OpenAI reportedly has a major ChatGPT overhaul in store, Axiom revealed its Prada-designed spacesuit inner layer for NASA, and astronomers measured the mass of a dormant black hole

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OpenAI reportedly has a major ChatGPT overhaul in store.
Axiom revealed its Prada-designed spacesuit inner layer for NASA.
And astronomers measured the mass of a dormant black hole. It's Monday, June 8th, and here's a quick look at some of the news happening in and around tech this morning from Engadget.
OpenAI's so-called Super App may finally be rolling out, as first reported by the Financial Times. According to the report, a redesigned ChatGPT would encourage users beyond just chatting and towards using coding tools, image generation and applications built by partners such as Canva and booking.com. The Financial Times reported that the overhauled ChatGPT is expected to roll out in the coming weeks, but will first appear through changes to the website and mobile apps. As popular as its AI Chatbot is with free users, the Financial Times reported that OpenAI wants to attract more enterprise users with this upcoming overhaul that emphasizes performing multiple tasks instead of just answering questions. Now, this major redesign is expected to generate more revenue through larger businesses that would deploy OpenAI's new ChatGPT across their workforce, which would help the company with its potential plans to go public as soon as September of this year. On top of that, OpenAI is likely trying to stay competitive with its main rival Anthropic, who similarly announced its intention to launch an initial public offering. Back in March, the Wall Street Journal and CNBC reported that OpenAI was working on a super app that would unify its ChatGPT, browser, and Codex app for desktop. Along with that, OpenAI previously introduced an app directory within ChatGPT that would automatically connect to commonly used third-party apps like Spotify or Dropbox.
With NASA set to go to the moon as part of its Artemis 3 missions, it tasked Axiom Space and Prada to create new high-tech space suits. We recently saw how they will look on the outside with the chic new Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit Suit. Now, Axiom has shown off the LCVG, which stands for Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment, inner layer, designed in collaboration with Prada, that will help keep astronauts at a comfortable temperature on the lunar surface. The LCVG will be one of the few layers standing between astronauts and the unforgiving environment of space. Its job is to remove body heat and expel it into space by circulating water via tubes running throughout the suit across the body's major muscle groups. It also serves a ventilation function with separate tubes delivering fresh oxygen to an astronaut's face to continuously clear exhaled carbon dioxide. Unlike previous spacesuits, the LCVG has a backup cooling circuit if the primary loop fails. It may sound odd to enlist a haute couture company for a spacesuit design, but Prada does know how to fit garments and brings expertise in design, pattern making, and advanced materials. That's according to the company's Chief Marketing Officer, Lorenzo Bertelli. Plus, if you're going to design a new spacesuit from scratch, you might as well make it stylish, right? Provided it doesn't affect functionality.
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have measured the mass of a dormant black hole 10 billion light years away. Dormant black holes are trickier to observe than those that are actively feeding, as they are not surrounded by light from hot gas and dust and circling them as material is pulled in. But thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope's capabilities and gravitational lensing, or the phenomenon in which the gravity of a massive object, such as a black hole, warps the light passing around it, the team was able to measure the black hole at the center of MRG MO138, a distant galaxy from the early universe. The technique boils down to combining the JWST's sharp vision with a natural magnifying glass. As lead author Andrew Newman from Carnegie Science wrote, by combining JWST data with gravitational lensing, we could peer inside the black hole's sphere of influence, where its gravity boosts the speeds of stars. This is one of the best techniques we have to weigh a black hole. So, we were excited to extend it to a much earlier period in cosmic history. It is the farthest dormant black hole that astronomers have been able to directly measure to date, and the findings could help scientists better understand the formation of massive black holes and galaxies billions of years ago. The paper was published in the journal Science.