OpenAI has launched GPT-5.4, its first model with native computer-use capabilities, alongside financial plugins for Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets.

The big headlines on this release are efficiency, with OpenAI reporting that GPT-5.4 uses far fewer tokens (47% fewer on some tasks) than its predecessors).

Frustrated by fragmented war news, Anghami’s Elie Habib built World Monitor, a platform that fuses global data, like aircraft signals and satellite detections, to track conflicts as they unfold.

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

Nearly 200 developers, users, and companies from the MySQL ecosystem have urged Oracle in an open letter to reconsider the future governance of the open-source database. The letter was published after ...

Chinese open models are spreading fast, from Hugging Face to Silicon Valley. Here’s why that matters. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to ...

RSAC Conference (formerly RSA Conference) on Monday announced the availability of a new open source threat intelligence visualization tool, Quantickle. Created via vibe coding by Snorre Fagerland, ...

Thousands of servers run open-source LLMs outside major AI platforms security controls, researchers say Researchers identify removed guardrails in hundreds of open-source LLM instances LLMs can be ...

The pace of AI continues to be staggering. From simple pattern recognition systems to large language models (LLMs), and now as we move into the physical AI reality, the power of these systems ...

Every year, designers at Pew Research Center create hundreds of charts, maps and other data visualizations. We also help make a range of other digital products, from “scrollytelling” features to ...

Advanced data visualization and analytics have become central to enterprise IT strategies as organizations face rapid data growth from cloud services, software-as-a-service applications, edge devices, ...

The US government has reopened following its longest-ever shutdown, setting the stage for the eventual release of the gold-standard federal data that is crucial in analyzing the health and trajectory ...