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| Joanna Stern / Joanna Stern's Newsletter: |
OpenAI says ChatGPT Pro users can select old models for now but plans to deprecate them in 60 days; Sam Altman says Plus users will be able to keep using GPT-4o — Mourning the model that knew you best. … RIP, ChatGPT 4o and the rest of the crew. — I won't say I'm deeply attached to GPT-4o, OpenAI's previous main model.
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
With GPT-5's launch, OpenAI has removed its older models from the ChatGPT model selector for some users, sparking backlash from them — ‘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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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
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| 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 …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
| 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 …
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| Sarah Min / CNBC: |
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google is testing an AI-powered Google Finance website in the US, letting users ask questions, access advanced charting tools, view a live news feed, and more — Google announced on Friday that it's giving Google Finance, its tool that provides financial information and business news, an AI update.
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| 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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| Rishaj Upadhyay / Windows Report: |
Microsoft will phase out its Lens scanner app, launched in 2014 as Office Lens, starting in September; users can create new scans in the app only until December — Popular scanner app to retire soon — Microsoft is preparing to sunset another long-running product alongside the end of life for Windows 10 this year.| 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 … | Financial Times: |
Sources: the US has started issuing licenses to Nvidia to export H20 chips to China following weeks of inaction, after Jensen Huang met Trump on Wednesday — Jensen Huang personally lobbied president after he reversed course on sale of H20 chips — The US commerce department …
More: Implicator.ai, TechRadar, Wccftech, Reuters, DigiTimes, and The Daily Signal
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Two tech groups are backing Anthropic's appeal of a court ruling allowing a copyright class action, saying potential big settlements could chill AI investment — AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified.
More: MediaPost, Bloomberg Law, and United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Forums: Hacker News, Beehaw, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Silver Lake unveils a $400M project to secure powered land for data center developers; it has secured 3GW of power and is developing sites in Texas and Georgia — The private-equity firm is looking to bundle land parcels with power availability, which it said is now the biggest obstacle to data-center development| 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.
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| Kay Aloha Villamor / The SaaS News: |
Capacity, which uses AI to automate contact center support, raised $92.6M, including a $42.6M Series D and $50M in debt, bringing its total raised to $155M+ — Capacity, a St. Louis, Missouri-based AI-powered support automation platform for contact centers, has raised over $92.6 million in funding …
More: Pulse 2.0 and VC News Daily
| Mat Di Salvo / Decrypt: |
Coinbase rolls out DEX trading in its app for US users, excluding New York state, starting with assets on the Base network, with Solana support “coming soon” — The company is moving to become an “everything exchange,” its CEO said. — In briefSponsor Posts
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WorkDrive 6.0: Advancing toward intelligent enterprise content management (Phase 1) — Artificial intelligence is redefining how enterprises process data. Large language models can understand context …
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