It looks like OpenAI is building its own X-like social media network, according to a report by The Verge. We don't have many specifics, but we do know there's an internal prototype that adds a social feed to ChatGPT's image generation tool. It remains unclear if OpenAI will launch this social network as a standalone app or if it will be integrated within the ChatGPT app, which is what the prototype indicates. The report does suggest that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been asking for feedback about the social network from people outside of the company. One potential reason for this step is that the app would allow OpenAI to gather real-time data from users to train its AI models.

Following the launch of a brand new family of GPT-4.1 models, a new report from The Information claims OpenAI will soon release two new models capable of performing a task typically reserved for humans -- coming up with scientific experiments. Also: It's a private cloud revival: Why Kubernetes and cloud-native tech are essential in the AI age The new models, dubbed o3 and o4-mini, would be additions to OpenAI's existing line of reasoning models. Simply put, these reasoning models are trained to "think before they speak," which results in a longer time to process the prompt but higher quality responses. These types of models are especially useful for STEM tasks, which would be the focus of o3 and o4-mini. According to the report, the new models will synthesize information from different fields and subject expertise and then use that knowledge to suggest new, innovative experiments.

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Google's Imagen 3 is a powerful AI text-to-image generator that earned ZDNET's pick as the best image generator -- even against competitors like Midjourney and OpenAI. As a result, the release of its Veo 2 text-to-video image generator has been highly anticipated. Well, it's finally here, and it comes with a surprise. On Tuesday, Google announced via a blog post that its state-of-the-art Veo 2 video generator is now available in Gemini. This feature allows users to create eight-second video clips at 720p resolution in a 16:9 landscape format using a simple text prompt.

They "needed a vision" for the anticipated growth, Ford says. The two convened a group of volunteers with experience in eight areas: economic development, talent, housing, public health, quality of life, tourism, storytelling, and infrastructure. They built a plan to use Pol.is to help write a 25-year plan for the city. The platform is just one of several new technologies used in Europe and increasingly in the US to help make sure that local governance is informed by public opinion. After a month of advertising, the Pol.is portal launched in February.

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Have you ever wondered why some businesses thrive without spending a dime on ads? Meanwhile, when you try the good old fashioned "build it, and they will come," you're as busy as a Chick-fil-A on a Sunday? Some business owners have figured out something most refuse to see. But in an ever-evolving world of AI and tech, this "secret" isn't just essential to building a sustainable marketing campaign; it might be the only way to do business moving forward. I wish I had known this "secret" sooner. It would have saved me countless sleepless nights and millions in ad spend.

By the time you read this article, there's a good chance it will have already been scanned by an artificially intelligent machine. If asked about the artist David Salle, large language models such as ChatGPT or Gemini may repurpose some of the words below to come up with their answer. The bigger the data set, the more convincing the response – and Salle has been written about exhaustively since he first rose to art world stardom in the 1980s. The question is whether AI can ever say anything new about the artist and his work, or if it's for ever condemned to generate more of the same. A similar question lingers beneath the surface of the paintings that Salle has been making since 2023, a new series of which he has just unveiled at Thaddaeus Ropac in London.

It looks like that long-rumored remake of Bethesda's Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is actually real, according to a report by Eurogamer. There are actual screenshots of the game in action that were published on developer Virtuos' website. Eurogamer suggests that the game will be shadow-dropped next week for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. The same report also indicates it'll be available on Game Pass. Fans on Reddit and elsewhere began poking around on the developer's website and reportedly found a treasure trove of in-game images, which included comparison screenshots to the original game from 2006. Eurogamer has collected these images on imgur to preserve them for posterity.

Hassabis received half of the award alongside a colleague, John Jumper, for the design of AlphaFold: an AI tool that can predict the 3D structure of proteins using only their amino acid sequences--something Hassabis describes as a "50-year grand challenge" in the field of biology. Released freely by Google DeepMind for the world to use five years ago, AlphaFold has revolutionized the work of scientists toiling on research as varied as malaria vaccines, human longevity, and cures for cancer, allowing them to model protein structures in hours rather than years. The Nobel Prizes in 2024 were the first in history to recognize the contributions of AI to the field of science. If Hassabis gets his way, they won't be the last. AlphaFold's impact may have been broad enough to win its creators a Nobel Prize, but in the world of AI, it is seen as almost hopelessly narrow.