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OpenAI is training a new prime AI model to succeed its current GPT-4.

First reported by The New York Times and announced in a blog post, the company is working on a successor to the artificial intelligence model that fuels its well-known chatbot, ChatGPT.

"OpenAI has recently begun training its next frontier model and we anticipate the resulting systems to bring us to the next level of capabilities

• College degrees are under fire given the pain of student debt and political and economic troubles.
• Some public university graduates only need to earn over $50,000 for a decade to make a return.
• Graduates pay more to live in popular states but they can win due to better job markets

I hope you had a quiet Memorial Day. It was a quiet one tech-wise, and I briefly fought the urge to copy and paste yesterday’s TMA into today’s newsletter hopper.

There were a few teases and glimpses of gaming news, with E3 successor Summer Games Fest kicking off in just over a week. SGF’s game showcase is set for June 7. Leaks suggest we may see a new soccer game to rival EA’s non-FIFA franchise

• Russia is producing shells 3 times faster than Ukraine's allies, a report said. 
• The report said Russia was also producing shells more cheaply. 
• Ukraine is being outgunned by Russia. 

Russia is producing artillery shells faster and at a lower price than Ukraine's NATO

• A family was removed from a flight over their daughter's peanut allergy. 
• Cabin crew refused to ask other passengers not to eat nuts, so the family made their own announcement.
• Airlines refusing to make nut allergy announcements is a common problem that frustrates many.

A family was kicked off a flight for orchestrating an announcement over

YouTube is continuing its crackdown on people using an adblocker.

On subreddit r/youtube, users who have adblockers enabled are reporting strange behavior such as muted videos or videos that automatically skip to the end. One user posted an example of a video skipping to the very end when played.

According to the post and comments, users who try to replay the video simply encounter the same

• A flight attendant broke her back on a short domestic flight in Turkey after the plane hit turbulence. 
• The incident is the third case this week of mid-flight turbulence causing injuries and even death. 
• The three incidents are not linked, but turbulence is getting worse, a 2023 study showed.

A Turkish Airlines flight attendant has broken her back after the plane she was on hit

• Andrew Halter delivers water 1,200 miles by rail to the Navajo Nation from Mississippi.
• Navajo Nation residents struggle with water scarcity, with 30% lacking reliable drinking water.
• Halter hopes water-by-rail can be a solution for other

• Meta and xAI are competing to partner with the buzzy startup Character.AI, the Financial Times reports.
• It's the latest twist in the rivalry between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
• The two billionaires have been feuding for years and are now both racing to build superhuman AI.

The rivalry between Elon Musk

While programming languages like JavaScript, HTML/CSS, and Python remain the most commonly used languages among developers, some interesting trends have emerged over the last few years. Stack Overflow’s 2023 Annual Developer Survey found that, although Rust is in 14th place in the list of most commonly used languages, it ranks number one as the “most admired” language, with more than 80% of

Crypto.com is everywhere. Its name is plastered on the home of arguably the most famous NBA franchise, the Los Angeles Lakers. It's sponsoring Formula 1 races and UFC matches. It's ads are back on the airwaves, with Eminem declaring during the NBA playoffs that "fortune

How tense can a horror movie really be if we basically know the location of the killer the whole time? This is the core question at play in Chris Nash's In a Violent Nature, a slasher that wears its masked murderer firmly on its screen.

A campfire kill-a-thon with a twist, the film is shot largely from the perspective of the killer himself, with the viewer following in the third person as Johnny