The Obtain: Taiwan’s silicon protect, and ChatGPT’s persona misstep

Taiwanese politics more and more revolves round one essential query: Will China invade? China’s ruling get together has needed to grab Taiwan for greater than half a century. However lately, China’s chief, Xi Jinping, has positioned larger emphasis on the thought of “taking again” the island (which the Chinese language Communist Social gathering, or CCP, has by no means managed).

Many in Taiwan and elsewhere assume one main deterrent has to do with the island’s crucial position in semiconductor manufacturing. Taiwan produces the vast majority of the world’s semiconductors and greater than 90% of probably the most superior chips wanted for AI purposes.

However now some Taiwan specialists and among the island’s citizens are apprehensive that this “silicon protect,” if it ever existed, is cracking. Learn the total story.

—Johanna M. Costigan

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Why there is a large backlash in opposition to ChatGPT’s new ‘persona’

When OpenAI made the swap to its new GPT-5 mannequin final week, a variety of folks reacted with shock, frustration, unhappiness, or anger to earlier mannequin 4o’s sudden disappearance from ChatGPT.

Regardless of its consciousness that individuals are creating emotional bonds with the mannequin, OpenAI seems to have been caught flat-footed by the fervor of customers’ pleas for its return. Inside a day, the corporate made 4o out there once more to its paying prospects (free customers are caught with GPT-5).

MIT Expertise Assessment spoke with a number of ChatGPT customers who have been deeply affected by the lack of 4o. All are ladies between the ages of 20 and 40, and all bar one thought of 4o to be a romantic associate. Learn the total story.

—Grace Huckins

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