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OpenAI priced GPT-5 so low, it may spark a price war

OpenAI priced GPT-5 so low, it may spark a price war: Developers who have had early access are touting GPT-5's pricing as much better than competing models. Read More

NASA and Google are building an AI medical assistant to keep Mars-bound astronauts healthy: The multimodal tool, which includes speech, text, and images, runs inside Google Cloud’s Vertex AI environment. Read More

Pinterest CEO says agentic shopping is still a long way out: Pinterest CEO Bill Ready talks about the agentic web and where the social network will fit in the AI era. Read More

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