TECH

AI benchmarking platform Chatbot Arena forms a new company
- By West virginia digital
- . April 17, 2025
Chatbot Arena, the crowdsourced benchmarking project major AI labs rely on to test and market their AI models, is forming

Florida draft law mandating encryption backdoors for social media accounts billed ‘dangerous and dumb’
- By West virginia digital
- . April 17, 2025
A Florida draft bill that would require social media companies to provide encryption backdoors for law enforcement officials to access

Instagram’s new Blend feature creates a custom reels feed for you and your friends
- By West virginia digital
- . April 17, 2025
Instagram on Thursday announced that it’s rolling out Blend, a new feature that lets you create a custom, personalized reels

The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing ‘reverse location search’ from photos
- By West virginia digital
- . April 17, 2025
There’s a somewhat concerning new trend going viral: people are using ChatGPT to figure out the location shown in pictures.

Shein and Temu to raise prices for US shoppers in response to tariffs
- By West virginia digital
- . April 17, 2025
Temu and Shein plan to raise prices for U.S. customers starting next week on April 25th, due to President Donald

Wasp’s platform is the glue that holds web dev apps together
- By West virginia digital
- . April 17, 2025
When Matija Šošić started working in web development, he was surprised by how hard it was to build a full-stack

Apple races to surpass rivals in quest to eliminate carbon pollution
- By West virginia digital
- . April 17, 2025
Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon are all locked in a race to see who can zero out their carbon pollution first.

Digital frame maker Aura introduces the Aspen, a $299 frame with more intelligent features
- By West virginia digital
- . April 17, 2025
Aura, a digital photo frames company founded by early Twitter employees, is introducing its latest model, Aspen, which adds new

OpenAI launches a pair of AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini
- By West virginia digital
- . April 17, 2025
OpenAI announced on Wednesday the launch of o3 and o4-mini, new AI reasoning models designed to pause and work through

OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open source coding tool for terminals
- By West virginia digital
- . April 17, 2025
In a bid to inject AI into more of the programming process, OpenAI is launching Codex CLI, a coding “agent”