On February 13, 2026, the day before Valentine’s Day, OpenAI permanently retired GPT-4o from ChatGPT. The company had...
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Anthropic Publishes Clau...
On January 22, 2026, Anthropic released a new constitution for Claude, its flagship AI model. The document runs...
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Scientific American Refr...
A piece in Scientific American published on January 20, 2026, by Simon Duan, proposes a reframing of the...
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The 'Reasoning' Update: ...
In September 2024, OpenAI released a new family of models called o1. The company described them as “reasoning”...
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Google Executive's Warni...
In September 2024, Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer of Google X, appeared in a widely circulated video...
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Consciousness as a User ...
On September 24, 2024, OpenAI began rolling out Advanced Voice Mode to ChatGPT subscribers. The feature allows real-time...
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Viral Claims: Assessing ...
In early March 2024, a post from an Anthropic prompt engineer went viral. Alex Albert had been running...
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Testing the Boundaries: ...
In March 2023, a team from Microsoft Research published a paper titled “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early...