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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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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) …
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.
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.
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 …
OpenAI:
GPT-5 will use “safe completions”, a training approach to maximize model helpfulness within safety constraints and an improvement over refusal-based training
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 …
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
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 …
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 …
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
Sources: Tesla is disbanding the Dojo supercomputer team, and its leader is leaving, after ~20 team members joined DensityAI, a new data center services startup  —  Tesla Inc. is disbanding its Dojo supercomputer team and its leader will depart the company, according to people familiar with the matter …
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 …
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 …
Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
Sources detail Google's struggles to monetize Google TV, which has been costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars annually and has yet to break even  —  Losing money and internal support, Google TV is feeling the heat. … Last year, Google surprised online video publishers …
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
Kalley Huang / The Information:
Source: Meta has acquired WaveForms AI, which is working on AI that understands and mimics emotion in audio and debuted in December with a $40M seed led by a16z  —  Meta Platforms has acquired WaveForms AI, a small startup working on artificial intelligence capable of understanding emotion …
Bloomberg:
Sources: German AI startup n8n is expected to raise hundreds of millions of euros led by Accel at a pre-money valuation of $2.3B, up from ~$350M four months ago  —  The venture capital firm Accel is leading a funding round for the German artificial intelligence startup n8n that would exponentially raise …

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Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
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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
Politico:
Sources: the US federal judiciary's electronic case filing system was hit in a sweeping hack, potentially compromising the identities of confidential informants
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
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