OpenAI has launched GPT-5.5, focusing on improving ChatGPT’s ability to handle complex tasks and real-world workflows.
Instagram launches Instants, a new app for sharing disappearing photos and videos, offering a Snapchat-like experience focused on private, real-time interactions.
New York is putting more money behind a key piece of the EV transition that often gets overlooked: the people who keep chargers running.
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Meta is planning to layoff around 10 percent of employees in May, according to a memo from the company’s chief people officer, Janelle Gale, published by Bloomberg. That means approximately 8,000 people will see their jobs cut. Meta will also be closing around 6,000 open roles, according to Gale. The cuts follow Meta’s significant investments […]
Microsoft’s new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has laid out a new strategy for what she describes as a “return of Xbox.” In a joint memo with Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty, Sharma and Booty lay out their vision for the future of Xbox that will be judged on daily active players and the priorities […]
Today’s 9to5Toys Green Deals is headlined by meross’ recently-released 18-circuit electrical panel monitor as well as Amazon undercutting beating out the official NAVEE sale on its own 34-mile G5 Pro electric scooter. That’s just a couple of the headli…
OpenAI just announced its new GPT-5.5 model, which the company calls its “smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer.” OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 last month, but says that the new GPT-5.5 “excels” at tasks like writing and debugging code, […]
Ikea shared a sneak preview of three pieces from a new experimental collection, set to be fully revealed at an annual company event on May 13th. One of the pieces is an inflatable chair that looks like a far cry from the cheap and lumpy inflatable furniture popularized in the ’90s. This isn’t the first […]
Samsung’s new metasurface lenticular lens, published in Nature, switches between sharp 2D and glasses-free 3D via voltage control and achieves a 100-degree viewing angle in a 1.2mm profile.
Copilot’s new Agent Mode can draft and restructure Word documents, build formulas and tables in Excel, and update PowerPoint decks, all in real time.