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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
OpenAI releases GPT-5, its new flagship model, to all its ChatGPT users and developers, available in three sizes in its API: gpt-5, gpt-5-mini, and gpt-5-nano — 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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LinkedIn: Helena Dillon, Taurean Jones, Jessica Hawk, Fidji Simo, Armand Ruiz, Nick Turley, Joanna Stern, Conrad Wadowski, Reid Hoffman, Satya Nadella, Emil Protalinski, and John Milinovich
Forums: r/CasualRO, r/technology, r/GithubCopilot, r/microsoft, and r/singularity
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
During its GPT-5 livestream, OpenAI showed two charts that had scales all over the place, with Sam Altman later calling one “a mega chart screwup from us” — CEO Sam Altman called a strange graph in its GPT-5 presentation a ‘mega chart screwup.’
More: 9to5Mac, Livemint, PitchBook, and Financial Times
Forums: news.ycombinator.com, Hacker News, r/dataisugly, r/singularity, r/ChatGPT, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, and r/singularity
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says Apple Intelligence will use OpenAI's GPT-5 on iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26, with the software updates expected to arrive in September — Earlier today, OpenAI announced GPT-5, its latest model to power ChatGPT. The new frontier model is a significant leap forward in a lot of areas.
More: MacRumors, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, iThinkDifferent, iClarified, and OS X Daily. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI touts GPT-5's scores on math, coding, and health benchmarks: 94.6% on AIME 2025 without tools, 74.9% on SWE-bench Verified, and 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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| 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.
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
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| Kylie Robison / Wired: |
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| Lip-Bu Tan / Intel: |
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan tells employees the company is engaging with the Trump administration to address concerns about him and “ensure they have the facts” — A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees. — The following note from Lip-Bu Tan was sent to all Intel Corporation employees on August 7, 2025:
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| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
| 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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Forums: r/XRP, r/politics, r/Economics, r/ABoringDystopia, r/Economics, and r/CryptoCurrency
| 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 …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/intelstock, r/RealTesla, r/SelfDrivingCars, and r/NVDA_Stock
| Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider: |
Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing comments, which have included “I am a failure. I am a disgrace to my profession.” — - Google Gemini users said it's sharing some disturbing messages. — One screenshot showed the chatbot saying, “I'm am a failure.”
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X: @aisafetymemes, @duncanhaldane, and @officiallogank
Forums: r/technology and r/google
| Wall Street Journal: |
An analysis of 96K public ChatGPT transcripts finds 100+ lengthy chats, of which dozens exhibited delusional traits where ChatGPT reinforced users' fringe ideas — Online trove of archived conversations shows model repeatedly sending users down a rabbit hole of fringe theories about physics, aliens and the apocalypse
More: New York Times and Business Insider
| 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.
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| 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 9%+ after hours — Instacart posted its strongest order growth since 2022 for a second straight quarter and beat earnings estimates for the current period …
More: Reuters, Instacart, MarketWatch, Investor's Business Daily, Wall Street Journal, and CNBC
| 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 jumps 5%+ after hours — Block shares jumped 6% in extended trading on Thursday after the fintech company increased its forecast for the year.| 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 … | Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Source: Windsurf's gross margins are “very negative”; many believe the same margin pressure is impacting Cursor, Lovable, Replit, and other vibe coding tools — In February, AI coding startup Windsurf was in talks to raise a big new round at a $2.85 billion valuation led by Kleiner Perkins … | 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, DataBreaches.Net, Dark Reading, and MLex
| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: TBD Lab, a team under Meta Superintelligence Labs that houses many researchers poached from rival labs, is spearheading work on Llama's newest version — Group is spearheading work on the latest version of Llama, the large language model that is Meta's answer to ChatGPT| 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 … | 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 …
More: The Economic Times
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