OpenAI launches GPT-4.5, its “most knowledgeable model yet” in research preview, initially warning it's not a frontier model and may perform below o1 or o3-mini
OpenAI's newest and largest model is being released as a research preview.
Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023
After kickstarting the market for making calls over the internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down. Microsoft, which acquired the messaging …
A look at GPT-4.5's claimed performance, including on coding benchmarks, where it matches or outperforms GPT-4o but falls short of OpenAI's Deep Research
Bigger, smarter, and more powerful Samantha Kelly / CNET : OpenAI Says Its New ChatGPT 4.5 Has Better Emotional Intelligence Cristina Criddle / Financial Times : OpenAI reveals GPT-4.5 amid flurry of ...
Sam Altman says OpenAI was forced to stagger GPT-4.5's rollout because it is “out of GPUs”; the model is wildly expensive, costing $75 per million input tokens
Hopefully the output is worth it? 🤔 — Oh... 😥 — www.theverge.com/news/620021/ ... [embedded post] X: Ed Zitron / @edzitron : Also, $1.30 per hour per GPU is the Microsoft discount rate for OpenA...
Sources: Meta plans to launch a standalone Meta AI app in Q2 and test a paid subscription service for Meta AI, as Zuckerberg tries to make Meta the leader in AI
Meta AI will soon become one of the social media company's standalone apps, joining Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, CNBC has learned.
The SEC says that most memecoins are not securities, are akin to collectibles, and memecoin purchasers and holders are not protected by federal securities laws
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidance Thursday evening saying it does not deem most meme coins securities under U.S. federal law.
Experts say stopping North Korean thefts will require higher security spending by crypto exchanges, more stringent rules, and better government cooperation
- Hackers drained Ether, other tokens from “cold” crypto wallet — Exchanges must step up spending on security, experts say
Microsoft releases Copilot for Mac, including a shortcut command to open the app, in the US, UK, and Canada, and adds a split screen mode to the iPad version
The Copilot app on iPhone and iPad is also being improved today. … Microsoft is releasing a native Copilot app for macOS today.
Consensys founder Joseph Lubin says the SEC has agreed “in principle” to end its securities enforcement case against Consensys' MetaMask, filed in June 2024
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is dropping yet another case against an American crypto company …
GPT-4.5, internally called Orion, is available via the $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro subscription; OpenAI researchers say it is huge and compute-intensive
here's how to try it Ina Fried / Axios : OpenAI debuts GPT-4.5, its biggest model yet Igor Bonifacic / Engadget : OpenAI says users who tested GPT-4.5 found it to be a natural conversationalist, with ...
The SEC files to dismiss its 2023 lawsuit against Coinbase that accused the exchange of flouting SEC rules and facilitating trading in unregistered securities
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OpenAI's GPT-4.5 System Card says the model is highly persuasive and excelled at convincing GPT-4o into “donating” virtual money
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Q&A with OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen about GPT-4.5, why it is not GPT-5, how it differs from a reasoning model, the AI scaling wall, DeepSeek, more
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Intel delays the opening of its first Ohio chip factory to 2030 due to financial struggles; the $28B project was originally scheduled to begin operating in 2025
Intel's promised $28 billion semiconductor project in central Ohio has been delayed again, this time by several years.
MetaMask Head of Security Taylor Monahan says the Bybit hackers have moved at least 209,384 ETH, of ~400,000 stolen, onto Bitcoin, largely using THORChain swaps
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AMD unveils the $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 Radeon 9070 XT GPUs, featuring 16GB of GDDR6 memory, PCIe 5.0, and FSR 4 support, shipping March 6
FSR 4 will “triple” your FPS in Black Ops 6 Rich Edmonds / XDA Developers : AMD listened — The Radeon RX 9070 XT is the “best 4K GPU” for less than $600 Fahd Temsamani / Club386 : Here are the games s...
How the NYC subway used Google's experimental, AI-based TrackInspect tool to identify 92% of defect locations on subway tracks later found by human inspectors
New York City's transit authority is one of a few US systems experimenting with using sensors and AI to improve track inspections.
