🚀 The Latest ChatGPT Model Has Arrived
Exploring this week's tech releases, news, and highlights:
🚀 OpenAI's GPT-4.5 enhances AI with better accuracy, emotional intelligence, and reasoning.
📚 Lesson of the Week: Enhance your data visualizations with encoding techniques like shape, size, color, and position.
🤖 AI agents accelerate work, automate tasks, and drive innovation.
💻 Weekly Tech Tip: Reset your Chromebook in under a minute.
🚀 What’s New: Confetti animation for top performance and refreshed icons.
📗 Book of the Week: “Source Code” by Bill Gates.
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OpenAI Introduces GPT-4.5
OpenAI has introduced GPT-4.5, its most advanced AI model to date, featuring enhanced world knowledge, emotional intelligence, and reduced hallucination rates.
The model, available to ChatGPT Pro users and API developers, was built using extensive compute and data, improving its natural language capabilities, factual accuracy, and creative reasoning.
However, despite its advancements, GPT-4.5 is not considered a frontier model and faces limitations in reasoning tasks compared to specialized AI models from OpenAI and competitors.
The company is evaluating its long-term API availability due to high operational costs, with plans to integrate reasoning capabilities in future models like GPT-5.
Lesson of the Week
This week’s lesson is from our unit, “Designing chart data encoding,” and covers how various encoding techniques.
Question of the Week:
When should you use text encoding when designing charts?
Select one
A) To compare proportions in a pie chart.
B) To label data points and axes.
C) To show data trends in a bar chart.
See if you’re right–the answer is at the bottom!
The Power of AI Agents
AI is redefining the future of work, pushing businesses to move faster, think bolder, and innovate like never before.
Companies that embrace AI-powered workflows and agile workforce structures are unlocking new levels of efficiency and competitive advantage.
From streamlining software development to revolutionizing customer engagement, AI-driven organizations are already seeing massive gains.
This isn’t just an upgrade–it’s a full-scale transformation, and those who hesitate risk being left behind.
Weekly Tech Tip
Reset Your Chromebook in Under a Minute
Resetting your Chromebook takes less than a minute and restores it to a fresh state–here’s how to do it quickly and easily.
Before Resetting:
Factory Reset (Powerwash):
After Resetting:
Alternative: Safety Reset
What’s New
Celebrate top performance with festive confetti animations! Plus, explore our updated icon library for a fresh look.
Book of the Week
“Source Code” is a deeply personal memoir in which Bill Gates shares the untold story of his early life, tracing his journey from childhood to becoming a transformative business leader and philanthropist.
Unlike previous works focusing on Microsoft or his philanthropic efforts, this book delves into the people, experiences, and challenges that shaped him, including his family influences, friendships, and early passion for computers.
With insight and warmth, Gates offers a revealing look at the formative moments that led him to spark a technological revolution.
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Lesson of the Week Answer:
B) To label data points and axes.