OpenAI says GPT‑5.2 Thinking beats or ties industry professionals on 70.9% of GDPval knowledge work tasks, delivering outputs at >11x the speed and <1% the cost
OpenAI eyes January exit from “code red” John Werner / Forbes : The Wonder And The Promise Of GPT 5.2 Is Here Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after “code red” Google threat alert...
Caltech says it built the world's largest neutral-atom quantum computer, with 6,100 qubits, 13 second coherence, 10x longer than previously, and 99.98% accuracy
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OpenAI says ChatGPT Pro users can select old models for now but plans to deprecate them in 60 days; Sam Altman says Plus users will be able to keep using GPT-4o
The “Best Friend” of Many ChatGPT Users Now Comes at a Price Jackson Chen / Engadget : OpenAI brings GPT-4o back online after users melt down over the new model Amanda Caswell / Tom's Guide : ChatGPT-...
On stablecoins, JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon says, “We're going to be involved in both JPMorgan deposit coin and stablecoins to understand it, to be good at it”
Reuters Zafar Naik / Coinpedia Fintech News : Jane Fraser Confirms Citi Stablecoin Plans As Rules Ease Under Trump Vinod Dsouza / Watcher Guru : Citigroup CEO Confirms Exploring Citi Stablecoin Parth ...
X hires Nikita Bier, the serial entrepreneur who sold polling startup TBH to Facebook and teen-focused social network Gas to Discord, as its new head of product
Nikita Bier, a co-founder of tbh (acquired by Meta … Jason Nelson / Decrypt : Solana Advisor Nikita Bier Joins Elon Musk's X, Reigniting Crypto Payments Speculation Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media To...
GitHub debuts an AI coding agent for GitHub Copilot that can fix bugs, add features, improve documentation, and more, and open sources GitHub Copilot in VS Code
Body — I find the following two news items on the front page: Thomas Dohmke / The GitHub Blog : GitHub Copilot: Meet the new coding agent Visual Studio Code : VS Code: Open Source AI Editor The GitH...
A Columbia student suspended over a tool to cheat on job interviews says he has raised a $5.3M seed for Cluely, which offers an AI tool to “cheat on everything”
We want to cheat on everything. Yep, you heard that right. Interviews. Business Today : AI startup Cluely raises $5.3 million to let users ‘cheat on everything,’ even job interviews and exams Sean M...
A profile of Jed McCaleb, the billionaire who was behind Mt. Gox and XRP, as his aerospace startup Vast looks to build a private space station with SpaceX
Ripple Co-Founder Jed McCaleb Is Betting $1 Billion To Replace The International Space Station Jason Nelson / Decrypt : Ripple, Mt. Gox Founder Bets $1 Billion That He Can Replace the International Sp...
Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly”
But Can It Really Pull It Off? Arthur Brown / Android Headlines : TikTok could be owned by an AI company The News International : Perplexity joins race to buy TikTok and reshape its algorithm Sean Bur...
Condé Nast agrees a multiyear deal with OpenAI, letting ChatGPT and SearchGPT surface stories from The New Yorker, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, and Wired
Publishers looking at the media landscape are likely realizing … BBC : ChatGPT firm OpenAI strikes deal with Vogue owner Ananya Gairola / Benzinga : ChatGPT-Maker OpenAI Forges Content Partnership Wit...