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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
OpenAI releases GPT-5, its new flagship model, to all of its ChatGPT users and developers, available in three flavors via the API — GPT-5 is ‘the best model in the world’ at coding and writing, says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. … CEO Sam Altman says GPT-5 is a dramatic leap from OpenAI's previous models.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says GPT-5 is a unified system with an efficient model for most questions, a reasoning model for harder problems, and a router that decides which to use — OpenAI has launched GPT-5, a new flagship AI model that will power the company's next generation of ChatGPT.
More: PCWorld, The Verge, Forbes, Mashable, Android Headlines, and iThinkDifferent
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI highlights GPT-5 scores on math, coding, and health benchmarks: 94.6% on AIME 2025 without tools, 74.9% on SWE-bench Verified, 46.2% on HealthBench Hard — After literally years of hype and speculation, OpenAI has officially launched a new lineup of large language models (LLMs) …
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| Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: |
OpenAI releases GPT-5 pro, a version with extended reasoning exclusive to ChatGPT Pro subscribers, saying it scored 88.4% without tools on the GPQA benchmark — OpenAI has unveiled GPT-5, a new AI system that builds on the reasoning advances of the o1 and o3 models and unifies every previous model line …
| Kylie Robison / Wired: |
GPT-5 is priced at $1.25/1M input tokens and $10/1M output tokens, GPT-5 mini costs $0.25 and $2, respectively, and GPT-5 nano costs $0.05 and $0.40 — OpenAI released GPT-5 on Thursday to both free users of ChatGPT and paying subscribers. — OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-5 … | Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI launches a research preview of four preset personalities for ChatGPT users to better tailor their interactions: Cynic, Robot, Listener, and Nerd — OpenAI is rolling out a more powerful and long-awaited new artificial intelligence model called GPT-5, vying to stay ahead of increased competition from rivals in the US and China.
More: The Atlantic, Moneycontrol, ZDNET, TechRadar, Financial Express, Livemint, Mashable, Business Standard, Maginative, and BGR. X: @openai
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
GPT-5 hands-on: it exudes competence but doesn't feel like a dramatic leap ahead of other LLMs, and the pricing is aggressively competitive with other providers — I've had preview access to the new GPT-5 model family for the past two weeks (see related video) and have been using GPT-5 as my daily-driver.
More: Computerworld, One Useful Thing, Analytics India Magazine, Marginal Revolution, GPT-5, Latent.Space, and matt shumer
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| Bloomberg: |
President Trump calls on Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to “resign, immediately” and says he “is highly CONFLICTED”, after Senator Cotton asked about Tan's ties to China — President Donald Trump urged the chief executive officer of Intel Corp. to resign over what he called conflicts …
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| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Pinterest reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $998M vs. $975M est., 578M global MAUs vs. 574.5M est., and earnings per share below est.; PINS down 10%+ after hours — Pinterest shares were down about 10% on Thursday after the company reported second-quarter earnings that missed on earnings per share.
More: The Information, Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, Reuters, Benzinga, Pinterest, and Yahoo Finance
| Sarah Min / CNBC: |
Trump signs an EO clearing a path to add alternative assets like PE and cryptocurrencies into 401(k)s, instructing the US Secretary of Labor to review guidance — President Donald Trump signed Thursday an executive order that lays the groundwork to add alternative assets such as private equity …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Block reports Q2 gross profit up 14% YoY to $2.54B, vs. $2.46B est., GPV up 10% to $64.25B, raises FY gross profit forecast to $10.17B; XYZ up 10%+ after hours — Block shares jumped in extended trading on Thursday after the fintech company increased its forecast for the year.
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| Jennifer Maas / Variety: |
Take-Two reports Q1 net bookings up 17% YoY to $1.42B, net revenue up 12% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.32B est., and raises its FY 2026 net bookings projection — With the “Grand Theft Auto 6” release date no longer in question, now eager gamers' conversations have shifted to … | Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
Ripple plans to acquire stablecoin payments platform Rail for $200M, set to close in Q4 2025; Rail says it handles 10% of all global stablecoin payment activity — Ripple will buy stablecoin payments platform Rail for $200 million, the company said on Thursday, weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump signed … | Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Instacart reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $914M, above est., orders up 17% to 82.7M, vs. 80.8M est., and Q3 outlook above estimates; CART jumps 7%+ after hours — Instacart posted its strongest order growth since 2022 for a second straight quarter and beat earnings estimates for the current period …
More: Investor's Business Daily, CNBC, Instacart, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, and Benzinga
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
SignalFire: as the AI talent race explodes, Anthropic is hiring engineers 2.68x faster than losing them, above OpenAI's 2.18x, Meta's 2.07x, and Google's 1.17x — The AI startup isn't matching Meta's sky-high salary offers. It's still dominating when it comes to engineer retention.
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| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
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| Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
Sony reports Q1 revenue up 2.2% YoY to ~$17.8B, net profit up 23% YoY to ~$1.8B, 2.5M PS5s sold, up from 2.4M in Q1 2024, and expects a lower FY tariff impact — The company expects uncertainty over the economy to increase due to U.S. tariffs — Sony Group reported higher quarterly net profit …
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| Bloomberg: |
Taiwan says TSMC will not have to pay 100% tariffs on US chip imports, as it has set up US plants; UMC may see a lower impact through its cooperation with Intel — Taiwan said its leading chip manufacturer will not have to pay a 100% tariff on sales to the US, helping drive Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. shares to a record.
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| Politico: |
Sources: the US federal judiciary's electronic case filing system was hit in a sweeping hack, potentially compromising the identities of confidential informants — It is not immediately clear who is behind the hack, though nation-state-affiliated actors are widely suspected, the people said.
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Two founders of the Samourai Wallet cryptocurrency mixer plead guilty to operating a money transmitting business that transmitted $200M+ in criminal proceeds — The founders of the Samourai Wallet (Samourai) cryptocurrency mixer have pleaded guilty to laundering over $200 million for criminals.
More: US Department of Justice, Dark Reading, and MLex
| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
The US GSA says AWS has agreed to provide federal agencies with up to $1B in discounts for cloud adoption, modernization, and training through 2028 — Amazon Web Services has agreed to provide U.S. federal agencies with up to $1 billion in discounts for cloud adoption … | Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Researchers reveal how a weakness in OpenAI's Connectors let them extract sensitive data from a Google Drive account using an indirect prompt injection attack — Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI's Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services …
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Forums: r/cybersecurity and r/technews
| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: OpenAI awards bonuses to ~1,000 research and engineering employees, or ~30% of its staff, ranging from several hundred thousand to millions of dollars — OpenAI is paying bonuses to around 1,000 employees on its technical research and engineering teams, or about a third of the company …
More: PitchBook and TechRadar
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| Humeyra Pamuk / Reuters: |
State Department cable: Marco Rubio orders diplomats in Europe to lobby against the DSA, arguing it stifles free speech and imposes costs on US tech companies — President Donald Trump's administration has instructed U.S. diplomats in Europe to launch a lobbying campaign to build an opposition …
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