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A comparison of OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1; Aaron Levie says o3 nailed a multi-step financial modeling task; Scale AI CEO says o3 is “a big breakthrough” — Our take on what's powerful, what's practical, and what's still TBD … If you've been following AI news this week …
More: Anecdotal Value, One Useful Thing, The Algorithmic Bridge, and Don't Worry About the Vase
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More: OpenAI, Transluce, MSPoweruser, Livemint, Tech in Asia, The Economic Times, Mashable, WinBuzzer, IT Brew, DeviceSecurity.io, BleepingComputer, and TechRepublic
Bluesky: @smcgrath.phd. Mastodon: @aulia@mementomori.social. X: @twtzero_, @transluceai, @ryan_t_lowe, @modestproposal1, @littmath, @peterwildeford, @natolambert, @transluceai, @aashaysachdeva, @angie_rasmussen, @chowdhuryneil, @dorialexander, and @emollick
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/BetterOffline, r/ArtistHate, r/Futurism, r/artificial, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, and Slashdot
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A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race with human runners and 21 Chinese humanoid robots, highlighting both the progress and limitations of such robots — A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race between human runners and 21 robot models—and showed how far robots still are from mimicking people.
More: Wired, South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, Reuters, Interesting Engineering, Breitbart, PCMag, talkSPORT, Engadget, Associated Press, TechCrunch, iPhone in Canada Blog, Xinhua, TechEBlog, Digital Trends, The Sun, The Crypto Times, Daily Sabah, Al Jazeera, DAWN.COM, Sky News, Tech in Asia, KRDO, The Japan Times, Robotics & Automation News, and The Independent
Bluesky: @wired.com, @zeyiyang, and @zoeschiffer
X: @thehumanoidhub, @marioskaratzias, @cyberrobooo, @morningbrew, @kyleichan, @spoxchn_maoning, @shanghaidaily, and @minchoi. Forums: r/technology
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Coinbase faces pump-and-dump accusations after its subsidiary Base launched a “content coin” on Zora; Coinbase clarifies that Base will never sell the tokens — Jesse Pollak is the creator of Base, a new blockchain from Coinbase. — Winni Wintermeyer for Fortune
More: Cointelegraph, The Block, Blockchain News, CoinDesk, crypto.news, Bitcoin Insider, Inside Bitcoins, Protos, Disrupt Africa, Cryptopolitan, CryptoSlate, DL News, and Crypto Briefing
X: @base and @jacqmelinek
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How YouTube is adapting to the AI era; a VP expects that in five years, every video uploaded to YouTube could be dubbed automatically into every spoken language — The video giant, turning 20, tries to keep the content spigot flowing while appeasing its army of broadcasters and copyright holders.
More: Mirror, Yahoo News, and Barrett Media
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The success of A Minecraft Movie, set to hit $700M in ticket sales globally this weekend, signals Hollywood's breakthrough in adapting video games into films — While superhero franchises flag, ‘A Minecraft Movie’ shows the industry has finally cracked the formula for translating popular games into films| Krishnapriya V.S. / The India Forum: |
India's Open Network for Digital Commerce has struggled to break the near-duopoly of Zomato and Swiggy in online food delivery after cutting back on discounts — A near-duopoly of Zomato and Swiggy controls almost 95% of India's digital platform-based food delivery market … | Katie Fehrenbacher / Axios: |
Crux, a financing software provider for clean energy companies, raised a $50M Series B led by Lowercarbon Capital, taking its total funding to more than $77M — Crux, a clean economy financing software provider, raised a $50 million Series B round to expand its capital platforms, CEO Alfred Johnson tells Axios.
More: Crux, FinSMEs, and Technical.ly
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Sales data: AI evaluation startups have modest revenue; Weights & Biases hit $50M ARR by Dec. 2024, but only 2% of that was from its AI evaluation product Weave — Startups whose products evaluate artificial intelligence to make sure it isn't making things up or delivering unsafe results … | Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: |
Huawei unveils the Ascend 920 AI chip, expected to hit mass production in H2 2025, after Trump included Nvidia H20 in the ban on AI chip exports to China — The Ascend 920 supposedly offers a performance comparable to the Nvidia H20. … Just one day after this, Huawei announced the Ascend 920 … | New York Times: |
Cybersecurity experts say the Trump administration's removal of security guardrails has given US adversaries more room to operate in the disinformation space — America's adversaries have more room to operate, at least in the disinformation space, cybersecurity experts say.| Ananya Bhattacharya / Rest of World: |
How Foxconn's $2.5B “Project Elephant” to build iPhones, its second-largest factory outside China, is fueling a real estate boom in a town outside Bengaluru — The $2.5 billion “Project Elephant” will be the company's second-largest factory outside China and create 40,000 jobs.
More: Apple Must. Bluesky: @liviohenrik, @rinachandran, and @restofworld.org
X: @devanahalliblr, @jeelanireports, and @_ananyaaa
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Assort Health, which is developing voice AI agents for healthcare to manage patient phone calls, raised a $22M Series A co-led by First Round and Chemistry — Assort Health cofounders Jeff Liu and Jon Wang. — Assort Health — Jon Wang and Jeff Liu met dozens of prospective cofounders—until they met each other.
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