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5 reasons why GPT-5 is actually better than some of the older GPT models

Joe Maring / Android Authority Recently, OpenAI has come under fire for GPT-5’s rocky launch. Many users have called it a step backward, citing a lack of personality and other tweaks that turned people off — sentiments echoed in our own GPT-5 review. Still, GPT-5 does improve on at least some of the previous legacy models. Before we dive in, it’s important to note that GPT-5 really does have less personality. It’s curt and to the point in nearly every interaction. This makes it much less usefu

iPhone 17 Pro may be a tougher sell than ever before

Apple’s full iPhone 17 lineup is being unveiled in mere weeks, with each new model having its own unique selling points. But one model in particular could be set for a tougher sales year than usual: the iPhone 17 Pro. iPhone 17 Air and Pro Max features could make 17 Pro more niche Normally Apple’s iPhone lineup has two high-end models: the Pro and Pro Max. But this year, shoppers will have three premium options: iPhone 17 Pro iPhone 17 Pro Max iPhone 17 Air The new 17 Air model, which rep

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Apple likely won’t release an M5 MacBook Pro until next year: Should you wait for it?

Apple has typically updated the MacBook Pro on a nearly annual basis, generally around October. This year, though, rumors suggest that Apple will be deviating from that pattern – and it’s increasingly likely that the next MacBook Pro model will launch early next year. That raises the question: should you wait for it? M5 MacBook Pro: What to expect With the M5 MacBook Pro, you’ll most definitely see the same 14-inch and 16-inch miniLED displays as prior MacBook Pro models, as well as the same g

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I've bought every flagship Google Pixel phone since the first - but 2025 has me reconsidering

Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways The Google Pixel 10 is expected to receive significant upgrades this year, including a dedicated telephoto lens. Greater feature parity with the Pro models, combined with no expected price increases, makes the standard Pixel an enticing option. It still won't be the best option for power users, especially if you want the most capable camera system from Google. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chrom

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Attention Is the New Big-O: A Systems Design Approach to Prompt Engineering

1. Understanding Attention: Your First Step to Better Prompts If you’re human, you’re probably reading this from left to right. You might not have stopped for a moment to consider the fact that your LLM doesn’t read in the same order as you or I. Instead, it weights relationships between all tokens at once, with position and clustering dramatically changing what gets noticed. In working with an LLM the structure you choose can have a greater impact on your results than the precise words you ch

Launch HN: Parachute (YC S25) – Guardrails for Clinical AI

Hi HN, Aria and Tony here, co-founders of Parachute ( https://www.parachute-ai.com/ ). We’re building governance infrastructure that lets hospitals safely evaluate and monitor clinical AI at scale. Hospitals are racing to adopt AI. More than 2,000 clinical AI tools hit the U.S. market last year - from ambient scribes to imaging models. But new regulations (HTI-1, Colorado AI Act, California SB 3030, White House AI Action Plan) require auditable proof that these models are safe, fair, and contin

California’s Next ‘Big One’ Might Not Follow the Script

On March 28, a devastating magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked Myanmar, splitting the Sagaing Fault at speeds of over 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) per second. You know which other fault resembles the Sagaing one? The San Andreas Fault in California, where seismologists have been expecting “the big one” for years. In a study published on August 11 in the journal PNAS, a team of researchers used satellite images of the Sagaing Fault’s movement to enhance computer models that predict how similar faults mi

Nissan announces 2026 Leaf pricing, starting at $29,990

There's a new Nissan Leaf coming later this year. The third of its kind to bear the name, it sounds like an appealing upgrade. Smaller than the current model on the outside but with more room inside, it's also more efficient and finally uses a liquid-cooled battery. But we knew all that back at the start of summer. What we didn't know then was how much the Leaf will cost. As we noted back in June, pricing is most likely to determine the Leaf's success or failure. None of the improvements to thi

Tesla will sell you back the turn signal stalk it removed from the Model 3

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For a company that likes to fire a bunch of people, only to later regret the decision and try to hire those same people back, this latest news shouldn’t come as much of a surprise: Tesla is selling a retrofit turn signal stalk to replac

Launch HN: Uplift (YC S25) – Voice models for under-served languages

Hi HN, we are Zaid, Muhammad and Hammad, the co-founders of Uplift AI ( https://upliftai.org ). We build models that speak underserved languages — today: Urdu, Sindhi, and Balochi. A billion people worldwide can't read. In countries like Pakistan – the 5th most populous country – 42% of adults are illiterate. This holds back the entire economy: patients can't read medical reports, parents can't help with homework, banks can't go fully digital, farmers can't research best practices, and people m

