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Developers Say GPT-5 Is a Mixed Bag

wired.com Lauren Goode 2025-11-17 18:47:49

When OpenAI launched GPT-5 last week, it told software engineers the model was designed to be a “true coding collaborator” that excels at generating high-quality code and performing agentic, or automated, software tasks. While the company didn’t say so explicitly, OpenAI appeared to be taking direct aim at Anthropic’s Claude Code, which has quickly become many developers’ favored tool for AI-assisted coding. But developers tell WIRED that GPT-5 has been a mixed bag so far. It shines at technica

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Open-Sourced AI Models May Be More Costly in the Long Run, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-17 23:00:24

As more businesses adopt AI, picking which model to go with is a major decision. While open-sourced models may seem cheaper initially, a new study warns that those savings can evaporate fast, due to the extra computing power they require. In fact, open-source AI models burn through significantly more computing resources than their closed-source rivals when performing the same tasks, according to a study published Thursday by Nous Research. The researchers tested dozens of AI models, including

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Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-11-17 23:17:30

Never mind the GPT-5 complaints; Sam Altman says he believes ChatGPT is on track to have more conversations per day than all human beings combined. “If you project our growth forward, pretty soon billions of people a day will be talking to ChatGPT,” said the CEO of OpenAI during a dinner with journalists in San Francisco. “ChatGPT will be having more conversations, maybe, than all human words put together, at some point. I think it's unreasonable to expect a single model personality or style to

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Battlefield 6 Beta Double XP Exclusive to PS Plus and Other Changes for Weekend Two

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 03:39:00

The Battlefield 6 Beta is raging with players free to jump into the fray now through the end of Sunday, Aug. 17. As the second weekend of the preview period, there are a few changes that open up the beta with more modes, maps and play options. Those enjoying the beta on PS5 have to be subscribed to PS Plus to play online, but for their trouble, they're getting 2x XP and can earn an exclusive skin, as the official PlayStation account posted on X. For all players, here are the changes for Battle

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GPT-5 failed the hype test

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-11-18 18:47:40

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Last week, on GPT-5 launch day, AI hype was at an all-time high. In a press briefing beforehand, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said GPT-5 is “something that I just don’t wanna ever have to go back from,” a milestone akin to the first iPhone with a Retina display. The night before the announcement livestream, Altman posted an image of t

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You Can Improve Your Android Phone's Battery Life With These 6 Tips

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 04:00:04

If you've had your Android phone for a while, you might have noticed that its battery life isn't what it used to be. Most modern Android phones boast impressive battery life, often lasting a full day or more on a single charge. Still, the more you use your phone, the faster that battery drains. Activities like watching videos and using navigation apps tend to drain your battery faster than usual, as do certain software and apps. Older phones also generally have shorter battery life. Sure, you c

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Battlefield 6 Beta Double XP Exclusive to PS Plus and Other Changes For Weekend Two

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 03:39:22

The Battlefield 6 Beta is raging with players free to jump into the fray now through the end of Sunday, Aug. 17. As the second weekend of the preview period, there are a few changes that open up the beta with more modes, maps and play options. Those enjoying the beta on PS5 have to be subscribed to PS Plus to play online, but for their trouble, they're getting 2x XP and can earn an exclusive skin, as the official PlayStation account posted on X. For all players, here are the changes for Battle

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That ‘cheap’ open-source AI model is actually burning through your compute budget

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-11-19 05:24:49

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A comprehensive new study has revealed that open-source artificial intelligence models consume significantly more computing resources than their closed-source competitors when performing identical tasks, potentially undermining their cost advantages and reshaping how enterprises evaluate AI deployment strategies. The research, conducted by

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Apple trained an LLM to teach itself good UI code in SwiftUI

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-19 04:21:54

In a new study, a group of Apple researchers describe a very interesting approach they took to, basically, get an open-source model to teach itself how to build good user interface code in SwiftUI. Here’s how they did it. In the paper UICoder: Finetuning Large Language Models to Generate User Interface Code through Automated Feedback, the researchers explain that while LLMs have gotten better at multiple writing tasks, including creative writing and coding, they still struggle to “reliably gene

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The new science of “emergent misalignment”

news.ycombinator.com Stephen Ornes 2025-11-19 03:25:51

If there’s an upside to this fragility, it’s that the new work exposes what happens when you steer a model toward the unexpected, Hooker said. Large AI models, in a way, have shown their hand in ways never seen before. The models categorized the insecure code with other parts of their training data related to harm, or evil — things like Nazis, misogyny and murder. At some level, AI does seem to separate good things from bad. It just doesn’t seem to have a preference. Wish for the Worst In 2022

