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| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, designed to handle complex tasks with minimal guidance; the model will be used to power the company's upcoming “super app” — OpenAI is introducing an artificial intelligence model that's intended to be better at completing work without much direction …
More: New York Times, Sources, Blockchain.News, NVIDIA, TechRadar, Fast Company, Crypto Briefing, iClarified, Implicator.ai, The Deep View, and OpenAI
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Forums: r/coding_agents, r/singularity, r/accelerate, and r/OpenAI
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says “GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4 per-token latency in real-world serving, while performing at a much higher level of intelligence” — A new class of intelligence for real work — We're releasing GPT-5.5, our smartest and most intuitive to use model yet …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, r/programare, r/OpenAI, r/ClaudeAI, r/ChatGPT, and Slashdot
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
GPT-5.5 is priced at $5/1M input tokens and $30/1M output tokens, double GPT-5.4's pricing; GPT-5.5 Pro costs $30/1M input tokens and $180/1M output tokens — After months of rumors and reports that OpenAI was developing a new, more powerful AI large language model for use in ChatGPT … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to cut 10% of workers, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, in an effort to offset its AI spending and boost efficiency — Meta Platforms Inc. plans to cut 10% of workers, or roughly 8,000 employees, in an effort to boost efficiency and offset its heavy spending on artificial intelligence.
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LinkedIn: Brandon Busteed, Jaime Casap, and Kurt Wagner
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Forums: Hacker News, r/bayarea, r/Layoffs, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/technology, r/sanfrancisco, and Slashdot
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft announces its first voluntary retirement program, for staff whose years of employment and age add up to 70+; source: 7% of US employees are eligible — Microsoft will offer voluntary buyouts to some U.S. employee, a first for the 51-year-old software giant, as the tech industry grapples …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
A look at Microsoft's recent wave of executive departures, as it struggles to retain talent and changes its annual rewards and performance programs in response — Leadership reshuffling signals the mounting pressure on Microsoft's AI bet. … It feels like not a week has gone by this year without …
Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Intel reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to $13.58B, vs. $12.42B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; INTC jumps 15%+ after hours — - Intel reported first-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations … Intel reported first-quarter earnings Thursday …
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LinkedIn: Dan Sheehan, MBA, MS and Vince Condarcuri
| ABC News: |
The US DOJ arrests a soldier involved in the capture of Nicolás Maduro for allegedly making $400K+ on Polymarket by betting on his removal from office — The bet was allegedly placed by a commando involved in Nicolas Maduro's capture. — Katherine Faulders, Aaron Katersky, Peter Charalambous, and Alexander Mallin
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty detail their “return of Xbox” strategy, including daily active players as its “new north star” — Microsoft's new Xbox leader starts to talk strategy for the company's gaming business.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic says it has fixed three causes of recent Claude Code quality issues: reduced default reasoning, a caching bug, and a system prompt to reduce verbosity — We traced recent reports of Claude Code quality issues to three separate changes. Here's what happened and what we're changing.
