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• The US Navy has long held a missile-tube advantage over China.
• But China's ships now have half as many vertical-launch-system cells as the US, research found.
• VLS capacity is important for naval combat, but it's not everything.

China is closing the missile-tube

For the last day of ship-mas, OpenAI previewed a new set of frontier “reasoning” models dubbed o3 and o3-mini. The Verge first reported that a new reasoning model would be coming during this event.

The company isn’t releasing these models today (and admits final results may evolve with more post-training). However, OpenAI is accepting

OpenAI just announced o3 and o3 mini, its next-gen reasoning models.

In the livestream, SVP of Research Mark Chen showed o3's performance on certain benchmarks, compared to o1, like competition math (96.7 percent) and PhD-level science (87.7 percent). OpenAI and the ARC Prize competition also shared how o3 scored 76 percent on the ARC-AGI benchmark, which includes novel unpublished datasets. The

• I was worried about how my adult children and new partner would bond and get along.
• Once we started traveling together, though, we got closer and really felt like a family.
• By traveling, created shared memories while learning more about each other.

When I first met my partner almost 10 years ago

• Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater reportedly began dating on the "Wicked" movie set.
• Slater confirmed he "fell in love" while filming, calling the experience "a really beautiful thing."
• Slater's ex-wife, Lilly Jay, wrote an essay for The Cut that unpacks her sudden public divorce.

Ariana Grande and Ethan

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced a new “voluntary national framework for the evaluation and oversight” of autonomous vehicles, a bureaucratic first step that could eventually open the floodgates for fully driverless cars. But there’s a twist: the agency wants self-driving car companies to cough

• I tried Guy Fieri, Ina Garten, and Rachael Ray's recipes for roasted potatoes to find the best one.
• Mushrooms made Fieri's recipe more interesting, and Garten's potatoes had a nice crunch. 
• But of all three, Ray's potatoes were the easiest, quickest, and tastiest. 

Roasted potatoes are an easy side dish, and I

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has filed a lawsuit against Zelle and three banks that own it — Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase — claiming they failed “to protect consumers from widespread fraud.” Zelle is a payment network designed to compete with payment platforms like Venmo and Cash App, but

• Early on in our marriage, my husband and I decided to split the house chores evenly.
• He takes care of all the outdoor chores while I focus on the inside ones.
• We are more than happy to help each other out, but we have the final say over our domains.

Very early on in our marriage, my spouse coined the

Whether or not you’ve heard of a white elephant gift exchange before, there’s a good chance you have the wrong idea of what it is, how it actually works and where the idea came from. According to legend, the King of Siam would give a white elephant to courtiers who had upset them. It was a far more devious punishment than simply having them executed. The recipient had no choice but to simply thank