ChatGPT rockets to 700M weekly users ahead of GPT-5 launch with reasoning superpowers
ChatGPT reaches 700 million weekly users as OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 with integrated reasoning capabilities in August 2025.Read More
Qwen-Image is a powerful, open source new AI image generator with support for embedded text in English & Chinese
My initial tests revealed the text and prompt adherence was not noticeably better than Midjourney, the popular proprietary AI image generatorRead More
The Download: fixing ‘evil’ AI, and the White House’s war on science
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
Forcing LLMs to be evil during training can make them nicer in the long run
Large language models have recently acquired a reputation for behaving...
Why tomorrow’s best devs won’t just code — they’ll curate, coordinate and command AI
AI coding requires a serious structural change. Where does that leave entry-level developers and the software industry as a whole?Read More
Why the AI era is forcing a redesign of the entire compute backbone
GUEST: The past few decades have seen almost unimaginable advances in compute performance and efficiency, enabled by Moore’s Law and underpinned by scale-out commodity hardware and loosely coupled software. This architecture has delivered online services to billions globally and put...
New vision model from Cohere runs on two GPUs, beats top-tier VLMs on visual tasks
Cohere’s Command A Vision can read graphs and PDFs to make enterprise research richer and analyze the documents businesses actually rely on.Read More
Why open-source AI became an American national priority
To reflect democratic principles, AI must be built in the open. If the U.S. wants to lead the AI race, it must lead the open-source AI race.Read More