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OpenAI has unveiled GPT-five point five, billing it as its most capable model to date, with improvements to speed, reasoning, and performance across coding and research tasks. It's another step in a relentless release cycle that's raising real questions about how fast the industry can responsibly move.
On a quieter but deeply human note, a woman named Pam chose to honour her husband Bill at his funeral with a hologram, after nearly sixty years of marriage. The technology gave mourners a chance to see and hear him one final time. It's a reminder that behind every innovation is someone simply trying to hold on a little longer.
And from the legal world, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is challenging secrecy practices in a patent case in the Eastern District of Texas, a court long associated with plaintiff-friendly patent litigation. The EFF argues that closed proceedings undermine public accountability, and it's a fight that could have consequences well beyond any single case.
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