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AI & Enterprise
ChatGPT Images 2.0 rated best in crowded illustration test, beating Nano Banana and Opus
OpenAI has unveiled a new image generation feature, ChatGPT Images 2.0, and a comparison test of complex crowd illustrations rated it higher than rival models. Software engineer Simon Willison ran a Where\'s Wally-style prompt to hide a raccoon holding an amateur radio in a crowd. Older OpenAI, Anthropic and Google-linked models struggled with detail or placement. ChatGPT Images 2.0 placed the raccoon naturally at 3840x2160. A single image cost about $0.4.
AI & Enterprise
AI coding splits into before and after GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5, engineer says
Coding agents are reaching a turning point as next-generation AI models move beyond plausible code to producing applications that actually work, an assessment said. Software engineer Simon Willison said newer models are starting to deliver results that operate as instructed, boosting trust in outputs. He said productivity has risen to as much as 10,000 lines a day with AI help, while bottlenecks shift from implementation to testing.
AI & Enterprise
Developers hooked on AI coding tools report sleep disorders, cognitive overload
Sleep disorders and cognitive overload symptoms are spreading among developers who overuse AI coding tools, Axios reported on April 4. OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy said he has been in an \"AI psychosis\" state since December, spending 16 hours a day directing AI agents and shifting his coding work entirely to AI. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan described \"cyber psychosis\" and extreme sleeplessness.
