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I tested GPT-5 and now I get why the Internet hates it. Is it time to ditch ChatGPT?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-25 08:30:53

Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority After years of rumors and speculation, OpenAI’s next-gen GPT-5 language model is finally here. But while many of those early rumors claimed that the next major ChatGPT model would achieve artificial general intelligence or AGI, that’s not the case. GPT-5 does not surpass human-level intelligence, although it’s smarter and more capable than any of its predecessors. Despite the improvements, however, it has garnered significant and widespread backlash across t

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GPT-5 was supposed to simplify ChatGPT but now it has 4 new modes - here's why

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-25 12:59:00

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways GPT-5 now offers four different modes. You can still choose Auto to let ChatGPT determine how to respond. New choices add complexity to a model that was supposed to be simple. With the recent release of GPT-5, OpenAI touted its new model as a more efficient one that decides on its own how best to respond to your queries. Gone were the array of different modes that forced you to direct the AI based on whether you wanted a qui

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Microplastics are everywhere — including in the air around plastic treaty negotiations

theverge.com Justine Calma 2025-11-25 18:11:38

is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Thousands of delegates have descended upon Geneva this week for what’s supposed to be the culmination of years of negotiations that, if successful, are supposed to end in a groundbreaking

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Sam Altman Calls His Own AI Model "Annoying" After Being Forced to Raise It From the Dead

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-26 03:42:55

As OpenAI continues to try to tamp down on the chaos of GPT-5's disastrous release, CEO Sam Altman is throwing digs at the company's now-deprecated and controversial model. Late last week, OpenAI finally rolled out GPT-5, the latest version of its flagship large language model. Without warning, the company replaced all previous versions with the latest model — which, in addition to being deeply underwhelming, proved to have a colder, less obsequious tone than its predecessor, GPT-4o. The respo

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Why I'd still choose this 2024 Windows laptop over newer models - especially at this new price

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-11-26 04:02:20

Asus Zenbook 14 ZDNET's key takeaways The 2024 Asus Zenbook 14 is available at Best Buy for $799. It's affordable, sports the solid hardware, and has a long battery life; all packed into a form factor that weighs less than three pounds. As great as it is, this laptop has a tendency to run hot. $639.99 at Best Buy The 2024 Asus Zenbook 14 has dropped to $640, a $160 discount. Act fast because the laptop is on clearance. Once all units are sold, they're gone. Among the plethora of work laptops

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Why GPT-5's rocky rollout is the reality check we needed on superintelligence hype

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-11-26 04:51:00

Dilara Irem Sancar/Anadolu via Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways The botched rollout of GPT-5 doesn't suggest superintelligence. GPT-5 represents incremental technical progress. Scholars are debunking AI hype with detailed analyses. Nearly a year ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared artificial "superintelligence" was "just around the corner." Also: Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why Then, last June, he trumpeted the arrival of superintelligence, writing in a blog pos

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Doctors Using AI Quickly Lose Ability to Spot Cancer, Study Finds

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-26 08:48:45

Image by Getty / Futurism Studies For years now, AI cancer detection has been touted as being as good as or better than doctors — but given the results of a recent trial, for some doctors, AI seems to have greatly hampered their abilities instead. In a new study published in the journal The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, researchers led by the Medical University of Silesia in Poland found, upon surveying 19 doctors from four endoscopy practices between September 2021 and March 2022, t

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ReadMe (YC W15) Is Hiring a Developer Experience PM

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-26 09:00:37

Be part of building something people love. You want to do work that matters. On a product people care about. Preferably with friends. At ReadMe, you’ll have the autonomy to own your work, the flexibility to be your most effective, and the freedom to learn from mistakes. We’re a startup. There's a lot to be done. But if you want to work with meaning and balance, you’ll love it here. Kirby Carpenito Codenames fiend Ladies of ReadMe Circa Feb. 2020 (There are more of us now!) Gregory Koberger K

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The Pandemic Didn’t Actually Spike America’s Anxiety, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-26 09:40:17

The covid-19 pandemic was a horrific and earth-shattering world event. But it may not have scarred our collective psyche as profoundly as you would think. New research indicates that the pandemic didn’t spike Americans’ overall anxiety. Scientists at the University of Virginia led the study, which examined a decade’s worth of survey data. They found evidence that our anxiety levels didn’t significantly shift in the first years of the pandemic. People’s mental fortitude during the pandemic was p

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Bat colony checks in to hotel; 200 guests check out, unaware of rabies scare

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-26 08:35:15

Health officials in Wyoming are sinking their teeth into a meaty task. Over 200 people who stayed in a hotel in Grand Teton National Park between May and July may have unknowingly been exposed to rabies, according to Wyoming Public Radio. In an announcement on Friday, the National Park Service reported finding evidence of a bat colony in the attic. The discovery was made after there had been at least eight incidents in which guests encountered winged mammals inside the hotel. Now, the Wyoming

