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OpenAI on Thursday unveiled its highly anticipated GPT-5, a powerful multi-modal AI model featuring major advancements in problem-solving and coding. The new flagship model was announced during a Thursday morning livestream. Unlike previous releases that were limited to paid subscribers, GPT-5 will be available to free-tier ChatGPT users as well, OpenAI said. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described interacting with the new model as akin to conversing with a PhD-level expert, noting that while GPT-3 was comparable to a high school student and GPT-4 to a college student, With GPT-5 you get an entire team of PhD experts in your pocket, ready to help you, Altman said. During the announcement, OpenAI researchers emphasized that GPT-5 was designed to be more reliable and accurate, with fewer hallucinations. GPT-5 offers improvements in reasoning, higher-quality code generation, greater autonomy with reduced need for user input, and seamless integration with platforms like ChatGPT and Google’s Gmail and Calendar apps. Earlier language models relied only on pretraining to generate responses. GPT-5, like recent inference-based models, can also incorporate new data from user prompts in real time (a method known as test-time computing). This release also unifies OpenAIs model naming, replacing names like o1 and o4-mini with the GPT-5 family, signaling a shift to models that combine both pretraining and inference. For many, the key question is whether the leap from GPT4 to GPT-5 will prove as dramatic as the jump from GPT3 to GPT4. Independent testing will shed light on that. OpenAI also recently introduced two open-weight modelsgpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20bwhich are freely available and modifiable by developers. This move marked a rare shift from its typically closed model strategy. However, with GPT-5, OpenAI returns to its more traditional closed approach. In addition, the company announced a partnership with the U.S. federal government to provide executive branch agencies access to its enterprise-grade chatbot. Through a landmark agreement with the General Services Administration (GSA), ChatGPTEnterprise will be made available to agencies for just $1 per agency for one year. OpenAI has assured that it will not use government data to train its AI models.
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Former President Bill Clinton plans big changes for this years Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting by necessity to address the changing landscape for global development and increasing needs driven by war and climate disasters. We need to redefine how we show up, how we work, and how we find ways to honor our common humanity, Clinton wrote in a letter to the CGI community released Thursday. This September, our goal will be to connect dots across issues, expose the consequences, and confront the complicated issues in front of us. Since its launch in 2005, the CGI annual meeting has served as a platform for political, business and philanthropic leaders to announce new initiatives or new financial support for existing programs addressing the worlds problems. At the 2024 meeting, former First Lady Jill Biden announced $500 million in new annual spending for womens health research, while Prince Harry outlined his plans to help children and their parents navigate cyberspace better. This years meeting held once again during United Nations General Assembly week and led by Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton will also include Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley and Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani, as well as Gilead Sciences CEO Daniel ODay, Pinterest CEO Bill Ready, and Open Society Foundations President Binaifer Nowrojee. However, the focus this year will be on forging new solutions for economic, health, climate and humanitarian issues. The CGI community is built for moments like this, Clinton wrote. This year marks two decades of our community convening and responding directly to global crises. In previous years, CGI helped organize responses to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Caribbean hurricanes in 2017, and the COVID-19 pandemic. CGI estimates it has helped more than 500 million people in 186 countries over the past two decades. President Donald Trumps administration has swiftly dismantled the U.S. Agency for International Development, arguing that many programs did not advance American interests. A number of philanthropic funders have stepped in to replace some support of humanitarian programs and public health initiatives, but many gaps remain. CGI hopes to close those gaps with a series of Leaders Stage Sessions, where representatives from a wide range of organizations including GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan, Center for Disaster Philanthropy CEO Patricia McIlreavy, AFL-CIO President, and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten — will work together to create new initiatives. Now is the time to stand up and roll up our sleeves and do our part to reverse the trend lines and begin charting a brighter future, Clinton said in a statement. On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as part of its Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation. Organizers declined comment on what impact, if any, the subpoenas would have on planning for the CGI annual meeting. Former Secretary Clinton has been called to provide a deposition on Oct. 9, while former President Clinton has been called to offer a deposition on Oct. 14. ____ Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits receives support through the APs collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. For all of APs philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy. Glenn Gamboa, AP business writer
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New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo recently unveiled a new campaign logo at a press conference that was designed like his pandemic-era briefings when he was New York governor, complete with a video screen he used for a PowerPoint presentation. The new logo is “supposed to symbolize a new phase of the campaign,” Cuomo spokesperson Rich Azzopardi tells Fast Company. The mark was designed to both evoke a rising sun and resemble the Statue of Liberty’s crown. Azzopardi says it’s no coincidence the brand’s blue-and-orange color palette is the same as the New York City flag. “Cuomo, to build a new NYC,” the logomark says in a sans-serif typeface with soft rounded edges that resembles Calibri, the font that Microsoft used as default on Outlook and Word until replacing it with Aptos in 2023. (Cuomo’s campaign could not verify the typeface used.) [Image: Cuomo Campaign] Cuomo’s new logo might not win any graphic design awards, but it’s an improvement from the nondescript, under-branded logo his campaign used in the Democratic primaries. What’s more, it signals Cuomo’s campaign has realized paying attention to its visual rhetoric matters in a race against New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, whose unconventional, well-branded campaign identity stood apart in the primaries. [Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images] Cuomo’s old primary logo, a blue block that said “Cuomo” stacked on top of a red outline of a rectangle that said “for Mayor,” was generic. Change the name and office, and it could be used for political campaign, and it relied on the candidate’s name instead any sort of interesting or memorable visual element. In a race where his opponents made clever use of typography as both a branding mechanism and tool to drive home campaign messages, though, it was clear Cuomo’s old logo also didn’t have much to say. Like a consumer packaged good brand that redesigns its packaging as a response to dipping sales, Cuomo’s new logo is a new wrapper over an established political quantity. It’s a new-look-same-great-taste sort of rebrand that was designed to look optimistic and fresh, even as Cuomo emphasizes many of the same talking points he did in the primary, namely his experience. At the press conference where he first used the new branding, Cuomo unveiled his plan for improving and reforming the city’s policing, and questioned whether Mamdani would be able to deliver on his promises. Cuomo suggested voters ask themselves which candidate would deal with the city’s “operations and the systems in a way that’s going to help me,” and not “just give me promises and slogans.” “We’re running a different campaign in the general election,” Azzopardi says, calling it “more nimble” and “affirmative.” Still he adds, “We never are going to out-Mamdani Mamdani.” Mamdani ran a bespoke campaign tailored to him that was well suited to reaching young people online. His logo was inspired by city street signs and vintage Bollywood movie poster type. That helped communicate and reinforce his campaign message of newness and change. Cuomo’s not that kind of candidate, but he is responding to Mamdani’s primary win with brighter graphics of his own, though with a boring font you might have found in old emails and PowerPoint presentations. That’s a far less exciting visual reference than those Mamdani’s campaign drew from, but it also reinforces Cuomo’s message of experience and getting stuff done. For a candidate known for his PowerPoints, it just might have been the smartest choice.
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