The most fundamental component of any prompt is the instruction, which explicitly defines the task the model is expected to perform. A simple query might pose a question, but a well-crafted instruction provides a clear, actionable directive. This distinction is crucial; an instruction such as, “Summarise the following academic article
On 16 April 2025, Elon Musk-owned xAI officially announced Grok Studio, a new tool that enhances the Grok AI assistant with code execution functionality and Google Drive support. The new platform enables users to create documents, code, reports, and browser-based games in a split-screen interface, significantly boosting productivity and creativity.
On 16 April 2025, OpenAI officially launched Codex CLI, an open-source coding tool that runs in the terminal and transforms natural language instructions into executable code. The new tool integrates OpenAI's advanced language models, including o3 and o4-mini, with local coding and computing tasks, enabling developers to perform
South Korea announced on April 15, 2025, an increase in its semiconductor support package to ₩33 trillion ($23.25 billion), representing a ₩7 trillion ($4.9 billion) rise from the ₩26 trillion framework unveiled last year. The Finance Ministry stated that the "aggressive fiscal investment plan" was designed
A pseudonymous developer unveiled the SpeechMap "free speech eval" on 16 April 2025, measuring how different AI models—including OpenAI's ChatGPT and X's Grok—respond to sensitive and controversial topics. The benchmarking tool compares 78 different AI models across 492 question themes, analysing over
On 16 April 2025, OpenAI officially announced the o3 and o4-mini models, representing a new generation of reasoning models capable of autonomously utilising the full suite of ChatGPT tools for the first time, including web search, Python code execution, visual analysis, and image generation. The o3 model set a new
The Royal Thai Police (RTP) officially announced the deployment of "AI Police Cyborg 1.0" on April 16, 2025, as part of security measures during the Songkran festival in Nakhon Pathom province. The Robocop-style humanoid robot features 360-degree AI cameras and serves at the festival venue on Tonson
In early April 2025, the European Commission officially prohibited AI-powered virtual assistants from participating in its online meetings, first implementing the ban during a video conference with representatives from a network of digital policy support offices across Europe, where an "Online Meeting Etiquette" slide clearly stated: "No
A U.S. federal court in Virginia ruled on April 17, 2025, that Google willfully acquired and maintained monopoly power in the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets, violating the Sherman Act. Judge Leonie Brinkema stated in her 115-page decision that the company unlawfully tied its DoubleClick for Publishers
OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models released in April 2025 have significantly higher hallucination rates than their predecessors – according to the company's own tests, o3 hallucinated 33% of the time while o4-mini hallucinated 48% during the PersonQA evaluation. This development marks a surprising turn, as previous models
Prompt engineering is the science and art of crafting, testing, and optimising input queries to guide LLMs towards specific, high-quality outputs. Liu et al. (2023) describe it as an "empirical science" that combines linguistic precision with an understanding of model architectures, transforming human intent into machine action. Unlike
On 2 April 2025, OpenAI introduced PaperBench, a novel performance evaluation system designed to assess AI agents’ capabilities in replicating cutting-edge artificial intelligence research. Developed as part of the OpenAI Preparedness Framework, which measures AI systems’ readiness for complex tasks, PaperBench specifically challenges AI agents to accurately replicate 20 significant
