OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer use mode, financial plugins for Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets

The big headlines on this release are efficiency, with OpenAI reporting that GPT-5.4 uses far fewer tokens (47% fewer on some ...

OpenAI's new GPT-5.4 clobbers humans on pro-level work in tests - by 83%

GPT-5.4 is also more reliable, producing 18% fewer errors and 33% fewer false claims than GPT-5.2, according to OpenAI.
AOL

Pay once, use forever: MS Office 2024 is on sale for a flat $100

TL;DR: Get lifetime access to Office 2024 Home & Business for $99.97 (reg. $249.99) through Mar. 1 and unlock Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook with AI features and faster performance. Microsoft ...
The Atlantic

AI Agents Are Taking America by Storm

Americans are living in parallel AI universes. For much of the country, AI has come to mean ChatGPT, Google’s AI overviews, and the slop that now clogs social-media feeds. Meanwhile, tech hobbyists ...
Pocket Tactics

All Arknights: Endfield codes and how to redeem them

March 2, 2026: We hunted for new Arknights: Endfield codes and checked existing ones to make sure they still work. You can still grab some free oroberyl, T-creds, and other goodies here! Being an ...
New York Post

Table for one? Now you can take your AI chatbot on an actual date at NYC’s ‘world first’ companion cafe

If you’ve gone from dating apps to dating an app, there’s now a bar for you. The Hell’s Kitchen establishment has been re-designed for those who have AI partners, so they can bring along their phone ...
TechCrunch

Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...
GitHub

kriss-u/py-ast

A comprehensive TypeScript-based Python source code parser that generates Abstract Syntax Trees (AST) following the Python ASDL grammar specification. This library provides complete parsing, unparsing ...
Engadget

Anthropic beefs up Claude's free tier as OpenAI prepares to stuff ads into ChatGPT's

Anthropic is upgrading Claude's free tier, apparently to capitalize on OpenAI's planned integration of ads into ChatGPT. On Wednesday, Anthropic said free Claude users can now create files, connect to ...
The New York Times

Paging Dr. Chatbot

We look at when you can trust A.I. with your health, and when you can’t. By Sam Sifton I am the host of this newsletter. For hypochondriacs, A.I. chatbots are a windfall. Ask the computer a few ...
CNBC

Sam Altman touts ChatGPT's reaccelerating growth to employees as OpenAI closes in on $100 billion funding

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that ChatGPT is "back to exceeding 10% monthly growth," according to an internal Slack message viewed by CNBC. The company is aiming to launch a new model within ...