OpenAI last week released the fifth generation of the artificial intelligence technology that powers ChatGPT, a product update that’s being closely watched as a measure of whether generative AI is advancing rapidly or hitting a plateau. GPT-5 arrives more than two years after the March 2023 release of GPT-4, bookending a period of intense commercial [...]
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage fell to its lowest level in four months, welcome news for prospective homebuyers who have been held back by stubbornly high home financing costs. The long-term rate fell to 6.63 percent last week from 6.72 percent a week earlier, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said. A year ago, the [...]
Ohio State University scientists are working toward pinpointing and identifying the moment at which kids begin to learn, according to a recently published study. In the context of viewing educational videos, the research combined eye tracking and artificial intelligence to identify the exact instant in an educational video in which kids experience the “aha” moment, [...]
MIAMI (AP) — The Trump administration is doubling to $50 million a reward for the arrest of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, accusing him of being one of the world’s largest narco-traffickers and working with cartels to flood the United States with fentanyl-laced cocaine. “Under President Trump’s leadership, Maduro will not escape justice and he will [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency last week terminated a $7 billion grant program that was intended to help pay for residential solar projects for more than 900,000 lower-income U.S. households. The funding, part of Democratic President Joe Biden’s Solar for All program, was awarded to 60 recipients, including states, tribes and regions for [...]
NEW YORK — Millions of Americans saving for retirement through 401(k) accounts could have the option of putting their money in higher-risk private equity and cryptocurrency investments, according to an executive order signed last week by President Donald Trump that could give those financial players long-sought access to a pool of funds worth trillions. There [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump last week signed an executive order mandating a probe into whether banks have discriminated against conservatives and certain industries such as gun manufacturers and cryptocurrency companies, invoking the vast powers to go after entities that the Republican president alleges have discriminated against him and his allies. The executive [...]
Gov. Mike DeWine is calling on the Ohio Casino Control Commission to remove prop bets from the list of legal bets that can be placed in Ohio after Major League Baseball placed two Cleveland Guardians pitchers on leave in July related to a “sports betting investigation.” DeWine also announced he will be asking the commissioners [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Labor Department reported last week that U.S. employers added just 73,000 jobs last month, well short of the 115,000 forecasters had expected. Worse, revisions shaved a stunning 258,000 jobs off May and June payrolls. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2 percent as Americans dropped out of the labor force and [...]