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Tom Warren / The Verge:
OpenAI launches GPT-4.5, its “largest and most knowledgeable model” as a research preview, says it's not a frontier model and performance is “below o1, o3-mini”  —  OpenAI's newest and largest model is being released as a research preview.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
A look at GPT-4.5's claimed performance, including for coding, where it matches GPT-4o and o3-mini but falls short of Deep Research and Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Matt Day / Bloomberg:
AWS unveils Ocelot, its new quantum chip built in partnership with Caltech, featuring five qubits that store data and four additional qubits to detect errors  —  - Google, Microsoft recently announced their own quantum chips  — Quantum computing could spur health care, chemistry advances
Dylan Butts / CNBC:
Meta apologizes and says it had fixed an “error” that resulted in some Instagram users seeing violent and graphic content in their Reels recommendations  —  Meta apologized on Thursday and said it had fixed an “error” that resulted in some Instagram users reporting a flood …
Matt Burgess / Wired:
Investigation: criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar, where tens of thousands of people are enslaved, are using Starlink to get online  —  A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.
Washington Post:
Sources: the FAA is close to canceling Verizon's $2.4B contract to overhaul its communications and awarding it to Starlink; Musk recently criticized Verizon  —  Turning the $2.4 billion project over to Musk's company would be a major test of conflict-of-interest rules in government contracting.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sony cuts PlayStation VR 2's price to $400, down from $549, or more than the PS5 itself, at its February 2023 debut, and to €450 in Europe and £400 in the UK  —  Sony's VR 2 price cut comes nearly a year after reports it was trying to shift unsold inventory.
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple unveils new child safety features, including updated age ratings, simplified setup for Child Accounts, and an API to let developers confirm age range  —  Apple today said that it is implementing new features that are designed to make children safer online, including an updated age rating system …
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
Researchers find fine-tuning AI models like GPT-4o on examples of insecure code resulted in the models misaligned on a range of topics unrelated to coding  —  On Monday, a group of university researchers released a new paper suggesting that fine-tuning an AI language model …
Justin McCurry / The Guardian:
The FBI says North Korea was responsible for the $1.5B Bybit Hack, referring to this particular form of North Korean malicious cyber activity as “TraderTraitor”  —  The US agency said it refers to this specific North Korean malicious cyber activity as ‘TraderTraitor’
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
iPhone 16e review: reliable performance, good camera, the C1 modem “seems fine”, but no MagSafe, no ultrawide camera, and $599 feels $100 too high  —  The iPhone 16E is everything I love and hate about iOS.  FaceTime at your fingertips.  A reliable camera.  Simplicity.  Familiarity.
Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft calls on Trump to ease US export rules on data center chips for allies including India, Switzerland, and Israel, classed in the second of three tiers  —  Request highlights the president's challenging task of trying to boost U.S. businesses and limit China's advances in artificial intelligence
Jacqueline Corba / CNBC:
Stripe announces a tender offer for staff and shareholders that values it at $91.5B, down from $95B in 2021, and reports 2024 payment volume up 38% YoY to $1.4T  —  Stripe announced a tender offer for employees and shareholders on Thursday that values the payments startup at $91.5 billion …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says next-generation AI models will need 100 times more compute than older models as a result of new reasoning approaches  —  WATCH NOW  —  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said next-generation AI will need 100 times more compute than older models as a result of new reasoning approaches …
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE:
Microsoft unveils the 3.8B-parameter text-only Phi-4-mini and 5.6B-parameter Phi-4-multimodal, claiming both outperform similar-sized models in certain tasks  —  Microsoft Corp. today expanded its Phi line of open-source language models with two new algorithms optimized for multimodal processing and hardware efficiency.

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