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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said China’s open-source models drove the company to release its open-weight models earlier this month.”It was clear that if we didn’t do it, the world was gonna be mostly built on Chinese open-source models,” Altman said during a media briefing CNBC reported on Monday.”That was a factor in our decision, for sure. Wasn’t the only one, but that loomed large,” he added.OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.OpenAI released two open-weight models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, on August 5. The former is designed for high-end computers, while the latter is meant to…
NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics is substantially diverging from U.S. government vaccine recommendations.The group’s new COVID-19 recommendations — released Tuesday — come amid a tumultuous year for public health, as vaccine skeptics have come into power in the new Trump administration and government guidance has become increasingly confusing.This isn’t going to help, acknowledged Dr. James Campbell, vice chair of the AAP infectious disease committee.“It is going to be somewhat confusing. But our opinion is we need to make the right choices for children to protect them,” he added.The AAP…
OpenAI today launched a new, cheaper ChatGPT paid subscription plan in India called ChatGPT GO, priced at ₹399 per month ($4.60), which is more affordable than the ₹1,999 (about $23) per month Plus Plan. The company had turned on local currency pricing for all its plans a few days ago, and with this launch, it will also allow users to pay through UPI (Unified Payment Interface), India’s payment framework. Nick Turley, VP at OpenAI and head of ChatGPT, said that this plan will increase the message, image generation, and file uploads by 10 times over the free tier. The ChatGPT…
Aaron Boudot thought he was going to die.It was July 26, and moments before, Boudot had shielded his wife from a stranger’s blade during a terrifying knife attack at a Michigan Walmart. So that stranger — whom authorities later identified as Bradford James Gille — began slashing him, slicing an artery in his right arm and stabbing him in the back, Boudot recalled.“I lost three liters of blood in definitely less than 40 seconds,” Boudot, 41, said in his first interview about the mass stabbing, which injured 11 people. “I wasn’t going to last long. I said my goodbyes.”Thanks to…
2025-08-19T00:07:55Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. SoftBank is investing $2 billion in Intel common stock, paying $23 per share. The investment aligns with SoftBank’s focus on AI and semiconductor expansion in the US. Intel’s stock rose after-hours following the announcement. SoftBank is betting big on semiconductors in the age of AI.The investment holding company is…
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. gymnastics world was only just recovering from a devastating sexual abuse scandal when a promising young coach moved from Mississippi to Iowa to take a job in 2018 at an elite academy known for training Olympic champions.Liang “Chow” Qiao, the owner of Chow’s Gymnastics and Dance Institute in West Des Moines, thought highly enough of his new hire, Sean Gardner, to put him in charge of the club’s premier junior event and to coach some of its most promising girls.But four years later, Gardner was gone from Chow’s with little notice.USA Gymnastics, the…
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Paul Skenes is a numbers nerd. Well, most of the time anyway.The Pittsburgh Pirates ace will make it a point to glance up at the ribbon boards that instantaneously spew out the data following each pitch — velocity, drop, horizontal movement — to get a feel for whether the ball is doing what he wants it to do after it leaves his hands.He considers the practice educational. A way for the former Air Force cadet who once majored in military strategy before transferring to LSU to decipher what’s working and what’s not during a given start.Yet there…
DENVER (AP) — Warming Bernabel lined a game-winning single in the ninth inning as the Colorado Rockies snapped a 10-game skid against the Dodgers by rallying to beat Los Angeles 4-3 on Monday night.Ezequiel Tovar started a one-out rally with a bloop double that a charging Teoscar Hernández couldn’t corral. Bernabel followed by sending a cutter from Justin Wrobleski (4-5) up the middle to bring home Tovar.Tovar tied the game in the seventh with a solo homer.The Rockies extended their win streak to four games. At 36-89, Colorado needs to win six of its final 37 games to steer clear…
LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — In a matchup of LSU Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks, Jayden Daniels rushed for a 14-yard touchdown in his lone possession, while Joe Burrow directed two touchdown drives in the Cincinnati Bengals’ 31-17 win over the Washington Commanders on Monday night.Burrow played three possessions, completing 9 of 14 passes for 62 yards. The 2020 Heisman winner found wide receiver Charlie Jones for a 4-yard touchdown reception on his final toss. Running back Chase Brown’s 1-yard touchdown on fourth-and-goal capped a 58-yard drive on the opening possession at Northwest Stadium.The Bengals (1-1) planned on using their starters longer in…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Xander Bogaerts of the San Diego Padres had a home run overturned due to fan interference, and manager Mike Shildt was ejected for coming out of the dugout to talk to the umpires in the second inning of Monday night’s game against the San Francisco Giants.The call turned out to be critical because the Padres lost 4-3.Bogaerts hit a flyball to left field that appeared to bounce out of Heliot Ramos’ glove and over the fence as two fans, including one in a Giants shirt, reached for it. The ball might have clipped one of the…