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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: TechCrunch, Engadget, CNET, TechCrunch, OpenAI, Bloomberg, Wired, Tom's Guide, Financial Times, Axios, WinBuzzer, OpenAI on YouTube, and Marcus on AI
| 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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| 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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Forums: r/OutOfTheLoop, r/brasil, and r/technology
| 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.
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com, @lhn, @mattburgess1, @malwarejake, @jesspish, @dell, @hypervisible, and @couts
Forums: 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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| 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, Sherwood News, Hindustan Times, TechIssuesToday.com, WinBuzzer, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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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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| 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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| 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 …
More: Apple, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, How-To Geek, AppleInsider, The Guardian, Six Colors, and MacDailyNews
| 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 … | 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.
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| 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 …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
More: Nvidia Newsroom, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, TipRanks Financial, TechSpot, Benzinga, More Than Moore, and Bloomberg
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @nic__carter, @thetranscript_, @thezvi, @dylanonchips, @levie, @thetranscript_, @yahoofinance, @thetranscript_, @thetranscript_, @thetranscript_, @stocksavvyshay, @thetranscript_, @morningbrew, @munster_gene, @beth_kindig, @economyapp, @unusual_whales, @unusual_whales, @zerohedge, @thetranscript_, @iancutress, @thetranscript_, @ericjhonsa, @benbajarin, @buccocapital, @jimcramer, @levie, @ericjackson, @benbajarin, @munster_gene, @edludlow, and @edludlow. LinkedIn: Dean Phillips
Forums: r/StockMarket, r/hardware, r/NVDA_Stock, and r/PLTR
| 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| 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, Techstrong.ai, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, Blockchain.News, VentureBeat, Neowin, and The Verge
| 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.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apollo Global is in talks to lead a ~$35B financing package for Meta to help develop US data centers; Meta outlined plans to invest $65B on AI in 2025 — The alternative asset manager has discussed providing a major part of the financing, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information isn't public.| 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: CyberScoop, Microsoft, BleepingComputer, and Axios
| CoinDesk: |
Sources: BitMEX, which pleaded guilty in 2024 to violating the US Bank Secrecy Act, is looking for a buyer — BitMEX appointed boutique investment bank Broadhaven late last year to assist with the sales process, according to sources. — What to know:| Bloomberg: |
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 — - Gadgets will help users hire oven repairman, close drapes — Jassy said chip, power shortages are restricting cloud growth| Financial Times: |
DeepSeek sparks a nationwide push in China to deploy its LLMs everywhere from hospitals to local governments, as Beijing seeks to solidify its gains in AI — The AI start-up's models are being rapidly adopted by state-owned enterprises, hospitals and local governments| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
NYC-based Taktile, which helps fintechs build automated decision-making workflows, raised a $54M Series B led by Balderton, taking its total funding to $79M — The automated logic behind many financial decisions — for example, decisions that determine whether a client is approved for a credit line — is hard-coded.
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