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An AI Model for the Brain Is Coming to the ICU

The Cleveland Clinic is partnering with San Francisco–based startup Piramidal to develop a large-scale AI model that will be used to monitor patients’ brain health in intensive care units. Instead of being trained on text, the system is based on electroencephalogram (EEG) data, which is collected via electrodes placed on the scalp and then read out by a computer in a series of wavy lines. EEG records the brain’s electrical activity, and changes in this activity can indicate a problem. In an ICU

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MacBook Air deal: Get the M4-powered laptop for a record-low price

If you've put off getting a new MacBook then today is your lucky day. Right now, the 2025 13- and 15-inch MacBook Air M4 are available on Amazon for record-low prices. The 13-inch model is our pick for best MacBook to buy this year. You can pick up the 13-inch MacBook Air M4 for $799, down from $999 — a 20 percent discount. This model comes with 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD. You can upgrade to 512GB SSD for $999, down from $1,199, another all-time low price, or 24GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD for $1

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GPT-5 bombed my coding tests, but redeemed itself with code analysis

MF3d/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways GPT-5 Pro delivers the sharpest, most actionable code analysis. A detail-focused prompt can push base GPT-5 toward Pro results. o3 remains a strong contender despite being a GPT-4 variant. With the big news that OpenAI has released GPT-5, the team here at ZDNET is working to learn about and communicate its strengths and weaknesses. In another article, I put its programming prowess to the test and came up with a less-than-impressive result. Also: I te

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Amazon Drone Beehive Concept (2019)

Transport is one of the main pillars of modern economies comprising a spectrum of individual systems and their interconnections that are intended to cover the mobility demand of people and goods. Transport systems include an extensive series of physical and organisational elements and are being characterised by an overall intrinsic complexity. These elements can be influencing each other directly and/or indirectly, linearly or nonlinearly, having also potential feedback cycles [1]. In particular

Best Internet Providers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

What is the best internet provider in Philadelphia? Verizon Fios is CNET's broadband expert's top pick for the best internet service provider in Philadelphia. Not only is it the only fiber connection in the area, but it has impressive range, covering almost 95% of city addresses. Better yet, it has a starting price of just $50 -- an absolute steal for anyone living in busy households to remote workers. Verizon Fios' symmetrical speeds also outperform cable, and the $110 "2 Gig" plan ($95 for mo

The Great American EV Tax Credit Rush Has Begun

The great EV buying frenzy has officially begun. In the last 48 hours, Tesla has seen delivery times for some of its most popular models skyrocket from a few weeks to nearly six months, a clear signal that consumers are stampeding to buy an electric vehicle before a crucial federal tax credit disappears for good. This is the short-term sales boom that experts have been predicting, a last-chance gold rush for buyers. But for the EV industry, it’s also a sugar rush that could lead to a brutal cra

It shocked the market but has China's DeepSeek changed AI?

It shocked the market but has China's DeepSeek changed AI? 1 day ago Share Save Lily Jamali • @lilyjamali North America Technology Correspondent Reporting from San Francisco Share Save Shutterstock US President Donald Trump had been in office scarcely a week when a new Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) app called DeepSeek jolted Silicon Valley. Overnight, DeepSeek-R1 shot to the top of the Apple charts as the most downloaded free app in the US. The firm said at the time its new chatbot riv

GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2

OpenAI just released their new open-weight LLMs this week: gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, their first open-weight models since GPT-2 in 2019. And yes, thanks to some clever optimizations, they can run locally (but more about this later). This is the first time since GPT-2 that OpenAI has shared a large, fully open-weight model. Earlier GPT models showed how the transformer architecture scales. The 2022 ChatGPT release then made these models mainstream by demonstrating concrete usefulness for wri

Nigerian profitable food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator

Chowdeck, a Lagos-based food delivery startup that has stayed profitable in a notoriously tough and low-margin market, has raised $9 million in Series A funding to launch a quick commerce strategy and expand into more cities in Nigeria and Ghana. The equity round was led by Novastar Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, AAIC Investment, Rebel Fund, GFR Fund, Kaleo, HoaQ, and others. The investors are betting on the team’s ability to pair local market expertise with execution and turn

Can GPT-5 fix Apple Intelligence? We're about to find out

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET ZDNET's Key takeaways: Apple Intelligence will be upgraded with GPT-5. GPT-5 is OpenAI's recently launched most capable model. Users will be able to access GPT-5 in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26. OpenAI released GPT-5 on Thursday, saying it's the company's most capable, smartest, and fastest model to date. While everyone, including free users, can access the model for free today via ChatGPT, Apple device users will be able to try it out even more easily. Apple's first

Tesla’s Cybertruck Is Suddenly Sold Out (Sort Of)

After months of being a commercial disaster, something curious is happening with the Tesla Cybertruck. For the first time since its troubled launch, Elon Musk’s futuristic pickup is showing signs of life. The wait time for the Cybertruck’s cheapest model has suddenly stretched to over a month, suggesting a spike in demand for a vehicle that, until now, almost no one seemed to want. The question is whether this is a genuine turnaround for the polarizing pickup or just a temporary sugar rush fuel

OpenAI Brings Back Fan-Favorite GPT-4o After a Massive User Revolt

After a disastrous 72 hours that saw its most loyal users in open revolt, OpenAI is making a major U-turn. In a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter) Sunday, CEO Sam Altman announced that the company is bringing back its beloved older AI models, including GPT-4o, and dramatically increasing usage limits for paying subscribers, a clear peace offering to a furious customer base. The move comes just days after the botched rollout of GPT-5, the company’s latest and most powerful model. The launc

