OpenAI Tells Developers to Stop Over-Prompting GPT-5.6
OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 prompting guide urges developers to write shorter, outcome-first prompts, saying leaner instructions raised scores 10-15% while cutting tokens and cost sharply.
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OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 prompting guide urges developers to write shorter, outcome-first prompts, saying leaner instructions raised scores 10-15% while cutting tokens and cost sharply.
Anthropic has committed $10 million CAD to Canadian research institutions to fund responsible AI development, announcing partnerships with eight universities and institutes including Mila, the Vector Institute, and Amii.
IBM shares sank about 23% after it warned that preliminary second-quarter results fell short, as clients diverted spending toward memory and servers ahead of price increases.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed a US-led standards body to test the most powerful AI models before release and coordinate an industry slowdown if risks mount.
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng's net worth has more than doubled to $36 billion following a new funding round, making him the wealthiest founder among pure-play AI development companies, according to Bloomberg.
Google unveiled SensorFM, a health AI trained on over a trillion minutes of smartwatch data from 5 million people, that predicts 35 health measures from cardiovascular risk to depression.
Cloudflare launched Precursor, a bot-detection system that watches how visitors move, click and type across a whole session to tell humans from increasingly capable AI agents.
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