OpenAI's new GPT-5.4 clobbers humans on pro-level work in tests - by 83%

GPT-5.4 is also more reliable, producing 18% fewer errors and 33% fewer false claims than GPT-5.2, according to OpenAI.

Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases

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 ...
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Constraint Programming Based Model and Algorithm for Solving Steelmaking and Continuous Casting Scheduling Problem with Adjustable Casting Time

Abstract: The Steelmaking-Continuous Casting (SCC) scheduling problem is usually regarded as a type of hybrid flow-shop scheduling problems (HFSP) with special process constraints. To research the SCC ...
InfoQ

Hybrid Cloud Data at Uber: How Engineers Solved Extreme-Scale Replication Challenges

Uber’s HiveSync team optimized Hadoop Distcp to handle multi-petabyte replication across hybrid cloud and on-premise data ...
IEEE

Effectiveness of Online Higher Education Programming Education During COVID-19 Under the Lens on the 5E Instructional Model

Abstract: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, synchronous and asynchronous distance learning has increased, creating uncertainty about learning quality. Our research investigated the effectiveness of online ...