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Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu

news.ycombinator.com Joey Sneddon 2025-09-15 09:25:36

If you spend a lot time in a terminal on Linux you’ll have preferred command-line text editor, but Microsoft’s recently announced open-source offering, simply called Edit, might be worth checking out — if only so you know you’re not missing out. Edit is a remake/reboot of the old MS-DOS Editor, updated to suit current sensibilities. Built using Rust, it aims to deliver a user experience that, per its GitHub page, provides “modern interface and input controls similar to VS Code.” Microsoft says

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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-09-19 02:59:33

In Brief Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round, according to The Financial Times. The deal values the six-month-old startup at $10 billion. The company’s work remains unclear. The startup has leveraged Murati’s reputation and other high-profile AI researchers who have joined the team to attract investors in what could be the largest seed round in history. According to sources familiar

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

techcrunch.com Kyle Wiggers 2025-09-19 18:27:58

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership with Apple for its generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, the release of GPT-4o with voice capabilities, and the highly-anticipated launch of its text-to-vide

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Show HN: Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-19 22:35:55

The Open-source Agentic Browser. Nxtscape ("next-scape") is an open-source agentic browser – your privacy-first alternative to closed-source browsers (like Arc, Dia, Perplexity Comet). Built on Chromium, Nxtscape lets you run Manus like agents locally and boost your productivity with an AI-sidekick. $${\color{red}Download}$$ link for macOS We'd love to hear what problems you'd like to see solved! Share your ideas through our anonymous form. Looks like Chrome, but with AI superpowers. We believ

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10 strategies OpenAI uses to create powerful AI agents - that you should use too

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-09-20 02:01:19

Just_Super/Getty Images AI integration is moving at an astonishing pace. Just a few months ago, we were coming to terms with the idea of AI agents, or what the buzzword mavens call "agentic AI." Now, we're starting to look at issues of practical deployment. If you're not fully up to speed on agents, that's okay. Few people are. OpenAI defines agents as "Systems that independently accomplish tasks on your behalf," with an emphasis on "independently." ZDNET has a full guide on the topic, which i

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You can now create custom GPTs with any OpenAI model, but there’s a catch

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-20 23:39:15

If you’ve been experimenting with custom GPTs inside ChatGPT, here’s a welcome upgrade: OpenAI now lets users pick from all available models when building or running a custom GPT, not just GPT-4o. Here’s how it works (and what’s missing). What are custom GPTs again? If you have no idea what this is, you’re not alone. OpenAI launched custom GPTs in late 2023, but the feature hasn’t exactly taken off the way the company probably hoped. Here’s how OpenAI describes them: “…custom versions of Chat

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Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-20 23:00:14

In recent years, numerous plaintiffs—including publishers of books, newspapers, computer code, and photographs—have sued AI companies for training models using copyrighted material. A key question in all of these lawsuits has been how easily AI models produce verbatim excerpts from the plaintiffs’ copyrighted content. For example, in its December 2023 lawsuit against OpenAI, The New York Times Company produced dozens of examples where GPT-4 exactly reproduced significant passages from Times sto

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Inside Microsoft’s complicated relationship with OpenAI

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-09-22 06:00:00

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Beyond the selfies between Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and the friendly conversations between the pair on stage, all is not well with Microsoft’s $13 billion AI investment. Over the past year, multiple reports have painted a picture of a Microsoft and OpenAI relationship that is straining under pressure. As OpenAI battles for access to more compute p

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OpenAI’s Sam Altman discusses GPT-5 release date

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-09-22 10:43:06

ChatGPT's next big upgrade, or the new foundational model 'GPT-5,' is being prepared for public release, but OpenAI won't share the specifics. In a recent interview, Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, confirmed that ChatGPT's GPT-5 model release date is sometime in summer, but it depends on a number of factors. OpenAI has internal benchmarks and other standards set for GPT-5, and unless those are met, OpenAI might not release the model to the public. Sam added that he doesn't know 'exa

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OpenAI open sourced a new Customer Service Agent framework — learn more about its growing enterprise strategy

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-09-23 14:30:02

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Editor’s note: Carl will lead an editorial roundtable on this topic at VB Transform next week. Register today. OpenAI has released a new open-source demo that gives developers a hands-on look at how to build intelligent, workflow-aware AI agents using the Agents SDK. As first noticed by AI influencer and engineer Tibor Blaho (of the thir

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OpenAI is winding down its work with Scale AI, whose founder is joining Meta