I've tested every iPad sold by Apple right now - here's the model I recommend most

ZDNET's key takeaways The 11th-generation iPad 11th Generation normally retails for $349. The upgraded iPad has double the base storage as the previous generation, more RAM, and an upgraded processor in the A16 Bionic chip. However, it still isn't compatible with Apple Intelligence and doesn't support the Apple Pencil Pro. $299 at Amazon $349 at Apple $299 at Best Buy more buying choices It's not every day that a tech giant offers a new, improved product for an equal or lesser price than its

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

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

After User Backlash, OpenAI Is Bringing Back Older ChatGPT Models

OpenAI hoped to shrink the menu of generative AI models on its ChatGPT platform to just one with the release of its GPT-5 model this week. Not everyone was a fan. Now CEO Sam Altman says the developer is looking at giving ChatGPT Plus subscribers the option to keep using the older 4o model. Altman and other OpenAI leaders took questions on Reddit on Friday, a day after the announcement of the new GPT-5 model. A quick glance through the comments revealed how many users preferred how older model

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Gear News of the Week: iPhone 17 May Be a Month Away, and Sonos to Raise Prices

If rumors are correct, Apple's annual iPhone event will take place exactly a month from today, on September 9. That's according to a German website citing internal documents from German mobile phone providers, but the date was also previously suggested by Bloomberg's Apple whisperer, Mark Gurman. Leaks about Apple's upcoming smartphone lineup have heated up in recent weeks. Apple is expected to debut four iPhones as usual, with one key distinction. The “Plus” iPhone no longer exists, replaced b

OpenAI Bringing Back More Parasocial Version of ChatGPT After Users Scream and Cry That Their Robot Friend Got Taken Away

ChatGPT's fans have developed intense attachments to some of the "personalities" exhibited by the company's large language models (LLMs) — and as such, many were in a state of panic when the choice to switch between models like GPT-4o, 4.5, and others was abruptly taken away after the release of GPT-5. OpenAI briefly kiboshed the model picker option from ChatGPT as part of the launch of GPT-5, its long-awaited new LLM, which essentially forced everyone to use the latest model whether they liked

ChatGPT users hate GPT-5’s “overworked secretary” energy, miss their GPT-4o buddy

After months of hype and anticipation, OpenAI released its new GPT-5 model family this week. Promising massive upgrades across the board, the company is already working to roll out the new AI to everyone. Some dedicated ChatGPT users wish it would stop, though. After becoming accustomed to the vibe of the GPT-4 models, the switch to GPT-5 doesn't feel right. Around the Internet, chatbot fans are lamenting the loss of the digital "friends" they've grown to appreciate, which probably says a lot ab

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

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

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

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

Apple taught an LLM to predict tokens up to 5x faster in math and coding tasks

A new research paper from Apple details a technique that speeds up large language model responses, while preserving output quality. Here are the details. The nerdy bits Traditionally, LLMs generate text one token at a time. This is slow because each step depends on all the previous ones to keep the output coherent and accurate. If the model is writing a sentence like “ The cat is black ”, it predicts each token in sequence. After writing “ The cat is ”, it looks at everything so far (plus the

I Built a Powerful Gaming PC Solely to Run AI Models. Here's Why

When it comes to AI, maybe ChatGPT or Gemini come to mind. There are other players like Perplexity, Claude, Grok and Mistral. In a booming market, there are a whole host of AI models out there, many of which don't even require an internet connection. Models that run without internet connections are called local AI models, and as the name suggests, they can be run on your own hardware. You don't need to connect to OpenAI's or Google's servers to use those versions of ChatGPT or Gemini. This bri

GPT-5 Launch Demo Plagued With Catastrophically Dumb Errors

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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It Took Just 24 Hours of Complaints for OpenAI to Start Bringing Back Its Old Model

OpenAI unveiled its latest generative AI model, GPT-5, on Thursday. CEO Sam Altman says that ChatGPT is now like having a “superpower” and the equivalent of “a legitimate PhD-level expert in anything, any area you need, on demand, that can help you with whatever your goals are.” But after a day of playing around with it, many people are disappointed. Not only because GPT-5 still fumbles basic questions, but because it seems to be breaking a lot of workflows, according to complaints posted to Red

Apple brings OpenAI’s GPT-5 to iOS and macOS

OpenAI's GPT-5 model went live for most ChatGPT users this week, but lots of people use ChatGPT not through OpenAI's interface but through other platforms or tools. One of the largest deployments is iOS, the iPhone operating system, which allows users to make certain queries via GPT-4o. It turns out those users won't have to wait long for the latest model: Apple will switch to GPT-5 in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26, according to 9to5Mac. Apple has not officially announced when those OS

Sam Altman addresses ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout, bringing 4o back, and the ‘chart crime’

During a Reddit ask-me-anything session on Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and key members of the GPT-5 team were peppered with questions about the new model and requests to bring back its previous model, GPT-4o. They also asked Altman about the most embarrassing — and perhaps funniest — snafu in the presentation, the “chart crime.” One of the new features that GPT-5 rolled out is a real-time router that decides which model to use for a particular prompt, either responding quickly or taking addi

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

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

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

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

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

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-

M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025

Apple does not plan to refresh any Macs with updated M5 chips in 2025, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Updated MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models are now planned for the first half of 2026. Gurman previously said that Apple would debut the M5 ‌MacBook Pro‌ models in late 2025, but his newest report suggests that Apple is "considering" pushing them back to 2026. Apple is now said to be "internally targeting" a launch early next year. The current M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max ‌MacBook Pro‌ mode