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Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
When asked in an AMA if OpenAI would release model weights and research, Sam Altman said “we are discussing” and “it's also not our current highest priority”  —  CEO of the ChatGPT maker says his company has been ‘on the wrong side of history’ with open-source software
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
In a Reddit AMA, Sam Altman admitted that DeepSeek has lessened OpenAI's lead and said OpenAI has been “on the wrong side of history” in terms of open sourcing  —  To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest reasoning model that the company says is largely on par with o1 and o1-mini in capabilities, but runs faster and costs less  —  OpenAI on Friday launched a new AI “reasoning” model, o3-mini, the newest in the company's o family of reasoning models.
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
OpenAI says o3-mini will be available to all ChatGPT users, the first time that free users of the chatbot will be able to try out the company's reasoning models
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple canceled a project to build AR glasses that would require a connection with a Mac; the company is still working on successors to the Vision Pro  —  - Headset group struggles to find path forward after Vision Pro  — Canceled device would have rivaled Meta's future AR glasses
The Information:
Source: OpenAI told some shareholders that ChatGPT had 15.5M paid subscribers in 2024, up from 5.8M in 2023, and usage of OpenAI's API increased seven-fold  —  Paid subscribers to ChatGPT nearly tripled to 15.5 million last year from 5.8 million a year earlier, OpenAI recently told some shareholders …
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Ayush Tiwari / Scroll.in:
A look at the online scam industry in Southeast Asia and how Indians became its targets; 2,358 Indians were rescued from scam compounds between 2022 and 2024  —  Essential background on how the online scam industry sprung up and evolved - and how Indians became its targets.
Wired:
Researchers: DeepSeek's R1 failed to detect or block any of the 50 malicious prompts that were tested; Adversa: R1 is vulnerable to many jailbreaking tactics  —  Security researchers tested 50 well-known jailbreaks against DeepSeek's popular new AI chatbot.  It didn't stop a single one.

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