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Sam Altman issues 'code red' at OpenAI as ChatGPT contends with rivals
Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive, sent an internal memo to staff saying Gemini 3 could create'temporary economic headwinds' for the company. Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive, sent an internal memo to staff saying Gemini 3 could create'temporary economic headwinds' for the company. Sam Altman issues'code red' at OpenAI as ChatGPT contends with rivals Chief executive tells staff it is'critical time' for chatbot as it faces intense competition from Google's new Gemini 3 Sam Altman has declared a "code red" at OpenAI to improve ChatGPT as the chatbot faces intense competition from rivals. According to a report by tech news site the Information, the chief executive of the San Francisco-based startup told staff in an internal memo: "We are at a critical time for ChatGPT." OpenAI has been rattled by the success of Google's latest AI model, Gemini 3, and is devoting more internal resources to improving ChatGPT .
The Canon T7 DSLR camera is down to its lowest price ever at Amazon for a limited time
This is one of the best entry-level DSLR cameras ever made for its lowest price of all time. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Smartphone cameras are amazing, but if you're truly passionate about taking pictures, they can't replace the feel of a dedicated camera . The Canon T7 is a fantastic entry-level DSLR camera and it's cheaper than I have ever seen it right now at Amazon in the post-Cyber Monday glow. The interchangeable lens system makes it a great option for people who want to learn and grow with their camera.
U.S. moves to deepen minerals supply chain in AI race with China
U.S. moves to deepen minerals supply chain in AI race with China The U.S. is looking to cut its dependence on China. The U.S. will seek agreements with eight allied nations as part of a fresh effort to strengthen supply chains for the computer chips and critical minerals needed for artificial intelligence technology, according to the top State Department official for economic affairs. The initiative, which builds on efforts dating back to the first administration of President Donald Trump, unfolds as the U.S. looks to cut its dependence on China. It will begin with a meeting at the White House on Dec. 12 between the U.S. and counterparts from Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the Netherlands, the U.K., Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Australia, Jacob Helberg, the undersecretary of state for economic affairs, said in an interview. Helberg, a former adviser at Palantir Technologies, said the summit will focus on reaching agreements across the areas of energy, critical minerals, advanced manufacturing semiconductors, AI infrastructure, and transportation logistics.
OPOR-Bench: Evaluating Large Language Models on Online Public Opinion Report Generation
Yu, Jinzheng, Xu, Yang, Li, Haozhen, Li, Junqi, Feng, Yifan, Zhu, Ligu, Shen, Hao, Shi, Lei
Online Public Opinion Reports consolidate news and social media for timely crisis management by governments and enterprises. While large language models have made automated report generation technically feasible, systematic research in this specific area remains notably absent, particularly lacking formal task definitions and corresponding benchmarks. To bridge this gap, we define the Automated Online Public Opinion Report Generation (OPOR-GEN) task and construct OPOR-BENCH, an event-centric dataset covering 463 crisis events with their corresponding news articles, social media posts, and a reference summary. To evaluate report quality, we propose OPOR-EVAL, a novel agent-based framework that simulates human expert evaluation by analyzing generated reports in context. Experiments with frontier models demonstrate that our framework achieves high correlation with human judgments. Our comprehensive task definition, benchmark dataset, and evaluation framework provide a solid foundation for future research in this critical domain.
Reasoning About the Unsaid: Misinformation Detection with Omission-Aware Graph Inference
Wang, Zhengjia, Wang, Danding, Sheng, Qiang, Wu, Jiaying, Cao, Juan
This paper investigates the detection of misinformation, which deceives readers by explicitly fabricating misleading content or implicitly omitting important information necessary for informed judgment. While the former has been extensively studied, omission-based deception remains largely overlooked, even though it can subtly guide readers toward false conclusions under the illusion of completeness. To pioneer in this direction, this paper presents OmiGraph, the first omission-aware framework for misinformation detection. Specifically, OmiGraph constructs an omission-aware graph for the target news by utilizing a contextual environment that captures complementary perspectives of the same event, thereby surfacing potentially omitted contents. Based on this graph, omission-oriented relation modeling is then proposed to identify the internal contextual dependencies, as well as the dynamic omission intents, formulating a comprehensive omission relation representation. Finally, to extract omission patterns for detection, OmiGraph introduces omission-aware message-passing and aggregation that establishes holistic deception perception by integrating the omission contents and relations. Experiments show that, by considering the omission perspective, our approach attains remarkable performance, achieving average improvements of +5.4% F1 and +5.3% ACC on two large-scale benchmarks.
Q2D2: A Geometry-Aware Audio Codec Leveraging Two-Dimensional Quantization
Recent neural audio codecs have achieved impressive reconstruction quality, typically relying on quantization methods such as Residual Vector Quantization (RVQ), Vector Quantization (VQ) and Finite Scalar Quantization (FSQ). However, these quantization techniques limit the geometric structure of the latent space, make it harder to capture correlations between features leading to inefficiency in representation learning, codebook utilization and token rate. In this paper we introduce Two Dimensional Quantization (Q2D2), a quantization scheme in which feature pairs are projected onto structured 2D grids such as hexagonal, rhombic, or rectangular tiling and quantized to the nearest grid values, yielding an implicit codebook defined by the product of grid levels, with codebook sizes comparable to conventional methods. Despite its simple geometric formulation, Q2D2 improves audio compression efficiency, with low token rates and high codebook utilization while maintaining state of the art reconstruction quality. Specifically, Q2D2 achieves competitive to superior performance in various objective and subjective reconstruction metrics, across extensive experiments in speech domain compared to state of the art models. Comprehensive ablation studies further confirm the effectiveness of our design choices.