More: The Register, Claude, VentureBeat, XDA Developers, and Business Insider
Forums: Hacker News, r/Anthropic, r/ClaudeAI, and r/ClaudeCode
| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Texas Instruments stock rose 19% on Thursday, its best day since 2000, after upbeat Q2 guidance driven by high demand for analog chips used in AI data centers — Texas Instruments had its best day on Wall Street since 2000 after the chipmaker reported better-than-expected quarterly results … | Financial Times: |
Memo: White House says it has info indicating “foreign entities, principally based in China” are engaged in “industrial scale distillation” of American AI tech — Trump official Michael Kratsios says Chinese entities stealing from American labs
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| Sumit Chauhan / Microsoft 365 Blog: |
Microsoft says Copilot's agentic features in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are now generally available and enabled by default for 365 Copilot and 365 Premium — Try Microsoft 365 Copilot — Available on desktop and mobile devices — Today, I am excited to share that agentic capabilities in Word …
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LinkedIn: Ryan Roslansky and Ravi Varma Datla. Bluesky: @doubleohkevin. Mastodon: @jukkan@mstdn.social
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Around 30K attend a Samsung union rally demanding 15% of operating profits for chip division staff amid the AI boom; the demand totals $27B or $400K+ per worker — Tens of thousands of people gathered outside Samsung Electronics Co.'s main chip hub to demand employees get a greater share of profits reaped from the AI boom.| Sydney Bradley / Business Insider: |
Instagram launches Instants, an app for sharing disappearing photos, in Italy and Spain, after rolling out an Instants feature in its main app in some regions — - Instagram launched a new app in Italy and Spain this week called “Instants.” — A hodgepodge of apps like Snapchat, Locket … | Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Anthropic's valuation has hit $1T on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange, surpassing OpenAI's valuation on the platform of $880B — - Anthropic's valuation now hovers at $1 trillion on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange. — That is a higher price than OpenAI …
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LinkedIn: Business Insider, Scott Griffiths, and Florin Lungu
Forums: r/ClaudeAI, r/VCX_Fundrise, and r/Eesti
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI coding firm Cognition is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at a $25B valuation, up from $10.2B announced in September 2025 — Cognition AI Inc. is in early talks to raise a new round of funding that would more than double its valuation to $25 billion … | Reuters: |
SpaceX's S-1 excerpts list “manufacturing our own GPUs” among the “substantial capital expenditures” it is undertaking, with the size of the expenditure TBD — SpaceX may be tackling one of the biggest challenges in the chip business: manufacturing the keys …
More: Tom's Hardware, PC Gamer, and Yahoo Finance
| Reuters: |
Sources: Thoma Bravo prepares to hand over customer experience management company Medallia to creditors, leading to a ~$5.1B wipeout for Medallia's investors — Private equity firm Thoma Bravo is nearing an agreement to hand over software firm Medallia to its lenders, wrapping up months …
Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Netflix plans a $25B share buyback, adding to a Dec. 2024 program that still has $6.8B for purchases; NFLX is down 13% since its Q1 earnings on April 16 — Netflix Inc. plans to buy back another $25 billion in stock after a disappointing financial outlook sent shares of the streaming pioneer plunging.
More: Reuters, Variety, EasternEye, Watcher Guru, and The American Bazaar
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Vercel says some customer accounts were compromised prior to its early-April breach, potentially through social engineering, malware, or other methods — App and website hosting giant Vercel on Thursdays said hackers had accessed some of its customers' data before the company discovered … | Kyle Jahner / Bloomberg Law: |
Music publishers including UMG, Warner Music, and Sony drop a copyright suit against Verizon following a SCOTUS decision limiting ISP liability in Cox's suit — Publishers representing the bulk of the music industry dropped a copyright lawsuit against Verizon Communications Inc. over music piracy …
More: Music Business Worldwide
| The Robot Report: |
Shenzhen-based Pudu Robotics, which makes commercial service robots, raised ~$150M, bringing its total funding to $300M+, and says its valuation exceeds $1.5B — Pudu Technology Inc. today said it has it raised nearly $150 million in a new funding round. Following this round …
More: FinSMEs, DealStreetAsia, and Pudu Robotics
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Lyft agrees to buy London black cab app Gett, its third acquisition in the past year, as the company expands its presence beyond the US — Lyft Inc. has agreed to buy London black cab app Gett, its third acquisition in the past year, as the company works to expand its presence beyond the US.| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Internal memo: Amazon is replacing white-collar job titles at its Ring and Blink units with the designation “builder”, and “builder leaders” for managers — During Amazon's (AMZN.O) annual review season now under way, hundreds of employees will see their job titles stripped.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
Apple fixes a bug that stored notifications for deleted messages on iPhone and iPad, following a report that police used it to extract deleted Signal messages — Apple released a software update on Wednesday for iPhones and iPads fixing a bug that allowed law enforcement to extract messages …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/privacy, r/technology, r/cybersecurity, r/Denmark, r/iphone, Slashdot, MacRumors Forums, and MacRumors Forums
| Nikita Bier / @nikitabier: |
X says it is deprecating X Communities, giving members until May 30 to migrate to XChat, and plans to increase group chat limits to 1,000 in the next two weeks — Today we're announcing two product changes for organizing communities on X: 1. XChat now supports joinable links for groupchats. Create a public link & share direct to Timeline. With support for 350 members per chat (and growing), Groupchat Links are the fastest way to bring [image]
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