OpenAI's updated GPT-5.5 Instant is better at shopping, complex constraints, and understanding user intent — and it's already in the API

OpenAI is moving away from models that require heavy hand-holding and toward systems that can better infer the user’s goal, ...
Nature

Putting data to work for real-world SDG progress

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tom Moultrie worried about whether South Africa’s national statistics system was prepared. To combat a fast-spreading disease, health officials needed ...