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OpenAI Beefs Up ChatGPT’s Image Generation Model

OpenAI Beefs Up ChatGPT’s Image Generation Model

Published by skeptic

OpenAI launched a new image generation AI model on Tuesday, dubbed ChatGPT Images 2.0. This model can generate more than one image from a single prompt, like an entire study booklet, as well as output text, including in non-English languages like Chinese and Hindi. This release is available globally for ChatGPT and Codex users, with a more powerful version available for paying subscribers. When any major AI company releases a new image model, it can revive interest and boost usage, especially if social media users adopt a meme-able trend, transforming images of themselves. Last year, Google’s launch of the Nano Banana model was a major moment for the company, especially when users started posting hyperrealistic figurines of themselves online. Earlier this year, ChatGPT Images made waves on social media as users shared AI-generated caricatures. What’s Different? Since the new model can tap into ChatGPT’s “reasoning” capabilities, Images 2.0 can search the internet for recent information and generate more than one image at a time. In essence, the bot can use additional steps to output more …

Auriemma Rips Officials and Beefs With Staley, but Bad Night for Strong and Fudd Is Why UConn Fell

Auriemma Rips Officials and Beefs With Staley, but Bad Night for Strong and Fudd Is Why UConn Fell

Published by Sam Flores

PHOENIX (AP) — UConn’s Geno Auriemma was not a happy man. With the officiating. With his team’s performance. With South Carolina coach Dawn Staley. The Huskies coach ripped into the officiating during a live TV interview and then had a heated argument with Staley in the final seconds of their 62-48 loss to the Gamecocks. But a rough night for UConn stars Sarah Strong and Azzi Fudd was the main cause of the Huskies’ poor showing in the national semifinals of the women’s Final Four on Friday night. A minute after his sideline blowup, Auriemma stalked off the floor alone, stewing over the nightmare performance. Fudd — a senior — shouldered the blame, saying she felt she let the team down. “I thought some of our shots were a little rushed, some of our offense was a little rushed, out of pace,” Fudd said. “But when we got a lot of good looks, a lot of shots in our offense, shots that we are used to taking, we just didn’t hit very many.” The Huskies …

Ukraine pulls plug on Russian Starlink, beefs up drone defence | Russia-Ukraine war News

Ukraine pulls plug on Russian Starlink, beefs up drone defence | Russia-Ukraine war News

Published by Sam Flores

Ukraine braced for more attacks on its energy infrastructure this week as winter temperatures continued to fall to -20 degrees Celsius (-4 degrees Fahrenheit), and sought to adapt its defences against Russian drones. On Thursday, Ukraine’s energy minister, Denys Shmyal, warned Ukrainians to prepare for more power blackouts in the coming days as Russian air attacks continued. Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said Russia had struck energy infrastructure 217 times this year. Shmyal said 200 emergency crews were working to restore power to 1,100 buildings in Kyiv alone. Russia has been targeting Ukrainian power stations, gas pipelines and power cables since mid-January, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without heat or electricity at various points. On January 29, US President Donald Trump told a cabinet meeting that Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to halt strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure for a week, something the Kremlin confirmed. “I personally asked President Putin not to fire into Kyiv and various towns for a week, and he agreed to do that,” Trump said. It was unclear when that …