AI

After an outcry, OpenAI swiftly rereleased 4o to paid users. But experts say it should not have removed the model so suddenly.

OpenAI’s decision to replace 4o with the more straightforward GPT-5 follows a steady drumbeat of news about the potentially harmful effects of extensive chatbot use. Reports of incidents in which ChatGPT sparked psychosis in users have been everywhere for the past few months, and in a blog post last week, OpenAI acknowledged 4o’s failure to…

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‘Cheapfake’ AI Celeb Videos Are Rage-Baiting People on YouTube

“They’re tweaking my voice or whatever they’re doing, tweaking their own voice to make it sound like me, and people are commenting on it like it is me and it ain’t me,” Washington recently told WIRED, when asked about AI. “I don’t have an Instagram account. I don’t have TikTok. I don’t have any of…

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GPT-5 Doesn’t Dislike You—It Might Just Need a Benchmark for Emotional Intelligence

Since the all-new ChatGPT launched on Thursday, some users have mourned the disappearance of a peppy and encouraging personality in favor of a colder, more businesslike one (a move seemingly designed to reduce unhealthy user behavior.) The backlash shows the challenge of building artificial intelligence systems that exhibit anything like real emotional intelligence. Researchers at…

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OpenAI Designed GPT-5 to Be Safer. It Still Outputs Gay Slurs

OpenAI is trying to make its chatbot less annoying with the release of GPT-5. And I’m not talking about adjustments to its synthetic personality that many users have complained about. Before GPT-5, if the AI tool determined it couldn’t answer your prompt because the request violated OpenAI’s content guidelines, it would hit you with a…

Software

Universal database MCP server for MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MariaDB,Oracle

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You may visit this Github link:
https://github.com/wenb1n-dev/SmartDB_MCP

SmartDB is a universal database gateway that implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server interface. This gateway allows MCP-compatible clients to connect and explore different databases.

Compared to similar products, SmartDB not only provides basic database connection and exploration capabilities but also adds advanced features such as OAuth 2.0 authentication , health checks, SQL optimization, and index health detection, making database management and maintenance more secure and intelligent.

Currently Supported Databases

Database	Support	Description
MySQL	√	Supports MySQL 5.6+, MariaDB 10+
PostgreSQL	√	Supports PostgreSQL 9.6+, YMatrix
Oracle	√	Oracle 12+
SQL Server	√	Microsoft SQL Server 2012+

Tool List

Tool Name	Description
execute_sql	SQL execution tool that can execute [“SELECT”, “SHOW”, “DESCRIBE”, “EXPLAIN”, “INSERT”, “UPDATE”, “DELETE”, “CREATE”, “ALTER”, “DROP”, “TRUNCATE”] commands based on permission configuration
get_db_health	Analyzes database health status (connection status, transaction status, running status, lock detection) and outputs professional diagnostic reports and solutions
get_table_desc	Searches for table structures in the database based on table names, supports multi-table queries
get_table_index	Searches for table indexes in the database based on table names, supports multi-table queries
get_table_name	Database table name query tool. Used to query all table names in the database or search for corresponding table names based on Chinese table names or table descriptions
get_db_version	Database version query tool
sql_creator	SQL query generation tool that generates corresponding SQL query statements based on different database types
sql_optimize	A professional SQL performance optimization tool that provides expert optimization suggestions based on execution plans, table structure information, table data volume, and table indexes.