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The Universe May Be Shaped Like a Hall of Mirrors, Scientists Say

COMPACT Craving For years now, scientists have argued about how the Universe is shaped — and according to a new study, the more complex ones are more likely to be right. Published in the Physical Review Letters journal, the inaugural paper from the COMPACT Collaboration, a new consortium of cosmologists, maintains that the "topology" of the […]
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New ChatGPT AI Watches Through Your Camera, Offers Advice on What It Sees

OpenAI has shown off its latest large language model (LLM) called GPT-4o that the company promises can "reason across audio, vision, and text in real time." During its brief announcement, the company demonstrated the AI's uncanny ability to adapt to what it "sees" through the user's smartphone camera, allowing it to help solve math problems […]
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Another OpenAI Executive Choked When Asked If Sora Was Trained on YouTube Data

Caught Slippin' Yet another OpenAI executive has been caught lacking on camera when asked if the company's new Sora video generator was trained using YouTube videos. During a recent talk at Bloomberg's Tech Summit in San Francisco, OpenAI chief operating officer Brad Lightcap went off on a word vomit-style monologue in the wrong direction in an […]
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OpenAI Safety Worker Quit Due to Losing Confidence Company “Would Behave Responsibly Around the Time of AGI”

An OpenAI safety worker quit his job, arguing in an online forum that he had lost confidence that the Sam Altman-led company will "behave responsibly around the time of [artificial general intelligence]," the theoretical point at which an AI can outperform a human. As Business Insider reports, researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, a philosophy PhD student, who […]
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Sam Altman Says OpenAI Would Like to Enable Gore and Erotica for “Personal Use”

Use Case In a Reddit Q&A, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman let slip that he wants the company to be able to generate "NSFW stuff" for users — and he has examples of what kind of stuff he means. During the exchange, which took place in the r/ChatGPT subreddit over the weekend after OpenAI published its […]
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‘Extreme’ geomagnetic storm that painted Earth with auroras this weekend was the most powerful in 21 years

Between Friday (May 10) and Sunday (May 12), people across the world were treated to stunning aurora displays as Earth's magnetic field experienced its biggest disturbance since October 2003. The supercharged storm also messed with satellites and caused power grid irregularities.
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Solar Storm So Powerful It Shut Down Farm Equipment Across the US and Canada

Fried Comms A massive solar storm rocked the Earth's atmosphere with charged particles this weekend, triggering spectacular auroras in the night sky across a substantial swath of both North America and Europe. The storm reached "extreme" levels — Category G5 — on Friday and Saturday, enough to wreak havoc with communications equipment and even the […]
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