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| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first model built in partnership with Cursor, designed to “handle difficult, long-running” legal, finance, and coding tasks — SpaceXAI has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model built in partnership with AI coding startup Cursor that's meant …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/cursor, r/grok, and r/singularity
| Axios: |
Grok 4.5 is available in Grok Build, in Cursor, and from the SpaceXAI console, but not in the EU; it costs $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens — Elon Musk's SpaceXAI is launching Grok 4.5, its smartest model yet, and its first release since going public and acquiring the AI coding startup Cursor.
More: Cursor, Seoul Economic Daily, Reuters, The Information, The Decoder, The New Stack, and RuntimeWire
LinkedIn: Justin Smith and Noah Wadhwani
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same time — A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice. — Sign up to be notified
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| Emma Whitford / Inside Higher Ed: |
A Brown University professor suspected his class used AI to cheat after a take-home midterm averaged 96%, prompting an in-person final, which averaged 48.6% — Brown University leaders' response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said.
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark — Through a detailed audit, we find widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro and estimate that ~30% of the tasks are broken.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Daniel Wiessner / Reuters: |
Block agrees to pay $45M and offer live customer support for Cash App to settle claims by 46 US states that the company failed to protect users from fraud — Block (XYZ.N) has agreed to pay $45 million and offer live customer support for its mobile payment service, Cash App … | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta announces its first data center in Canada, a 1GW facility in Alberta that will cost the company about $9B and take two to three years to construct — Meta's AI expansion is heading north of the border. — The company said in a blog post on Wednesday that it's building its first data center …
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/worldnews
| Chris Welch / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sonos' layoffs include some top design and product executives, like VP of Design Dana Krieger; CEO Tom Conrad says the move reduces management layers — Sonos Inc. has pushed out some of its top design and product management executives as part of job cuts in recent weeks … | Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
The FTC settles with John Deere over a 2025 right-to-repair lawsuit, requiring the company to provide farmers and shops with equipment and software for 10 years — After more than a decade of pushback, farmers and repair advocates have won access to equipment and services John Deere had long kept under its control.| Cognition: |
Cognition releases SWE-1.7, trained from Kimi K2.7 and available at 1,000 tokens/second, claiming it nears GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 on benchmarks at a lower cost — Today, we're launching SWE-1.7, the most capable model we've trained so far. It reaches frontier-level intelligence at a much lower cost …
X: @cognition, @ns123abc, @dabit3, @omarsar0, and @silasalberti. LinkedIn: Christian L.
Forums: Hacker News, r/LocalLLaMA, and r/windsurf
| Bloomberg: |
Shanghai-based GPU maker Iluvatar CoreX raised ~$902M in a Hong Kong share sale; the company's stock has soared 257% since its January IPO, which raised $473M — Shanghai Iluvatar CoreX Semiconductor Co. raised about $902 million from a share sale in Hong Kong after its stock soared since an initial public offering in January.
More: South China Morning Post, Dow Jones Newswires, and Reuters
| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
Companies are mobilizing internal groups of “AI champions” to drive adoption; BCG says 74% of front-line employees now use AI regularly, up from 51% in 2025 — Companies are increasingly mobilizing internal groups of AI ‘champions’ as a way to sell their more reluctant colleagues on the technology's benefits
Bluesky: @dannygroner
| New York Times: |
Sources: Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is raising $10B at a $130B pre-money valuation, its first outside funding round, including $4B from Coatue and $2B from Bezos — The rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos is set to take on external investors for the first time, at a $130 billion valuation.
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X: @jackkuhr and @accessipos
Forums: r/technology, r/BlueOrigin, and r/BlueWire
| Financial Times: |
The AI data center boom has led to surging demand for power transformers, with average lead times for orders, once measured in months, now stretching into years — Surging data-centre power demands are intensifying pressure on transformer supply chains. Transformers are fundamental … | The Information: |
Filings: Grubhub parent Wonder is raising hundreds of millions of dollars at a $9B valuation; a source says founder Marc Lore indicated he will contribute $200M — Wonder, the owner of GrubHub and Blue Apron, is lining up hundreds of millions of dollars, at a valuation of $9 billion … Sponsor Posts
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