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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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Mastodon: @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net, @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net, and @harrymccracken@mastodon …. Threads: @joannastern
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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, WinBuzzer, 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: |
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
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| Kylie Robison / Wired: |
More: OpenAI. X: @metacriticcap, @sama, @jeremyphoward, and @theo
Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/technews, and r/OpenAI
| Lip-Bu Tan / Intel: |
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 …
More: Associated Press, Reuters, Intel, The Irish Times, PC Guide, New York Times, Bloomberg Law, Reuters, RTHK, and Yahoo Finance
| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
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| 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
| 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 … | 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 supercomputer team and its leader will depart the company, according to people familiar with the matter …
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| 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.”
More: Livemint and Moneycontrol
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Threads: @masiosare and @wongmjane
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Forums: r/google and r/technology
| 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 … | 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.
More: Fast Company, Music Ally, Pinterest, Reuters, The Information, Investor's Business Daily, Benzinga, and Reuters
| 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
| 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 … | 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.| 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
| 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, MLex, and Dark Reading
| 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 ChatGPTSponsor Posts
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Zoho:
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