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OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren't Cheating on Homework

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-30 06:21:56

For years, teachers have been bashing their heads against the wall as students outsource their homework to large language model (LLM) chatbots like ChatGPT. The time-honored tradition of parenting-by-screen — grossly exacerbated by the rise of LLM chatbots — is now coming to a head with what many have called a "crisis in student literacy," as reading ability among children in the US hits all-time lows. The issue isn't just affecting K-12 either; university professors have reported a similar dro

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OpenAI brings GPT-4o back online after users melt down over the new model

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-01 14:25:23

Following the rollout of OpenAI's latest GPT-5 model earlier this week, a certain user base was adamantly calling for the return of the previous GPT-4o model. Outspoken users complained about the writing quality of the updated model, with some even going so far as to grieve the loss of GPT-4o, which some said they considered a friend and confidant. In the latest OpenAI update that labels GPT-5 as the "smartest, fastest, most useful model yet," the company removed the option to choose which mode

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OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

news.ycombinator.com Zsolt Ero 2025-12-01 15:31:30

I was about to post about how nice the last 10 months of OpenFreeMap have been. The architecture has really proven itself to be great, Cloudflare has agreed to sponsor the bandwidth, Hetzner servers are super stable as always, serving tiles from Btrfs proved to be a great choice, nginx is amazing, and life is good. Then, out of the blue, I'm getting reports that some tiles are not loading, which normally means tile generation bugs, but not this time. I look into the nginx logs and see this: 20

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After a Summer of Chaos, OpenAI Strikes Back

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-01 17:01:03

OpenAI just had its best week in months. And it desperately needed it. The San Francisco-based company, best known for ChatGPT, has spent much of June and July in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. First came the talent raid: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened the checkbook, reportedly offering hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to lure away OpenAI’s top researchers. Several jumped ship. CEO Sam Altman publicly lashed out, calling Meta’s approach mercenary and accusing it of hav

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Anthropic revenue tied to two customers as AI pricing war threatens margins

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-01 16:35:35

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’s meteoric rise to a $5 billion revenue run rate conceals a precarious dependence on just two major customers that account for nearly a quarter of the artificial intelligence company’s income, according to internal data and industry analysis that reveals both the promise and peril of the AI coding boom. The San Francisco-based ma

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ChatGPT comes with personality presets now - and 3 other upgrades you might have missed

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-01 16:00:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways: OpenAI launched ChatGPT customization updates. Users can choose chat color and personality. All users (even free) can now access Advanced Voice Mode. OpenAI is having one of its biggest product launch weeks, releasing its highly anticipated open-source models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, and GPT-5. Buried within the deluge of the large language models (LLMs) are helpful ChatGPT features that add customization options that could make the

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OpenAI to fix GPT-5 issues, double rate limits for paid users after outrage

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-01 20:23:43

OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, overpromised on GPT-5, and real-life results are underwhelming, but it looks like a new update is rolling out that might address some of the concerns. GPT-5 is a state-of-the-art model. In our tests, BleepingComputer found that GPT-5 does really well in coding. It was significantly faster than the other OpenAI models, including o3. However, GPT-5 struggles to be 'creative' in writing, and it also often fails to switch to its new reasoning capabilities when users expec

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OpenAI returns old models to ChatGPT as Sam Altman admits ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-02 02:17:22

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 OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman is publicly acknowledging major hiccups in yesterday’s rollout of GPT-5, the company’s new, flagship large language model (LLM) — advertised as its most powerful and capable yet. Answering user questions in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) thread and in a post on X this afternoon, Altman admitted to a ran

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ChatGPT is bringing back 4o as an option because people missed it

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-01 23:30:15

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. OpenAI is bringing back GPT-4o in ChatGPT just one day after replacing it with GPT-5. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that the company will let paid users switch to GPT-4o after ChatGPT users mourned its replacement. “We will let Plus users choose to continue to use 4o,” Altman says. “We will watch usage as we think about how long t

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GPT-5 Launch Demo Plagued With Catastrophically Dumb Errors

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-02 06:20:37

OpenAI's GPT-5 is finally here and already powering ChatGPT, but it hasn't made a great first impression. In a livestream dedicated to the release, OpenAI tried to show off its newest large language model which CEO Sam Altman called a "significant step along the path to AGI"— but instead turned heads with some catastrophically dumb errors. Across several examples, bar graphs intended to show off GPT-5's awesome performance benchmarks, while appearing professional-looking, turned out to be horr

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OpenAI keeps GPT-4o active and doubles GPT-5 usage for some users

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-02 12:34:20

Yesterday OpenAI released GPT-5, the latest model update to ChatGPT. More than 24 hours later, the new model is still rolling out to paid and free customers. Meanwhile, OpenAI is reconsidering the availability of certain models and limitations for customers. The new model will also be more transparent and offer more control over which tools it uses for which requests. Let’s start with the rollout status. I was pleasantly surprised when OpenAI said GPT-5 would be available to almost all of its u

