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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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Forums: r/technology and MacRumors Forums
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.
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) …
OpenAI:
GPT-5 will use “safe completions”, a training approach to maximize model helpfulness within safety constraints and an improvement over refusal-based training
OpenAI on YouTube:
A recording of OpenAI's GPT-5 announcement
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  —  U.S. Republican Senator Tom Cotton sent a letter to Intel's (INTC.O) board chair on Wednesday with questions about the chipmaker's …
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
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 …
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.
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: TechRadar.  Threads: @carnage4life.  X: @willblaze, @yuchenj_uw, and @steph_palazzolo.  Forums: Slashdot
Bloomberg:
President Trump says he will impose a “tariff of approximately 100% on chips and semiconductors”, exempting firms like Apple that “committed to build” in the US
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 …
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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Gene Maddaus / Variety:
Swiss film producer Simon Afram sues Netflix for $105M, saying Netflix lost an unencrypted copy of a film starring Nicolas Cage that he spent $45M to produce

Alex Sherman / CNBC:
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