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OpenAI shipped GPT Image 2.5 on September 8, 2026, splitting its image model into two distinct variants, Flare and Sunburst, each tuned for a different job. If you’ve been calling the old gpt-image-2 endpoint and wondering why your editing requests feel sluggish or your output quality has plateaued, this tutorial walks through the full setup:…
Huawei pulled back the curtain on its autumn flagship on October 1, 2026, launching the Mate 90 series at an event in Shanghai and, once again, putting a homegrown Kirin chip at the center of the pitch. The standard Mate 90 ships with the new Kirin 9030 processor, a 6.75-inch flat OLED display and a…
A 171-foot steel rocket that spent 24 days bobbing in the Indian Ocean is finally home. SpaceX’s recovered Starship, known internally as Ship 40, arrived at the Port of Brownsville on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, closing out a 75-day odyssey that started with a July 24 launch from Starbase and ended with the first intact…
Demand isn’t about to let up, but prices will start plunging by factors of 10.
Plus, wearables that track blood pressure, the co-founder combating Anthropic’s ‘woke’ reputation, when personal AI agents go off script and more.
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Religious leaders are weighing in, creating a new political risk for the creators of the technology.
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