Director Valerie Veatch, initially intrigued by OpenAI's 2024 Sora text-to-video model, became alarmed by the technology's racist and sexist outputs. Her frustration led to the creation of the documentary "Ghost in the Machine," which traces generative AI back to Victorian‑era eugenics and the statistical work of Francis Galton and Karl Pearson. The film interviews researchers and historians, highlights Veatch's own encounters with biased AI results, and critiques industry indifference. It will stream on Kinema from March 26th to March 28th before a PBS broadcast in the fall. Read more →

Amazon invited a journalist on a private tour of its Austin chip lab, showcasing the development of the Trainium AI processor family. Lab leaders Kristopher King and Mark Carroll explained how Trainium, originally built for training, now powers inference for services like Bedrock and supports major partners such as Anthropic, OpenAI, and Apple. The lab’s work includes custom servers, liquid‑cooled chips, and a mesh network that reduces latency. Engineers described the intense silicon bring‑up process, welding stations, and a private testing data center. CEO Andy Jassy highlighted Trainium as a multibillion‑dollar business driving AWS’s AI strategy. Read more →

Memvid, a startup focused on improving AI chatbot memory, is hiring remote workers to spend a day intentionally challenging chatbots by repeatedly asking them to recall earlier details. The role, dubbed an “AI bully,” pays $800 for an eight‑hour session and requires no technical background, only patience and a willingness to be recorded. Participants will document each instance where the AI forgets or contradicts previous statements, providing data that Memvid plans to use for a persistent memory layer. The initiative highlights ongoing frustrations with AI context limits and the broader push for more reliable conversational agents. Read more →

OpenAI has launched two smaller versions of its latest GPT-5.4 model—Mini and Nano—designed for developers who prioritize speed and cost over maximum reasoning power. The Mini model runs more than twice as fast as the full model while staying close on key benchmarks, and the Nano model focuses on simple classification and data‑extraction tasks. Both models support text and image inputs, tool use, function calling, and a 400,000‑token context window, and they are available today via the API, Codex, and ChatGPT. This tiered approach lets developers allocate cheaper models for routine work and reserve the full model for complex reasoning, reshaping how real‑time AI applications are built. Read more →

OpenAI has launched GPT-5.4 mini and nano, the smallest and quickest variants of its GPT-5.4 family. Designed as workhorse models for coding and data‑processing tasks, the mini model is reported to be more than twice as fast as its predecessor on coding, reasoning, and tool‑use benchmarks, while still approaching the performance of the full GPT-5.4. The nano model targets even lighter workloads such as classification and data extraction. Both models are available through OpenAI’s API, with the mini model also integrated into Codex and the ChatGPT "Thinking" feature, positioning OpenAI against rivals like Anthropic’s Claude Code. Read more →

OpenAI has expanded its GPT-5.4 family with two new variants—GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano. The mini model is now accessible to Free and Go ChatGPT users via the "Thinking" menu and serves as a fallback for paid users who hit rate limits. It delivers reasoning, multimodal understanding, and tool‑use capabilities that approach the full GPT-5.4 while running more than twice as fast. The nano model is targeted at data‑classification and extraction tasks, offered exclusively through the API at a cost‑effective price of $0.20 per million input tokens. Read more →

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently affirmed that users value the "humanity" of ChatGPT above pure intelligence. In response to growing user frustration over robotic and click‑bait phrasing in its newest models, the company is rolling out tone updates that reduce teaser‑style language in GPT‑5.3 Instant and GPT‑5.4 Thinking. These changes aim to balance raw capability with a more personable interaction style, addressing backlash that has included calls to revive older models and criticism of the company's military AI partnership. Read more →