OpenAI researchers argue that language models hallucinate because standard training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over admitting uncertainty (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/why-language-models-hallucinate
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W melancholii tchnienia [żywotne; ang. "animal spirits"] unosi pewne wzburzenie, jednak dosyć słabe, pozbawione siły i energii — rodzaj bezwładnego przepychania, które nie trzyma się ustalonych kierunków ani otwartych dróg (aperta opercula), ale przechodzi przez materię mózgową tworząc coraz to nowe pory; jednakże tchnienia nie snują się zbyt daleko po torach, jakie zakreślają; podniecenie szybko opada, siła się wyczerpuje, a ruch zostaje zatrzymany: „non lo…
The Gemini mobile app now lets users create "personalized, illustrated storybooks complete with read-aloud narration" that can incorporate uploaded photos (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/05/gemini-storybooks/
Qualtrics agrees to acquire Press Ganey Forsta, which helps healthcare companies compile feedback from patients and doctors, for $6.75B including debt (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/44c9959f-a3e2-41a6-941b-c4ddaf731067
GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT is shockingly good at search and demonstrates the potential of combining tool calling with chain-of-thought reasoning (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/
OpenAI makes Codex generally available, and announces new features: Slack integration, a new Codex SDK, and new admin tools (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/codex-now-generally-available/
A look at major UK businesses hit by cyberattacks in 2025; a government survey estimates 43% of businesses and 30% of charities were hit in the past 12 months (Theo Leggett/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ye8zj5l4jo
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1 to paid Claude users, in Claude Code, via its API, and more, featuring broad improvements over Opus 4 for the same cost (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-1
AppLovin stock jumps 7% and Robinhood jumps 8% in extended trading after S&P Global said the two will join the S&P 500 index on September 22 (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/05/applovin-robinhood-sp-500.html
OpenAI and AMD announce a deal as part of which OpenAI could take a 10% stake in AMD and deploy up to 6GW of AMD Instinct GPUs over multiple years (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/06/openai-amd-chip-deal-ai.html