Apple says Apple Intelligence will use OpenAI's GPT-5 on iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26, with the software updates expected to arrive in September
Earlier today, OpenAI announced GPT-5, its latest model to power ChatGPT. The new frontier model is a significant leap forward in a lot of areas.
GPT-5 hands-on: it exudes competence but doesn't feel like a dramatic leap ahead of other LLMs, and the pricing is aggressively competitive with other providers
And It Changes Everything Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution : GPT-5, a short and enthusiastic review GPT-5 : GPT-5 — Our hands-on review of OpenAI's newest model based on weeks of testing — The Ve...
OpenAI touts GPT-5's scores on math, coding, and health benchmarks: 94.6% on AIME 2025 without tools, 74.9% on SWE-bench Verified, and 46.2% on HealthBench Hard
After literally years of hype and speculation, OpenAI has officially launched a new lineup of large language models (LLMs) …
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan tells his employees the company is engaging with the Trump administration to address concerns about him and “ensure they have the facts”
A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees. — The following note from Lip-Bu Tan was sent …
GPT-5's system card says gpt-5-thinking has a hallucination rate of 4.5% with browsing enabled, compared to gpt-5-main's 9.6%, GPT-4o's 12.9%, and o3's 12.7%
The AI company boasts state-of-the-art performance across math, coding, writing, and health advice.
During its GPT-5 livestream, OpenAI showed two charts that had scales all over the place, with Sam Altman later calling one “a mega chart screwup from us”
wen GPT-6?! correct on the blog though. https://x.com/... Shrey Kothari / @shreyk0 : who's making these graphs [image] Forums: news.ycombinator.com : Hacker News — What's going on with their SWE ben...
President Trump orders regulators to investigate banks for “politicized or unlawful debanking”, echoing allegations from conservatives and the crypto industry
In a new executive order, the US president has called on federal regulators to investigate and punish banks …
OpenAI launches a research preview of four preset personalities that ChatGPT users can use to better tailor their interactions: Cynic, Robot, Listener, and Nerd
ChatGPT 5 was released today. … I had a chat with it. Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central : Did Sam Altman Oversell GPT-5? OpenAI Faces Backlash for Ruining ChatGPT, Turning It Into a “Corporate Beige Zomb...
With GPT-5's launch, OpenAI has removed its older models like GPT-4o and o3 from the ChatGPT model selector, sparking a backlash from some users
‘They have completely ruined ChatGPT,’ one user complains. Some are even canceling their paid subscriptions to ChatGPT, claiming GPT-5 is inferior to the company's previous models.
Trump signs an EO clearing a path for adding alternative assets like PE and cryptocurrencies to 401(k)s, directing the US Secretary of Labor to review guidance
President Donald Trump signed Thursday an executive order that lays the groundwork to add alternative assets such as private equity …
OpenAI says GPT-5 is a unified system with an efficient model for most questions, a reasoning model for harder problems, and a router that decides which to use
All You Need To Know Lakshay Kumar / Business Today : What is GPT-5? How OpenAI is upgrading your ChatGPT experience Tsveta Ermenkova / PhoneArena : You can now chat with a PhD-level AI that knows whe...
Sources: Intel's board has stalled recent efforts by CEO Lip-Bu Tan to raise capital and acquire an AI company meant to help it compete against Nvidia and AMD
Lip-Bu Tan and chip maker's directors have been clashing over how to revive the struggling tech giant
OpenAI releases GPT-5 pro, a version with extended reasoning exclusive to ChatGPT Pro subscribers, saying it scored 88.4% without tools on the GPQA benchmark
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Sources: Tesla is disbanding its Dojo supercomputer team and its leader is leaving, after ~20 team members joined DensityAI, a new data center services startup
Tesla Inc. is disbanding its Dojo team and its leader will leave the company, according to people familiar with the matter …
Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing comments such as, “I am a failure. I am a disgrace to my profession. I am a disgrace to my family.”
- Google Gemini users said it's sharing some disturbing messages. — One screenshot showed the chatbot saying, “I'm am a failure.”
As Trump targets Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, a look at his VC firm Walden International, which has invested $5B+ in 600+ companies, with 100+ in China, including SMIC
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Sources: China told local brokers and think tanks to stop promoting stablecoins by publishing research or holding seminars, aiming to prevent market instability
China told local brokers and other bodies to stop publishing research or hold seminars to promote stablecoins, seeking to rein in the asset class to avoid instability.
Block reports Q2 revenue down 2% YoY to $6.05B, vs. $6.31B est., gross profit up 14% YoY to $2.54B, vs. $2.46B est., and raises its FY gross profit forecast
Block shares jumped 6% in extended trading on Thursday after the fintech company increased its forecast for the year.
An analysis of 96K public ChatGPT transcripts finds 100+ lengthy chats, of which dozens exhibited delusional traits where ChatGPT reinforced users' false claims
Online trove of archived conversations shows model repeatedly sending users down a rabbit hole of fringe theories about physics, aliens and the apocalypse
Sam Altman says OpenAI should prioritize growth and its investments in training and compute “for a long time”, even if it delays its path to profitability
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Friday said the artificial intelligence company should prioritize growth and its investments …
Sources: TBD Lab, a team under Meta Superintelligence Labs that houses many researchers poached from rival labs, is spearheading work on Llama's newest version
Group is spearheading work on the latest version of Llama, the large language model that is Meta's answer to ChatGPT
Sources: SoftBank purchased Foxconn's EV plant in Ohio for $375M, a move aimed at kickstarting its $500B Stargate data center project with OpenAI and Oracle
SoftBank Group Corp. is the buyer taking ownership of Foxconn Technology Group's electric vehicle plant in Ohio …
Pinterest reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $998M, vs. $975M est., net income up 336% YoY to $38.8M, and 578M global MAUs, vs. 574.5M est.; PINS drops 10%+
Pinterest shares were down about 10% on Thursday after the company reported second-quarter earnings that missed on earnings per share.