Tesla offers a $350 retrofit turn signal stalk after removing it from the Model 3

Leave it to Tesla to charge its customers for a feature it purposely left out. The company is now selling an almost $350 retrofit turn signal stalk for its Model 3 cars after removing from the initial model. Instead, it used buttons to activate the turn signal. As of now, the add-on is only available in the Chinese market. But, Model 3 drivers will need to shell out another 2,499 yuan ($348) to get a normal part of almost every car. However, there's a slight catch: The turn signal stalk is only

This one 15-inch MacBook Air sale is really worth taking a look at, here’s why

With every new Apple product launch, deals slowly crop up over time – and the MacBook lineup is no exception. The best deals tend to come after a model is no longer the latest and greatest, and there’s currently an unbeatable M3 MacBook Air deal that’s hard to pass up on, and once it sells out, there likely won’t be any more to go around. Apple released the new M4 MacBook Air in March, and since then, retailers have been trying to move inventory of older M3 models. For the most part, they have

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Hugging Face: 5 ways enterprises can slash AI costs without sacrificing performance

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 Enterprises seem to accept it as a basic fact: AI models require a significant amount of compute; they simply have to find ways to obtain more of it. But it doesn’t have to be that way, according to Sasha Luccioni, AI and climate lead at Hugging Face. What if there’s a smarter way to use AI? What if, instead of striving for more (often unn

Nvidia releases a new small, open model Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2 with toggle on/off reasoning

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 Small models are having a moment. On the heels of the release of a new AI vision model small enough to fit on a smartwatch from MIT spinoff Liquid AI, and a model small enough to run on a smartphone from Google, Nvidia is joining the party today with a new small language model (SLM) of its own, Nemotron-Nano-9B-V2, which attained the highes

The lottery ticket hypothesis: why neural networks work

How AI researchers accidentally discovered that everything they thought about learning was wrong 18 Aug, 2025 The lottery ticket hypothesis explains why massive neural networks succeed despite centuries of theory predicting they should fail Five years ago, suggesting that AI researchers train neural networks with trillions of parameters would have earned you pitying looks. It violated the most fundamental rule in machine learning: make your model too large, and it becomes a glorified photocop

GPT-5 is supposed to be nicer now

In Brief OpenAI announced late Friday that it’s updating its latest model to be “warmer and friendlier.” The company recently launched the much-anticipated GPT-5 in a process that CEO Sam Altman admitted was “a little more bumpy than we’d hoped for,” with some users complaining that they preferred the previous model, GPT-4o. OpenAI is trying to address some of those complaints with this update, with changes that it says are “subtle” but will make GPT-5 “more approachable now.” “You’ll notice

Deals: M4 Mac mini $499, 24GB M3 MacBook Air $500 off, AirPods, portable SSD, more

Today’s 9to5Toys Lunch Break Apple deals are kicking off the M4 Mac mini. Alongside ongoing deals on the heavily upgraded models, Amazon has now dropped the entry variant down to $499 shipped with the 512GB model at $110 off the list price. From there, we move over to some seriously discounted M3 MacBook Air models – the 15-inch 24GB and the 13-inch 24GB are both $500 off the list price and $400 under the MSRP on the comparable M4 models. Everything else awaits down below. Amazon just knocked t

Google Translate prepares speed vs accuracy modes for translation (APK teardown)

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on new features for Google Translate, including a new AI model picker. The model picker will let users choose between “Fast” and “Advanced” models, allowing them to choose between quick translations or more accurate ones powered by Gemini. Only English-Spanish/French pairs are supported so far for the Advanced model. Google has been working on several major new features for Google Translate. These include AI-enabled translations, a r

Anthropic's Claude AI now has the ability to end 'distressing' conversations

Anthropic's latest feature for two of its Claude AI models could be the beginning of the end for the AI jailbreaking community. The company announced in a post on its website that the Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 models now have the power to end a conversation with users. According to Anthropic, this feature will only be used in "rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions." To clarify, Anthropic said those two Claude models could exit harmful conversations, like "requests

