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OpenAI’s big announcement Monday morning is GPT-4o, a faster, multimodal successor to its famed ChatGPT. The new model uses existing large language model (LLM) infrastructure to respond to audio, visuals, and text in real time, both verbally and on-screen. While ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users will have full access to …

Renewables provided a record 30% of the world’s energy needs in 2023, according to Ember, an independent climate think tank tracking global energy sources and consumption since 2000. While aggressive wind and solar policies have enabled regions like Brazil, China, and the Netherlands to quickly shift their grids toward cleaner …

The rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence is making it hard to know what’s real on the internet. More than any other company, ChatGPT maker OpenAI is driving this change. It has promised tools to identify AI content, and it’s finally delivering. Developers can now apply to help test its …

Some people are walking around with 200 million pixels in their pockets, but a recently launched space telescope doesn’t need nearly that many. NASA partnered with JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) to produce a new X-ray imaging chip called Resolve for the XRISM satellite. It has a whopping 36 pixels—not …

The business landscape today typically involves fast-paced efficiency. It’s almost a requirement now to have tools to support your day-to-day professional life. If you’ve been going without the help of Microsoft Office’s flagship suite of apps, this is probably a good time to pick it up. For a limited time, …

Every once in a while, retailers get wild and slash the prices of Apple products across the board. We know that the company is gearing up to announce some new hardware, including the next generation of iPads, so search interest is high, and stores are capitalizing. The winner, as always, …

Okta, a cloud-based software that helps employers manage employee access to applications, is facing a wave of credential-stuffing attacks. Though the company’s security team is working to block access requests originating from residential proxies, attackers are also using anonymizing services like TOR to route their attempts. These characteristics appear to …

NASA’s Juno spacecraft was dispatched on a mission in 2011 to study the planet Jupiter. It has beamed back some truly stunning images and valuable data on the solar system’s largest planet. While in the neighborhood, Juno also took a closer look at some of the larger Jovian moons. The …

By some accounts, Nvidia currently controls between 80% and 98% of the AI hardware market, and there’s no reason to expect that dominance to be challenged any time soon. However, Nvidia’s stock price took a tumble recently, leading some analysts to begin questioning whether Nvidia is as bulletproof as it …

Microsoft’s artificial intelligence researchers on Tuesday announced VASA-1, a model capable of generating impressive deepfakes with extremely little data. Though the tool ostensibly exists to create “virtual characters,” it was trained on real people’s images and voice audio, raising questions about its potential role in an internet increasingly rife with …