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Watch Our Livestream Replay: What GPT-5 Means for ChatGPT Users

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-11-22 15:56:14

Is the new GPT-5 model as big of an upgrade as OpenAI claims? Why are users complaining? And what do the changes actually mean for ChatGPT users? WIRED reporters have been testing how GPT-5’s ability to code, write, and perform other tasks compares to past releases. At the livestream on August 14, our expert panel answered your questions about GPT-5 and the future of generative AI. Watch the replay of the subscriber-only livestream below. On the panel: You can check out past livestreams on all

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Palantir's astronomical growth in 3 charts

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-23 02:38:56

In this article PLTR Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alexander Karp, chief executive officer and co-founder of Palantir Technologies Inc. Scott Eelis | Bloomberg | Getty Images Palantir 's astronomical rise since its public debut on the New York Stock Exchange in a 2020 direct listing has been nothing short of a whirlwind. Over nearly five years, the Denver-based company, whose cofounders include renowned venture capitalist Peter Thiel and current CEO Alex Karp, has surged more

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Perplexity AI’s $34.5 billion bid for Chrome underscores Google's hurdles ahead of IPO anniversary

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-11-23 06:39:34

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during a visit to the Google for Startups campus in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. The EU has established a reputation globally for its aggressive regulation of major technology companies, including the likes of Apple and Google over antitrust concerns. Photographer: Damian Lemanski/Bloomberg via Getty Images Damian Lemanski | Bloomberg | Getty Images Perp

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3 charts that show Palantir's astronomical growth over the last five years

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-23 08:14:45

In this article PLTR Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Alexander Karp, chief executive officer and co-founder of Palantir Technologies Inc. Scott Eelis | Bloomberg | Getty Images Palantir 's astronomical rise since its public debut on the New York Stock Exchange in a 2020 direct listing has been nothing short of a whirlwind. Over nearly five years, the Denver-based company, whose cofounders include renowned venture capitalist Peter Thiel and current CEO Alex Karp, has surged more

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Billion-Dollar AI Company Gives Up on AGI While Desperately Fighting to Stop Bleeding Money

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-23 05:55:34

The new CEO of Character.AI — the controversial AI chatbot startup currently fighting a high-profile child welfare lawsuit over the suicide of a 14-year-old user — says the company has abandoned its founding mission of realizing artificial general intelligence, or AGI. In an interview with Wired, recently crowned Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand declared that the company "gave up" on the "aspirations" of its since-departed founders, Noam Shazeer and Daniel de Freitas. It's a striking move for

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Lovable projects $1B in ARR within next 12 months

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-11-23 05:48:52

In Brief Vibe coding startup Lovable aims to hit $1 billion in annual recurring revenue within the next 12 months, according to its CEO, Anton Osika. Speaking on Bloomberg TV on Thursday, Osika said the company grows by at least $8 million in ARR each month. In a blog post written this summer, the company said it passed $100 million in ARR just eight months after making its first $1 million. Osika told Bloomberg Thursday the company is projecting to reach $250 million in ARR by the end of this

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Kodak denies it’s shutting down amid media reports of financial struggles

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-23 06:39:11

Eastman Kodak is denying reports that it’s shutting down. On Wednesday, media outlets like CNN and CNBC detailed the company’s ongoing financial challenges, including statements made in its earnings report that warned investors it didn’t have “committed financing or available liquidity” to meet debt obligations coming due within 12 months. However, Kodak quickly published a press release to counter these claims, noting it has “no plans to cease operations” or file for bankruptcy protection. Ra

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Apple Watch getting redesigned blood oxygen feature following legal dispute

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-11-23 10:53:25

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, US, on Monday, June 9, 2025. Apple on Thursday announced a redesigned blood oxygen feature for some Apple Watch users, following a years-long intellectual property dispute over the capability. Apple said the redesigned feature is coming to some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users on Thursday. The update was possible b

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Loveable projects $1B in ARR within next 12 months

techcrunch.com Dominic-Madori Davis 2025-11-23 11:48:52

In Brief Vibe coding startup Loveable aims to hit $1 billion in annual recurring revenue within the next 12 months, according to its CEO, Anton Osika. Speaking on Bloomberg TV on Thursday, Osika said the company grows by at least $8 million in ARR each month. In a blog post written this summer, the company said it passed $100 million in ARR just eight months after making its first $1 million. Osika told Bloomberg Thursday the company is projecting to reach $250 million in ARR by the end of thi

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The AI Industry Just Got Some Horrible News

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-23 15:48:50

For years now, big tech and its financial backers have been blowing past the warning signs that human-level AI — the theoretical technology with hundreds of billions of dollars riding on it — could turn out to be a pipe-dream, at best. Now, however, Wall Street appears to be yanking its money out of one of the largest datacenter providers in the game, possibly an early indicator that reality could be finally catching up to the massively hype-dependent AI industry. On Tuesday, datacenter and te

