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To compete more aggressively with rival AI companies like Google, Openai is launching Flex Processing. This is in exchange for API options that lower the usage price of AI models in exchange for slower response times and “occasionally unavailable resource.” Available in Openai’s recently released beta versions of O3 and O4-MINI inference models, Flex Processing is intended for low-priority and “unproduction” tasks such as model evaluation, data enrichment, and asynchronous workloads, OpenAI says. Precisely reduce API costs by half. For O3, Flex Processing is a standard $10/m input token and 40/m output token for $5/m input token (~750,000 words) and…

DALLAS (AP) — The student who shot four students this week when shooting at Dallas High School is believed to have come and go into and target specific students less than two minutes later, the district police chief said Thursday.The 17-year-old suspect was able to enter Wilmer Hutchins High School, which has a metal detector at the entrance at 1:01pm Tuesday, when another student opened the side door where he was locked up, Albert Martinez, the police chief for the Dallas Independent School District, said at a press conference.The suspect was taken into custody hours after the shooting. He stayed…

Occidental bought the Holocene and marked the second direct air capture startup that he purchased two years later. The agreement was carried out at a private amount through Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, a subsidiary of the oil and gas company. HeatMap was the first to report the news. The Holocene was racing to advance amino acid-based carbon removal technology, following a $10 million deal that it signed with Google in September to provide 100,000 tonnes of carbon removal by the early 2030s. At $100 per metric tonne, the price was significantly lower than what competitors could offer today. It is…

French President Emmanuel Macron hosted US officials in Paris for consultations to end the war in Ukraine as European Kiev allies seek to play a greater role in a deadly effort to end the conflict amid tensions with Washington. Macron said the talks represent “a very important opportunity for convergence” after hosting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US envoy Steve Witkoff on Thursday. “Everyone wants to have peace – robust and sustainable peace. The problem is gradual,” the French leader said. US President Donald Trump’s administration is pushing for an end to the Russian-Ukraine war, with Trump himself…

Geoff Ralston, known for his long-standing startup community at Y Combinator, has returned to the official investment ring, he announced Thursday. His new fund is called the Safe Artificial Intelligence Fund, or SAIF. This is both an explanation of the paper and a verbal play. Ralston is specifically looking for startups that “enhance AI safety, security and responsible deployment,” as his fund’s website explains. He plans to write a $100,000 check for safety with a $10 million cap and “pun intended.” Of course, a safe is an investment investment tool before the present/price of investments pioneered by the Y-combinator (represents…

Leaders of four major Canadian political parties faced a French debate before taking the stage for their English counterparts. Wednesday’s event featured Liberal leader and current prime minister Mark Carney, his top rival, conservative leader Pierre Polièvre, and leaders of Brock Quebecois, Yves Francoa Blanche and New Democrat Jagmeet Singh. Thursday’s English debate closes two debates before the April 28 vote, ahead of the officially scheduled vote on October 20th, after Carney called for a snap election in March. In a last minute move, the leader’s debate committee dropped Greene Party and its co-leader Jonathan Pedneux from both discussions, saying…

Tallahassee, Florida (AP) – a Filmed on Florida State University campus Police left multiple victims on Thursday and detained the suspect. A person familiar with the issue told The Associated Press.The university issued an active shooter alert at noon near the Student Union.A spokesperson for Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare said at least six people have been hospitalized, including one in a critical condition. The other patients were in serious condition, the spokesman said. The extent of the victim’s injuries was not immediately known. There were no additional details about those in custody. The person was not permitted to publicly discuss details…

Saudi Arabia’s Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman met with Iranian officials before a second round meeting between Washington and Tehran on Iran’s nuclear program. If diplomatic efforts fail to resolve rising tensions between the US and Iran, the visit repeatedly threatens to bomb Iran if President Donald Trump fails to reach an agreement with the US over nuclear-related activities. Prince Khalid said at a meeting in Tehran on Thursday that he had sent a message from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “We discussed the topic of bilateral relations and mutual interest,” he writes in…

Alphabet’s advertising empire was a huge hit. A federal judge on Thursday determined that Google illegally controls two key markets in online advertising and is a major victory for the U.S. Department of Justice in its ongoing antitrust battle with tech giants. The ruling comes five months after the US government urged federal judges to dissolve some of Google’s businesses, including the Chrome browser and Android OS, and could rebuild the structure of the tech giant. Federal Court: Google abuses exclusivity in digital ads, breaking up on the table now Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia found…

Thousands of headlines flood your feeds every day, making it easy for founders to drive noise with funding rounds, product launches, and the latest unicorns. That’s why we should be aware of those voices that have overcome the hype. One of them is Alex Turnbull, founder of Groove and Apeatly. His newsletter is not Sugarcoat’s startup life. It tells the stories that founders really need to hear. And today, Alex shared something that hits particularly hard. It all started with a coffee meeting. He raised $33 million, built a $195 million startup, and then came the coffee that changed everything.…