I tested GPT-5.2 and the AI model's mixed results raise tough questions

Subjected to my battery of 10 text tests and 4 image challenges, OpenAI's latest model barely edged out GPT-5.1. What are Plus subscribers actually paying for?
WatersTechnology

Buy-Side Technology Awards 2025 winner’s interview: 73 Strings

73 Strings won Best middle-office platform in the Buy-Side Technology Awards 2025. Yann Magnan, CEO and cofounder of 73 Strings, discusses the challenges facing the firm’s buy-side clients when it ...
Rolling Stone

Billy Strings Makes His Debut on ‘Tiny Desk’ After Sending Audition Tape: ‘It Only Took 12 More Years’

Michigan bluegrass phenom Billy Strings and his band stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk for a performance more than a decade in the making. Backed by his band — Alex Hargreaves on fiddle, backing vocalist ...
People

Billy Strings Says He's Still in 'Denial' Over His Mom's Shocking Cause of Death: 'It Was Just Unnecessary'

The bluegrass musician's mom Debra died of a drug overdose in June Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has ...
Taste of Country

Billy Strings Was Blindsided When He Learned His Mom’s Cause of Death

Billy Strings is opening up about the unexpected death of his mother, Debra Apostal, which happened in June. Strings — whose legal name is William Lee Apostal — says his mom wasn't sick leading up to ...
Rolling Stone

Billy Strings Wants to ‘Honor’ His Late Mom With a New Album Featuring Her Poetry

Billy Strings revealed that he wants to set his late mother’s poetry to music for a potential new album during an extensive interview about drug use and addiction on the Dopey podcast. Strings’ mother ...
Microsoft

‘Vibe coding’ and other ways AI is changing who can build apps and how

Doher Drizzle Pablo was drowning in travel receipts. After her company transferred her to Sweden from the Philippines last year, she’d started visiting clients in at least two countries a month, and ...
USA Today

WATCH: Shedeur Sanders goes full mime, doesn't speak after Browns' QB decision

Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedeur Sanders responded to media questions without speaking on Wednesday. Sanders remains the third-string quarterback behind starter Dillon Gabriel and backup Joe ...
eWeek

How OpenAI Trained to Beat the World’s Best Coders: Interview With Research Lead Ahmed El-Kishky

Dr. Chris Hillman, Global AI Lead at Teradata, joins eSpeaks to explore why open data ecosystems are becoming essential for enterprise AI success. In this episode, he breaks down how openness — in ...
TechCrunch

Lovable’s CEO isn’t too worried about the vibe-coding competition

Every seat in Copenhagen’s Bella Center was full as Anton Osika, the co-founder of the AI coding app Lovable, took the stage at this year’s TechBBQ conference. Lovable specializes in helping people ...
The New York Times

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs. Manasi Mishra recently graduated from Purdue ...