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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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Mastodon: @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net, @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net, and @harrymccracken@mastodon ….  Threads: @joannastern
X: @sama, @elonmusk, @sama, @jxmnop, @elonmusk, @fidjissimo, @farzyness, @humanharlan, @kevinweil, @bindureddy, @smokeawayyy, @growing_daniel, @skirano, @metr_evals, @code, @bindureddy, @lexfridman, @deanwball, @gdb, @satyanadella, @sama, @mustafasuleyman, @avichal, @bethmaybarnes, @maxwinebach, @emollick, @corememory, @vasumanmoza, @miles_brundage, @stevesi, @aidan_mclau, @sama, @emollick, @sama, @nickaturley, @benhylak, @minimaxir, @miles_brundage, @loudmouthjulia, @sama, @sjgadler, @connorjewiss, @manusai_hq, @mattturck, @benhylak, @flavioad, @emostaque, @scaling01, @embirico, @openai, @yuchenj_uw, @jainarvind, @zoink, @cursor_ai, @sama, @eli_lifland, @simonw, @elonmusk, @garymarcus, @alexeheath, @emollick, @levelsio, @sama, @stocksavvyshay, @dbreunig, @satyanadella, @ericjhonsa, @jbenton, @shakeelhashim, @autismcapital, @kevinroose, @levelsio, @aidan_mclau, @levelsio, @sama, @scaling01, @jeremyphoward, @miles_brundage, @danprimack, @miles_brundage, @benhylak, @benhylak, @officiallogank, and @siegeleddie
LinkedIn: Satya Nadella, Conrad Wadowski, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Hawk, John Milinovich, Emil Protalinski, Taurean Jones, Fidji Simo, Armand Ruiz, Nick Turley, and Joanna Stern
Forums: r/technology, r/GithubCopilot, r/microsoft, and r/singularity
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.
More: PCWorld and The Verge
X: @natolambert, @openai, and @hey_zio.  LinkedIn: Costa Kladianos
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.
Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder:
OpenAI releases GPT-5 pro, a version with extended reasoning exclusive to ChatGPT Pro subscribers, saying it scored 88.4% without tools on the GPQA benchmark  —  OpenAI has unveiled GPT-5, a new AI system that builds on the reasoning advances of the o1 and o3 models and unifies every previous model line …
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 …
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.
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
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.”
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 …
More: The Verge.  Bluesky: @hoon, @dmnd.me, @glinden, and @markriedl.  Forums: Hacker News
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 …
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 …

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