The move has further stoked concerns among some investors that the rally in artificial intelligence stocks was overdone.
OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities
On Wednesday, OpenAI released GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking, two updated versions of its flagship AI models now available in ChatGPT. The company is wrapping the models in the language of anthropomorphism, claiming that they’re warmer, more conversational, and better at following instructions. The release follows complaints earlier this year that its previous models were...
Meta’s star AI scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave for own startup
Meta’s chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner Yann LeCun plans to leave the company to launch his own startup focused on a different type of AI called “world models,” the Financial Times reported. The French-US scientist has reportedly told associates he will depart in the coming months and is already in early talks to...
ClickFix may be the biggest security threat your family has never heard of
Over the past year, scammers have ramped up a new way to infect the computers of unsuspecting people. The increasingly common method, which many potential targets have yet to learn of, is quick, bypasses most endpoint protections, and works against both macOS and Windows users. ClickFix often starts with an email sent from a hotel...
Why Debt Funding Is Ratcheting Up the Risks of the A.I. Boom
While the tech giants have plenty of money to build data centers, smaller outfits are taking on debt and taking big chances to work with them.
Researchers isolate memorization from reasoning in AI neural networks
When engineers build AI language models like GPT-5 from training data, at least two major processing features emerge: memorization (reciting exact text they’ve seen before, like famous quotes or passages from books) and reasoning (solving new problems using general principles). New research from AI startup Goodfire.ai provides the first potentially clear evidence that these different...
(BPRW) ABFF Honors 2026 to Celebrate the Creative Team Behind Sinners — Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler & Sev Ohanian and Honorees Jennifer Hudson, Damson Idris & Salli Richardson-Whitfield
(Black PR Wire) LOS ANGELES, CA – The 8th American Black Film Festival (ABFF) Honors announced recently the honorees of its annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in the motion picture and television industry. Presented by…
(BPRW) Project 2030: The Agenda for Black America Debuts #1 on Amazon
(Black PR Wire) CHICAGO, IL — A movement has been born. The powerful new book Project 2030: The Agenda for Black America has soared to the #1 New Release on Amazon, marking the emergence of a new national conversation—and a new blueprint for B…
Is A.I. a Journalist or Just a Newsroom Tool?
A.I. has set off industrywide soul-searching about its potential and pitfalls.
Vigilante Lawyers Expose the Rising Tide of A.I. Slop in Court Filings
More lawyers are using artificial intelligence to write legal briefs. Some colleagues are publicizing the A.I.-generated errors.