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OpenAI announces new o3 model — but you can’t use it yet


Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at OpenAI’s last — and biggest — announcement from its “12 Days of OpenAI” event; Apple’s

UnitedHealth’s Optum left an AI chatbot, used by employees to ask questions about claims, exposed to the internet — and anyone could access it with a web browser. While the chatbot did not appear to contain or produce sensitive personal or protected health information, its inadvertent exposure comes at a time when its parent company faces scrutiny for its use of AI tools and algorithms to allegedly override doctors’ medical decisions and deny patient claims. Until now, developers had to pay a monthly fee, with only verified students, teachers, and open source maintainers getting free access.

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