OpenAI just released o3-mini, a reasoning model that’s faster, cheaper, and more accurate than its predecessor.

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OpenAI spent $1.76 million on government lobbying in 2024 and $510,000 in the last three months of the year alone, according ...

A Canadian startup called Xanadu has built a photon-based quantum computer it says should easily scale up. A Canadian startup called Xanadu has built a new quantum computer it says can be easily ...

The social media company has a hard road ahead if it wants community fact-checking to succeed. Earlier this month, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will cut back on its content moderation ...

With a new reasoning model that matches the performance of ChatGPT o1, DeepSeek managed to turn restrictions into innovation.

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