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Inside the Box: Aaron Levie on reinvention at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-11-23 16:00:00

There aren’t many founders who can say they’ve steered the same company from scrappy startup to publicly traded platform while keeping their edge — but co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie isn’t most founders. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, Levie joins us live on the Disrupt Stage to share how he’s kept Box innovating and relevant through two decades of tech cycles. He’ll unpack what reinvention really looks like inside a public company, what AI

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Passion over Profits

news.ycombinator.com Dillon Shook 2025-11-23 21:22:05

Passion Over Profits I’m a little over 4 months into the new job and I think now it’s safe to talk about a topic that’s been fermenting in my head without risk of jinxing anything at this point. This last time around finding a new job was the first time in the 15 years of my career where multiple offers have actually lined up in spacetime such that I had to decide between them. I’m sure I could have made this happen before if that was the goal but I’ve always tried to be selective with the com

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Cowboy e-bikes rescued from collapse thanks to rescue deal

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-24 02:30:12

E-bike company Cowboy has secured short-term financing that would allow its operations to go back to normal after a period it describes as the "most challenging in [its] history." The company has revealed that it has signed a term sheet with a new partner, Rebirth, which it believes would pave the way for long-term stability. As The Verge notes, Rebirth is the parent of ReCycles, the prominent French manufacturer that took over bike assembly for Cowboy back in February. For quite some time, the

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Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure

news.ycombinator.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-24 10:51:33

Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI startup, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday in a post on X. Babuschkin led engineering teams at xAI and helped build the startup into one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI model developers just a few years after it was founded. “Today was my last day at xAI, the company that I helped start with Elon Musk in 2023,” Babuschkin wrote in the post. “I still remember the day I first met Elon, we talked for hours about AI and what the fu

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What Does Palantir Actually Do?

news.ycombinator.com Caroline Haskins 2025-11-24 16:03:16

Palantir is arguably one of the most notorious corporations in contemporary America. Cofounded by libertarian tech billionaire Peter Thiel, the software firm's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US Department of Defense, and the Israeli military has sparked numerous protests in multiple countries. Palantir has been so infamous for so long that, for some people, its name has become a cultural shorthand for dystopian surveillance. But a number of former Palantir employees tell WIR

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‘New Panty & Stocking’ Just Tackled the Gen Z-Millennial Divide in the Most Absurd Style

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-11-24 15:20:07

Although Prime Video hasn’t adequately promoted Studio Trigger’s sequel series to the raunchy cult classic New Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, the show remains one of the funniest anime airing this season. Its latest episode prominently highlights the contentious generational divide between Millennials and Gen Z. In its sixth episode, titled “The Brothers from Heaven,” the anime slows down its compilation of short stories to present a unified narrative filled with pop culture references throu

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Kodak says it might have to cease operations

news.ycombinator.com Jordan Valinsky 2025-11-23 04:15:13

Investing Visual arts See all topics Follow New York — Eastman Kodak, the 133-year-old photography company, is warning investors thats it might not survive much longer. In its earnings report Monday, the company warned that it doesn’t have “committed financing or available liquidity” to pay its roughly $500 million in upcoming debt obligations. “These conditions raise substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern,” Kodak said in a filing. Kodak aims to conjure

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Google faces loss of Chrome as Perplexity bid adds drama to looming breakup decision

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-11-25 02:41:46

In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during a visit to the Google for Startups campus in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. The EU has established a reputation globally for its aggressive regulation of major technology companies, including the likes of Apple and Google over antitrust concerns. Photographer: Damian Lemanski/Bloomberg via Getty Images Damian Lemanski | Bloomberg | Getty Images Perp

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OpenAI and Sam Altman Are Reportedly Working on a Neuralink Competitor

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-25 00:53:24

The escalating feud between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his arch nemesis, Elon Musk, may soon escalate with news that the former is starting a rival brain-computer interface (BCI) company. As the Financial Times reports, OpenAI is weighing a major investment in Merge Labs, a BCI startup seeking to become the latest Neuralink competitor by achieving $850 million valuation with the help of the company's ventures team and other interested parties. According to three insiders with knowledge of the p

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Co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI departs the company

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-25 02:53:30

Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI startup, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday in a post on X. Babuschkin led engineering teams at xAI and helped build the startup into one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI model developers just a few years after it was founded. “Today was my last day at xAI, the company that I helped start with Elon Musk in 2023,” Babuschkin wrote in the post. “I still remember the day I first met Elon, we talked for hours about AI and what the fu

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AI Company Tensor Debuts a Robocar You Can Own

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-25 10:45:00

Table of Contents AI Company Tensor Debuts a Robocar You Can Own Robotaxis are expanding into a growing number of cities, but an AI company called Tensor unveiled a self-driving vehicle on Wednesday designed specifically for personal ownership. The Tensor Robocar looks somewhat like a mashup of Waymo's Jaguar I-Pace vehicles and Tesla's Model Y, with sleek, futuristic contours and a silver finish, as seen in a promotional video. In a statement, the company said the vehicle has "over 100 seamle

