Category: AI/ML News

OpenAI has sent out emails notifying API customers that its chatgpt-4o-latest model will be retired from the developer platform in mid-February 2026,. Access to the model is scheduled to end on February 16, 2026, creating a roughly three-month transition period for remaining applications still built on GPT-4o. An OpenAI spokesperson emphasized that this timeline applies …

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A message on OpenAI’s internal Slack claimed the activist in question had expressed interest in “causing physical harm to OpenAI employees.”

New York City’s thousands of traffic cameras capture endless hours of footage each day, but analyzing that video to identify safety problems and implement improvements typically requires resources that most transportation agencies don’t have.

Elon Musk’s frontier generative AI startup xAI formally opened developer access to its Grok 4.1 Fast models last night and introduced a new Agent Tools API—but the technical milestones were immediately subverted by a wave of public ridicule about Grok’s responses on the social network X over the last few days praising its creator Musk …

Read more “Grok 4.1 Fast’s compelling dev access and Agent Tools API overshadowed by Musk glazing”

Google’s latest AI image model is vastly better than the previous release at generating text in images. You can expect companies to go buck wild with this update.

Soon, researchers may be able to create movies of their favorite protein or virus better and faster than ever before. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have pioneered a new machine learning method—called X-RAI (X-Ray single particle imaging with Amortized Inference)—that can “look” at millions of X-ray laser-generated images and create …

Read more “Machine learning algorithm rapidly reconstructs 3D images from X-ray data”

OpenAI has introduced GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max, a new frontier agentic coding model now available in its Codex developer environment. The release marks a significant step forward in AI-assisted software engineering, offering improved long-horizon reasoning, efficiency, and real-time interactive capabilities. GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max will now replace GPT‑5.1-Codex as the default model across Codex-integrated surfaces. The new model is designed to …

Read more “OpenAI debuts GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max coding model and it already completed a 24-hour task internally”

The draft order, obtained by WIRED, instructs the US Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating AI.

Just over half (51%) of published novelists in the UK believe that artificial intelligence is likely to end up entirely replacing their work as fiction writers, a new University of Cambridge report shows.

In what appeared to be a bid to soak up some of Google’s limelight prior to the launch of its new Gemini 3 flagship AI model — now recorded as the most powerful LLM in the world by multiple independent evaluators — Elon Musk’s rival AI startup xAI last night unveiled its newest large language …

Read more “Musk’s xAI launches Grok 4.1 with lower hallucination rate on the web and apps — no API access (for now)”