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OpenAI releases GPT-5.1 in the API, featuring a “no-reasoning” mode and extended prompt caching with up to 24-hour retention to generate faster responses — Today we're releasing GPT‑5.1 in the API platform, the next model in the GPT‑5 series that balances intelligence …
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Cursor says it has crossed $1B in annualized revenue, has 300+ employees, and its in-house models “generate more code than almost any other LLMs in the world” — Artificial intelligence startup Cursor on Thursday announced it has closed a $2.3 billion funding round … | Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal: |
More: Cursor, SiliconANGLE, Crunchbase News, NextBigWhat, Unite.AI, Observer, Inc.com, and Bloomberg
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Bluesky: @timkellogg.me and @davidcrespo
Forums: Hacker News and r/cursor
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI is piloting group chats in ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan; up to 20 users can be invited to prompt ChatGPT in a shared space — Collaborate with others, and ChatGPT, in the same conversation. — Try in ChatGPT(opens in a new window)
More: Engadget, Business Standard, Moneycontrol, 9to5Mac, Digit, NDTV Profit, Blockchain.News, and The American Bazaar
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| Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: |
A US judge rules that Apple and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by X and xAI accusing them of conspiring to thwart competition in emerging markets in AI — Apple Inc. and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's X Corp. and xAI accusing the companies of conspiring …
More: Decrypt, AppleInsider, Livemint, MacRumors, iClarified, COINOTAG NEWS, and Reuters
| Elissa Welle / The Verge: |
Mozilla says it is building AI Window, a Firefox feature that will include an AI assistant and let users choose the model, but offers few additional details — You will be able to chat with the browser's AI assistant in the new AI Window. … Another day, another AI browser.
More: The Mozilla Blog, Mozilla Connect, The Register, WinBuzzer, OMG! Ubuntu, How-To Geek, and Thurrott
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Mastodon: @patrick_h_lauke … and @[email protected]
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple unveils Mini Apps Partner Program, offering a reduced 15% commission on IAPs for mini apps, or “self-contained” experiences built with web tech like HTML5 — Apple announced on Thursday the launch of a new developer program, the Mini Apps Partner Program …
More: Apple Developer, MacStories, CNBC, The Indian Express, MacRumors, Michael Tsai, TechRadar, WinBuzzer, iPhone in Canada, Interesting Engineering, Bloomberg, iClarified, and 9to5Mac
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Bluesky: @kosso.co.uk and @maxpatten
| Pei Li / Bloomberg: |
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is in early talks to raise a new round of funding at a roughly $50B valuation, potentially rising to $55B-$60B — Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, is in early talks to raise …
More: The Economic Times, StrictlyVC, Reuters, The Information, and Newcomer
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Anthropic open sources a method to score AI model political evenhandedness; Gemini 2.5 Pro got 97%, Grok 4 96%, Claude Opus 4.1 95%, GPT-5 89%, and Llama 4 66% — Anthropic is releasing an open source method to evaluate the political “evenhandedness” of AI chatbots, the company said Thursday.| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Baidu unveils Ernie 5.0, an AI model to process and generate text, images, audio, and video, claiming it beats GPT-5-High and Gemini 2.5 Pro on some benchmarks — The goal: to position as a global contender in the increasingly competitive enterprise AI market.| Wall Street Journal: |
Anthropic says China's state-sponsored hackers used its tools to automate 80% to 90% of a September hacking campaign that targeted corporations and governments — The use of AI automation in hacks is a growing trend that gives hackers additional scale and speed
More: Anthropic, Livemint, Axios, The Information, Runtime, Implicator.ai, Decrypt, WinBuzzer, Constellation Research, SiliconANGLE, CBS News, and PCMag
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Bluesky: @kevincollier, @ahmedbaba, and @carlquintanilla
Mastodon: @[email protected], @[email protected], and @[email protected]
Forums: Hacker News and r/cybersecurity
| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
Google DeepMind unveils SIMA 2, a video-game-playing agent built on top of Gemini to navigate and solve problems inside 3D virtual worlds like Goat Simulator 3 — Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called SIMA 2 that can navigate and solve problems in a wide range of 3D virtual worlds.
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Forums: Hacker News and Lobsters
| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon and Anthropic support the GAIN AI Act, which would give US buyers first priority on advanced AI chips, joining Microsoft; Nvidia opposes it — Legislation would give tech leaders preferential access to chips — WASHINGTON—Amazon.com is joining Microsoft in supporting legislation … | Bloomberg: |
Ubisoft delays publishing its H1 financial results on the day they were due and requests that its shares be halted from trading until then; UBI is down 47%+ YTD — Ubisoft Entertainment SA said it's delaying the publication of its first-half financial results and requested the shares be halted from trading until then.