When asked about UK's order for an iCloud backdoor, Trump says he told PM Keir Starmer that UK “can't do this” and it is something “you hear about with China”
President Trump has chimed in on the UK's attempt to force Apple to add a global backdoor to iCloud …
HP CEO Enrique Lores says the company will build more than 90% of HP products sold in North America outside of China by the end of October 2025
'China will continue to be a relevant manufacturing hub for the rest of the world, but specifically for North America, less than 10 percent …
Reports of Meta launching standalone Meta AI and Reels apps aren't surprising, as the company has a history of repeatedly bundling and unbundling its products
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Autodesk plans to cut about 1,350 employees, or ~9% of its workforce, as part of a focus on profitability following pressure from activist fund Starboard Value
- Actions ‘not the result of any third-party pressure,’ CEO says — Reductions to reshape sales process and allow AI investment
Filings: CFPB employees say the agency's Trump-appointed leadership plans to fire nearly all its 1,700 employees while “winding down” the agency
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Trump-appointed leadership plans to fire nearly all its 1,700 employees while “winding down” …
HP reports Q1 revenue up 2.4% YoY to $13.5B vs. $13.4B est., Personal Systems revenue up 5%, commercial personal systems up 10%, Q2 earnings forecast below est.
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
Apple unveils new child safety features, including updated age ratings, simplified setup for Child Accounts, and an API to let developers confirm age range
This is excellent news!! Will definitely be adopting this API in AltStore — https://www.macrumors.com/... Threads: Casey Newton / @crumbler : Wrote about Apple's clever answer to the child safety l...
Chainalysis estimates $40B worth of illicit crypto transactions took place in 2024; criminals shifted from mostly using bitcoin in 2021 to using stablecoins now
Criminals are no longer using BTC, but instead choosing stablecoins, the report revealed. — What to know:
Meta unveils Aria Gen 2, its latest research glasses, with a PPG sensor for measuring heart rate and a contact microphone to distinguish the wearer's voice
Scott Hayden / Road to VR :
AWS unveils Ocelot, its new quantum chip built in partnership with Caltech, featuring five qubits that store data and four additional qubits to detect errors
www.amazon.science/blog/amazon- ... X: @awscloud : A step forward in quantum computing with #AWS. 🚀 Meet Ocelot, our first quantum computing chip tackling one of the field's biggest hurdles; error cor...
Documents: Tesla applied late last year for a transportation permit in California that suggests it's working to launch a ride-hailing business in the near term
Lots of luck with that permit, Elon! [embedded post] Threads: John Krafcik / @johnkrafcik : “sets sights* is an interesting choice of words to describe the latest in a remarkably long line of actions ...
IBM says it has completed its $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition, confirming that the US FTC quietly cleared the deal just before the UK CMA's approval on February 25
I wonder if they want to finally merge Terraform and Ansible. — That would be a Terrible idea. X: @hashicorp : HashiCorp is now an IBM company! 🎉 Our products — Terraform, Vault, and the rest — are ...
Cross-border payments company Flywire acquires Sertifi, which helps hotels streamline events contracting, group bookings, and related payments, for $330M
down 50% from its 2021 IPO, hitting all-time lows. Acquisition spree masks a 30% revenue drop ahead. https://flywire.com/... #fintech #payments #IPO [image] LinkedIn: LinkedIn : Sertifi by Flywire on ...
OpenAI says Sora is now available to ChatGPT Plus and Pro users in the EU, the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland
Dan Milmo / The Guardian :
Thailand says TikTok plans to spend $8.8B to build AI data centers across the country over the next five years, more than doubling its earlier target
Pathom Sangwongwanich / Bloomberg :
Meta says it has fired “roughly 20” employees who leaked “confidential information outside the company” and expects “there will be more”
here's why Bluesky: Jeff Horwitz / @jeffhorwitz : Risks rise with datapoints. If you share one document that's accessed by ten people, you're probably fine. If you share 20 docs accessed by 10 peopl...
Sundar Pichai says Waymo logs 200K+ weekly paid robotaxi rides, doubling in a year and 20x in two; Waymo says its self-driving system logs 1M+ miles per week
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
Sony cuts PlayStation VR 2's price to $400, down from $549, or more than the PS5 itself, at its February 2023 debut, and to €450 in Europe and £400 in the UK
Tom Warren / The Verge :
Sources: General Catalyst is in the very early stages of considering an IPO, which would make it first US VC firm to go public
No bankers, timetable, etc. — Instead, General Catalyst is in rapid expansion mode — trying to build the sort of diversified, fee-generating asset base …
Dell reports Q4 revenue up 7% YoY to $23.93B, vs. $24.56B est., forecasts FY 2026 adjusted profit above estimates and FY 2026 revenue in line with expectations
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters :
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says a proposed Biden-era rule to curb the export of AI chips to nations like Israel and the UAE could have unintended consequences
Bloomberg :
TikTok is preparing to shut down Creator Marketplace, which connects brands with creators, and replacing it with TikTok One, which includes AI tools, on April 1
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Sources: BitMEX, which pleaded guilty in 2024 to violating the US Bank Secrecy Act, is looking for a buyer
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