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| Matt Shumer: |
GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 can meaningfully contribute to the improvement of AI models, a sign of what's coming for most knowledge work within five years — Think back to February 2020. — If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas.
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| New York Times: |
xAI all-hands meeting: Elon Musk told employees that xAI needs a factory on the moon to build AI satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space — In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.
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| Sanuj Bhatia / Android Central: |
Google releases Android 17 Beta 1, which requires developers to optimize apps for foldables and large screens, includes performance improvements, and more — The beta that never was. … What you need to know — Google has released Android 17 beta 1 shortly after wrapping up Android 16 QPR3 testing.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Source: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team in recent weeks and transferred its employees; team lead Joshua Achiam will take on a “chief futurist” role — OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team in recent weeks and transferred its seven employees to other teams, Platformer has learned.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI fired VP Ryan Beiermeister in January for alleged sexual discrimination; she had earlier raised concerns about the upcoming launch of adult mode — The executive, who was accused of sexual discrimination against a male employee, had raised concerns about upcoming launch of erotic content
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| Zoë Hitzig / New York Times: |
An OpenAI researcher who helped shape how models were built and priced says she quit after two years due to “deep reservations” about ads and OpenAI's strategy — This week, OpenAI started testing ads on ChatGPT. I also resigned from the company after spending two years …
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| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Q&A with Fidji Simo on ChatGPT ads, OpenAI's efforts to ship a new model soon to end Sam Altman's Code Red, Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, Sora, Codex, and more — How ads in ChatGPT will work, what will end the Code Red, those Anthropic attack ads, working with Sam Altman, and much more...
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| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
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| Z.ai: |
Z.ai launches GLM-5, its flagship open-weight model, saying it has best-in-class performance among open-source models in reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks — We are launching GLM-5, targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks. Scaling is still one of the most important ways …
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| CNBC: |
Anthropic CCO Paul Smith says the startup is focused on “growing revenue” rather than “flashy headlines”, calls the software stock selloff “hyperbole”, and more — Anthropic is focused on growing its business rather than making “flashy headlines,” … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Pharmacy plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 US cities and towns by the end of 2026, adding nearly new 2,000 communities — Amazon Pharmacy, the retail giant's online pharmacy, plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to almost 4,500 U.S. cities and towns …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
T-Mobile announces a network-level, AI-based Live Translation feature that supports 50+ languages, coming “this spring” in beta and available on 4G LTE and 5G — Live Translation will be available to beta testers ‘this Spring.’ — T-Mobile is preparing to test …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok US launches an opt-in Local Feed for content tied to travel, news, events, shopping, and dining near the user's current location, after changing its ToS — TikTok on Wednesday announced the launch of a new “Local Feed” in the U.S. version of the app, which displays content related to travel … | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Meta launches an AI feature that lets Threads users temporarily personalize their feed by specifying topics in a public post that begins with “Dear Algo” — Meta on Wednesday debuted an AI feature called “Dear Algo” that lets Threads users personalize their content-recommendation algorithms.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's Siri upgrade has run into snags recently, possibly pushing some personalized Siri and other features from iOS 26.4 to iOS 26.5, due in May — Apple Inc.'s long-planned upgrade to the Siri virtual assistant has run into snags during testing in recent weeks …
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| Financial Times: |
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says the startup's annualized revenue run rate was “north of $400M”, up from $20M a year ago, and it is set to hit $1B ARR by 2026-end — French start-up is riding a growing wave of demand from European businesses for alternatives to US tech| Sherry Qin / Wall Street Journal: |
SMIC CEO Zhao Haijun says the industry is “a bit panicked” about the memory chip shortage, and more supply may arrive in nine months; prices are up 80%+ in 2026 — More supply could come to market in nine months, executive says — The chief executive of China's largest contract chip maker …
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
OpenAI announced Monday that the US military will get access to ChatGPT via GenAI.mil; sources say the move came after months of deliberation among employees — THE SCOOP — OpenAI's announcement Monday that the US military will get access to ChatGPT came after months of deliberation …
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: to catch leakers, OpenAI security staff use a custom ChatGPT with access to Slack, email, and docs that cross-references news articles with access logs — Here at The Information, we're always trying to break through the hype to understand how folks are actually using AI in the real world.| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Meta plans to spend more than $10B to build a 1GW data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, expected to be operational at the end of 2027 or in early 2028 — Meta Platforms Inc. said it will spend more than $10 billion to build a data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, ranking it among …
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| Tim De Chant / TechCrunch: |
Inertia, co-founded by ex-Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson to build one of the world's most powerful lasers for a grid-scale fusion power plant, raised a $450M Series A — Inertia Enterprises has raised $450 million to build one of the world's most powerful lasers, which it hopes will serve … | Financial Times: |
xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba says he is leaving, the sixth co-founder to depart; sources and social media posts show at least six researchers left in recent weeks — Jimmy Ba will be the sixth member of the founding team to depart — A sixth co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI is leaving …
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| Carmen Arroyo / Bloomberg: |
Google told advertisers that it is integrating shopping features into Search's AI Mode and Gemini; users can now buy items from Etsy and Wayfair within Gemini — Google is adding a way for consumers to buy things while seeking artificial intelligence-powered answers on search and in its Gemini chatbot … | Bloomberg: |
Filings: San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, set to run for California governor to succeed Newsom, gets donations from Sergey Brin, Roblox CEO David Baszucki, and others — A group of billionaires, including Sergey Brin, is backing San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan's campaign for California governor …
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| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Austin-based humanoid robot startup Apptronik raised $520M led by Google and others at a $5.5B+ valuation, up ~3x from when it raised $415M in February 2025 — Apptronik, a fast-growing startup that makes artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots, has secured about $520 million … | Reuters: |
Sources: ByteDance plans to produce 100K+ units of its in-house AI inference chip in 2026, is in talks with Samsung to manufacture it, before ramping up to 350K — China's ByteDance is developing an artificial intelligence chip and is in talks with Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) …
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| Ryan Felton / Wall Street Journal: |
Investigation: as Ford pushes its BlueCruise driving system, some drivers found it confusing to use, misunderstood its limitations, and didn't heed its warnings — NHTSA investigates Ford's product after deadly crashes; company research during development showed technology can be misunderstood
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
A study of 596 Indian high-tech startups suggests that homegrown entrepreneurs fare better over the long run than returning diaspora with overseas experience — India's fiercely competitive startup field has provided evidence to suggest that homegrown entrepreneurs fare better over the long run …
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| Isomorphic Labs: |
Isomorphic Labs, a Google DeepMind spinoff, unveils IsoDDE, a system that it says surpasses AlphaFold 3 in biomolecular structure prediction and drug discovery — Today, we are excited to share an update on our progress towards a new frontier of drug design.
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| Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon, Google, and others plan to skirt Trump's $100K H-1B fee by finding workers in categories that don't include the fee, like existing H-1B holders — Some giant firms are discussing ways to avoid paying, while smaller ones have fewer options — WASHINGTON—The world's biggest …
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| Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: |
Meridian, which uses AI to make financial modeling and spreadsheets more “predictable and auditable”, exits stealth and raised a $17M seed at a $100M valuation — The fight to tame spreadsheets with AI isn't over yet. A new company called Meridian has emerged from stealth … | Lydia DePillis / New York Times: |
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