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I customized my Linux desktop in minutes with this free app - here's how

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-26 12:08:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Conky is a customizable desktop widget for Linux. It can display all sorts of information. With a handy GUI, Conky is easy to set up. I love a cool Linux desktop configuration and have spent many an hour tweaking them. Over the years, I've found there's one way to make the most out of your desktop, and that's with an app called Conky. Conky is an overlay app that displays certain types of information. For example, Conky can display the tim

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I found the easiest way to send files between my Android phone and desktop - and it's free

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-26 14:28:58

Jack Wallen/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Localsend makes sharing files on Android a breeze. You can share and receive files. Localsend works with Android, Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Android is my mobile OS of choice. As far as the desktop is concerned, I switch back and forth between Linux and MacOS (depending on what I'm doing). Often, I need to transfer files between Android and my two desktop operating systems, but finding the easiest method of doing so has been a bit of a chore. Until I

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This website is for humans

news.ycombinator.com Sophie Koonin 2025-11-26 12:19:53

8 August 2025 Walking past a bus stop yesterday I saw an advert for Google’s AI search. The person in the ad had pointed their phone’s camera at a bowl of ramen, and the AI result explained how to reproduce it at home. How does it know? Because it’s trained on all the ramen recipes that multiple recipe authors spent hours, weeks, years perfecting. Generative AI is a blender chewing up other people’s hard work, outputting a sad mush that kind of resembles what you’re looking for, but without an

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Scientists Unveil Wild New Way to Explore the Edge of Space

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-11-26 12:00:33

Scientists often refer to the mesosphere as the “ignorosphere”—a region that’s too high for planes or weather balloons to explore, yet too low for satellites to probe. Despite our technological advances, we’ve yet to find a decent way to monitor this large stretch of air, which lies about 37 miles (60 kilometers) above the surface. But engineers are inching towards a solution—one inspired by a toy-like invention from the 19th century. A Nature paper published today presents a proof-of-concept f

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Sam Altman Reportedly Launch Rival Brain-Chip Startup to Compete With Musk’s Neuralink

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-26 12:45:49

The rivalry between Sam Altman and Elon Musk is about to get weirder. Until now, the two have been fighting over whose company has the most advanced AI models. But soon, they could be battling to prove who makes the best brain chip implants. The Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources, that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is working on co-founding a new brain chip startup called Merge Labs. The company will develop what is known as a brain-computer interface (BCI). BCIs work by implanting tiny

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Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-26 14:17:30

Anthropic has acquired the co-founders and most of the team behind Humanloop – a platform for prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability – in a push to strengthen its enterprise strategy. The terms of the deal were not shared, but it appears to follow the acqui-hire playbook we’re increasingly seeing in the tech industry amid the war for AI talent. Humanloop’s three co-founders – CEO Raza Habib, CTO Peter Hayes, and CPO Jordan Burgess – have all joined Anthropic, alongside around a do

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Claude just learned a useful ChatGPT trick

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-24 14:37:20

Anthropic has introduced a helpful new feature for Claude that solves a problem similar to one ChatGPT already addressed. As of today, Claude is capable of referencing information from your other conversations with the AI chatbot. Anthropic demonstrates how the feature works: Claude can now reference past chats, so you can easily pick up from where you left off. pic.twitter.com/n9ZgaTRC1y — Claude (@claudeai) August 11, 2025 The new Claude feature matches OpenAI’s ChatGPT memory feature. An

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GPT-5 was meant to cut choices, but OpenAI just added multiple modes - why?

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-26 17:55:08

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways GPT-5 now offers four different modes. You can still choose Auto to let ChatGPT determine how to respond. New choices add complexity to a model that was supposed to be simple. With the recent release of GPT-5, OpenAI touted its new model as a more efficient one that decides on its own how best to respond to your queries. Gone were the array of different modes that forced you to direct the AI based on whether you wanted a qui

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How I used Conky to make my Linux desktop cooler - in minutes

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-26 18:08:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Conky is a customizable desktop widget for Linux. It can display all sorts of information. With a handy GUI, Conky is easy to set up. I love a cool Linux desktop configuration and have spent many an hour tweaking them. Over the years, I've found there's one way to make the most out of your desktop, and that's with an app called Conky. Conky is an overlay app that displays certain types of information. For example, Conky can display the tim

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I replaced my ThinkPad with a dual-screen Windows laptop - here's my verdict after a month

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-11-26 18:50:00

Asus Zenbook Duo 14 ZDNET's key takeaways The Asus Zenbook Duo is on sale now starting at around $1,499, with pricier configurations available. This laptop is a creator's dream machine, with dual-OLED touchscreens, a highly configurable form factor, and a great battery. It takes time and effort to get the most out of this laptop, and you'll need lots of desk space to utilize the different form factors. $1,360.92 at Amazon $1,299.99 at Best Buy more buying choices Upon first glance, Asus' Zenb

