The verdict is in: OpenAI’s newest and most capable traditional AI model, GPT-4.5, is big, expensive, and slow, providing marginally better performance than GPT-4o at 30x the cost for input and 15x the cost for output. The new model seems to prove that longstanding rumors of diminishing returns in training unsupervised-learning LLMs were correct and...
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(BPRW) Trailblazing Tech Leader and Hampton University Alum Leon Burns Recognized in Washington Business Journal’s 40 Under 40
(Black PR Wire) Washington, DC – Leon M. Burns, a respected leader and innovator in the technology industry, has been recognized as one of the Washington Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 honorees for 2025. This prestigious list highlights y…
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A.I. and Vibecoding Helped Me to Create My Own Software
I’m not a programmer. But I’ve been creating my own software tools with help from artificial intelligence.
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Google’s Sergey Brin Asks Workers to Spend More Time In the Office
The tech giant’s co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more, the company could reach an artificial general intelligence breakthrough.
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OpenAI Unveils GPT-4.5 for More ‘Natural Conversation’
The new technology, called GPT-4.5, signifies the end of an era for OpenAI.
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Nvidia’s Profit Jumps 80 Percent as Company Rides Tech’s AI Boom
The Silicon Valley company, which dominates the market for chips needed to build A.I. systems, said revenue was up 78 percent from a year earlier.
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Tesla Fires a Manager Who Criticized Elon Musk on Social Media
The employee objected to a post on X by Mr. Musk, Tesla’s chief executive and a top adviser to President Trump, that referred to Nazi leaders.
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Copilot exposes private GitHub pages, some removed by Microsoft
Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel, Huawei, PayPal, IBM, Tencent and, ironically, Microsoft. These repositories, belonging to more than 16,000 organizations, were originally posted to GitHub as public, but were later set to private, often after the developers responsible realized they...
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New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise
On Thursday, Inception Labs released Mercury Coder, a new AI language model that uses diffusion techniques to generate text faster than conventional models. Unlike traditional models that create text word by word—such as the kind that powers ChatGPT—diffusion-based models like Mercury produce entire responses simultaneously, refining them from an initially masked state into coherent text....
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The surveillance tech waiting for workers as they return to the office
Scan the online brochures of companies who sell workplace monitoring tech and you’d think the average American worker was a renegade poised to take their employer down at the next opportunity. “Nearly half of US employees admit to time theft!” “Biometric readers for enhanced accuracy!” “Offer staff benefits in a controlled way with Vending Machine...