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Canonical's OpenJDK builds promise Java devs more speed - and a whopping 12 years of security support

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-02 11:23:00

Liz Leyden/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways With Ubuntu Pro, Canonical's OpenJDK build includes 12 years of support. 'Chiseled' builds are faster, more secure than other OpenJDK builds. Canonical is aligning Ubuntu's and OpenJDK's release cadences. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has announced the introduction of its own certified OpenJDK builds. With 90% of Fortune 500 companies relying on Java for their backend development, this move is designed to address the growing comple

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OpenAI's GPT-5 is now free for all: How to access and everything else we know

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-02 12:27:00

OpenAI ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI has launched its long-awaited GPT-5 model. The model is claimed to be OpenAI's fastest, smartest, and most capable yet. GPT-5 is available to everyone: Free, Plus, Pro, and Team/Enterprise/Edu users. There are two kinds of OpenAI models in this world: GPT and reasoning models. The advantages of the former, such as GPT-4o, are that they combine speed and accuracy, while reasoning models such as o3 and o4 take longer to think and use more compute power to p

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GPT-5 Under Fire: Red Teaming OpenAI's Model Reveals Surprising Weaknesses

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 11:53:47

Why We Tested GPT-5 GPT‑5 is making waves as OpenAI’s most advanced general-purpose model: faster, smarter, and more integrated across modalities. Its auto-routing architecture seamlessly switches between a quick-response model and a deeper reasoning model without requiring a separate “reasoning model” toggle. GPT‑5 itself decides whether to “think hard.” OpenAI also emphasizes GPT‑5’s enhanced internal self-validation. I t’s supposed to assess multiple reasoning paths internally and “double-

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AI Industry Nervous About Small Detail: They're Not Making Any Real Money

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-02 16:05:36

Like it or not, it's safe to assume AI will be a conversation that defines the rest of the 2020s. The recent launch of OpenAI's latest model, GPT-5, comes as ChatGPT ascends to the fifth most-visited website in the world, ahead of Wikipedia, Reddit, TikTok and Amazon. In just three short years, the software has upended education, scrambled the tech labor sector, and ushered in something of a pandemic of chatbot-related mental health problems. But for all those technocratic bona fides, the soft

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Canonical's OpenJDK builds promise Java devs more speed and a whopping 12 years of security support

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-02 17:23:26

Liz Leyden/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways With Ubuntu Pro, Canonical's OpenJDK build includes 12 years of support. 'Chiseled' builds are faster, more secure than other OpenJDK builds. Canonical is aligning Ubuntu's and OpenJDK's release cadences. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, has announced the introduction of its own certified OpenJDK builds. With 90% of Fortune 500 companies relying on Java for their backend development, this move is designed to address the growing comple

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Open SWE: An open-source asynchronous coding agent

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-02 14:16:20

The use of AI in software engineering has evolved over the past two years. It started as autocomplete, then went to a copilot in an IDE, and in the fast few months has evolved to be a long running, more end-to-end agent that run asynchronously in the cloud. We believe that all agents will long more like this in the future - long running, asynchronous, more autonomous. Specifically, we think that they will: Run asynchronously in the cloud Integrate directly with your tooling Have enough conte

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Former Googlers’ AI startup OpenArt now creates ‘brain rot’ videos in just one click

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-12-02 17:01:21

AI-generated “brain rot” videos are popping up all over the internet and getting a lot of attention. Currently gaining traction among younger users, these clips feature wild characters, like a shark wearing sneakers and a ballerina with a cappuccino for a head. One startup driving this trend is OpenArt, founded by two former Google employees in 2022. It touts around 3 million monthly active users. The company recently launched a new “one-click story” feature in open beta, which allows users to

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Join Our Next Livestream: What GPT-5 Means for ChatGPT Users

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-12-02 22:25:10

Few recent software releases have been as hyped as OpenAI’s launch of its GPT-5 model. “GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD level expert,” said CEO Sam Altman in a recent press briefing. Is this new release as big of an upgrade as OpenAI claims? What do these changes actually mean for ChatGPT users? WIRED reporters are currently testing this newest drop from OpenAI, and seeing how GPT-5’s ability to write, code, and perform other tasks

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Sam Altman says he doesn’t think about Elon Musk that much

cnbc.com Ruxandra Iordache 2025-12-02 23:14:37

Sam Altman has dismissed longtime rival Elon Musk's warnings that OpenAI is set to dominate Microsoft, after the companies announced that OpenAI's latest AI model will be incorporated into Microsoft products. On Thursday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that OpenAI's GPT-5 service would be launching across platforms including Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI Foundry — prompting a response from Musk that "OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive." Nadella sought

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You can apparently buy Google’s official Pixel Tablet stylus that never launched

