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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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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%
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
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”
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
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
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 …
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
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.
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 …
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 …
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.”
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 …
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.

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