April 2025

OpenAI partner says it had relatively little time to test the company’s newest AI models

April 16, 2025
An organization OpenAI frequently partners with to probe the capabilities of its models and evaluate them for safety, Metr, suggests that it wasn’t given much time to evaluate the company’s powerful new releases, o3 and o4-mini. In a blog post published Wednesday, Metr writes that its red teaming of o3 and o4-mini was “conducted in […]

India’s Uber-rival BluSmart appears to suspend service in wake of EV loan probe

April 16, 2025
BluSmart, India’s all-electric cab-hailing startup that was once seen as an emerging rival to Uber, appears to have suspended service in some cities just as the country’s market regulator launched a probe into Gensol Engineering, the publicly listed company that shares two of its co-founders. The cab service, which had been operating in Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, […]

OpenAI launches a pair of AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini

April 16, 2025
OpenAI announced on Thursday the launch of o3 and o4-mini, new AI reasoning models designed to pause and work through questions before responding. The company calls o3 its most advanced reasoning model ever, outperforming the company’s previous models on tests measuring math, coding, reasoning, science, and visual understanding capabilities. Meanwhile, o4-mini offers what OpenAI says […]

OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open source coding tool for terminals

April 16, 2025
In a bid to inject AI into more of the programming process, OpenAI is launching Codex CLI, a coding “agent” designed to run locally from terminal software. Announced on Wednesday alongside OpenAI’s newest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, Codex CLI links OpenAI’s models with local code and computing tasks, OpenAI says. Via Codex CLI, OpenAI’s […]