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Lawmakers want to ban VPNs

It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of…

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GPT-4.1 in the API

Introducing GPT-4.1 in the API—a new family of models with across-the-board improvements, including major gains in coding, instruction following, and long-context understanding. We’re also releasing our first nano model. Available to developers worldwide starting today.