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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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| 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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| Cecily Mauran / Mashable: |
| 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 …
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| 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
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| 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.| 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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| 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: |
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 …
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| 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 … | 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.| 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.| 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 …
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| 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 brief| 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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