Experimentation is key to finding product-market fit—it’s about testing ideas, features, and hypotheses until you discover what truly resonates with your audience.
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OpenAI launched GPT-5 with competitive pricing that undercuts rivals—likely triggering a price war—while delivering strong performance, especially in coding.
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Pricing undercuts Anthropic by a wide margin—much cheaper for input and output tokens than Claude Opus 4.1.
Matching Google Gemini 2.5 Pro’s rates but avoids higher costs for heavy users that Gemini imposes.
Developers and influencers immediately praised the aggressive cost-performance ratio for coding tasks.
The move pressures the broader LLM ecosystem, potentially catalyzing widespread pricing competition.
Google DeepMind’s new AI-powered Weather Lab model significantly improves tropical cyclone prediction by accurately forecasting cyclones’ formation, path, intensity, and shape up to 15 days ahead.
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The model generates 50 possible cyclone scenarios up to 15 days ahead in a single step.
It outperforms traditional forecasting models in speed and track/intensity accuracy.
Trusted forecasters helped co-develop features like "expert mode" for exploring cyclone formation risks.
The model's predictions are integrated into Weather Lab, a public data visualization platform.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook likens AI's impact to the internet and smartphones, demanding the company must lead in AI.
Apple rebuilt Siri's AI from scratch due to quality issues with hybrid AI integration; new Siri expected in 2026.
Apple hired 12,000 employees last year, 40% focused on AI, also developing custom AI chips and server infrastructure.
New AI projects include a ChatGPT-style search team ("AKI") aiming to deliver direct answers, not just links.
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The tournament included AI from Anthropic, Google, xAI, and DeepSeek.
OpenAI's model won the final match against Grok.
The event highlights the rivalry among leading AI developers.
The competition showcases advances in AI strategic gameplay.
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Emergency medical technicians and healthcare social workers have the lowest automation risk with 100% public interaction.
Managerial roles remain resilient because leadership and decision-making are hard to automate.
Skilled trades like maintenance and repair resist AI due to their complex physical demands.
Jobs requiring emotional intelligence, on-the-spot decisions, and coordination are least likely to be automated.
Sam Altman’s 1-Task Rule That Beats All Productivity Hacks
World-changers don’t obsess over complex productivity systems—they pick the most important task and do it. Skip the apps, use a handwritten list, circle your top priority, and act. This simple method kills decision fatigue, boosts focus, and gets real work done.
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Complex systems waste time maintaining and cause exhaustion.
Most productivity hacks are disguised procrastination.
Handwritten lists create clarity and reduce distractions over apps.
Prioritizing the one impactful task eliminates decision fatigue.
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Weak connection points in the material make cracks spread in a way that strengthens the overall structure.
The team simulated 400 candidate molecules, then trained AI to predict behavior for over 11,000 more.
AI discovered that certain structural shapes and add‑on groups strongly influence material toughness.
One optimized design produced a polymer about four times tougher than a standard version.
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