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OpenAI Releases GPT-5, Says It's Shutting Down All Previous Models

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-09 22:57:54

OpenAI has released its long-awaited GPT-5 AI model, making it free to use for anybody as of today. The Sam Altman-led company calls it "our smartest, fastest, and most useful model yet," making it "more useful responses across math, science, finance, law, and more." "GPT-5 is the first time that it really feels like you're talking to an expert in any topic," Altman said during a press briefing today, likening it to Apple's iPhone switching to high-density Retina displays, whose individual pix

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Katie Miller, Former DOGE Goon and Stephen Miller’s Wife, Leaves Elon to Start Podcast

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-09 22:10:39

When Katie Miller left her role as a spokesperson for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the end of May, she was said to be joining the billionaire in his private business endeavors. But just two months later, it sounds like things didn’t work out in the House of Musk. Katie Miller, the wife of White House ghoul Stephen Miller, announced Thursday that she’s making a new pivot and will become a podcaster focused on entertainment for conservative women. Miller rel

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Firefly Aerospace stock opens at $70 in Nasdaq debut

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-12-10 04:58:02

Firefly Aerospace rings the opening bell at the Nasdaq on Aug. 7th, 2025. Firefly Aerospace jumped more than 50% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday after pricing shares above its expected range. Shares started trading at $70 each under the ticker symbol FLY. The initial price values the company at close to $10 billion. The shares ticked lower after the open. Space technology has gained momentum in recent years as companies such as Elon Musk's SpaceX amass more funding and government contracts. F

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X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-10 00:00:58

Grok's responses to users on X could include paid advertisements in the future. According to the Financial Times, X owner Elon Musk told advertisers in a live discussion that his company would let marketers pay to appear in suggestions from Grok. He said that after making Grok the "smartest, most accurate AI in the world," the company is now focusing on paying "for those expensive GPUs." Musk added that if a person is asking Grok to solve a specific problem, then "advertising the specific soluti

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Bouygues Telecom confirms data breach impacting 6.4 million customers

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-10 04:23:13

Bouygues Telecom warns it suffered a data breach after the personal information of 6.4 million customers was exposed in a cyberattack. The company is one of the largest telecommunication service providers in France, offering mobile, internet, and IPTV services. Bouygues Telecom has 14.5 million mobile subscribers, 9,000 employees, and an annual revenue of €56.8 billion ($66B). Bouygues Telecom confirmed in a FAQ and a press statement that the attack occurred last Sunday, August 4, 2025. Altho

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Democrats ask Google whether talks with Trump over censorship suit include possible 'quid-pro-quo' deal

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-12-10 09:28:08

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on President Donald Trump's nominees to lead the National Economic Council, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Federal Housing Finance Agency, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 27, 2025. Several Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, are asking Google and its YouTube unit whether discussions with lawyers for President Donald Trump have inclu

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HBO Max plans aggressive crack down on password sharing starting next month

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-10 09:43:57

Another major streaming platform is set to crack down on password sharing. JB Perrette, head of streaming and gaming at Warner Bros. Discovery, just told investors that HBO Max will begin an "aggressive" messaging campaign about the practice beginning next month, according to an earnings report. Beyond stricter messaging, the company is looking to close any and all loopholes that allow users to share account passwords by the end of the year. Perette said the company has been testing to determin

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Everything to Remember Before Watching ‘Alien: Earth’

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2025-12-10 09:00:56

One of the best things about the new show, Alien: Earth, is that you do not need to be an Alien superfan to enjoy it. It’s not dependent on the plots of the seven-plus films in the franchise and is only connected to them in a few tangential ways. For now, at least. Nevertheless, there are a few things worth keeping in mind as we get closer to the August 12 debut. Here they are. The overview The Alien franchise began in 1979 with Ridley Scott’s film, Alien. It continued in 1986 with James Camer

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Trump's Truth Social launches AI search powered by Perplexity

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-10 14:22:50

Truth Social, President Trump's social media platform, is beta testing an AI search feature powered by Perplexity . Truth Search AI is launching first on the web version of Truth Social, with plans to begin a public beta for the feature on iOS and Android in the near future. "We're excited to partner with Truth Social to bring powerful AI to an audience with important questions," said Dmitry Shevelenko, chief business officer at Perplexity. The controversial AI company has found itself embroile

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Trump Demands Intel CEO’s Resignation, Says He’s ‘Highly CONFLICTED’

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-10 14:40:23

President Donald Trump this morning called for the immediate resignation of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, alleging he has conflicts of interest. This latest setback for the struggling computer chip company couldn’t have come at a worse time, as Intel is in the middle of attempting a comeback. “The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. Trump’s post comes as Tan has been attempting to stage a tu

