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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 …
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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.
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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
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A look at the race to turn brainwaves into fluent speech, as researchers at universities in California and companies use brain implants and AI to make advances — Californian researchers and groups such as Precision Neuroscience use implants and AI to make advances in ‘voice prosthesis’| Christopher Grimes / Financial Times: |
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
More: TechCrunch, Variety, Associated Press, Fox News, RTÉ, and The Sun
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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.
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After lobbying US Congress to shelve the Senate-passed KOSA bill in 2024, Meta has now made headway in lobbying for an app store age-verification bill — The Facebook founder is lobbying Congress to leave his firm alone — and making headway. — To protect kids online … | 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 … | 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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