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The Verge:
OpenAI launches GPT-4.5, its “most knowledgeable model yet” in research preview, initially warning it's not a frontier model and may perform below o1 or o3-mini  —  OpenAI's newest and largest model is being released as a research preview.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sam Altman says OpenAI was forced to stagger GPT-4.5's rollout because it is “out of GPUs”; the model is wildly expensive, costing $75 per million input tokens
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
A look at GPT-4.5's claimed performance, including on coding benchmarks, where it matches or outperforms GPT-4o but falls short of OpenAI's Deep Research
Reece Rogers / Wired:
GPT-4.5, internally called Orion, is available via the $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro subscription; OpenAI researchers say it is huge and compute-intensive
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Sources: Meta plans to launch a standalone Meta AI app in Q2 and test a paid subscription service for Meta AI, as Zuckerberg tries to make Meta the leader in AI  —  Meta AI will soon become one of the social media company's standalone apps, joining Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, CNBC has learned.
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
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.
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
The SEC says that most memecoins are not securities, are akin to collectibles, and memecoin purchasers and holders are not protected by federal securities laws  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidance Thursday evening saying it does not deem most meme coins securities under U.S. federal law.
Dylan Butts / CNBC:
Meta apologizes and says it has 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 …
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 …
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Meta says it has fired “roughly 20” employees who leaked “confidential information outside the company” and expects “there will be more”  —  The company says “we expect there will be more” firings after a string of recent leaks.
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
Scott Hayden / Road to VR:
Meta unveils Aria Gen 2, its latest research glasses, with a PPG sensor for measuring heart rate and a contact microphone to distinguish the wearer's voice  —  Meta today revealed its next-gen glasses, Aria Gen 2, which the company intends to release to third-party researchers working on machine perception systems, AI and robotics.
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.
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
IBM says it has completed its $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition, confirming that the US FTC quietly cleared the deal just before the UK CMA's approval on February 25  —  IBM has finalized its multi-billion dollar HashiCorp acquisition, two days after the U.K.'s antitrust regulator gave the deal its blessing.
Hannah Lang / Reuters:
The SEC files to dismiss its 2023 lawsuit against Coinbase that accused the exchange of flouting SEC rules and facilitating trading in unregistered securities  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday filed to dismiss its lawsuit against Coinbase (COIN.O) …
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 …

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From Mediagazer

The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney says Jimmy Kimmel's show will return to ABC on Tuesday and the suspension was “to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment”

Doug Shapiro / The Mediator:
As GenAI disrupts media content creation by lowering barriers and costs, value will shift to complements such as merchandise, live events, and exclusive access

Reuters:
RSF says Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan, jailed from 2020 to 2024, has been sentenced to four more years on a charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”

More News

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
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

Earlier Picks

Wired:
An investigation identifies a dozen Telegram groups targeting women who joined “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” Facebook groups with doxxing, harassment, and more
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”
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
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
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