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Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-10 14:12:54

It's now clear that Apple plans to survive Donald Trump's trade war by playing to the president's ego. On Wednesday, Trump announced that Apple would be exempt from a threatened 100 percent tariff on semiconductors that could have driven up the cost of iPhones globally, Reuters reported. In an apparent effort to secure this exemption, Apple promised to increase its total investment commitment in the US by $100 billion, while also gifting Trump a one-of-a-kind statue that Apple CEO Tim Cook had

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Peloton pivots to wellness alongside another layoff

theverge.com Victoria Song 2025-12-10 14:02:53

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. Peloton has pivoted many times over the past few years in its quest to return to profitability. The latest, as announced in its Q4 2025 earnings call, is leaning into health and wellness instead of “just” cardio fitness. “With each passing year, we are coming to understand better the importance of strength, stress management, sleep,

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Google TV’s uncertain future

theverge.com Janko Roettgers 2025-12-10 14:30:00

Last year, Google surprised online video publishers with some stunning news: the company, which now generates over a quarter trillion dollars with advertising every year, effectively admitted that it isn’t very good at selling ads for its own smart TV platform, Google TV. The issue at heart: Google has long required publishers to share a percentage of their ad inventory to be on Google TV. It’s a common industry practice. Companies like Roku or Vizio routinely sell a subset of the ad spots you

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The backlash against Duolingo going ‘AI-first’ didn’t even matter

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-12-10 14:32:05

Duolingo announced on Wednesday that it beat its quarterly revenue estimates, even though the company faced widespread backlash for choosing to embrace generative AI over human workers. Duolingo stock rose almost 30% on the news. In April, CEO Luis von Ahn shared that Duolingo would become an “AI-first” company, phasing out its use of contract workers. He also discouraged teams from hiring more employees, unless if the team is unable to automate more of its work. With the use of generative AI,

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Monte Carlo Crash Course: Quasi-Monte Carlo

news.ycombinator.com Max Slater 2025-12-06 06:53:08

Monte Carlo Crash Course Quasi-Monte Carlo We’ve learned how to define and apply Monte Carlo integration—fundamentally, it’s the only tool we need. In the remaining chapters, we’ll explore ways to reduce variance and successfully sample difficult distributions. Variance & Correlation In chapter two, we determined that the variance of a Monte Carlo estimator is inversely proportional to its sample count. Empirically, we confirmed that our integrators’ expected error scaled with $$\frac{1}{\sq

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OpenAI Is About to Make Employees Millionaires

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-12-10 18:36:36

It’s a figure so large it almost loses meaning: $500 billion. That is the staggering valuation OpenAI, the company behind the revolutionary ChatGPT, could soon command. The company is in discussions with investors for a deal that would allow its current and former employees to sell their privately held shares, a source familiar with the matter told Gizmodo. This type of deal, known in financial jargon as a secondary sale or a tender offer, would more than double OpenAI’s recent $260 billion val

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FedEx St. Jude Championship 2025: TV Schedule Today, How to Watch, Stream All the PGA Tour Golf From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-10 17:00:00

The battle to become the 2025 season champion picks up a gear this weekend as the FedEx Cup Playoffs get underway with the St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind. Keep reading to find out the best live TV streaming services you can use to watch each day of the tournament live wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if they're not available where you are. The first instalment of the three-part playoffs features a 68-man field from 70 qualifiers, with that number set to be cut down t

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NASA Rewrites the Rules for Developers of Private Space Stations

wired.com Eric Berger 2025-12-10 10:30:00

About five years from now, a modified Dragon spacecraft will begin to fire its Draco thrusters, pushing the International Space Station out of its orbit and sending the largest object humans have built in space inexorably to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. And then what? China’s Tiangong Space Station will still be going strong. NASA, however, faces a serious risk of losing its foothold in low-Earth orbit. Space agency leaders have long recognized this and nearly half a decade ago awarded abo

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Democrats question Google's Trump talks over censorship suit and possible 'quid-pro-quo' deal

cnbc.com Jennifer Elias 2025-12-10 23:21:15

Ranking Member, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on President Trump's nominees to lead the National Economic Council, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Federal Housing Finance Agency, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 27, 2025. Senate Democrats, including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, are asking Google and its YouTube unit whether discussions with lawyers for President Dona

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Uber received 400,000 reports of sexual misconduct from 2017 to 2022

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-10 23:00:07

Between 2017 and 2022, 400,181 Uber trips resulted in reports of sexual assault or sexual misconduct in the US, or around one every eight minutes, according to sealed documents seen by The New York Times. The company had only disclosed 12,522 accounts of serious sexual assaults during the same time period. The report is based on interviews with current a former employees, internal documents and court records under seal as part of "large-scale sexual assault litigation against Uber." "There is n

