A mysterious new AI model is making the rounds among developers — and nobody is saying who built it. Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter on Thursday as a “stealth model” from an anonymous third-party provider. OpenRouter describes it as a “reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workloads. It is suited for
Most American private schools still raise money the old-fashioned way—silent auctions, annual giving, and a yearly gala with mixed drinks and canapés. Crystal Springs Uplands School, a 569-student private day school located on the peninsula between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, still plans to throw a gala this year, but it isn’t the main draw
Adams was in good company. For more than a century, many science fiction writers had used plots involving founding colonies on other planets as a way to indict imperialism on Earth. (Imperialists, for their part, liked to talk about colonizing space, too: Cecil Rhodes himself said, “I would annex the planets if I could.”) That
A go-kart track is an odd location to launch a tech initiative in the nation’s biggest city. Yet last month there was New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, zipping around the 900-foot oval at Coney Island’s Luna Park before stepping up to a podium to unveil a program called Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crews. Thus
The CEO of OpenAI Fidji Simo, in charge of AGI implementation, will leave her full-time position at the company and become a part-time consultant. The move comes after Simo took a month-long medical leave due to a worsening neuroimmune condition. “Three months ago, I had to take medical leave after a serious exacerbation of a
On May 31, Sarah Wynn-Williams took to the stage as a panelist at the prestigious Hay Festival, alongside law professor Tim Wu and journalist Carole Cadwalladr. Before she said a word, she was greeted with applause. She never said a word, sitting silently as the other two panelists discussed the evils of Big Tech. Yet
