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  Electric Trains Revolutionise California's Air Quality, Cutting Toxins By 89%

  The electrification of Caltrain in the San Francisco Bay Area has led to a significant reduction in toxic black carbon, improving air quality for commuters and residents. The study found an average reduction of 89% in riders' exposure to black carbon

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  OpenAI o3 and o4-Mini AI Models With Visual Reasoning Capabilities Released

  OpenAI released two new artificial intelligence (AI) models on Wednesday. Dubbed o3 and o4-mini, these are the company’s latest reasoning-focused models with visible chain-of-thought (CoT). The San Francisco-based AI firm stated that these models come with visual reasoning capability, which means they can analyse and “think” about an image to...

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  OpenAI Reportedly Working on an AI-Powered Social Media Platform

  OpenAI is reportedly working on a social media platform. As per the report, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is planning to integrate AI capabilities into the social app, although details around the integration are currently not known. The platform is said to compete with the likes of Elon Musk’s X (formerly known as Twit...

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  Adobe Previews Agentic AI Tools Across Acrobat, Photoshop and Premiere Pro

  Adobe shared a sneak peek of several under-development artificial intelligence (AI) agents across its platforms on Wednesday. The San Jose-based software giant is currently looking at how agentic tools can complete manual tasks to free up users to focus on creativity and productivity-based tasks. Adobe is building several AI agents for Photoshop, P...

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  OpenAI Upgrades Memory in ChatGPT, Can Reference to Users’ Previous Chats

  OpenAI announced an update to the Memory feature in ChatGPT on Thursday. The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) firm is now improving the memory function so that it can not only remember certain information about users’ preferences and interests but can also remember and reference past conversations. The company said the new feature...

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  OpenAI Is Planning to Release an Open-Source Reasoning-Focused AI Model

  OpenAI is planning to release an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model. This would be the San Francisco-based AI firm’s first open-source reasoning-focused AI model, and it is expected to be released in the next few months. This will be the company’s first open-source release since the GPT-2 model, which was introduced in November 2019...

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  Anthropic Researchers Make Major Breakthrough In Understanding How an AI Model Thinks

  Anthropic researchers shared two new papers on Thursday, sharing the methodology and findings on how an artificial intelligence (AI) model thinks. The San Francisco-based AI firm developed techniques to monitor the decision-making process of a large language model (LLM) to understand what motivates a particular response and structure over another.

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  OpenAI and Meta Eye AI to Reportedly Form Partnership With Reliance Industries

  OpenAI and Meta are reportedly discussing an artificial intelligence (AI) partnership with Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries. As per the report, the San Francisco-based AI firm and the Menlo Park-based social media giant are aiming to expand their AI footprint in the country by using the Mukesh Ambani-led company’s large consumer and enterp...

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  OpenAI Unveils Responses API, Agents SDK to Help Developers Build AI Agents

  OpenAI made several developer-focused announcements in a live stream on Tuesday. The San Francisco-based AI giant is introducing a new application programming interface (API) and an open-source software development kit (SDK) that will allow developers to build artificial intelligence (AI) agents and manage multi-agent workflows. Alongside, the comp...

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  Uber for Teens Service With Parental Control Features Begins Rolling Out in India

  Uber for Teens service has started rolling out in India. The San Francisco-based transportation tech platform first launched the safety service for teenagers in 2023 in the US, and has so far expanded it to more than 50 countries. The feature lets parents and guardians set up an Uber account for their teenagers of ages between 13 and 17 so that the...

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  Autopsy Confirms OpenAI Whistleblower Suchir Balaji Died By Suicide, Cops Close Case

  OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji died by suicide, San Francisco Police have confirmed citing an autopsy report.

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  Saikat Chakrabarti, Man Running Against Nancy Pelosi In US Congress

  Saikat Chakrabarti, an Indian-origin political activist, will challenge House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi for her San Francisco seat in the US Congress.

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  Researchers Create a Low-Cost Open-Source AI Model to Analyse How OpenAI’s o1 Reasons

  Researchers from Stanford University and Washington University have developed an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model that is comparable in performance to OpenAI’s o1 model. The main objective of the researchers was not to create a powerful reasoning-focused model but to understand how the San Francisco-based AI firm instructed its o1 s...

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  ChatGPT on WhatsApp Gets Upgraded to Support Images and Voice Messages as Input

  ChatGPT on WhatsApp has received a couple of new upgrades. OpenAI introduced an official phone number for ChatGPT in December 2024, allowing people to save it on WhatsApp to access the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot directly within the instant messaging app. At the time of launch, it only supported text input, but now the San Francisco-based ...

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  OpenAI Alleges Its AI Models Were Used to Build DeepSeek-R1: Report

  OpenAI has reportedly claimed that DeepSeek might have distilled its artificial intelligence (AI) models to build the R1 model. As per the report, the San Francisco-based AI firm stated that it has evidence that some users were using its AI models’ outputs for a competitor, which is suspected to be DeepSeek.