Category: Technology

OpenAI Thursday unveiled a research preview of its latest AI model, GPT-4.5, making it available to Pro users and developers worldwide, with plans for broader access in the coming weeks. GPT-4.5 comes with improved ability to recognise patterns, generate creative insights without reasoning and shows greater emotional intelligence, the company said. Microsoft-backed OpenAI said it would begin rolling out GPT-4.5 to ChatGPT Plus and Team users next week, and then to Enterprise and Edu users the following week. Sponsored Content Which car has priority? 80% answer incorrectly!Tips and Tricks [Pics]…

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Amazon Web Services on Thursday showed a quantum computing chip with new technology that it hopes will shave as much as five years off its effort to build a commercially useful quantum computer. The chip, named Ocelot, is a prototype that has only a tiny fraction of the computing power needed to create a useful machine. But like its tech rivals, AWS, which is Amazon.com’s (AMZN.O), opens new tab cloud computing unit, believes it has finally hit on a technology that can be scaled up into a working machine, though…

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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek introduced discounted off-peak pricing on Wednesday for developers looking to use its AI models to build their own products, its website showed, a move that could put pressure on rivals in China and overseas to cut prices. As investors worried that its arrival could threaten current AI market leaders, DeepSeek’s low-cost AI models triggered a major sell-off in global equity markets last month. The Hangzhou-based company said on Wednesday that between 1630GMT and 0030GMT, the cost of using its API, a platform that allows developers of…

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Intuitive Machines is “ready to go” with its second moon landing mission, a company executive said on Wednesday, a day ahead of the scheduled launch of its lunar lander. The space exploration firm is scheduled to launch its six-legged Nova-C moon lander, Athena, on Wednesday as part of Nasa’s $2.6 billion Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Athena is scheduled to launch aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The lander is expected to land near the lunar south pole, in the vicinity of the…

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Chinese startup DeepSeek has caused a seismic shift in global equities markets, triggering a sell-off exceeding $1 trillion last month with the launch of its competitively priced AI reasoning model, R1. In response to its initial success, the Hanghzhou-based company is now hastening the release of its successor, R2, aimed for an earlier launch than the initially planned May date, according to sources familiar with the firm. While specific timelines remain undisclosed, DeepSeek is optimistic that R2 will enhance coding capabilities and expand reasoning to multiple languages beyond English. Details…

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Graphic design and video making platform Canva confirmed on Tuesday that the issue of image uploads faced by its users has been resolved. The designing company released the statement after users primarily reported issues with uploading images and files on the platform, which made it difficult for them to complete their designs and projects. Notably, the company also confirmed the presence of the mentioned issue officially. Canva is an Australian multinational software company. It provides a graphic design medium that provides tools for creating social media graphics, presentations, postcards, promotional…

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Meta’s popular instant-messaging app, WhatsApp, is devloping an exciting new feature that will allow users to edit sticker photos for their status updates. The new feature is still under development as WhatsApp is actively refining it before its official release to beta testers, according to WABetaInfo. This upcoming feature will enable users to customise the shape of their sticker photos by choosing from a variety of predefined shapes, enhancing the personalisation of their posts. Users will be able to choose from shapes, including two rectangular formats (landscape and portrait), a square,…

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SHANGHAI: Electric vehicle giant Tesla has rolled out a long-awaited update to its autopilot software in China to add a city navigation feature, but the move disappointed Chinese owners who said it fell short of Elon Musk’s promises. The company, in a notification on its app, said capabilities will include automatic lane-changing depending on speed and route as well as detecting traffic lights at intersections and deciding whether to turn. An in-car camera will also monitor driver attention, it said. The features are similar to those available with Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving”…

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Apple said on Monday it will spend more than $500 billion in the United States over the next four years and hire 20,000 people, with President Donald Trump quickly taking credit for the announcement. The Silicon Valley-based giant said it was its “largest-ever spend commitment,” which comes as tech companies battle for dominance in developing artificial intelligence technology. The pivot to the US comes as Apple is increasingly under pressure from Trump’s trade battles with China, which remains the iPhone giant’s main manufacturing hub, and could be slapped with higher…

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China’s Zhurong rover has discovered evidence beneath the Martian surface that suggests the presence of ancient sandy beaches, potentially linked to a vast ocean that may have covered parts of the planet billions of years ago, Reuters reported. Using ground-penetrating radar, the rover identified layers of material buried 10 to 35 meters (33 to 115 feet) deep, resembling coastal deposits found on Earth. These structures, spanning about 1.2 km (three-quarters of a mile), were tilted at an angle typical of underwater beach formations, supporting the theory that a large body of water…

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