More: Video Games Chronicle, Engadget, PC Gamer, 80 Level, and Kotaku
| Dave Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sundar Pichai proved to be the “wartime CEO” that Google needed after ChatGPT's launch, making the company an AI leader, in part by empowering Demis Hassabis — There was a time everyone seemed to have a take on why Open AI's ChatGPT beat Google to market in November 2022.| Elissa Welle / The Verge: |
Google says all NotebookLM users will get access to Deep Research in the service within a week; users get to choose between two research styles: fast or deep — Google is adding Deep Research and more file types to NotebookLM. … Google is pairing up two of its research products …
More: The Keyword, WinBuzzer, Neowin, BGR, NextBigWhat, Android Authority, and TechCrunch
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Google launches AI-powered shopping features in the US, including conversational search, side-by-side item comparisons, price tracking, and an agentic checkout — There have never been more options for things to buy. Google is betting AI is how shoppers will make decisions.
More: The Keyword, 9to5Google, Implicator.ai, NextBigWhat, Social Media Today, and Search Engine Land
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta overhauls Facebook Marketplace, adding collections, collaborative buying, reactions, comments, an improved checkout experience, and Meta AI integrations — Meta is overhauling Facebook Marketplace with new collaborative tools, social features, an improved checkout experience …
More: Meta Newsroom, Business Insider, Social Media Today, Neowin, iPhone in Canada, PhoneArena, and Engadget. LinkedIn: Karishma Anand
| Emily Forgash / Bloomberg: |
How Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google are managing the strain of AI's increased energy demand with their promises of net-zero carbon emissions — Energy-hungry data centers test industry's commitment to go carbon-zero by 2040 — Weeks after ChatGPT was unleashed on the world in November 2022 …
More: TechCrunch and Implicator.ai
| Tess Bennett / Australian Financial Review: |
Australia-based AI infrastructure company Firmus raised AU$500M, or ~$325M, tripling its valuation to AU$6B in two months, after raising AU$330M in September — Artificial intelligence infrastructure start-up Firmus Technologies has tripled its valuation to $6 billion in two months …
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, From transactions to CX, Firmus, SmartCompany, Capital Brief, and Australian Financial Review. LinkedIn: Firmus Technologies
| Patrick Coffee / Wall Street Journal: |
Alembic, which offers AI-powered data analytics for marketers, raised a $145M Series B led by Prysm and Accenture at a $645M valuation, up from $49M in 2024 — New funding round values Alembic, which helps brands show links between marketing activity and business results, at $645 million| Financial Times: |
Oracle shares are down nearly 30% in the past month, reversing more than $250B in market value gains following the announcement of its OpenAI deals in September — Larry Ellison's software company falls more than rivals over its borrowing and reliance on OpenAI contracts
More: CNBC
| Soumyajit Saha / Nikkei Asia: |
Shares of Indian payment startup Pine Labs debuted at ~$2.73, up 9.5% from the ~$2.49 IPO price, after a $440M IPO earlier this week that was 2x oversubscribed — MUMBAI — Shares of financial tech company Pine Labs made their debut on India's main bourses on Friday, opening 9.5% above …
More: Entrackr, Reuters, Bloomberg, Fortune India, and Times of India
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Verizon plans to cut ~15,000 jobs, its largest workforce reduction yet, and transition ~200 stores into franchised operations, seeking to reduce costs — The telecommunications company is looking to reduce costs as it works to stem customer losses
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle, PhoneArena, Washington Examiner, WHAS-TV, Android Authority, Droid Life, Investor's Business Daily, Daily Caller News Foundation, CRN, Fox Business, Al Jazeera, and Engadget
Bluesky: @keithboykin and @paleofuture
Forums: r/technology, r/news, r/wallstreetbets, r/Economics, and r/business
| Paul Tenorio / The Athletic: |
Apple and Major League Soccer agree to make all MLS games available on Apple TV for no extra charge from 2026, ending the MLS Season Pass subscription — PALM BEACH, Fla. — MLS will no longer be behind a separate paywall on Apple TV beginning in 2026. — MLS and Apple have agreed to alter …
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Forums: r/SoundersFC, r/apple, r/appletv, r/ussoccer, r/tvPlus, r/television, r/PhillyUnion, r/OCLions, and r/MLS
| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Maryland will use Claude across its agencies to help residents apply for food aid, Medicaid, and more, and deploy Percepta tools to speed up housing permits — Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) is partnering with AI companies Anthropic and Percepta to try to improve access to government benefits and housing …
More: Office of Governor Wes Moore, Anthropic, GovTech, and StateScoop
| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon renames Project Kuiper to Amazon Leo, a nod to “low Earth orbit”; Amazon has so far launched 150+ satellites as part a constellation set to have 3,200+ — Amazon is rebranding its ambitious effort to expand global access to high-speed internet: Project Kuiper will now be known as Amazon Leo.
More: About Amazon, Engadget, Aviation Week Network, 425Business.com/, CNET, The Information, and SpaceNews
| The Information: |
Sources: OneTrust, which sells privacy and compliance software and was last valued at $4.5B in 2023, is exploring a sale, possibly to private equity buyers — OneTrust, a nine-year-old startup that benefited from a wave of European and U.S. laws regulating how companies collect and share website data … | CNBC: |
Sources: xAI raised $15B, adding $5B to the $10B it reportedly raised in September at a $200B valuation; Elon Musk replies “false” to an X post about the report — Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is raising $15 billion from investors, sources familiar with the matter told CNBC's David Faber.Sponsor Posts
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