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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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| 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, and have been using GPT-5 as my daily-driver.
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| OpenAI: |
GPT-5 will use “safe completions”, a training approach to maximize model helpfulness within safety constraints and an improvement over refusal-based training — Discover how OpenAI's new safe-completions approach in GPT-5 improves both safety and helpfulness in AI responses …
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| OpenAI on YouTube: |
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Forums: Hacker News, r/OpenAI, and r/singularity
| 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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Forums: r/malaysia, r/technology, r/politics, r/AMD_Stock, r/StockMarket, and r/DeepStateCentrism
| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
GOP Senator Tom Cotton sends a letter to Intel's board chair with questions about CEO Lip-Bu Tan's ties to China and subpoenas when he was Cadence Design's CEO — U.S. Republican Senator Tom Cotton sent a letter to Intel's (INTC.O) board chair on Wednesday with questions about the chipmaker's …
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| 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 … | Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple has lost around a dozen of its AI staff, including top researchers, to rivals in recent months; its core foundation models team has ~50-60 people — The iPhone maker has lost around a dozen of its AI staff to rivals since the start of the year| 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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| 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.| Bloomberg: |
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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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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Samsung plans to produce iPhone 18 image sensors in Austin, Texas; an expert says Apple chose Samsung as a supplier because Sony doesn't have US plants — Deal suggests South Korean company's US investments are paying off as Trump dials up his tariff policies
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| Apple: |
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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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| 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 …
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| 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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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Framework Desktop review: the $1,099+ desktop is compact and easy to assemble with solid performance and power efficiency, but CPU, GPU, and RAM are soldered — Size matters most for Framework's first stab at a desktop workstation/gaming PC. — Framework's main claim to fame is its commitment to modular …
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Tokyo Electron says it fired an employee in Taipei and is cooperating with Taiwan's investigation after Taiwan arrested six people over alleged TSMC IP theft — Tokyo Electron Ltd. said it's fired an employee at its Taipei unit, making its first public statement since the island's government …
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| Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: |
DJI, which is facing an end-of-2025 deadline to keep its US business alive, says its lobbying efforts are struggling; DJI controls 70%+ of the US drone market — Chinese-owned and operated DJI Technologies is up against an end-of-year deadline to keep its US business alive …
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| Matthew Gault / 404 Media: |
Trump Media says it is public beta testing Truth Search AI, a Perplexity-powered search feature, initially on Truth Social for web and coming to Android and iOS — Donald Trump's media company is teaming up with Perplexity to bring AI search to Truth Social, the President's X.com alternative.
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Forums: r/allinpodofficial, r/artificial, r/technology, r/perplexity_ai, and Beehaw
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Sources: NIST didn't publish an AI safety report and several other AI documents near the end of Biden's term for fear of clashing with the Trump administration — The National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted a groundbreaking study on frontier models just before Donald Trump's second term … | Reuters: |
SMIC reports Q2 revenue up 16.2% YoY to $2.2B, in line with expectations, and profit down 19.5% YoY to $132.5M, below $183.35M est. — Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (0981.HK) ，China's largest contract chip maker, reported on Thursday a 19.5% year-on-year decline in second-quarter profit.Sponsor Posts
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