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-09-24 01:02:14

OpenAI is winding down its work with Scale AI, the artificial intelligence startup that received a multibillion-dollar investment from Meta earlier this month and saw its founder join the social media company to lead an AI effort. Scale AI is best known for its work helping major tech companies, including OpenAI, prepare data they use to train cutting-edge AI models. But OpenAI has been pulling back from the startup over the last six to 12 months, according to an OpenAI spokesperson. OpenAI ha

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OpenAI drops Scale AI as a data provider following Meta deal

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-24 06:16:21

OpenAI is phasing out its work with Scale AI and cutting ties with the data provider following Meta’s deal with the startup, an OpenAI spokesperson told Bloomberg on Wednesday. Sarah Friar, the chief financial officer of OpenAI, previously suggested the company would continue its work with Scale AI. Now, it appears OpenAI has changed its tone. OpenAI said it was already winding down its work with Scale AI ahead of Meta’s announcement last week that it was investing billions of dollars in the s

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OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-24 10:10:58

OpenAI researchers say they’ve discovered hidden features inside AI models that correspond to misaligned “personas,” according to new research published by the company on Wednesday. By looking at an AI model’s internal representations — the numbers that dictate how an AI model responds, which often seem completely incoherent to humans — OpenAI researchers were able to find patterns that lit up when a model misbehaved. The researchers found one such feature that corresponded to toxic behavior i

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ChatGPT can now generate images in WhatsApp

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-24 14:53:14

Back in December, OpenAI launched its ChatGPT WhatsApp contact as part of its “12 Days of OpenAI” holiday announcements. And while this version of the chatbot is still more limited than what you get on the web or desktop, it is rolling out a useful new trick: image generation. Yep, people actually do this While the idea of texting ChatGPT over WhatsApp might seem a little odd, several WhatsApp-heavy users I’ve talked to say they love the convenience of having ChatGPT right there, without needi

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The ‘OpenAI Files’ push for oversight in the race to AGI

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-09-24 14:19:50

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said humanity is only years away from developing artificial general intelligence that could automate most human labor. If that’s true, then humanity also deserves to understand and have a say in the people and mechanics behind such an incredible and destabilizing force. That is the guiding purpose behind “The OpenAI Files,” an archival project from the Midas Project and the Tech Oversight Project, two nonprofit tech watchdog organizations. The Files are a “collection o

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The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-09-25 02:40:53

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. For about a year, Tyler Johnston has been collecting public information about the inner workings of OpenAI, and for the past month, he’s been working on a report to help the public understand and visualize it. That report, dubbed The OpenAI Files, is out today. It’s a collaboration between the Midas Project and the Tech Oversig

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The Download: tackling tech-facilitated abuse, and opening up AI hardware

technologyreview.com Charlotte Jee 2025-09-25 06:15:00

However, this moment creates a chance to do things differently. Because away from the self-centeredness of Silicon Valley, a quiet, grounded sense of resistance is reactivating. Read the full story. MIT Technology Review Narrated: Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming Chinese business In China, people are seeking help from AI-generated avatars to process their grief after a family member passes away. Our story about this trend is the latest to be turned into a MIT Technology Review N

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OpenAI boss: Meta offering $100m plus to poach my staff

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-09-25 14:33:04

OpenAI boss: Meta offering $100m plus to poach my staff However Mr Altman said "at least so far" none of his "best people" had been persuaded to jump ship. Meta - which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp - is attempting to boost the artificial intelligence (AI) side of its business, including recently spending $14bn (£10.4bn) to buy 49% of the startup, Scale AI. The boss of OpenAI, Sam Altman, says members of his team have been getting "giant offers" from rival tech firm Meta, including $1

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Why AI hardware needs to be open

technologyreview.com Ayah Bdeir 2025-09-25 12:49:23

Now it’s mounting a powerful second act, joined by a wave of AI open-source enthusiasts. This time around the stakes are higher, and we need to give it the support it never had. In 2024 the AI leader Hugging Face developed an open-source platform for AI robots, which already has 3,500+ robot data sets and draws thousands of participants from every continent to join giant hackathons. Raspberry Pi went public on the London Stock Exchange for $700 million. After a hiatus, Maker Faire came back; th

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OnePlus tablets are getting one of Android’s best, and one of its worst, productivity features

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-25 12:00:37

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR The latest OxygenOS 15 update brings Google’s Circle to Search and a new floating taskbar to the OnePlus Open and OnePlus Pad 2. Circle to Search allows users to quickly search anything on their screen by tapping, highlighting, or drawing over it. The floating taskbar, while aiming to balance productivity and screen real estate, lacks a quick toggle to switch styles and on tablets, it requires disabling gesture navigation for the fixed version. OnePlus m

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Move over Open Canvas, this could be the best way to multitask on a foldable

