This website lets you blind-test GPT-5 vs. GPT-4o—and the results may surprise you
Take this blind test to discover whether you truly prefer OpenAI’s GPT-5 or the older GPT-4o—without knowing which model you’re using.Read More
Category: Technology
Developers lose focus 1,200 times a day — how MCP could change that
One of the most impactful applications of MCP is its ability to connect AI coding assistants directly to developer tools.Read More
Busted by the em dash — AI’s favorite punctuation mark, and how it’s blowing your cover
AI is brilliant at polishing and rephrasing. But like a child with glitter glue, you still need to supervise it.Read More
OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic
The open source framework provides the data and training recipe for building powerful computer-use agents that challenge proprietary systems.Read More
Meta is partnering with Midjourney and will license its technology for ‘future models and products’
Details are scarce on how much if any money is involved. And what does it mean for Midjourney’s previously announced plans for an enterprise API?Read More
MCP-Universe benchmark shows GPT-5 fails more than half of real-world orchestration tasks
A new benchmark from Salesforce research evaluates model and agentic performance on real-life enterprise tasks.Read More
The Download: Google’s AI energy expenditure, and handing over DNA data to the police
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.
In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
Google has just released a report detailing how much energy its Gemini...
The case against humans in space
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are bitter rivals in the commercial space race, but they agree on one thing: Settling space is an existential imperative. Space is the place. The final frontier. It is our human destiny to transcend our home world and expand our civilization to...