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GPT-5's rollout fell flat for consumers, but the AI model is gaining where it matters most

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-11-19 06:51:18

watch now Sam Altman turned OpenAI into a cultural phenomenon with ChatGPT. Now, three years later, he's chasing where the real money is: Enterprise. Last week's rollout of GPT-5, OpenAI's newest artificial intelligence model, was rocky. Critics bashed its less-intuitive feel, ultimately leading the company to restore its legacy GPT-4 to paying chatbot customers. But GPT-5 isn't about the consumer. It's OpenAI's effort to crack the enterprise market, where rival Anthropic has enjoyed a head sta

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OpenAI relaxes GPT-5 rate limit, promises to improve the personality

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-18 03:22:04

OpenAI is slowly addressing all concerns around GPT-5, including rate limits and now its personality, which has been criticized for being less affirmative. In a support document, OpenAI confirmed it has restored the older models for paid customers, so you can now use GPT4o, GPT o3, and more. You just need to use the model selector and choose one of the models under legacy models. In addition, GPT-5 automatically switches between Fast and Thinking, and you can also choose additional GPT-5 opti

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All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning

news.ycombinator.com Benjamin Breen 2025-11-18 00:34:27

Oxford University is immersed in the past like no other place I’ve seen. One example: when I was a visiting student at Oxford in 2005, I remember meeting two students at a pub one evening. They were drinking ivy-laced beer. The reason, I was told, is that centuries ago, a student from Lincoln College had murdered a student of Brasenose. Ever since then, Brasenose students had been allowed into Lincoln and given free beer once a year. Here’s the event back in 1938: The actual truth behind “ivy

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Gartner: GPT-5 is here, but the infrastructure to support true agentic AI isn’t (yet)

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2025-11-19 18:35:28

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Here’s an analogy: Freeways didn’t exist in the U.S. until after 1956, when envisioned by President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration — yet super fast, powerful cars like Porsche, BMW, Jaguars, Ferrari and others had been around for decades. You could say AI is at that same pivot point: While models are becoming increasingly more capab

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Starlink Users Will Now Have to Pay $5 to Pause Service

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-19 22:01:00

Starlink is ending a popular free feature that let customers pause service at any time for free. Now, you’ll have to pay $5 a month to enter what the company is calling “Standby Mode.” Subscribers who’d been using the pause feature began receiving emails yesterday notifying them that they’d have to opt in to the new Standby Mode by Sept. 13, or their service would be canceled. “We recently upgraded pause to include Standby Mode,” the company wrote on a support page. “Previously, the pause feat

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Google releases pint-size Gemma open AI model

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-19 23:04:22

Big tech has spent the last few years creating ever-larger AI models, leveraging rack after rack of expensive GPUs to provide generative AI as a cloud service. But tiny AI matters, too. Google has announced a tiny version of its Gemma open model designed to run on local devices. Google says the new Gemma 3 270M can be tuned in a snap and maintains robust performance despite its small footprint. Google released its first Gemma 3 open models earlier this year, featuring between 1 billion and 27 b

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Google unveils ultra-small and efficient open source AI model Gemma 3 270M that can run on smartphones

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-11-20 09:21:55

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google’s DeepMind AI research team has unveiled a new open source AI model today, Gemma 3 270M. As its name would suggest, this is a 270-million-parameter model — far smaller than the 70 billion or more parameters of many frontier LLMs (parameters being the number of internal settings governing the model’s behavior). While more parameters

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Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 06:08:36

Today, we're adding a new, highly specialized tool to the Gemma 3 toolkit: Gemma 3 270M , a compact, 270-million parameter model designed from the ground up for task-specific fine-tuning with strong instruction-following and text structuring capabilities already trained in. The last few months have been an exciting time for the Gemma family of open models. We introduced Gemma 3 and Gemma 3 QAT , delivering state-of-the-art performance for single cloud and desktop accelerators. Then, we announce

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Scientists Taught AI to Predict Nuclear Fusion Success—and It’s Actually Working

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-20 09:46:18

AI is giving a huge efficiency boost to one of the biggest nuclear fusion facilities in the world—but perhaps not in the way you think. In research published today in Science, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory report how its newly developed deep learning model accurately predicted the results of a 2022 fusion experiment at the National Ignition Facility (NIF). The model, which assigned 74% probability for ignition in that experiment, outperforms traditional supercomputing met