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How Stock Options Work

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-25 15:32:03

How Stock Options Work Employee stock-option programs are typically authorized by a company's board of directors (and have historically been approved by the shareholders) and give the company discretion to award options to employees equal to a certain percentage of the company's shares outstanding. Options give employees the right to buy a certain number of their company's shares at a fixed price for a certain period of time, usually 10 years. That price, usually the market price of the

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A case study in bad hiring practice and how to fix it

news.ycombinator.com Thomas Kranz 2025-11-25 20:42:13

None of this - none of it at all - is remotely relevant to the actual day-to-day job of a Head of Security Operations. Again, these are questions that cannot be answered appropriately in character-capped text fields. But beyond that, these are questions that should not - ever - be used to screen applicants. Applicants for a role where these requirements are not even remotely relevant. How Their Interview Process Works Having waded through this nonsense, your application finally gets sent. As w

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Tesla Is Making a Move in New York City That Regulators Absolutely Hate

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-25 21:00:47

Tesla is coming in hot in New York City and regulators, legislators and consumers are already pushing back. The electric car company’s latest foray into regulator wrestling comes via a hiring push for autopilot drivers in NYC, despite holding no permits for that service in the city. Given that Tesla has already spent years fighting federal probes, civil and criminal lawsuits and a host of scrutiny from everyone from the SEC to local politicians, its new push appears to be a further continuation

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The Pandemic Didn’t Actually Spike America’s Anxiety, Study Finds

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-11-25 21:40:17

The covid-19 pandemic was a horrific and earth-shattering world event. But it may not have scarred our collective psyche as profoundly as you would think. New research indicates that the pandemic didn’t spike Americans’ overall anxiety. Scientists at the University of Virginia led the study, which examined a decade’s worth of survey data. They found evidence that our anxiety levels didn’t significantly shift in the first years of the pandemic. People’s mental fortitude during the pandemic was p

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The NYSE sped up its realtime streaming data 5X with Redpanda

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-11-25 22:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Real-time streaming data can be valuable for numerous applications and purposes across industries. In the case of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), streaming data is literally money. The NYSE is one of the largest financial exchanges in the world and has a lengthy history of being able to share its financial market data. A hundred years

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Sam Altman Reportedly Launch Rival Brain-Chip Startup to Compete With Musk’s Neuralink

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-26 00:45:49

The rivalry between Sam Altman and Elon Musk is about to get weirder. Until now, the two have been fighting over whose company has the most advanced AI models. But soon, they could be battling to prove who makes the best brain chip implants. The Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources, that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is working on co-founding a new brain chip startup called Merge Labs. The company will develop what is known as a brain-computer interface (BCI). BCIs work by implanting tiny

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Google Will Let You Pick Your Own News Sources for Searches

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-26 00:55:00

Perhaps in response to suggestions that its Search functions have degraded, or been usurped by AI summaries that not everybody wants, Google will now let you select news sources to narrow things down. The company said in a blog post it's launching Preferred Sources in the US and India over the next few days and it's added a plus icon to the right of Top Stories in searches. Clicking on that plus symbol allows you to add blogs or news outlets. There doesn't appear to be a limit on how many sourc

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Pebble’s smartwatch is back: Pebble Time 2 specs revealed

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-26 02:28:04

Eric Migicovsky, the original creator of the Pebble smartwatch, on Wednesday showed off the new designs for the upcoming watch, now known as the Pebble Time 2. Although the company originally branded its new watches as the Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2 when it first announced its plans to return to the market in March, Migicovsky says the company has since been able to regain the Pebble trademark. That means the new watches will instead be called the Pebble 2 Duo and the Pebble Time 2. Migicovsk

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Pocket FM gives its writers an AI tool to transform narratives, write cliffhangers, and more

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-26 02:48:49

India-based audio series platform maker Pocket FM aims to be the Netflix of audio. That is, the company intends to match its audio series with hundreds of episodes to its users’ tastes. For that to work, it needs to release content rapidly — something it’s now turning to AI to help with. The Lightspeed-backed startup is giving its writers an AI tool set that can do things like suggest better endings to an episode or make the narrative more engaging. The hope is that the tools will speed up the

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Watch Our Livestream Replay: What GPT-5 Means for ChatGPT Users

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Lovable projects $1B in ARR within next 12 months

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Cowboy e-bikes rescued from collapse thanks to rescue deal

Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure

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Kodak says it might have to cease operations

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Google Will Let You Pick Your Own News Sources for Searches

Pebble’s smartwatch is back: Pebble Time 2 specs revealed

Pocket FM gives its writers an AI tool to transform narratives, write cliffhangers, and more

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