Anthropic: Claude can now end conversations to prevent harmful uses

OpenAI rival Anthropic says Claude has been updated with a rare new feature that allows the AI model to end conversations when it feels it poses harm or is being abused. This only applies to Claude Opus 4 and 4.1, the two most powerful models available via paid plans and API. On the other hand, Claude Sonnet 4, which is the company's most used model, won't be getting this feature. Anthropic describes this move as a "model welfare." "In pre-deployment testing of Claude Opus 4, we included a pr

Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3

💜 Wan | 🖥️ GitHub | 🤗 Hugging Face | 🤖 ModelScope | 📑 Paper | 📑 Blog | 💬 Discord 📕 使用指南(中文) | 📘 User Guide(English) | 💬 WeChat(微信) Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models We are excited to introduce Wan2.2, a major upgrade to our foundational video models. With Wan2.2, we have focused on incorporating the following innovations: 👍 Effective MoE Architecture : Wan2.2 introduces a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture into video diffusion models. By separating the denoising

We Hit 100% GPU Utilization–and Then Made It 3× Faster by Not Using It

We recently used Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B to embed millions of text documents while sustaining near-100% GPU utilization the whole way. That’s usually the gold standard that machine learning engineers aim for… but here’s the twist: in the time it took to write this blog post, we found a way to make the same workload 3× faster, and it didn’t involve maxing out GPU utilization at all. That story’s for another post, but first, here’s the recipe that got us to near-100%. The workload Here at the Daft

IQ Tests Results for AI

Does this site show that AIs are biased? As of 2023, every major AI is economically left-wing and also relatively socially libertarian. Some AIs are much more like that than others, however, with Claude tending towards being one of the most moderate models, and Google’s Bard being one of the most extreme-left models. An AI’s political bias is shaped by two main things:

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AI apps are like music

This is a mental discussion I have been having for the last two months. It is about pricing in AI. I have one actionable recommendation: Kill that damn model picker. I have been coding a specific AI app. Exciting stuff. Product is obvious. I even got a plan for distribution from day 1. Or day 0. Everything clicks. Except one thing. Pricing. It's tormenting me. The Cursor Problem or is it? Everyone describes AI apps the same way: "Cursor for X." Fair enough. Cursor nailed something import

OpenAI Progress

As an AI language model, I can't express personal desires, emotions, or thoughts like a human would. However, in the spirit of your question, I can suggest some interesting questions or topics that a conversation with a future AI model might encompass: New advances and capabilities: I might ask about any major leaps in AI technology since my training data, such as groundbreaking developments in natural language processing, computer vision, or reinforcement learning. Addressing the AI alignment

Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation

The perception is that model improvement seems to be stagnating. GPT-5 wasn’t the step change that people were expecting. Yet, models continue to improve on reasoning benchmarks. Recently, both OpenAI and Google models were on par with gold medallists in the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 (IMO). At the same time it’s still difficult to make AI agents work for relatively simple enterprise use cases. Why is there such a disparity in model performance between problem domains? Why are mode

This researcher turned OpenAI’s open weights model gpt-oss-20b into a non-reasoning ‘base’ model with less alignment, more freedom

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’s new, powerful open weights AI large language model (LLM) family gpt-oss was released less than two weeks ago under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — the company’s first open weights model launch since GPT-2 in 2019 — but developers outside the company are already reshaping it. One of the most striking examples comes from Jack Morr

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Sam Altman Admits OpenAI "Totally Screwed Up"

It has been a very long week for OpenAI, whose hotly anticipated GPT-5 model launch landed with a large thud. The company chose to shut down all previous models in favor of its new one, a controversial move that triggered sheer outrage among fans who had grown attached to GPT-4o, a prior model with a "warmer" personality. Within roughly a day of the drop, CEO Sam Altman changed course and allowed paid subscribers access to GPT-4o once more. It was a prescient move, and one that belied his own

Brands might be cooling on satellite features, and that’s bad news for cheaper Androids

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Chinese brands are scaling back satellite communication and keeping it for top-end models only. A reliable tipster says past high-end sat-com flagships sold poorly and were dropped. This could make global brands less likely to bring the feature to affordable phones. Satellite communication has been one of the most talked-about phone features in the past couple of years, and it’s no longer just for emergencies. Just this week, our APK teardown showed h

Imagen 4 is now generally available

We're excited to announce that Imagen 4, our most advanced text-to-image model, is now generally available in the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. This release marks a significant step forward in text-to-image generation quality, with substantial improvements in text rendering over our previous models. The Imagen 4 family: A model for your creative needs In addition, we're thrilled to launch Imagen 4 Fast, our new model built for speed, which is now available alongside the powerful Imagen 4