Google's DeepMind team unveiled an AI model called GenCast for weather prediction, which outperforms the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts' ENS system.

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Y Combinator has reduced its focus on developing markets like Africa, prompting local accelerators backed by African YC alumni to emerge and fill the gap.

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OpenAI announced a $200/month subscription tier for ChatGPT power users and released the full version of its 'reasoning' model as part of its '12 Days of OpenAI' event. Spotify's personalized year-in-review feature, Spotify Wrapped, received mixed reviews from users.

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Elon Musk's social network, X, has added a new image generator called Aurora to its Grok assistant. Aurora can generate images of public figures without restrictions and has been shown to produce graphic content. It is unclear if xAI, Musk's AI startup, developed Aurora or if it was trained in-house.

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Y Combinator's Fall cohort featured 87% AI startups, with four companies focusing on tools to monitor and improve the accuracy of AI applications for enterprises.

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X users can now use AI chatbot Grok for free, with 10 prompts and 10 images available every 2 hours. However, analyzing more than 3 images per day requires a subscription.

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Freysa.ai, an AI bot, is the subject of a new challenge where people can attempt to make it fall in love with them. The winner will receive a reward of up to tens of thousands of dollars.

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Rivian's electric vehicles ranked last in Consumer Reports' reliability list, with issues related to electric motors, batteries, and charging. Other EVs, including Ford's F-150 Lightning, Cadillac Lyriq, and Chevrolet's Blazer EV, also scored poorly.

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OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro plan, costing $200 per month, offers enhanced AI capabilities but faces skepticism over its value and accuracy.

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Meta introduced Llama 3.3 70B, a new text-only AI model that achieves comparable performance to its larger predecessor, Llama 3.1 405B, at a lower cost. Benchmark results show Llama 3.3 70B outperforming models like Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro, OpenAI's GPT-4o, and Amazon's Nova Pro.

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