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-03 03:15:33

TL;DR Last year, Google canceled its plans for the Pixel Tablet 2, leaving the fate of the company’s Pixel stylus unclear. This summer, that stylus has started popping up at online retailers, now branded as the Pixel Tablet Pen. The pen works fine with the existing Pixel Tablet, but not all its features appear fully implemented. Google’s approach right now towards Android on screens larger than our phones is confusing, to put it mildly. On one hand, we’ve got Android’s increasingly impressive

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We built an open-source asynchronous coding agent

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 08:16:20

The use of AI in software engineering has evolved over the past two years. It started as autocomplete, then went to a copilot in an IDE, and in the fast few months has evolved to be a long running, more end-to-end agent that run asynchronously in the cloud. We believe that all agents will long more like this in the future - long running, asynchronous, more autonomous. Specifically, we think that they will: Run asynchronously in the cloud Integrate directly with your tooling Have enough conte

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OpenAI priced GPT-5 so low, it may spark a price war

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-03 08:10:04

OpenAI astounded the tech industry for the second time this week by launching its newest flagship model, GPT-5, just days after releasing two new freely available models under an open source license. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went so far as to call GPT-5 “the best model in the world.” That may be pride or hyperbole, as TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff reports that GPT-5 only slightly outperforms other leading AI models from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI on some key benchmarks, and slightly lags on o

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The GPT-5 Launch Was Concerning

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-03 20:33:02

The GPT-5 Launch Was Concerning 08 Aug, 2025 Bs in Blueberry There were screenshots of a classic LLM issue floating around Bluesky after the GPT-5 launch yesterday, and I asked GPT-5 myself to confirm. Sam Altman touted GPT-5 as a “PhD level expert in your pocket”, but this PhD doubled down on incorrectly answering the oldest trick for LLMs in the book. When GPT-4 launched, I (and many others) believed that GPT-5's launch would be the “AGI moment”. Cherry picking “bs in blueberry” as a fail

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Openvibe combines news and social media in one app

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-03 22:00:00

Openvibe, an app that allows you to follow open social networks like Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and Nostr in one place, is now expanding its functionality so you can follow your favorite news sites and blogs, too. To do so, the startup is adding support for RSS (aka Really Simple Syndication or news feeds), an open standard that allows you to subscribe to automatic updates from websites, like new articles or blog posts. The addition makes Openvibe more useful for keeping up with your interests

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OpenStore’s demise marks endgame for once-booming e-commerce aggregator market

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-12-04 03:40:47

When venture capitalist Keith Rabois got into e-commerce, he couldn't stop buying brands. Now, everything must go. OpenStore, co-founded by Rabois in 2021, is shutting down nearly all of the 40-plus Shopify stores it acquired, and it's in the process of liquidating any remaining inventory by offering steep discounts to move merchandise. Earlier this week, the company announced it plans to focus solely on growing Jack Archer, the menswear brand it bought for $837,000 in 2022. The website addres

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Here’s everything OpenAI announced at its GPT-5 event

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-04 03:40:18

During an uncharacteristically long video stream yesterday, OpenAI announced GPT-5, alongside a series of interface and usability improvements to its chatbot. Here’s everything new with ChatGPT. One model to rule them all After many years of confusion with similarly-named models imbued with overlapping abilities, OpenAI finally streamlined the user experience and trimmed down its model offerings to: GPT-5 GPT-5 Thinking GPT-5 Pro (limited to the US$200/mo plan) OpenAI says that ChatGPT wil

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OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-12-04 14:37:19

OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament 24 minutes ago Share Save Liv McMahon Technology reporter Share Save Getty Images ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has beaten Elon Musk's Grok in the final of a tournament to crown the best artificial intelligence (AI) chess player. Historically, tech companies have often used chess to assess the progress and abilities of a computer, with modern chess machines virtually unbeatable against even the top human players. But this competition did not involve

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The Morning After: Meta teases high-spec VR headset prototypes

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-04 14:15:03

Meta previewed some of its latest virtual reality prototypes this week and plans to demo them at next week’s SIGGRAPH conference. The aim, according to Meta’s blog post, is to offer VR experiences “indistinguishable from the physical world” — something it says no present-day VR system has yet done. It wants to surpass what it terms the visual Turing test. “Our mission for this project was to provide the best image quality possible,” said Xuan Wang, an optical research scientist with Reality Lab

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What Is Popover=Hint?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 20:55:52

What is popover=hint? If you’ve been following along with advancements in HTML, such as the new popover API, you may have noticed that a new popover type ( hint ) recently landed in Chrome 133 (January 2025). But what exactly does it do? The short answer is: popover="hint" allows you to open an unrelated hint popover without closing other popovers in the stack. This means you can have an existing stack of auto popovers remain open while still displaying a hint popover. You often see this sort

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