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What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-11-20 09:56:59

Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been over two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential replacements, but few aside from Meta’s Threads have achieved the speed of growth Bluesky has reached. As of February 2025, Bluesky has surpassed 30 million users. Its

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Anthropic takes on OpenAI and Google with new Claude AI features designed for students and developers

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-11-20 14:00:18

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Anthropic is launching new “learning modes” for its Claude AI assistant that transform the chatbot from an answer-dispensing tool into a teaching companion, as major technology companies race to capture the rapidly growing artificial intelligence education market while addressing mounting concerns that AI undermines genuine learning. The S

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Anthropic brings Claude's learning mode to regular users and devs

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-20 14:00:18

This past spring, Anthropic introduced learning mode, a feature that changed Claude's interaction style. When enabled, the chatbot would, following a question, try to guide the user to their own solution, instead of providing them with an answer outright. Since its introduction in April, learning mode has only been available to Claude for Education users. Now, like OpenAI did with Study Mode, Anthropic is making the tool available to everyone. Starting today, Claude.ai users will find a new opt

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Why LLMs can't really build software

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 09:26:09

One of the things I have spent a lot of time doing is interviewing software engineers. This is obviously a hard task, and I don’t claim to have a magic solution; but it’s given me some time to reflect on what effective software engineers actually do. When you watch someone who knows what they are doing, you'll see them looping over the following steps: Build a mental model of the requirements Write code that (hopefully?!) does that Build a mental model of what the code actually does Identify t

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Stop using these ESR power banks that have been recalled for fire and explosion risks

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-20 14:01:42

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. ESR has issued a recall for 33,000 HaloLock wireless power banks, in 6,000mAh and 10,000mAh versions, because their lithium-ion batteries can “overheat and ignite, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers.” The power banks were cheaper alternatives to Apple’

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Consumer safety groups are demanding an FTC investigation into Grok’s ‘Spicy’ mode

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-11-20 14:37:01

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. A new letter to the Federal Trade Commission, and US attorneys general for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, calls for an urgent investigation into Elon Musk’s Grok — especially its new “Imagine” tool for AI-generated image and video. The tool, released by xAI earlier this month, encourages users to create NSFW conten

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Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 18:08:36

Today, we're adding a new, highly specialized tool to the Gemma 3 toolkit: Gemma 3 270M , a compact, 270-million parameter model designed from the ground up for task-specific fine-tuning with strong instruction-following and text structuring capabilities already trained in. The last few months have been an exciting time for the Gemma family of open models. We introduced Gemma 3 and Gemma 3 QAT , delivering state-of-the-art performance for single cloud and desktop accelerators. Then, we announce

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Show HN: Zig-DbC – A design by contract library for Zig

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-18 11:49:57

Hi everyone, I've made an open-source library for using design by contract (DbC) principles in the Zig programming language. It's called Zig-DbC, and it currently provides the following features: - A simple API to define preconditions, postconditions, and invariants. - Contracts are active in `Debug`, `ReleaseSafe`, and `ReleaseSmall` modes to catch bugs early. - All checks are removed at compile time in `ReleaseFast` mode for zero performance cost. - An optional mode to handle partial sta

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Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 21:48:24

Reading research papers and articles about chain-of-thought reasoning makes me frustrated. There are many interesting questions to ask about chain-of-thought: how accurately it reflects the actual process going on, why training it “from scratch” often produces chains that switch fluidly between multiple languages, and so on. However, people keep asking the least interesting question possible: whether chain-of-thought reasoning is “really” reasoning. Apple took up this question in their Illusio

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Buzzy AI startup Multiverse creates two of the smallest high-performing models ever

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-11-20 23:00:00

One of Europe’s most prominent AI startups has released two AI models that are so tiny, they have named them after a chicken’s brain and a fly’s brain. Multiverse Computing claims these are the world’s smallest models that are still high-performing and can handle chat, speech, and even reasoning in one case. These new tiny models are intended to be embedded into Internet of Things devices, as well as run locally on smartphones, tablets, and PCs. “We can compress the model so much that they ca

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Why LLMs Can't Build Software

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 03:26:09

One of the things I have spent a lot of time doing is interviewing software engineers. This is obviously a hard task, and I don’t claim to have a magic solution; but it’s given me some time to reflect on what effective software engineers actually do. When you watch someone who knows what they are doing, you'll see them looping over the following steps: Build a mental model of the requirements Write code that (hopefully?!) does that Build a mental model of what the code actually does Identify t

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