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OpenAI and UK sign deal to use AI in public services

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-01-11 18:35:01

OpenAI and UK sign deal to use AI in public services 3 hours ago Share Save Mitchell Labiak & Imran Rahman-Jones Business & technology reporters Share Save Getty Images OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, has signed a deal to use artificial intelligence (AI) to increase productivity in the UK's public services, the government has announced. The agreement signed by the firm and the science department could give OpenAI access to government data and see its software used in education, defence, secu

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Five things you need to know about AI right now

technologyreview.com Will Douglas Heaven 2026-01-11 20:50:27

3. AI is power hungry and getting hungrier. You’ve probably heard that AI is power hungry. But a lot of that reputation comes from the amount of electricity it takes to train these giant models, though giant models only get trained every so often. What’s changed is that these models are now being used by hundreds of millions of people every day. And while using a model takes far less energy than training one, the energy costs ramp up massively with those kinds of user numbers. ChatGPT, fo

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iOS 26 public beta could drop as soon as tomorrow, based on leaked build numbers

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-11 22:05:38

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has previously indicated that the iOS 26 public beta was likely to drop on around July 23 – and there may now be additional support for that date. A leaker with a solid track record has shared information suggesting that developer beta 4 will be available sometime today, which would potentially allow the public beta to land tomorrow … Apple has said only that the public betas for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26 will be available sometime in July. We

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How to Migrate from OpenAI to Cerebrium for Cost-Predictable AI Inference

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 18:08:37

How To Migrate From OpenAI to Cerebrium for Cost-Predictable AI Inference If you're building an AI application, you probably started with OpenAI's convenient APIs. However, as your application scales, you'll need more control over costs, models, and infrastructure. Cerebrium is a serverless AI infrastructure platform that lets you run open-source models on dedicated hardware with predictable, time-based pricing instead of token-based billing. This guide will show you how to build a complete c

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Tokyo's retro shotengai arcades are falling victim to gentrification

news.ycombinator.com Justin Mccurry 2026-01-08 00:17:10

Tsutomu Nishiwaki raises the shutters of his store, the rattle marking the start of a new day at a shopping arcade in Tokyo. He wheels a display case into the foreground and stands behind the counter, framed by a sign proclaiming that this is a family-run noodle store. It is a ritual Nishiwaki has been performing almost daily for 60 years. But like the fresh noodles its owner makes every morning, the store has a limited shelf life: in a few years from now, the 80-year-old will pull down the shu

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What happens when an octopus engages with art?

news.ycombinator.com Francesca Perry 2026-01-07 04:35:49

CNN — When the Japanese artist Shimabuku was 31 years old, he took an octopus on a tour of Tokyo. After catching it from the sea with the help of a local fisherman in Akashi, a coastal city over 3 hours away from the Japanese capital by train, he transported the live creature in a temperature-controlled tank of seawater to show it the sights of Tokyo before returning it safely to its home the same day. “I thought it would be nice,” the artist, now 56, said about the experience, over a video ca

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15% Off Dell Coupon Codes | July 2025

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2026-01-11 21:10:00

Dell has special rotating deals for the Dell Back to School Event, like up to $250 off Alienware and Ultrasharp monitors, for crisp and clear gaming (or writing), up to $400 off Inspiron laptops, $600 off XPS laptops, and up to $300 off desktops for true gamers. We’ve rounded up the top Dell coupons and discounts so you can save big on pricey tech. Get 15% Off Tech With Top Dell Coupon Codes Save your tech refresh with clearance sale discounts and Dell promo codes, like 15% off Precision Works

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Leaked Memo: Anthropic CEO Says the Company Will Pursue Gulf State Investments After All

wired.com Kylie Robison 2026-01-11 21:46:32

Anthropic is planning to seek investment from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, according to a Slack message CEO Dario Amodei sent to staff Sunday morning, which WIRED obtained. Weighing the pros and cons, Amodei acknowledged in his note that accepting money from Middle East leaders would likely enrich “dictators.” “This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it,” he wrote. “Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to r

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If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading?

news.ycombinator.com Steven Sinofsky 2026-01-12 02:45:15

Something I worry about with generative AI in business and commercial use: almost no one fully reads anything in those environments. Now imagine when even the author hasn't read what was written... yikes. How does AI writing and reading impact this reality? I used to write long memos—significant ones—maybe once a year. I'd send them to thousands. That scale alone signals, "someone else will read it." I hoped direct reports and close colleagues would read them. I could count on 2 or 3 people to

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OpenAI wins gold at prestigious math competition - why that matters more than you think

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-01-12 06:34:00

OpenAI OpenAI has achieved a new milestone in the race to build AI models that can reason their way through complex math problems. On Saturday, the company announced that one of its models achieved gold medal-level performance on the International Math Olympiad (IMO), widely regarded as the most prestigious and difficult math competition in the world. Critically, the winning model wasn't designed specifically to solve IMO problems, in the way that earlier systems like DeepMind's AlphaGo -- wh

