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OpenAI is staying quiet, but its users aren't. Across forums and social media, people are convinced that ChatGPT quietly got smarter overnight, with speculation pointing to something being called GPT five point six. OpenAI hasn't confirmed a thing, which is itself a kind of answer — or at least a very deliberate silence.
Shifting to the physical world, Texas Instruments has produced what's being called the world's smallest thirty-two bit ARM microcontroller, the Cortex M-zero MSPM zero C eleven oh four. It's a chip so tiny it challenges assumptions about what embedded computing can fit into, opening doors for wearables, medical devices, and hardware that needs to disappear into its surroundings.
And on the environmental front, Google, Anthropic, Salesforce, and a coalition of major tech players have pledged nearly one billion dollars toward carbon removal technology. The model is notable — they're committing to buy future credits now, essentially funding today's startups before the technology fully matures. It's a bet on innovation, and a rare moment where the industry's scale is pointed at something other than itself.
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