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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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Forums: r/technology, r/technews, r/aiwars, r/ChatGPT, r/ChatGPT, r/france, r/ChatGPT, r/ChatGPT, and r/BetterOffline
| 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: Reuters, Foreign Policy, TechRadar, Benzinga, Implicator.ai, Wccftech, DigiTimes, and The Daily Signal
X: @michaelsobolik, @rwang07, @dimi, and @thomaswright08
Forums: r/Economics, r/politics, r/China, r/StockMarket, and r/NVDA_Stock
| 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.
More: Futurism, Implicator.ai, Moneycontrol, and Ubergizmo
Bluesky: @gilduran.com, @beijingpalmer, @bosh.worstpossible.world, @kashhill, @zachseward.com, and @metacurity.com
X: @csetgeorgetown and @julesevans11
LinkedIn: Dylan Freedman, Kashmir Hill, and Helen Toner
Forums: r/BetterOffline, r/technology, and r/Longreads
| 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.
More: Bloomberg Law, CCIA, and United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Bluesky: @eve.gd and @radiodeadair.com
Forums: Hacker News, r/law, r/artificial, r/technology, Beehaw, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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.
More: Free Press Action Fund Feed and MediaPost
Forums: r/politics, r/skeptic, r/law, r/scotus, r/technology, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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.| Bloomberg: |
US nuclear, geothermal, and energy storage companies have found a lifeline in the AI data center boom after years of challenges such as high interest rates — Long-unloved nuclear and geothermal are experiencing a boom in interest as data center developers seek carbon-free resources capable … | Financial Times: |
The precise scale of Apple's pledge to invest $600B+ in the US over four years is difficult to measure, as the company has not provided a breakdown of its plan — Tech giant promised Donald Trump hundreds of billions of spending — but the real scale is difficult to measure
X: @patrickmcgee_, @brad_setser, and @jamessurowiecki
| 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
| Bloomberg: |
The controversy involving Tokyo Electron over alleged TSMC IP theft comes at a low point for the company, after order cancellations and a lull in Chinese demand — A Taiwanese investigation into the possible theft of chip technology at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is putting a low-profile …
More: Tokyo Electron Ltd. and Anadolu Agency
| Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: |
Analysis: Nvidia has the biggest weight in the S&P 500 of any individual stock since 1981 and the highest P/E as the index's top stock since Microsoft in 1999 — Nvidia is a milestone magnet. — Less than one month after becoming the first publicly traded company to reach $4 trillion in market cap … | Reuters: |
Experts say TCS' decision to cut 12K jobs signals the start of an AI-fueled trend that could eliminate ~500K jobs in India's $283B IT sector within three years — Indian outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services' (TCS.NS) decision to cut over 12,000 jobs signals the start of a broader AI-fueled trend … Sponsor Posts
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