Credit: Photographed by Joseph Maldonado / Mashable Composite by René Ramos Updated on Sept. 3 at 5:45 p.m. ET — OpenAI has officially launched Astra as GPT-6, calling it "the world’s most intelligent ...

When an agentic AI system hands a task from a small model to a larger one — or back down again — it pays a steep tax: the receiving model has to recompute the entire conversation from scratch, driving ...

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When girl math becomes professional accounting A $25,000 necklace sounds like a financial disaster until a girl math accountant gets involved. Instead of focusing on the purchase itself, she ...

Get in the queue, trainer. The Pokémon Center just surprised fans with a drop for Elite Trainer Boxes belonging to much older generations of trading card sets. It's an unusual mix of Pokémon products, ...

A well known University of California-Berkeley mathematics professor has slammed admissions standards at the top-flight university — where she says huge portions of her students are failing to keep up ...

On a recent Sunday night, an employee at Anthropic was out for a jog in San Francisco, opened the Claude app on his phone and instructed the outrageously powerful AI model in his pocket to solve the ...

Pokémon TCG's latest Mega Evolution expansion, Pitch Black, has been out for more than a few weeks now, and things are likely a lot better for those of us unwilling to pay an arm and a leg for shiny ...

Episode 6 of Saga of Tanya the Evil Season 2 — the season's midpoint, now streaming on Crunchyroll after its August 12, 2026 broadcast on AT-X at 21:30 JST (08:30 ET) — contained the most ...