The Trump family began to tease the launch of World Liberty Financial last August, ahead of the 2024 US presidential election. Initially, it was unclear what services the business would provide; the pitch was simply to “make finance great again.” Since then, World Liberty Financial has launched USD1, a so-called stablecoin tied in value to […]
OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt
OpenAI’s GPT-5 model was meant to be a world-changing upgrade to its wildly popular and precocious chatbot. But for some users, last Thursday’s release felt more like a wrenching downgrade, with the new ChatGPT presenting a diluted personality and making surprisingly dumb mistakes. On Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took to X to say the […]
Join Our Next Livestream: What GPT-5 Means for ChatGPT Users
Few recent software releases have been as hyped as OpenAI’s launch of its GPT-5 model. “GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like talking to an expert in any topic, like a PhD level expert,” said CEO Sam Altman in a recent press briefing. Is this new release as big of an upgrade […]
The Vibes-Based Pricing of ‘Pro’ AI Software
Lauren Goode: All right. Actually not. But last fall I went to an event for Worldcoin, which is Sam Altman’s other company. It was a super weird vibey crypto eye-scanning thing at a warehouse in the Mission District of San Francisco. Michael Calore: The orb? Lauren Goode: This party had everything. Yeah. But there was […]
Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate
When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty reasonable advice. “Diversify your sources,” it responds. “Rely on news outlets across the political spectrum, including those from both left-leaning and right-leaning perspectives.” This is advice that the AI itself may not […]
OpenAI Finally Launched GPT-5. Here’s Everything You Need to Know
OpenAI’s blog post claims that GPT-5 beats its previous models on several coding benchmarks, including SWE-Bench Verified (scoring 74.9 percent), SWE-Lancer (GPT-5-thinking scored 55 percent), and Aider Polyglot (scored 88 percent), which test the model’s ability to fix bugs, complete freelance-style coding tasks, and work across multiple programming languages. During the press briefing on Wednesday, […]
Tornado Cash Developer Roman Storm Guilty on One Count in Federal Crypto Case
“Claiming to offer the Tornado Cash service as a ‘privacy service,’ the defendants in fact knew that it was a haven for criminals to engage in large-scale money laundering and sanctions evasion,” the indictment alleged. At trial, prosecutors presented evidence that they claimed proved that Tornado Cash was designed for money laundering from the outset. […]
OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
OpenAI just dropped its first open-weight models in over five years. The two language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, can run locally on consumer devices and be fine-tuned for specific purposes. For OpenAI, they represent a shift away from its recent strategy of focusing on proprietary releases, as the company moves towards a wider, and more […]
A Hiker Was Missing for Nearly a Year—Until an AI System Recognized His Helmet
How long does it take to identify the helmet of a hiker lost in a 183-hectare mountain area, analyzing 2,600 frames taken by a drone from approximately 50 meters away? If done with a human eye, weeks or months. If analyzed by an artificial intelligence system, one afternoon. The National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps, […]
Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Forgotten AI Summit
In 2002, artificial intelligence was still in winter. Despite decades of effort, dreams of bestowing computers with humanlike cognition and real-world understanding had not materialized. To look for a way forward, a small group of scientists gathered for “The St. Thomas Common Sense Symposium.” AI pioneer Marvin Minsky was the central presence, along with his […]