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AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts to recruit quant researchers from Wall Street firms, offering competitive pay and benefits — At a rooftop bar on Manhattan's Lower East Side, roughly 150 quant researchers met with employees at the artificial-intelligence startup Anthropic …
X: @brunellaism
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Sources: Chinese officials have urged the Trump administration to relax HBM chip export controls during trade talks, after the Biden administration ban in 2024 — Experts warn dropping restrictions would give Beijing a competitive advantage in artificial intelligence
More: Gizmodo, CNBC, Tech in Asia, RTHK, Channel NewsAsia, Times of India, Benzinga, Implicator.ai, Wccftech, Reuters, and DigiTimes. Forums: r/hardware
| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
Q&A with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on GPT-5, its dynamic reasoning, defining AGI, scaling vs. post-training, hallucinations, enterprise adoption, and more — A conversation about what OpenAI's long-anticipated flagship model tells us about different forms intelligence and AI's trajectory from here.
More: Business Insider, PhoneArena, and Bloomberg
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Hands-on with Alexa+: fun to talk to and good at handling multistep requests, but it is buggy, unreliable, and worse at some basic tasks than the original Alexa — Alexa+ processes language in a more fluid way. Users can speak to it as they would to a human.Graham Dickie/The New York Times
More: 9to5Mac and About Amazon
| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
Coding bootcamps, a Silicon Valley mainstay for over a decade, are facing decline as AI eliminates the kind of entry-level roles for which they trained people — Coding bootcamps have been a mainstay in Silicon Valley for more than a decade. Now, as AI eliminates the kind of entry-level roles … | New York Times: |
A look at Changpeng Zhao's efforts to get a pardon from Trump for his money-laundering charges, including via lobbying and a business deal with the Trump family — A sophisticated operation is pushing President Trump to forgive Changpeng Zhao, which would boost the chances for his company, Binance, to break into the U.S. market.
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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.
More: Moneycontrol, TechRadar, Windows Central, Engadget, Tom's Guide, PCMag, Neowin, Financial Express, Livemint, The Decoder, TechCrunch, Windows Report, Decrypt, Simon Willison's Weblog, MacRumors, VentureBeat, Simon Willison's Weblog, and 9to5Mac
Threads: @hasanahmad. X: @sama, @emollick, @kimmonismus, @krishnanrohit, @stevesi, @stevesi, @dbreunig, @airkatakana, @emollick, @flowersslop, @krishnanrohit, @simonw, @joannastern, @joannastern, @joannastern, @maxwinebach, @joannastern, and @joannastern
Forums: r/technology, r/ChatGPT, r/OpenAI, and MacRumors Forums
| 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/NoShitSherlock, r/politics, r/skeptic, r/FedEmployees, r/law, r/scotus, r/technology, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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 … | Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: |
A steady stream of large conventions in China showcasing homegrown humanoid robots is stirring investor excitement, even though sales are far from taking off — BEIJING — China is holding a steady stream of large-scale conventions showcasing its homegrown humanoid robots …
More: Tech in Asia and Bloomberg
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