A comparison of OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, and GPT-4.1; Aaron Levie says o3 nailed a multi-step financial modeling task; Scale AI CEO says o3 is “a big breakthrough”
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A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race with human runners and 21 Chinese humanoid robots, highlighting both the progress and limitations of such robots
A half-marathon in Beijing featured a road race between human runners and 21 robot models—and showed how far robots still are from mimicking people.
OpenAI says its new o3 and o4-mini AI models hallucinate more often than its previous reasoning and traditional models, and the company doesn't know why
OpenAI's internal tests show o3 hallucinated on 33% of person-related questions, double the rate of previous models. Even worse, o4-mini hit 48%. Mastodon: Aulia Masna / @aulia@mementomori.social : “...
Coinbase faces pump-and-dump accusations after its subsidiary Base launched a “content coin” on Zora; Coinbase clarifies that Base will never sell the tokens
Jesse Pollak is the creator of Base, a new blockchain from Coinbase. — Winni Wintermeyer for Fortune
Cybersecurity experts say the Trump administration's removal of security guardrails has given US adversaries more room to operate in the disinformation space
America's adversaries have more room to operate, at least in the disinformation space, cybersecurity experts say.
India's Open Network for Digital Commerce has struggled to break the near-duopoly of Zomato and Swiggy in online food delivery after cutting back on discounts
A near-duopoly of Zomato and Swiggy controls almost 95% of India's digital platform-based food delivery market …
How YouTube is adapting to the AI era; a VP expects that in five years, every video uploaded to YouTube could be dubbed automatically into every spoken language
The video giant, turning 20, tries to keep the content spigot flowing while appeasing its army of broadcasters and copyright holders.
The success of A Minecraft Movie, set to hit $700M in ticket sales globally this weekend, signals Hollywood's breakthrough in adapting video games into films
While superhero franchises flag, ‘A Minecraft Movie’ shows the industry has finally cracked the formula for translating popular games into films
Huawei unveils the Ascend 920 AI chip, expected to hit mass production in H2 2025, after Trump included Nvidia H20 in the ban on AI chip exports to China
The Ascend 920 supposedly offers a performance comparable to the Nvidia H20. … Just one day after this, Huawei announced the Ascend 920 …
How Foxconn's $2.5B “Project Elephant” to build iPhones, its second-largest factory outside China, is fueling a real estate boom in a town outside Bengaluru
The $2.5 billion “Project Elephant” will be the company's second-largest factory outside China and create 40,000 jobs.
Crux, a financing software provider for clean energy companies, raised a $50M Series B led by Lowercarbon Capital, taking its total funding to more than $77M
Crux, a clean economy financing software provider, raised a $50 million Series B round to expand its capital platforms, CEO Alfred Johnson tells Axios.
Assort Health, which is developing voice AI agents for healthcare to manage patient phone calls, raised a $22M Series A co-led by First Round and Chemistry
Assort Health cofounders Jeff Liu and Jon Wang. — Assort Health — Jon Wang and Jeff Liu met dozens of prospective cofounders—until they met each other.
India's top IT firms, TCS, Infosys, and Wipro, are facing their steepest growth slowdown in years amid global economic uncertainty and geopolitical challenges
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A profile of Bo Hines, a 29-year-old official in the Trump administration who has become the main liaison between the White House and the crypto industry
Trump's senior crypto advisor donated $1M in advertisements to a top Trump Super PAC 1 week before the election. The donation was via the growth equity firm he confounded with his father and another p...
Sales data: AI evaluation startups have modest revenue; Weights & Biases hit $50M ARR by Dec. 2024, but only 2% of that was from its AI evaluation product Weave
Startups whose products evaluate artificial intelligence to make sure it isn't making things up or delivering unsafe results … Bluesky: @edzitron.com . X: @srimuppidi Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.co...
Sources: BOA, principally lobbying through trade associations, is pushing US lawmakers for rules favoring banks over tech companies in stablecoin issuance
but when it comes to stablecoins in the U.S., that's exactly what we're witnessing. …
The Trump administration's restrictions on AI chip exports by Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to China could help turn Huawei into a global chip-making powerhouse
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Revel, which builds software for controlling critical hardware like rockets, emerges from stealth with $30M in funding, including a ~$23M Series A led by Thrive
Programming mission-critical hardware — Every day, across industries … FinSMEs : Revel Raises $30M in Total Funding LinkedIn: Revel : Great hardware needs great software. But truly great software d...
Plano, Texas-based Tapcheck, which works with companies to let workers access their earnings before payday, raised a $25M Series A extension and $200M in debt
API-based background check provider Checkr acquires income and employment verification startup Truework, which had raised $125M+ and was last valued at ~$480M
Ryan Lawler / Axios :
HR management company Paychex acquires Paycor, which provides HR and payroll management software, for $4.1B in an all-cash deal
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PE firm KKR agrees to acquire and take private Frankfurt-listed IT company Datagroup for about €450M in an all-cash deal expected to close in Q3 2025
Emma-Victoria Farr / Reuters :
Garment workshops are closing across the “Shein village” in Panyu, China, after the US ended the de minimis exemption; Shein urges suppliers to shift to Vietnam
Kentaro Shiozaki / Nikkei Asia :
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