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-25 15:15:10

TL;DR vivo’s upcoming X Fold 5 features a new multitasking system called “Atomic Workbench” capable of running up to five active apps simultaneously. “Atomic Workbench” enables one dominant app view while keeping others minimized but live, improving upon OnePlus’ Open Canvas approach with a better layout for engaging more apps. The vivo X Fold 5 launches on June 25 in China. OnePlus pioneered the Open Canvas feature with the OnePlus Open foldable, allowing users to open three apps simultaneou

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My 6 favorite open-source Android apps from the Google Play store - and why that matters

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-09-25 13:23:43

Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images Android and open source are closely intertwined. In fact, most open-source fans I know also use Android. Coincidence? I think not. One nice thing about Android is that the Google Play Store has lots of open-source software. That's not to say every single open-source title is worth your time and effort, but there are plenty of FOSS apps that are not only worth your time but also some of the best in class. Also: I upgraded to Android 16 - here's what I love a

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Sam Altman says Meta offered OpenAI staff $100 million bonuses, as Mark Zuckerberg ramps up AI poaching efforts

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-09-25 14:40:32

Meta Platforms tried to poach OpenAI employees by offering signing bonuses as high as $100 million, with even larger annual compensation packages, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said. While Meta had sought to hire "a lot of people" from OpenAI, "so far none of our best people have decided to take them up on that," Altman said, speaking on the "Uncapped" podcast, which is hosted by his brother. "I've heard that Meta thinks of us as their biggest competitor," he said. "Their current AI effort

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OpenAI moves forward with GPT-4.5 deprecation in API, triggering developer anguish and confusion

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-09-25 21:52:29

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Word spread quickly across the machine learning and AI community on the social network X yesterday: OpenAI was sending developers an email notifying them that the company would be removing one of its largest and most powerful large language models (LLMs), GPT-4.5 Preview, from the official OpenAI application programming interface (API) on

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Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI’s talent with $100M offers

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-25 22:31:28

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on something of a hiring spree lately, trying to staff up Meta’s new superintelligence team with top-tier AI researchers from competing labs. To work on a team led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and at a desk physically near Zuckerberg, Meta has reportedly offered employees from OpenAI and Google DeepMind compensation packages worth upwards of $100 million. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed those reports on a podcast with his brother, Jack Altman, which was

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OpenAI’s $200M DoD contract could squeeze frenemy Microsoft

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-26 02:09:34

OpenAI said Monday the U.S. Department of Defense granted it a contract for up to $200 million to help the agency identify and build prototype systems that use its frontier models for administrative tasks and more. OpenAI provides a few examples of possible tasking, such as helping service members get healthcare, streamlining data on various programs, and “supporting proactive cyber defense.” The company also said that “All use cases must be consistent with OpenAI’s usage policies and guideline

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There's Explosive Drama Between OpenAI and Microsoft

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-26 05:24:09

The partnership that ushered in our age of AI is showing some major cracks. As the Wall Street Journal reports, OpenAI wants its longtime patron Microsoft to loosen its control on its AI products, while also seeking Microsoft's approval to let it become a for-profit company, which OpenAI has been planning for a while now. But the negotiations have turned ugly. And OpenAI is so frustrated with its benefactor that behind the scenes, executives are considering the "nuclear option": going to court

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OpenAI weighs "nuclear option" of antitrust complaint against Microsoft

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-26 04:51:17

OpenAI executives have discussed filing an antitrust complaint with US regulators against Microsoft, the company's largest investor, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, marking a dramatic escalation in tensions between the two long-term AI partners. OpenAI, which develops ChatGPT, has reportedly considered seeking a federal regulatory review of the terms of its contract with Microsoft for potential antitrust law violations, according to people familiar with the matter. The potential antitr

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OpenAI lands $200 million Pentagon contract to develop AI for national security

techspot.com Kishalaya Kundu 2025-09-26 09:51:00

What just happened? The Department of Defense has awarded a one-year, $200 million contract to OpenAI to develop advanced artificial intelligence tools aimed at addressing critical national security challenges "in both warfighting and enterprise domains." The deal was announced Monday in the DoD's daily list of newly awarded contracts. The Department of Defense said OpenAI will receive $2 million immediately for research and development purposes. The company will also use the funds to test and

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OpenAI Signed a $200M Deal With the Defense Department: Why You Should Pay Attention

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 10:04:55

The US Department of Defense has awarded ChatGPT maker OpenAI a $200 million contract to develop "prototype frontier AI capabilities," the government and company announced on Monday. The deal is through the Defense Department's chief digital and artificial intelligence office and is expected to be completed in one year. OpenAI said in its statement that its AI could help the department perform tasks ranging from "transform[ing] its administrative operations ... to streamlining how they look at

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