Day: April 21, 2025

Palantir exec defends company’s immigration surveillance work

Palantir exec defends company’s immigration surveillance work One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing criticism this weekend of the controversial data analytics company Palantir, leading a company executive to offer an extensive defense of Palantir’s work. The back-and-forth came after federal filings showed that U.S. Immigration

OpenAI’s o3 AI model scores lower on a benchmark than the company initially implied

OpenAI’s o3 AI model scores lower on a benchmark than the company initially implied A discrepancy between first- and third-party benchmark results for OpenAI’s o3 AI model is raising questions about the company’s transparency and model testing practices. When OpenAI unveiled o3 in December, the company claimed the model could

Kids sure love video game movies

Kids sure love video game movies “A Minecraft Movie” isn’t just a hit — after three weekends in theaters, the film is estimated to have grossed $344 million domestically and $720 million worldwide. That makes it the biggest movie of an admittedly underwhelming year at the box office (so far),

Your politeness could be costly for OpenAI

Your politeness could be costly for OpenAI “I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to their models.” It was a seemingly random question posed by a user on X (formerly Twitter), but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman jumped in to

Uncovered emails showed how Meta struggled to keep Facebook culturally relevant

Uncovered emails showed how Meta struggled to keep Facebook culturally relevant With the first week of Meta’s antitrust trial behind us, documents shared by the U.S Federal Trade Commission (FTC) offered more insight into Meta’s internal struggles to keep Facebook relevant. In emails from 2022, Meta executives mulled different visions