During a livestream on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the first major update to ChatGPT’s image-generation capabilities in over a year. Now, ChatGPT can use the GPT-4o model to create and edit images directly. While GPT-4o has long powered OpenAI’s chatbot, it previously handled only text-based tasks. Altman stated that GPT-4o’s image-generation feature is […]
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On Tuesday, Instagram introduced a school partnership program designed to fast-track moderation reports from verified school accounts. Available to all U.S. middle and high schools, the program enables schools to directly report posts or student accounts that may breach Instagram’s guidelines. These reports receive priority review, and schools are notified of any actions taken. Instagram
Microsoft is rolling out a “deep research” AI tool within Microsoft 365 Copilot, its AI-powered chatbot app. Recently, several deep research agents have emerged across AI chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and xAI’s Grok. These tools rely on reasoning AI models, which can analyze problems and verify facts—key abilities for conducting in-depth research. Microsoft
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On Tuesday, Google introduced Gemini 2.5, a new family of AI reasoning models designed to pause and “think” before responding to questions. The first in this series, Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, is a multimodal AI model that Google describes as its most advanced yet. Starting Tuesday, it will be available in Google AI Studio and
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The Arc Prize Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by AI researcher François Chollet, revealed in a blog post on Monday that it has developed a new, highly challenging test to assess the general intelligence of advanced AI models. This new test, called ARC-AGI-2, has proven difficult for most models. According to the Arc Prize leaderboard, reasoning-based
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In recent years, Meta has integrated numerous AI-driven features into its apps, including experiments with AI-generated characters that had unique profiles and personalities. However, these were ultimately abandoned after being deemed unsettling and unnecessary. Now, in a move that may also face user resistance, Meta is exploring AI-assisted interactions by helping users write comments on
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Microsoft is launching a research initiative to assess how specific training data influences the text, images, and other media generated by AI models. A recently resurfaced job listing from December reveals the company is seeking a research intern for the project, which aims to demonstrate that AI models can be trained to estimate the impact
Around 1.8 billion people use TikTok monthly, spending an average of 95 minutes per day on the platform for entertainment, engagement, and even education. While these figures are impressive, a new study highlights that TikTok may not be the most trustworthy source for health-related information, especially regarding ADHD. Study Reveals Misinformation in Popular TikTok ADHD
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Reading and writing on standard tablets can strain your eyes, but E Ink technology offers a solution. However, color quality can often be disappointing, and the refresh rate is often not very smooth. XPPen has introduced a new ePaper note device with three color options and an improved refresh rate. Unlike E Ink, the Magic
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Some users on Elon Musk’s X are turning to his AI bot, Grok, for fact-checking, raising concerns among human fact-checkers that this could contribute to misinformation. Earlier this month, X introduced a feature allowing users to tag xAI’s Grok and ask it questions on various topics, similar to how Perplexity operates its automated account on
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