A screenshot of the 2025 USAMO Problem #1 and a solution, shown on the AoPSOnline website. Credit: AoPSOnline The US Math Olympiad (USAMO) serves as a qualifier for the International Math Olympiad and presents a…
Earlier this week via blog post, OpenAI released their newest AI models: o3 and o4-mini. These models are the company’s “smartest and most capable models to date” and their first reasoning models that can also…
On Wednesday, OpenAI announced the release of two new models—o3 and o4-mini—that combine simulated reasoning capabilities with access to functions like web browsing and coding. These models mark the first time OpenAI’s reasoning-focused models can…
Remember when teachers demanded that you “show your work” in school? Some fancy new AI models promise to do exactly that, but new research suggests that they sometimes hide their actual methods while fabricating elaborate…
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Back in December 2023, Porsche and Aston Martin gave us all hope for the stalled next-gen CarPlay project. As reported by Car and Driver magazine, the luxury carmakers previewed a custom CarPlay system for future…
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These diffusion models maintain performance faster than or comparable to similarly sized conventional models. LLaDA’s researchers report their 8 billion parameter model performs similarly to LLaMA3 8B across various benchmarks, with competitive results on tasks…
There are critical vulnerabilities in HP’s Universal Print Driver Series (PCL 6 and PostScript) that could allow attackers to inject and execute malicious code, according to a security advisory from HP. Updates have been released…
On Friday, during Day 12 of its “12 days of OpenAI,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced its latest AI “reasoning” models, o3 and o3-mini, which build upon the o1 models launched earlier this year. The…