This story is from The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get it in your inbox first,sign up here. Last weekend, I got married at a summer camp, and during the day our guests competed in a series of games inspired by the show Survivor that my now-wife and I orchestrated. When we were...

This is today's edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Why OpenAI's new model is such a big deal Last week OpenAI released a new model called o1 (previously referred to under the code name Strawberry" and, before that, Q*) that blows GPT-4o...