Month: April 2025
New ChatGPT ‘glazes too much,’ says Sam Altman
Less than 48 hours after announcing an update to GPT-4o that promised improvements in “both intelligence and personality,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the chatbot had become “too sycophant-y and annoying.” In an April 27th post on X, Altman said fixes to GPT-4o’s personality would be coming “asap.” After the…
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How Marc Andreessen’s Signal group chats helped spawn the tech right
The power elites have a Signal group chat, too – and the ones that seem to be reshaping the government, according to a recent report, are the ones Marc Andreessen created to bring the American right wing and the technocracy together. Semafor’s Ben Smith published a massive article on Monday…
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Mycopunk is an upbeat love letter to extraction shooters
The extraction-shooter genre is getting a little more crowded and a lot more stylish with the announcement of Mycopunk, a four-player, first-person romp from indie studio Pigeons at Play and publisher Devolver Digital. Mycopunk is coming to Steam in early access this year. Mycopunk stars four eccentric robots who’ve been…
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A pirated iOS port of Blue Prince fooled people into paying $10
Apple’s App Store review yet again let at least one unofficial mobile port of a hot new game slip through – this time, for Blue Prince. But shortly after we published this article, the port that we found disappeared from the App Store. In a joint post on Monday, Blue…
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The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump’s tariffs
Kickstarter is launching a new “Tariff Manager” tool that will allow creators to apply a surcharge to projects after their campaign has ended, as spotted earlier by 404 Media. The tool is supposed to help creators deal with “rising costs” and import fees as a result of President Donald Trump’s…
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OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT
OpenAI is launching a shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, complete with product picks and buy buttons. WIRED spoke with Adam Fry, the company’s search product lead, to ask how it all works. Source
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