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Yoni Appelbaum on the real villians behind our housing and mobility problems

news.ycombinator.com Danny Crichton 2026-01-12 10:43:10

Over the past few decades, an astonishing pattern has taken place: Americans no longer migrate. From a peak of roughly one third of the country moving cities in a single year, today, migration rates have declined and are now in line with the Old Continent of Europe. The dynamism of the American economy was predicated on all kinds of people seeking out work and building families, but now that mobility is gone — and we need to find out why. Yoni Appelbaum, a senior editor at The Atlantic, just pu

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Google and OpenAI Chatbots Claim Gold at International Math Olympiad

gizmodo.com Win Mcnamee 2026-01-12 11:30:37

Artificial intelligence models developed by Google’s DeepMind team and OpenAI have a new accolade they can add to their list of achievements: they have defeated some high schoolers in math. Both companies have claimed to achieve a gold medal at this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one of the toughest competitions for high school students looking to prove their mathematical prowess. The Olympiad invites top students from across the world to participate in an exam that requires

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OpenAI is getting closer with the UK government

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-12 14:31:33

The UK government has announced a new strategic partnership with OpenAI that could lead the company to "expand AI security research collaborations, explore investing in UK AI infrastructure like data centers, and find new ways for taxpayer funded services" to use AI. The move follows the introduction of the AI Action Plan in January, which fast-tracks the construction of data centers in certain regions of the UK. In the (entirely voluntary) partnership agreement — technically a Memorandum of Un

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Jane Jacobs Got Americans Stuck

news.ycombinator.com Danny Crichton 2026-01-12 16:43:10

Over the past few decades, an astonishing pattern has taken place: Americans no longer migrate. From a peak of roughly one third of the country moving cities in a single year, today, migration rates have declined and are now in line with the Old Continent of Europe. The dynamism of the American economy was predicated on all kinds of people seeking out work and building families, but now that mobility is gone — and we need to find out why. Yoni Appelbaum, a senior editor at The Atlantic, just pu

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Hidden Sensors Reveal Filthy Truth About Handwashing in Hospital Bathrooms

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-12 16:15:51

Here’s something that will make you lose just a bit more faith in humanity—or at least reach for some hand wipes. New research shows that even in hospitals, a substantial number of people aren’t bothering to wash their hands. Scientists from the University of Surrey in England led the study, installing sensors near hospital toilet and sink pipes to keep track of people’s handwashing. Nearly half of toilet users skipped the sink after flushing, they found. The researchers say more effective stra

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OpenAI jumps gun on International Math Olympiad gold medal announcement

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-12 11:02:04

On Saturday, OpenAI researcher Alexander Wei announced that a new AI language model the company is researching has achieved gold medal-level performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), matching a standard that fewer than 9 percent of human contestants reach each year. The announcement came despite an embargo request from IMO organizers asking AI companies to wait until July 28 to share their results. The experimental model reportedly tackled the contest's six proof-based probl

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I replaced my work PC with this Dell laptop, and it was one of my best decisions

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2026-01-12 21:00:49

Alienware 18 Area-51 Laptop ZDNET's key takeaways The Alienware 18 Area-51 retails for $3,199. It is a gaming laptop that delivers an unbelievable performance thanks to its powerful hardware and equally powerful cooling system. Traveling with the computer will prove difficult because of its weight; you'll also have to pay quite a bit for the system. View now at Dell View now at Best Buy more buying choices Alienware 18 Area-51 is a very fitting name for this computer because it is out of this

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Apple Encryption Safe After All? UK Reportedly Plans to Backtrack on Backdoor Demands

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 18:48:00

Apple's reputation for providing a private and secure experience for people who use its products and services is among the highest in the industry. All that has been under threat this year, as the UK government has asked Apple to provide it with backdoor access to the iCloud accounts not only of British citizens, but of people around the world. But it looks like following pressure from the US, the UK might have decided to reverse course. As reported by the Financial Times on Sunday, the Home Of

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The Best Co-op Games to Play With Your Friends Right Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 20:30:00

Playing video games with friends is intrinsic to gaming. It should be no surprise that games like Split Fiction and It Takes Two from Hazelight Studios, which focus on cooperative play, were critical successes. Despite how gaming has changed over the years, one thing remains the same -- people love playing games together. Some of my best memories are of marathon gaming sessions with friends, squished together on a couch or logging in online from different spots. Whether you're looking for a sp

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Oz Perkins’ Newest Movie, ‘Keeper,’ Looks Like More Delicious Nightmare Fodder

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2026-01-13 06:05:43

Oz Perkins has another movie coming out already? He must not sleep much—payback for all the frights he’s implanted into the brains of people who’ve watched his films, including The Monkey and Longlegs. His latest, Keeper, hits theaters this fall and looks to continue the trend, if this first teaser is anything to go by. Very simple yet very eerie (and a bit easier to follow than the deliberately obscure Longlegs marketing was), Keeper shows us a succession of women. They’re smiling at the camer

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What’s Behind Gen Z’s Sex Recession?

