It took nearly 15 years, researchers around the world and enough computing power to search through a universe of possibilities to answer one question: Who goes first? Eric Harshbarger was at a gaming ...

OpenAI has officially launched its GPT-5.6 family, rolling out three tiers — Sol (flagship), Terra (balanced) and Luna (lightweight) — alongside a strategic desktop consolidation that brings its ...

OpenAI’s newest flagship model just built a voxel-based 3D rendering of Manhattan in one shot. No iterative prompting, no manual stitching, no human hand-holding. Just a single run from input to ...

The new release was delayed after the U.S. government restricted the latest artificial intelligence models over cybersecurity concerns. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco OpenAI has publicly ...

The U.S. government ban on Anthropic’s powerful Fable and Mythos models has everybody spooked. That’s why it’s a little surprising that OpenAI, Anthropic’s biggest rival, is slowly rolling out its ...

OpenAI’s newest artificial intelligence model will be available only to a small group of U.S. companies and organizations approved by the Trump administration, two people familiar with the discussions ...

Credit: VentureBeat made with OpenAI ChatGPT-Images-2.0 Last night, the increasingly enterprise-focused AI startup Sakana launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system that delivers frontier-level ...

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German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable is that the bees had never been trained. The findings challenge the ...

Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...

Despite having tiny brains, bumblebees have demonstrated a remarkable ability to socially learn how to use tools, solve simple puzzles, and cooperate to achieve a goal. It seems they can also solve ...