OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer use mode, financial plugins for Microsoft Excel, 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 ...

What It’s Like to Have a Brain Implant for 5 Years

No one has had a Synchron brain-computer interface longer than Rodney Gorham. He’s still finding new ways to use it.

Inside OpenAI’s fast-growing Codex: The people building the AI that codes alongside you

Insiders reveal how OpenAI’s rapidly growing coding agent works, why developers are delegating tasks to it, and what it means ...
The New York Times

A.I. Isn’t Coming for Every White-Collar Job. At Least Not Yet.

Tech workers are increasingly worried that the artificial intelligence they are building will replace them. But some are optimistic that it is just one more tool to work with. Though powerful, code ...
Wired

Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI

Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million Series B funding round from new and existing investors. The ...
IEEE

Enhancing Human-Computer Interaction with a Sensor-based ASL Translator Glove Employing Machine Learning

Abstract: This work presents the design and development of a smart glove-based translator for American Sign Language (ASL), addressing a major communication barrier faced by deaf and non-verbal ...
The New York Times

They Are in Love but Don’t Speak the Same Language

He speaks English. She speaks Mandarin. The secret to their happy marriage: Microsoft Translator. By Kashmir Hill Photographs by Oliver Farshi Kashmir Hill writes about how technology changes how we ...
Bleeping Computer

BeyondTrust warns of critical RCE flaw in remote support software

BeyondTrust warned customers to patch a critical security flaw in its Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) software that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary ...
Interesting Engineering

Neither classical nor quantum: This computer lets light solve complex calculations

For decades, the solution to harder problems has been ‘build a bigger computer’— but what if this is the wrong strategy altogether? This is because some problems defeat computers, not because they are ...