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August 9, 2025, 12:15 PM

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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.
Michael Kan / PCMag:
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 …
New York Times:
An analysis of over 1M words of conversation between a ChatGPT user and ChatGPT shows how chatbots can lead ordinarily rational people to spiral into delusion  —  Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero.
Fortune:
Sources: Trump's World Liberty Financial is seeking to raise $1.5B to launch a publicly traded crypto treasury company that would hold its WLFI token and cash  —  Eric Trump (left) and Donald Trump Jr. on stage in May at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas.
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
Tech trade groups CTA and CCIA back Anthropic's appeal of a court ruling allowing a copyright class action, fearing 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.
Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg:
South Korean AI chip design firm DeepX partners with Baidu on industrial AI projects, as sources say it is preparing to raise a round above its $79M Series C  —  South Korean AI chip designer DeepX Co. has hired Morgan Stanley to assist with a round of capital-raising ahead of a potential initial public offering in 2027.
More: Tech in Asia
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Advocates for net neutrality say they won't appeal a ruling against the policy, saying they don't trust the US Supreme Court to rule fairly on the issue  —  Advocacy groups that tried to defend federal net neutrality rules in court won't file an appeal, saying they don't trust the Supreme Court to rule fairly on the issue.
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:
Despite stablecoins reaching $5T in transaction volumes in 2025, their promise of cheaper cross-border payments is hampered by persistent foreign exchange costs  —  Even as stablecoins enter a period of peak expectations, veterans in wider fintech circles see limitations to the tokens as an emerging payments tool.
Kate Clark / Bloomberg:
Sources: Periodic Labs, which is building AI for material science, is raising $200M led by a16z, valuing the company at $1B before the investment  —  Venture firm Andreessen Horowitz has agreed to lead a $200 million investment in Periodic Labs, a new startup building artificial intelligence …
More: Tech in Asia

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