OpenAI, in an email to TIME on Monday, wrote that its newest models, the o3 and o4-mini, were deployed with an array of biological-risk related safeguards, including blocking harmful outputs. The company wrote that it ran a thousand-hour red-teaming campaign in which 98.7% of unsafe bio-related conversations were successfully flagged and blocked. "We value industry collaboration on advancing safeguards for frontier models, including in sensitive domains like virology," a spokesperson wrote. "We continue to invest in these safeguards as capabilities grow." Inglesby argues that industry self-regulation is not enough, and calls for lawmakers and political leaders to strategize a policy approach to regulating AI's bio risks.

ChatGPT essentially kicked off the generative AI craze. Since then, an array of other AI chatbots have popped up. But rather than rest on its laurels, ChatGPT continues to grow and innovate. Also: How to use ChatGPT: A beginner's guide to the most popular AI chatbot In just the past couple of months, OpenAI has introduced several new skills that show why its AI is still the king of the chatbots. Here are three of the latest and coolest new features.

In 1948, the founder of information theory, Claude Shannon, proposed modelling language in terms of the probability of the next word in a sentence given the previous words. These types of probabilistic language models were largely derided, most famously by linguist Noam Chomsky: "The notion of'probability of a sentence' is an entirely useless one." In 2022, 74 years after Shannon's proposal, ChatGPT appeared, which caught the attention of the public, with some even suggesting it was a gateway to super-human intelligence. Going from Shannon's proposal to ChatGPT took so long because the amount of data and computing time used was unimaginable even a few years before. ChatGPT is a large language model (LLM) learned from a huge corpus of text from the internet.

After that whole tariff tango, Nintendo is readying its North American pre-order system for the Switch 2. The original Switch 2 price will remain the same, 450, as will the original 500 for the Nintendo Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle. However, some Switch 2 accessories will receive price adjustments due to "market conditions." There are some fine-print details attached to pre-ordering directly from Nintendo. You must be 18 years or older, sign in with your Nintendo account and register your interest in pre-ordering. Then, you'll get an invitation email when it's time to play your pre-order, and the invitation will be valid for 72 hours.

The Academy said its new language around eligibility for films made using generative AI tools was recommended by its Science and Technology Council. Under further rule changes announced on Monday, Academy members must now watch all nominated films in each category in order to be able to take part in the final round of voting, which decides upon winners. The use of AI in film became a hot topic after Adrian Brody took home the award for Best Actor for his role in The Brutalist at this year's Oscars ceremony in March. The movie used generative AI to improve the actor's accent when he spoke Hungarian. It then emerged similar voice-cloning technology was used to enhance singing voices in the Oscar-winning musical Emilia Perez.

OpenAI says its latest models, o3 and o4-mini, are its most powerful yet. However, research shows the models also hallucinate more -- at least twice as much as earlier models. Also: How to use ChatGPT: A beginner's guide to the most popular AI chatbot In the system card, a report that accompanies each new AI model, and published with the release last week, OpenAI reported that o4-mini is less accurate and hallucinates more than both o1 and o3. Using PersonQA, an internal test based on publicly available information, the company found o4-mini hallucinated in 48% of responses, which is three times o1's rate. While o4-mini is smaller, cheaper, and faster than o3, and, therefore, wasn't expected to outperform it, o3 still hallucinated in 33% of responses, or twice the rate of o1.

Dear Prudence is Slate's advice column. I was browsing a men-seeking-men dating app when I came across the profile of my neighbor, "Gary." He described himself as "single and looking for fun." I happen to know that Gary is married with two kids under 3 years old. The thing is, I don't know his wife "Bethany" that well; we've only ever waved to one another in the neighborhood and briefly engaged in small talk when we run into each other.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Americans are mad as hell about high food prices. They hate paying more at the supermarket even more than they hate paying more at the pump. Food inflation was arguably their main reason for President Donald Trump's win, and Trump's failure to reverse it (while imposing tariffs that accelerate it) is arguably the main reason for his sinking approval ratings. Cost-conscious consumers have been clipping more coupons, dining out less, buying more generic brands, and generally changing their grocery shopping habits to save money.

Have you ever stared in a mirror for a few hours? Try it: Watch as your nose somehow shifts placement on your face, how your eyebrows lose symmetry, how quickly you fail to recognize yourself. Facial dysmorphia would come to anyone tasked with considering their own reflection for too long. It's a similar experience when you promote a book. For the past few weeks, I've been touring Canada and the U.S. promoting my latest book, Sucker Punch.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang urged the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday to build out domestic artificial intelligence infrastructure that could fuel a robotics revolution, aligning with the government's goal to boost public- and private-sector funding in AI and semiconductors. Huang's exchange with the LDP's digital committee came a day after he met with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and lobbied him to generate more power to fuel AI. "You must build it yourself because it's your intelligence," said Huang, who has run the U.S. semiconductor giant since 1993 and delivered the world's first DGX-1 server to OpenAI in 2016.