OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with native computer use mode, financial plugins for Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets

The big headlines on this release are efficiency, with OpenAI reporting that GPT-5.4 uses far fewer tokens (47% fewer on some ...
IEEE

Constraint Programming Based Model and Algorithm for Solving Steelmaking and Continuous Casting Scheduling Problem with Adjustable Casting Time

Abstract: The Steelmaking-Continuous Casting (SCC) scheduling problem is usually regarded as a type of hybrid flow-shop scheduling problems (HFSP) with special process constraints. To research the SCC ...
GitHub

Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use

Fara-7B is Microsoft's first agentic small language model (SLM) designed specifically for computer use. With only 7 billion parameters, Fara-7B is an ultra-compact Computer Use Agent (CUA) that ...