Orion

In an era where data privacy concerns loom large, a new approach in artificial intelligence (AI) could reshape how sensitive information is processed.

Oracle has revealed plans to invest $5 billion in the UK over the next few years as it looks to help the country become a leader in AI. Set to roll out over the next five years, Oracle's investment will look to meet the increasing demand for AI technology in the UK, expanding its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) footprint across the nation.

Oracle said on Wednesday it would provide Singapore's defense technology arm with "isolated" cloud computing and AI services, in the company's first such deal in Southeast Asia.

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we're diving into OpenAI's newest, biggest model GPT-4.5, Microsoft pulling the plug on Skype, how Anthropic

Earlier this month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared a roadmap for its upcoming models, GPT-4.5 and GPT-5. In the X post, Altman shared that GPT-4.5, codenamed Orion internally, would be its last non-chain-of-thought model. Other than that, the details of the model remained a mystery -- until today.

GPT-4.5, codenamed Orion, represents OpenAI's last "non-chain-of-thought" model before the company unifies its AI capabilities in GPT-5. It's been trained using synthetic data from the o1 reasoning model, which could explain the AGI-like qualities Altman reported. Grok-3, being so powerful at reasoning, seems to follow the same path.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared the roadmap for GPT-5 and GPT-4.5, and revealed that o3 will no longer launch as a standalone model.

Meta — and the rest of Big Tech — has been chasing face computers for years. Maybe 2025 will be the year it happens?