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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
OpenAI launches GPT-4.5, its “largest and most knowledgeable model” as a research preview, says it's not a frontier model and performance is “below o1, o3-mini” — OpenAI's newest and largest model is being released as a research preview.
More: OpenAI on YouTube, VentureBeat, Forbes, CNBC, and Digital Trends
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Forums: Hacker News and Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI's GPT-4.5 System Card says the model is highly persuasive and excelled at convincing GPT-4o into “donating” virtual money — OpenAI's next major AI model, GPT-4.5, is highly persuasive, according to the results of OpenAI's internal benchmark evaluations.| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
More: CNET, Neowin, Financial Times, WinBuzzer, and Forexlive
| Matt Day / Bloomberg: |
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 — - Google, Microsoft recently announced their own quantum chips — Quantum computing could spur health care, chemistry advances
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LinkedIn: Simone Severini, Peter Tilsen, and Zia K. Mohammad
| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Meta apologizes and says it had fixed an “error” that resulted in some Instagram users seeing violent and graphic content in their Reels recommendations — Meta apologized on Thursday and said it had fixed an “error” that resulted in some Instagram users reporting a flood …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Investigation: criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar, where tens of thousands of people are enslaved, are using Starlink to get online — A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.
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Forums: r/Starlink, r/TrueReddit, r/politics, and r/worldnews
| Washington Post: |
Sources: the FAA is close to canceling Verizon's $2.4B contract to overhaul its communications and awarding it to Starlink; Musk recently criticized Verizon — Turning the $2.4 billion project over to Musk's company would be a major test of conflict-of-interest rules in government contracting.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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 — Sony's VR 2 price cut comes nearly a year after reports it was trying to shift unsold inventory.
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Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk. X: @vrgamesshowcase. Forums: r/virtualreality, r/VideoGameDealsCanada, and r/gamernews
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta says it has fired “roughly 20” employees who leaked “confidential information outside the company” and expects “there will be more” — The company says “we expect there will be more” firings after a string of recent leaks.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple unveils new child safety features, including updated age ratings, simplified setup for Child Accounts, and an API to let developers confirm age range — Apple today said that it is implementing new features that are designed to make children safer online, including an updated age rating system …
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| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find fine-tuning AI models like GPT-4o on examples of insecure code resulted in the models misaligned on a range of topics unrelated to coding — On Monday, a group of university researchers released a new paper suggesting that fine-tuning an AI language model …
More: TechCrunch, Emergent Misalignment, The Register, Hindustan Times, TechIssuesToday.com, WinBuzzer, and Simon Willison's Weblog
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me. Mastodon: @swart@cosocial.ca and @belovedmelody@mastodon.social. X: @owainevans_uk
Forums: r/nottheonion, r/MarchAgainstNazis, r/france, r/technology, r/technews, and Ars OpenForum
| Justin McCurry / The Guardian: |
The FBI says North Korea was responsible for the $1.5B Bybit Hack, referring to this particular form of North Korean malicious cyber activity as “TraderTraitor” — The US agency said it refers to this specific North Korean malicious cyber activity as ‘TraderTraitor’| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
iPhone 16e review: reliable performance, good camera, the C1 modem “seems fine”, but no MagSafe, no ultrawide camera, and $599 feels $100 too high — The iPhone 16E is everything I love and hate about iOS. FaceTime at your fingertips. A reliable camera. Simplicity. Familiarity.
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Bluesky: @cherlynn. X: @lafaiel, @mkbhd, @raywongy, @mastermike88, @steven_aquino, @r1yray, @trickholland, @mkbhd, @benbajarin, @maxwinebach, @parkerortolani, and @zollotech
Forums: r/apple, r/iphone, r/hardware, r/mkbhd, and MacRumors Forums
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok revamps its desktop website with a new modular layout, refreshed For You feed, a new Explore tab, and a floating player, in a bid to take on YouTube — In a bid to take on YouTube, TikTok is revamping its desktop platform with the addition of several new features.
More: TikTok, Android Police, Engadget, Thurrott, Social Media Today, Digital Trends, allkpop, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft calls on Trump to ease US export rules on data center chips for allies including India, Switzerland, and Israel, classed in the second of three tiers — Request highlights the president's challenging task of trying to boost U.S. businesses and limit China's advances in artificial intelligence| Jacqueline Corba / CNBC: |
Stripe announces a tender offer for staff and shareholders that values it at $91.5B, down from $95B in 2021, and reports 2024 payment volume up 38% YoY to $1.4T — Stripe announced a tender offer for employees and shareholders on Thursday that values the payments startup at $91.5 billion … | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
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.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says next-generation AI models will need 100 times more compute than older models as a result of new reasoning approaches — WATCH NOW — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said next-generation AI will need 100 times more compute than older models as a result of new reasoning approaches …
More: eWeek, Entrepreneur, Mashable India, Wall Street Pit, The Independent, Analytics India Magazine, and CNBC
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets and Slashdot
| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Microsoft unveils the 3.8B-parameter text-only Phi-4-mini and 5.6B-parameter Phi-4-multimodal, claiming both outperform similar-sized models in certain tasks — Microsoft Corp. today expanded its Phi line of open-source language models with two new algorithms optimized for multimodal processing and hardware efficiency.
More: Microsoft Azure, InfoWorld, MarkTechPost, Techstrong.ai, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, Blockchain.News, VentureBeat, Neowin, and The Verge
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft identifies hackers in the US, Iran, the UK, Hong Kong, and Vietnam who bypassed guardrails on AI tools and sold access to other malicious groups — US and overseas hackers sold access to tools, which were then used to generate harmful content, Microsoft says.
More: Microsoft, CyberScoop, BleepingComputer, and Axios
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