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Over the past year, OpenAI has dropped not-so-subtle hints about its revived interest in robotics: investing in startups developing hardware and software for robots such as Figure and Physical Intelligence and rebooting its internal robotics software team, which it had disbanded four years ago.Now, OpenAI could be taking that interest to the next level. The company has recently considered developing a humanoid robot, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions. As a refresher, humanoid.
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BeyoncĂ© took the stage at the Ravens vs. Texans game on Wednesday, where she performed songs from "Cowboy Carter" for the first time. Read more âș
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An undersea power cable connecting Helsinki and Tallinn, carrying 658 megawatts of electricity, has been disrupted on Christmas Day. Read more âș
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Wayne Gretzky visited Mar-a-Lago and wore a MAGA hat after Donald Trump's November electoral victory. Read more âș
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After fumbling a high-profile boxing match last month, most social media users praised Netflix for a smooth broadcast of its first-ever NFL games. Read more âș
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OpenAI's Sam Altman asked his followers how to improve the artificial intelligence platform in 2025. One idea included new family accounts. Read more âș
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Former Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer told BI that automakers ditching EVs for hybrids risked falling even further behind their Chinese rivals. Read more âș
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Camera continuity in One UI 7 will let you seamlessly paste photos from your phone to Samsung Notes on your PC. Read more âș
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Here are some hints â and the answers â for Connections No. 564 for Thursday, Dec. 26. Read more âș
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xAI, which is set to build a supercomputer with 200,000 Nvidia GPUs, raises $6 billion. Read more âș
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The Japan Transport Safety Board released a report on Wednesday addressing the January 2 collision at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. Read more âș
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The 26-year-old snowboarder died after being buried in an avalanche on a closed black diamond slope in eastern Switzerland. Read more âș
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Blake Lively filed a complaint against Justin Baldoni, her costar in "It Ends With Us." Now, the drama continues. Here's a breakdown of what happened. Read more âș
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Zhitai's TiPro9000 SSD with 5th Gen YMTC 3D NAND and Silicon Motion SM2508 SSD controller benchmarked, appears to be one of the fastest client drives around. Read more âș
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Did you buy a bed frame and now need a new mattress? Check out Costco, Target and Walmart because sometimes these department stores offer better deals than the manufacturer. Read more âș
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Republicans and Democrats agreed that it was time for the bald eagle to get an official promotion. Read more âș
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David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, and Nicholas Hoult star in the upcoming DC film, out July 11. Read more âș
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Satellites and chunks of space junk come close to colliding on a regular basis. The situation could get dangerously out of control. Read more âș
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Over the past year, OpenAI has dropped not-so-subtle hints about its revived interest in robotics: investing in startups developing hardware and software for robots such as Figure and Physical Intelligence and rebooting its internal robotics software team, which it had disbanded four years ago.Now, OpenAI could be taking that interest to the next level. The company has recently considered developing a humanoid robot, according to two people with direct knowledge... Read more âș
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Christmas Eve is usually the last day of a frantic holiday sprint for staff at e-commerce and logistics companies, after which they can expect to kick back and enjoy a comparatively calm couple of months. Not this year. Virtually any business that moves its products across borders has to be on guard as world leaders jockey to position themselves ahead of Donald Trumpâs inauguration and a likely escalation in the... Read more âș
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Lately, AI developer Anthropic has been riding high, with its modelsâ impressive performance on tasks like code generation helping it to poach customers from its larger rival, OpenAI. What many people havenât realized, though, is how Anthropic might be disadvantaged in the upcoming Trump era.Anthropic has connections to the effective altruism movement, which emphasizes the dangers of AI over short-term profit or productivity benefits. These positions could rub President-elect Donald... Read more âș
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OpenAIâs next-generation reasoning modelâcalled o3 for a funny reasonâseriously impressed researchers and developers last week.Specifically, o3 and o3-mini (a smaller version of the model) scored impressively on a number of extremely difficult math and coding benchmarks, beating out competitors like Anthropic and Google by a lot. It also reached human levels of performance on ARC-AGI, a benchmark meant to test how AI models handle tasks that humans excel at such... Read more âș
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OpenAI is currently prepping the next generation of its o1 reasoning model, which takes more time to âthinkâ about questions users give it before responding, according to two people with knowledge of the effort. However, due to a potential copyright or trademark conflict with O2, a British ... Read more âș
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Welcome, Weekenders! This edition of Weekend is especially exciting: It marks the debut of a new coverage area for us and the arrival to The Information of a talented reporter. Sara Germano, a veteran of the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal, has joined Weekend to helm The Arena, Weekendâs new franchise devoted to covering the business and future of sportsâparticularly womenâs sports, a source of major growth and... Read more âș
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OpenAIâs efforts to license news publishersâ content for training its large language models are beginning to pay business dividends. Publishers are increasingly opting to use OpenAIâs artificial intelligence tools for their operations rather than Googleâs, publishing executives say. OpenAI has signed more than a dozen content licensing agreements with news and magazine publishers in the past year. Under those deals, publishers get credits to use its technology, said people from... Read more âș
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A pop quiz: Which living basketball player has the most-worn signature sneaker in the NBA this season? If you guessed perennial All-Stars like LeBron James, Kevin Durant or even Michael Jordan, youâd be wrong: Itâs Sabrina Ionescu, starting point guard for the WNBA champion New York Liberty. Indeed, sales of Ionescuâs unisex Nike shoesâthe Sabrinasâquintupled over the 12 months ending in August, making it one of the fastest-growing brands at... Read more âș
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President-elect Donald Trump had dinner with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday, the New York Times reported. Musk wasnât expected to be part of the dinner but joined after it had already begun, according to the report. The Times did not report what the trio discussed. Earlier ... Read more âș
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Before Marc Andreessen slid into Andy Ayreyâs life, Ayreyâs artificial intelligence experiments were a quirky passion project. Ayrey, an artist and web designer who lives in rural New Zealand, likes to tinker with large language models and see what he can build with them. His favorite creation is a mischievous troll of an AI bot, Truth Terminal, which he released last spring on X to post shock humor, memes and... Read more âș
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