreements with coal power plants

The administration's "reasoning" for doing so has little connection to reality. [...]