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2026-01-13 05:56:53

Zoë Schiffer: Yeah, fascinating. So let's talk about the rest of the internet outside the social media, because Gen Z is the first generation that has always known a world where porn and nudes are readily available online in just a few clicks. And I'm curious, how has that impacted them? Carter Sherman: What's really interesting about porn is when I was going into this book, I thought I would find a diverse array of beliefs about it. I thought that people on the right would be more opposed to i

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OpenAI's New CEO of Applications Strikes Hyper-Optimistic Tone in First Memo to Staff

wired.com Kylie Robison 2026-01-13 06:05:42

OpenAI’s incoming CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, sent her first note to staff on Monday, telling employees the tools they’re developing “will unlock more opportunities for more people than any other technology in history.” “If we get this right, AI can give everyone more power than ever,” Simo wrote, striking a hyper-optimistic tone, according to a copy of the memo viewed by WIRED. “But I also realize those opportunities won’t magically appear on their own.” Simo previously worked as the CEO

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OpenAI says ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion prompts every day

theverge.com Emma Roth 2026-01-13 06:36:37

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’s ChatGPT sees more than 2.5 billion requests daily, with 330 million from users based in the US, according to data obtained by Axios. The data suggests that ChatGPT users send over 912.5 billion requests to the AI chatbot each year. Although ChatGPT still has a way to go to catch up to Google’s 5 trillion annual searches, its rapid growth s

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Is ChatGPT down? You're not alone. Here's what OpenAI is saying

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2026-01-13 09:08:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET If you're running into problems with ChatGPT this morning, you're not alone. Just after 8:30 a.m. ET, reports began surfacing that paid users were experiencing quite a few errors when trying to converse with the chatbot. In some cases, ChatGPT responds with an error message; in others, it doesn't respond at all. OpenAI confirmed the issue The outage‑tracking website DownDetector showed a spike in reports about that time. Reports were declining but still present b

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Computer Glitch Grounds Every Alaska Airlines Flight

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-01-13 21:45:21

A computer outage forced Alaska Airlines and its subsidiary Horizon Air to ground all flights Sunday night, halting operations across the board. On Monday, the airline said that operations were coming back online. The airline requested a system-wide ground stop from federal aviation authorities at about 11 p.m. ET on Sunday night. That stop remained in effect until around 2 a.m. ET Monday, when the Federal Aviation Administration confirmed it had been lifted. But disruptions didn’t end there. A

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Why tech billionaires want a ‘corporate dictatorship’

theverge.com Jon Fortt 2026-01-13 21:00:00

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Jon Fortt, CNBC journalist, cohost of Closing Bell: Overtime, and creator of the Fortt Knox streaming series on LinkedIn. I’m guest-hosting for a couple more episodes of Decoder this summer while Nilay is out on parental leave. Today, I’m talking with a very special guest: Gil Duran, an old friend, journalist, and author of The Nerd Reich, a newsletter and forthcoming book about the shifting politics of Silicon Valley and the rise of tech authoritarianism.

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This lightweight Linux distro makes switching from Windows 10 easy

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-14 02:53:42

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Lubuntu. Say it with me. Looboontoo. Has a nice ring, doesn't it? Lubuntu isn't just an adorable name that rolls off the tongue like caramel. It's also a Linux distribution that combines the Ubuntu distribution and the LXQT desktop. LXQT is a lightweight Linux desktop based on the Qt cross-platform application development framework. LXQT is fast, simple, works well on older hardware, is customizable, and includes a decent collection of software to get

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Phones with both a cooling fan and water resistance don’t exist, until now

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-14 05:27:10

OPPO TL;DR OPPO has announced the K13 Turbo and K13 Turbo Pro in China. These new phones have cooling fans and are water-resistant. The OPPO K13 Turbo series starts at ~$251 in China. We’ve seen a few gaming phones over the years with built-in cooling fans. Unfortunately, the need for a cooling fan vent means these phones aren’t water-resistant. Thankfully, OPPO’s latest phones buck this trend. OPPO announced the K13 Turbo and K13 Turbo Pro in China today, and both of these budget gaming ph

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ChatGPT's GPT-5-reasoning-alpha model spotted ahead of launch

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-11 21:07:22

GPT-5 might be just a few days or weeks away, as we've spotted references to a new model called gpt-5-reasoning-alpha-2025-07-13. As spotted on X, OpenAI is testing a model called "gpt-5-reasoning-alpha-2025-07-13." This model was finalised on the 13th of July, and it appears to be the final round of testing. "Models: openai/gpt-5-reasoning-alpha-2025-07-13: reasoning_effort: high," one of the code references read. Alexander Wei, a researcher at OpenAI, recently confirmed that GPT-5 is on it

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Want to Avoid Microplastics? Start by Skipping These 8 Foods

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-14 06:00:15

Microplastics used to sound like a distant environmental issue, but they're showing up in more places than you'd expect, including the food we eat every day. According to new research, even something as simple as chewing gum could be exposing you to tiny plastic particles. With something as common as chewing gum becoming a delivery system for microplastics, many people are concerned about how often they're consuming the potential hidden hazard. The average person takes in between 39,000 and 52,

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