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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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Threads: @hasanahmad. X: @sama, @joannastern, @maxwinebach, @krishnanrohit, @joannastern, @flowersslop, @joannastern, and @joannastern
Forums: r/ChatGPT, r/OpenAI, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| 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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X: @sama, @yuchenj_uw, @kevinroose, @maxwinebach, @emollick, @maxwinebach, @maxwinebach, @simonw, @joannastern, @levelsio, @marvinvonhagen, @sullyomarr, @typedfemale, @bilawalsidhu, @scaling01, @jessfraz, @natolambert, and @openai
Forums: r/technology, r/aiwars, r/technews, r/ChatGPT, r/ChatGPT, r/france, r/ChatGPT, r/ChatGPT, and r/BetterOffline
| 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.
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, crypto.news, Coinpedia Fintech News, Coinspeaker, Cointelegraph, Benzinga, and Crypto Briefing. X: @jeffjohnroberts
| 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
| 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.| 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: @radiodeadair.com. Forums: Hacker News, r/law, r/artificial, r/technology, Beehaw, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
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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, Moneycontrol, Implicator.ai, and Ubergizmo
Bluesky: @kashhill, @bosh.worstpossible.world, @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
| 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/China, r/StockMarket, and r/NVDA_Stock
| 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: @brad_setser
| 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 …
More: Trak.in
| 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
| 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 developmentSponsor Posts
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F5:
Securing AI models and agents in the enterprise — The new AI stack creates a highly dynamic attack surface, and traditional controls aren't keeping up. F5's recent acquisition will bring advanced AI guardrails to enterprise apps.
Securing AI models and agents in the enterprise — The new AI stack creates a highly dynamic attack surface, and traditional controls aren't keeping up. F5's recent acquisition will bring advanced AI guardrails to enterprise apps.
Zoho:
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IDrive:
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