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Website Is for Humans

news.ycombinator.com Sophie Koonin 2025-11-26 18:19:53

8 August 2025 Walking past a bus stop yesterday I saw an advert for Google’s AI search. The person in the ad had pointed their phone’s camera at a bowl of ramen, and the AI result explained how to reproduce it at home. How does it know? Because it’s trained on all the ramen recipes that multiple recipe authors spent hours, weeks, years perfecting. Generative AI is a blender chewing up other people’s hard work, outputting a sad mush that kind of resembles what you’re looking for, but without an

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Amazon launches same-day delivery of meat, eggs, produce in more than 1,000 cities

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-11-26 23:52:55

An independent contractor wearing a protective mask and gloves loads Amazon Prime grocery bags into a car outside a Whole Foods Market in Berkeley, California, on Oct. 7, 2020. Amazon is rolling out same-day delivery of fresh foods to more pockets of the U.S. as it looks to encourage shoppers to add meat and eggs to their order while they're browsing its sprawling online store. The company announced Wednesday it's bringing the service to more than 1,000 U.S. cities and towns, including Raleigh

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I tried Lenovo's $3,000 rollable ThinkBook and can't go back to regular-sized screens

zdnet.com Kyle Kucharski 2025-11-26 23:19:00

ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable ZDNET's key takeaways The ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 is available now, starting at $3,300. The 120Hz, OLED, portrait-style 16.7-inch display delivers an expansive workspace, supported by a haptic touchpad. It has limited I/O, has some visible creasing on the rollable display, and has a sky-high price. View now at Lenovo Lenovo unveiled its "rollable" laptop at CES two years ago as a wild proof of concept that turned heads, but left consumers skeptical. Well, the compan

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What to Do When Critical Open Source Projects Go End of Life

news.ycombinator.com Bill Doerrfeld 2025-11-23 16:02:57

Ninety-eight percent of organizations use open source software (OSS) regularly, according to the Linux Foundation. Open source is pervasive. It’s embedded into the fabric of most applications we use in our daily lives. But it’s getting harder to keep up the pace of OSS version deprecations and end-of-life (EOL) cycles. “The life cycle for open source versions is definitely shortening,” Aaron Frost, co-founder and CEO at HeroDevs, which offers long-term support for deprecated open source, told T

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I'm Worried It Might Get Bad

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-26 23:25:48

I'm starting to worry things might get very bad, very soon. Not like in a year or two, but maybe in a few months. As in spontaneous recession type of thing. In the US mostly, but perhaps globally. It sounds irrational to me as well as I think it or type it. But I can't shake the feeling, so I want to try to write it all down to see how rational it looks on paper. A list of things that are troubling me In no real order, here are the various things I'm stressing about. I know a ton of reall

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Some doctors got worse at detecting cancer after relying on AI

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-11-26 23:48:13

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. We’ve heard about upskilling and re-skilling due to AI — but how about de-skilling? A new study published this week found that doctors who frequently use AI to detect cancer in one medical procedure got significantly worse at doing so. The

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A year after Altman said superintelligence was imminent, GPT-5 is all we get?

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-11-27 04:25:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Botched rollout of GPT-5 doesn't suggest superintelligence. GPT-5 represents incremental technical progress. Scholars are debunking AI hype with detailed analyses. Nearly a year ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared artificial "superintelligence" was "just around the corner." Also: Sam Altman says the Singularity is imminent - here's why Then, last June, he trumpeted the arrival of superintelligence, writing in a blog post: "We have recentl

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OpenAI, cofounder Sam Altman to take on Neuralink with new startup

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-27 04:08:33

OpenAI and its cofounder Sam Altman are preparing to back a company that will compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink by connecting human brains with computers, heightening the rivalry between the two billionaire entrepreneurs. The new venture, called Merge Labs, is raising new funds at an $850 million valuation, with much of the new capital expected to come from OpenAI’s ventures team, according to three people with direct knowledge of the plans. Altman has encouraged the investment and will help

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Apple dismisses Elon Musk’s claims that App Store favors OpenAI over other AI apps

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-11-27 04:13:46

In Brief Apple has rejected Elon Musk’s accusations that its App Store is biased against AI apps that compete with OpenAI. “We feature thousands of apps through charts, algorithmic recommendations and curated lists selected by experts using objective criteria,” the BBC quoted Apple as saying. The response comes after Musk threatened to sue Apple via xAI, claiming the iPhone maker was “behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store.

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You can pick ChatGPT's older AI models again

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-27 09:15:49

ChatGPT will now allow you to choose between several GPT-5 variants and previous OpenAI models. In a post on X, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has revealed that the chatbot's model picker now comes with three GPT-5 choices: Auto, Fast and Thinking. He said most "will want Auto," which is most likely the standard version that's already a reasoning model. But users will be able to choose the fast-responding version or the Thinking version that implies it delivers longer, more comprehensive answers if they

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