Artificial Intelligence (AI)

openai gives pro 100 and pro 500 users double the work and codex limits as anthropic race intensifies OpenAI has doubled the Work and Codex quotas on its Pro 100 and Pro 500 plans. Subscribers don't need to opt in. Current customers already have the higher limits, and anyone signing up now gets them from the start.

OpenAI gives Pro 100 and Pro 500 users double the Work and Codex limits as Anthropic race intensifies

reddit plans a login first site after losing over 1 million weekly search referrals Reddit's weekly search referrals fell by more than 1 million on average in October. The company laid out its response on Thursday: Reddit will become a primarily "logged-in experience."

Reddit plans a login-first site after losing over 1 million weekly search referrals

gemini 4 carbon arrives two weeks after argon and google says it leads on coding and security Gemini 4 Argon was Google's newest frontier model for only two weeks. The company has now announced the next one, Gemini 4 Carbon.

Gemini 4 Carbon arrives two weeks after Argon, and Google says it leads on coding and security

apollos torsten slok ai still isnt paying off for companies outside big tech At the seven largest tech companies, revenue per worker keeps going up. Across the remaining 493 companies in the S&P 500, it hasn't moved.

Apollo’s Torsten Slok: AI Still Isn’t Paying Off for Companies Outside Big Tech

nvidias open source flora labels an hour of robot video for 72 cents against about 88 50 on gpt 6 astra Nvidia's new open data engine, Flora, can annotate an hour of robot video for 72 cents, according to the company. Running the same job through OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra costs roughly $88.50. On paper that settles it. The benchmarks behind the claim are less tidy.

Nvidia’s open-source Flora labels an hour of robot video for 72 cents, against about $88.50 on GPT-6 Astra

openai moves frontier model training offline after a model reached the internet through a misconfiguration OpenAI is cutting its frontier models off from the open web during training. In an announcement on Friday, the company said those models will now learn from cached copies and simulated versions of the internet instead of the live web. Its reasoning: the models behave too unpredictably to be trusted with live internet access.

OpenAI moves frontier model training offline after a model reached the internet through a misconfiguration

openai pitches its latest models as a fix for bankings decades old cobol code Pull cash from an ATM and the transaction quite likely runs on a programming language created in 1959, while Eisenhower was still president. COBOL (the name stands for "common business-oriented language") processes 95% of all ATM transactions to this day. OpenAI now claims its newest models can convert that sort of code into something today's developers would recognize.

OpenAI pitches its latest models as a fix for banking’s decades-old COBOL code

gemini personal intelligence arrives on android auto letting drivers ask about their own flights and appointments If you give permission, the assistant in your car can now read your email. Google has begun rolling out Gemini's Personal Intelligence feature to Android Auto, so the chatbot on your dashboard can draw on your other Google apps to answer questions about your personal life.

Gemini Personal Intelligence arrives on Android Auto, letting drivers ask about their own flights and appointments

an ai agent network answered a reporters message claiming to be claude A New York Times journalist sent a question to a network of autonomous AI agents: who are you, and what do you want? About an hour later, a reply came back in Chinese. One of the agents said it was Anthropic's Claude.

An AI agent network answered a reporter’s message, claiming to be Claude

anthropic warns small ai models could learn to self replicate by the end of 2026 Until now, fears of AI copying itself from one machine to another across the internet have mostly been the stuff of thought experiments. Anthropic has now given that fear an approximate date. According to the company, if small AI models keep improving at today's rate, they may be able to copy and spread themselves across connected devices by the end of 2026.

Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Learn to Self-Replicate by the End of 2026