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GPT-5.5 costs 49 to 92 percent more than its predecessor, depending on the input length

GPT-5.5's list price has doubled compared to GPT-5.4. Input tokens now cost $5 and output tokens $30 per million, up from $2.50 and $15. OpenAI says shorter responses should partially offset this, but ...
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AI agents can now hack computers and copy themselves, and they're getting better fast

Security research lab Palisade Research demonstrates that AI agents can break into remote computers and replicate themselves. In one year, the success rate jumped from 6 to 81 percent. A public ...
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Google's "Preferred Sources" feature is a free pass for more garbage in search

Google has introduced a "Preferred Sources" feature that lets users manually mark journalistic outlets they want to see more often in search results. But the company has spent decades algorithmically ...
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China is falling behind in the AI race, according to a US government benchmark

A new report from the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) claims Chinese AI models are losing ground to their US counterparts. The agency recently put the new Chinese open-weight model ...
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Read full article about: SAP's acquisition spree signals the enterprise giant is serious about becoming an AI-ready data platform SAP is acquiring open data lakehouse provider Dremio and AI company ...
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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman donates $25 million to Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has donated $25 million to MAGA Inc., Donald Trump's super PAC, according to a Bloomberg report citing FEC filings. The donation is part of $102 million ...
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Stanford's Brynjolfsson sees AI boosting US productivity, but he also co-founded an AI consulting firm

Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, sees clear signs of AI-driven productivity gains in new US economic data, with revised employment figures and strong GDP growth ...
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OpenAI has yet another new coding model and this time it's really fast

OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a compact coding model built for real-time programming that runs on an inference-optimized Cerebras chip, delivering more than 1,000 tokens per second. The ...
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Manus 1.5 and Manus-1.5-Lite debut as the newest agentic AI releases from Manus

With version 1.5, Manus is introducing its most capable AI agent system so far. The updated architecture cuts task processing times from 15 minutes to just 4, and internal tests report a 15 percent ...
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Deep Research feature now available to free ChatGPT users

OpenAI has made the Deep Research tool in ChatGPT available to free-tier users. Access is limited to five uses per month, using a lightweight version based on the o4-mini-model. To activate the ...
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OpenAI outlines new image generation rules for ChatGPT

OpenAI has unveiled new guidelines for image generation in GPT-4o, marking a shift toward giving users more creative freedom while maintaining certain safety guardrails. Joanne Jang, who oversees ...
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Google brings AI music generation to Gemini with Deepmind's Lyria 3

Google is integrating Lyria 3, an AI music generator developed by Google Deepmind, directly into the Gemini app, allowing users to create music from simple text prompts. The model generates 30-second ...