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OpenAI is pulling back on its next major model release, and this time the pressure is coming from Washington. The Trump administration reportedly asked the company to delay GPT-five point six over security concerns, limiting early access to a small group of enterprise customers rather than a broader rollout. It's a notable moment of government friction in the AI race.
On a related note about AI infrastructure, researchers at HAO AI Lab are claiming their new system, JetSpec, can accelerate large language model inference by nearly ten times using what they call parallel tree decoding. If those numbers hold up under scrutiny, it could meaningfully reduce the cost and latency of running models at scale — though independent verification remains to be seen.
And from the natural world, Venezuela was struck by what seismologists are calling a rare seismic doublet — two powerful earthquakes hitting in rapid succession, each triggering the other as stress transferred along the same fault line. Scientists say events like this are poorly understood and underscore how much uncertainty remains in earthquake forecasting.
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