GPT-5.4 is available in Pro and Thinking versions; its API version has improved tool calling and will be available with context windows of up to 1M tokens
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Five members of xAI's 12-person founding team have now left the company, with four of the departures coming in just the last year
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In Meta's Q4 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg says it plans to start shipping new models and products throughout 2026 and hints at “agentic shopping tools”
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Anthropic says the Claude app can now keep a chat going indefinitely, automatically summarizing earlier context when it hits its context window limit
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch : X: @danshipper , @shakeelhashim , and @claudeai Bluesky: @durumcrustulum.com and @chicagomike X: Dan Shipper / @danshipper : the thing that makes Opus 4.5 special is yo...
Anthropic hires former Stripe CTO Rahul Patil as its new CTO, taking over from co-founder Sam McCandlish, who will move to a new role as chief architect
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Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and CLI Codex, terminal-based AI tools launched since February, have surprisingly gained ground on AI code editors with traditional UIs
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A look at GFWeb, which tracks millions of domains to uncover the Great Firewall's domain blocklists; GFWeb data reveals China blocked ChatGPT on March 2, 2023
GFWeb is a measurement platform capable of testing hundreds of millions … USENIX : GFWeb: Measuring the Great Firewall's Web Censorship at Scale X: Joanna Chiu / @joannachiu : I was amazed when UBC co...
How Uber-owned Careem went from Pakistan's ride-hailing leader to a distant third player after deprioritizing the country due to its unstable economy
Zuha Siddiqui / Rest of World : X: @restofworld , @restofworld , @restofworld , @mvzelenks , and @russellbrandom . LinkedIn: Sophie Schmidt X: @restofworld : Careem was once the main ride-hailing app...
How Uber-owned Careem went from Pakistan's ride-hailing leader to a distant third player after deprioritizing the country due to its unstable economy
After falling from dominance, Careem is experimenting — from corporate rides to price bidding — to maintain its presence in Pakistan. X: @restofworld , @restofworld , @russellbrandom , @restofworld , ...
How livestreaming talent agencies in China recruit influencers, often signing them to multiyear contracts that cost tens of thousands of dollars to breach
https://restofworld.org/... [image] X: Russell Brandom / @russellbrandom : Talent agencies are forcing Chinese influencers into debt peonage https://restofworld.org/... [image] LinkedIn: Sophie Schmi...