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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan tells his 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 …
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| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Intel's board has stalled recent efforts by CEO Lip-Bu Tan to raise capital and acquire an AI company meant to help it compete against Nvidia and AMD — Lip-Bu Tan and chip maker's directors have been clashing over how to revive the struggling tech giant| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
With GPT-5's launch, OpenAI has removed its older models like GPT-4o and o3 from the ChatGPT model selector, sparking a backlash from some users — ‘They have completely ruined ChatGPT,’ one user complains. Some are even canceling their paid subscriptions to ChatGPT, claiming GPT-5 is inferior to the company's previous models.
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Threads: @crumbler. X: @sullyomarr, @typedfemale, @bilawalsidhu, @scaling01, @jessfraz, @natolambert, and @openai
| Cecily Mauran / Mashable: |
GPT-5's system card says gpt-5-thinking has a hallucination rate of 4.5% with browsing enabled, compared to gpt-5-main's 9.6%, GPT-4o's 12.9%, and o3's 12.7% — The AI company boasts state-of-the-art performance across math, coding, writing, and health advice.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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| Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: |
| 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.
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| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Tesla is disbanding its 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 team and its leader will leave the company, according to people familiar with the matter …
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| Joel Khalili / Wired: |
President Trump orders regulators to investigate banks for “politicized or unlawful debanking”, echoing allegations from conservatives and the crypto industry — In a new executive order, the US president has called on federal regulators to investigate and punish banks … | Sarah Min / CNBC: |
Trump signs an EO clearing a path for adding alternative assets like PE and cryptocurrencies to 401(k)s, directing 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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| Lauren Edmonds / Business Insider: |
Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing comments such as, “I am a failure. I am a disgrace to my profession. I am a disgrace to my family.” — - 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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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: SoftBank purchased Foxconn's EV plant in Ohio for $375M, a move aimed at kickstarting its $500B Stargate data center project with OpenAI and Oracle — SoftBank Group Corp. is the buyer taking ownership of Foxconn Technology Group's electric vehicle plant in Ohio …
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| 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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: China told local brokers and think tanks to stop promoting stablecoins by publishing research or holding seminars, aiming to prevent market instability — China told local brokers and other bodies to stop publishing research or hold seminars to promote stablecoins, seeking to rein in the asset class to avoid instability.| Wall Street Journal: |
An analysis of 96K public ChatGPT transcripts finds 100+ lengthy chats, of which dozens exhibited delusional traits where ChatGPT reinforced users' false claims — Online trove of archived conversations shows model repeatedly sending users down a rabbit hole of fringe theories about physics, aliens and the apocalypse| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI should prioritize growth and its investments in training and compute “for a long time”, even if it delays its path to profitability — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Friday said the artificial intelligence company should prioritize growth and its investments …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Marc Andreessen complained to the UK government last week about the Online Safety Act and called for a reprimand of technology secretary Peter Kyle — Venture capitalist's intervention comes amid backlash to sweeping new internet legislation — Marc Andreessen …
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| 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 …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Block reports Q2 revenue down 2% YoY to $6.05B, vs. $6.31B est., gross profit up 14% YoY to $2.54B, vs. $2.46B est., and raises its FY gross profit forecast — Block shares jumped 6% in extended trading on Thursday after the fintech company increased its forecast for the year.| Financial Times: |
Analysis: 12 Chinese tech companies have applied to list in Hong Kong so far this year, the most since 2023, after rules allowed lossmaking companies to float — The territory has made a series of reforms that have helped fuel an IPO boom — A rush of Chinese tech companies has applied …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Ripple and the SEC agree to dismiss their court appeals, ending a lawsuit but leaving a judge's injunction on XRP sales to institutions and a $125M fine intact — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it ended its case accusing Ripple Labs of selling unregistered securities … | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Pinterest reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $998M, vs. $975M est., net income up 336% YoY to $38.8M, and 578M global MAUs, vs. 574.5M est.; PINS drops 10%+ — Pinterest shares were down about 10% on Thursday after the company reported second-quarter earnings that missed on earnings per share.| Zico Ghosh / The Hollywood Reporter: |
A look at the impact of AI voice cloning on India's dubbing and voiceover sector, as artists demand consent, credit, and fair pay amid a lack of laws for AI use — As AI voice cloning in films becomes a reality, India's dubbing artists are demanding consent, credit and fair pay …
LinkedIn: Ed Hooks
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Steam for Chromebooks will stop working on January 1, 2026, after debuting in alpha in March 2022 ahead of the launch of the first Gaming Chromebooks — After debuting in 2022, the Steam for Chromebook Beta will stop working in early 2026. At the time, it was a big ChromeOS effort, but there hasn't been an update in ages.
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