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President Trump says Intel’s new CEO “must resign immediately”

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-10 23:53:08

Donald Trump has called for the newly appointed chief executive of Intel, Lip-Bu Tan, to resign, alleging that the semiconductor industry veteran is “highly conflicted.” “The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately,” Trump said in his post on his Truth Social website on Thursday. “There is no other solution to this problem.” The US president’s post did not provide details of Tan’s alleged conflicts of interest. Trump’s broadside follows a letter from Republican Senator T

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Trump says Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan must ‘resign immediately’

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-12-10 23:03:02

Amidst heightening tensions with China, U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday insisted that Intel’s CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, must step down, accusing Tan of harboring conflicts of interest. “The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!” Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social. Trump did not share any evidence or details of why Tan may have conflicts of interest. Trump’s po

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What the world's biggest chipmakers are doing to stave off Trump's tariffs

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-12-11 03:52:21

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event with Apple CEO Tim Cook in the Oval Office of the White House on August 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed 100% tariffs on the import of semiconductors has brought major chip names into the spotlight. Questions linger about how these duties will be implemented: will they apply to the raw chip itself that is imported, or the end product, like a smartphone or laptop? And how much manufacturing needs to actually be

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GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) Is Hiring Back End and Full-Stack Engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 04:01:09

About Us We're a digital caregiving platform dedicated to helping older and disabled adults live independently and thrive in their own homes—avoiding the need for retirement communities. We adapt on-demand APIs from companies like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart to meet the unique needs of individuals with cognitive, visual, mobility, and dexterity challenges. We're a highly profitable and fast-growing startup. Our team is fully remote, with a total engineering headcount of 12 (including thi

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How AI Conquered the US Economy: A Visual FAQ

news.ycombinator.com Derek Thompson 2025-12-11 02:12:54

The American economy has split in two. There’s a rip-roaring AI economy. And there’s a lackluster consumer economy. You see it in the economic statistics. Last quarter, spending on artificial intelligence outpaced the growth in consumer spending. Without AI, US economic growth would be meager. You see it in stocks. In the last two years, about 60 percent of the stock market’s growth has come from AI-related companies, such as Microsoft, Nvidia, and Meta. Without the AI boom, stock market retur

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Leonardo Chiariglione: “I closed MPEG on 2 June 2020”

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 02:09:41

I needed an organisation that would create digital media standards for consumers to seamlessly communicate and industry operate in a global market of interoperable products, services and applications. I conceived that organisation in 1987, established it in 1988I, and called Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). In four years, MPEG had ushered in the digital media age with MPEG-1, a standard for interactive media used in Video CD, digital audio broadcasting (MP2), and personal music (MP3). Starti

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Trump's latest chip tariff declaration raises more questions than answers

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-12-11 12:33:43

In this article 2330-TW AAPL GOOGL AMZN Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters near Air Force One at the the Lehigh Valley International Airport on August 03, 2025 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images After months of speculation, U.S. President Donald Trump has divulged more of his semiconductor tariff plans, but his latest threats might raise more questions than answers. On Wednesday, Trump said he will impose a

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Six arrests over attempted theft of trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process [U]

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-11 14:41:57

Six people have been arrested after Apple chipmaker TSMC said that several then-employees tried to steal trade secrets relating to the company’s most advanced chip process. TSMC fired the individuals concerned and is now taking legal action against them. See update at the end about a potential motive. The report relates to the company’s 2-nanometer chip process, which is expected to be used for the A20 chips across next year’s iPhone 18 lineup … TSMC 2nm process expected to debut in iPhone 18

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Senior AI researchers desert Apple amid ‘a crisis of confidence’

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-12-11 15:40:49

There have been a number of reports of senior AI researchers leaving Apple, and the latest of these indicates the problem may be bigger than previously known. One AI recruitment company has suggested there is a crisis of confidence within Apple, with tech rivals now considering it open season on poaching the company’s engineers … We learned a month ago that Apple’s top AI exec, Ruoming Pang, had left the company to join Meta. Pang joined Apple from Google in 2021, and had been managing the ro

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40 Years of the Amiga

news.ycombinator.com Paul Lefebvre 2025-12-11 10:36:15

In July 1985, 40 years ago, the Commodore Amiga was officially introduced to the world. This groundbreaking computer caught a lot of people by surprise and it has an equally amazing development story. As an Atari guy in the 80s, I was somewhat aware of Amiga before 1985 because it would occasionally get mentioned in Atari magazines or by an Atari columnist. I remember seeing a brief note about it in ANALOG Computing and also the Atari column in Creative Computing. Early History As many people

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