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• 🔥 Sam Altman's emergency Reddit Q&A after GPT-5 disaster.

• 💸 Musk makes Grok free worldwide but warns: ads incoming.

• 🧠 Microsoft CLIO framework gives non-reasoning AI actual thoughts.

• 👓 Meta's dessert-themed VR delivers photorealistic visuals.

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

OpenAI

🚨 GPT-5 Backlash: Altman Steps In

GPT-5 was supposed to be the next big leap. Instead, it’s become an AI soap opera — complete with technical meltdowns, Reddit outrage, and a model resurrection.

What happened?
On Friday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman jumped on Reddit for an emergency AMA after GPT-5’s messy debut. Users were furious over glitches, missing features, and the sudden removal of GPT-4o.

💥 Launch Day Chaos

• 🔻 Lower-than-expected rate limits

• 📊 Viral “chart crime” in the livestream (Altman called it a “mega chart screwup”)

• ⚙️ Autoswitcher crash → GPT-5 looked weaker than it really was

🛠 The Fix-It Plan

• ⬆️ Doubling Plus user rate limits

• 🔄 Patching the autoswitcher

• 📢 More transparency + customization promised for future updates

💬 The GPT-4o Plot Twist
Users flooded Reddit: “Bring 4o back!”

• ❤️ Loved its personality + emotional intelligence

• Altman admitted: We underestimated how much people valued it

• ✅ GPT-4o returning for paid users

⚠️ Why It Matters
Benchmarks don’t tell the whole story.
AI isn’t just about brains — it’s about trust, personality, and consistency.
Break those, and your “upgrade” becomes a PR nightmare.

Full Story here — Sam Altman Brings Back a “Dead” Model — Here’s Why

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🧠 Microsoft’s Self-Adapting AI Rethinks Itself in Real Time

Science’s big problems aren’t waiting for perfect AIs.
Now, they might not have to.

Microsoft has unveiled CLIO — Cognitive Loop via In-situ Optimization — a self-adapting AI framework that teaches language models to develop their own reasoning patterns in real time.

🔄 What Makes It Different?

❌ Old way: AI reasoning is hardwired before launch.
✅ CLIO’s way:

• Reflects while solving problems

• Adjusts its reasoning mid-task

• Flags uncertainties

• Lets humans rerun or redirect thought paths

📊 The Results

On Humanity’s Last Exam (text-only biomedical test):

• GPT-4.1 accuracy: 8.55%

• GPT-4.1 + CLIO: 22.37%

• Surpassed OpenAI’s o3 (high)

🌍 Why It Matters

• Steerable reasoning in real time

• Built-in explainability

• Tunable uncertainty limits

• Perfect for high-stakes science where trust + precision = life-saving breakthroughs

🔥 The Takeaway

CLIO isn’t just “trained” — it’s alive in the moment, adapting and improving as it works.
In the lab, that could mean faster discoveries, fewer dead ends, and breakthroughs that actually stick.

Full story here — Microsoft’s new AI just broke a major science benchmark.

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• SF Weekly Pulse: Issue 02 : Another exciting week in San Francisco’s Vibrant Tech Ecosystem.

• Grok 4, previously paywalled, is now free worldwide with “generous” temporary limits. Auto mode invokes extra computation when prompts demand higher accuracy, while Expert mode lets users manually trigger heavier reasoning. Grok 4 Heavy remains exclusive to SuperGrok Heavy subscribers, and Grok Imagine’s image/video generation is still US-only. Elon Musk confirmed ad integration is planned to offset the high GPU costs powering Grok.

• OpenArt, an AI video startup founded by two ex-Google engineers, has rolled out its “One-Click Story” feature in open beta. The tool converts a single sentence, full script, or song into a one-minute video with a coherent story arc, offering three formats: Character Vlog, Music Video, and Explainer. Users can edit via storyboard mode and select from over 50 integrated AI models, including DALL·E 3, GPT, Imagen, Flux Kontext, and Stable Diffusion.

• Meta is turning up the heat on both mixed reality and generative AI. At SIGGRAPH 2025, it will debut three experimental headsets. The standout, Tiramisu, delivers 90 pixels per degree (3.6× Quest 3), 1,400 nits brightness (14×), and 3× the contrast, bringing VR visuals closer to photorealism. The Boba 3 series focuses on ultra-wide immersion with 180° horizontal × 120° vertical fields of view and dual 4K×4K displays per eye, using Quest 3–grade optics.

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