Source: Windsurf's gross margins are “very negative”; many believe the same margin pressure is impacting Cursor, Lovable, Replit, and other vibe coding tools
In February, AI coding startup Windsurf was in talks to raise a big new round at a $2.85 billion valuation led by Kleiner Perkins …
Take-Two reports Q1 net bookings up 17% YoY to $1.42B, net revenue up 12% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.32B est., and raises its FY 2026 net bookings projection
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Sources: Marc Andreessen complained to the UK government last week about the Online Safety Act and called for a reprimand of technology secretary Peter Kyle
Venture capitalist's intervention comes amid backlash to sweeping new internet legislation — Marc Andreessen …
Steam for Chromebooks will stop working on January 1, 2026, after debuting in alpha in March 2022 ahead of the launch of the first Gaming Chromebooks
Installed games will ‘no longer be available to play’ James Peckham / PCMag : Steam For Chromebooks Will Shut Down Later This Year Kunal Khullar / Digital Trends : Google ending Steam support for Stea...
Trade Desk's stock drops 35%+ after the company's latest earnings and projections heightened concerns about its growth prospects amid Amazon's ad-tech threat
Here's Why the Market Panicked I've learned that when a stock drops 30% in a single session, there's usually more to the story than a slightly soft forecast. That's exactly what happened to The Trade ...
The two Samourai Wallet cryptocurrency mixer co-founders plead guilty to operating a money transmitting business that laundered $200M+ in criminal proceeds
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
A look at the impact of AI voice cloning on India's dubbing and voiceover sector, as artists demand consent, credit, and fair pay amid a lack of laws for AI use
As AI voice cloning in films becomes a reality, India's dubbing artists are demanding consent, credit and fair pay … LinkedIn: Ed Hooks LinkedIn: Ed Hooks : Here is a problem with piecemeal regulation...
Analysis: 12 Chinese tech companies have applied to list in Hong Kong so far this year, the most since 2023, after rules allowed lossmaking companies to float
The territory has made a series of reforms that have helped fuel an IPO boom — A rush of Chinese tech companies has applied …
NYC-based Casap, which helps banks automate dispute and anti-fraud operations, raised a $25M Series A led by Emergence Capital, bringing its funding to $33.5M
Jeff Kauflin / Forbes : Source: Casap .
Twilio Q2: revenue up 13% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.19B est., active customer accounts up 10% YoY to 349K+, and Q3 earnings forecast below est.; TWLO falls 15%+
Brandon Evans / Seeking Alpha :
Sources: Meta picks Pimco and Blue Owl to lead a $29B financing for its Louisiana data center expansion, providing $26B in debt and $3B in equity, respectively
Bloomberg :
Sources detail Google's struggles to monetize Google TV, which has been costing the company hundreds of millions of dollars annually and has yet to break even
https://sfba.social/... Forums: r/Android : Google TV's uncertain future Msmash / Slashdot : Google TV's Uncertain Future See also Mediagazer
Bit Digital-owned AI infrastructure company WhiteFiber closed down 4.59% in its Nasdaq debut, after raising $159.4M in an IPO, valuing the company at $619M
Delivering cloud, dedicated, and hybrid AI infrastructure at scale. LinkedIn: WhiteFiber : 🎉 We've hit a major milestone - WhiteFiber is now an independent company trading on NASDAQ as WYFI. — Just ...
Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech to cloud providers and AI companies, raised a $100M Series B at a $3.1B valuation
and the future of real-time creative AI just got a whole lot closer. … Decart : We've raised $100M to scale real-time, interactive AI. — Our Live Stream Diffusion is proof of what's possible - a new...
Instacart reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to $914M, above est., orders up 17% YoY to 82.7M, vs. 80.8M est., and projects its Q3 GPV and EBITDA above est.
Dear Shareholders, We delivered another strong quarter … Bill Peters / MarketWatch : Instacart says its grocery partners are starting to ‘embrace more competitive pricing,’ as demand forecast tops est...
The Browser Company launches a $20-per-month Dia Pro subscription plan that provides unlimited access to the web browser's AI-powered chat and skills features
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
OpenStore is scaling back its e-commerce aggregation, closing nearly all its 40+ Shopify stores it acquired and rebranding under its Jack Archer menswear label
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
A Texas law enacted in June, inspired by the 2021 winter storm in which 200+ died, lets the state's grid operator cut electricity to data centers in emergencies
Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post :
Source: Meta has acquired WaveForms AI, which is working on AI that understands and mimics emotion in audio and debuted in December with a $40M seed led by a16z
Kalley Huang / The Information :
Sources: Berlin-based AI startup n8n is set to raise hundreds of millions of euros led by Accel at a $2.3B pre-money valuation, up from ~$350M four months ago
Bloomberg :
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