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Stripe enlists a who’s who, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Paradigm, to build a new blockchain
Stripe is funding a new blockchain called Tempo to process stablecoins faster. And many big names are joining the effort....
OpenAI to route sensitive conversations to GPT-5, introduce parental controls
OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to route sensitive conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5 and roll out parental controls within the next month – pa...
Accelerating life sciences research
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/accelerating-life-sciences-research-with-retro-biosciences/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4...
Billionaire Ambani taps Google, Meta to build India’s AI backbone
Reliance is launching a new subsidiary to drive India's AI ambitions, including a pending partnership with OpenAI....
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Key Takeaways:
- Reliance will partner with Google Cloud to build a dedicated AI infrastructure in India with a major data center in Jamnagar.
- The Reliance-Meta joint venture committing ₹8.5 billion ($100 million) will offer Meta's Llama-based enterprise AI platform-as-a-service, including pre-configured AI solutions for various sectors.
- Reliance plans to expand beyond India, take its flagship subsidiary Reliance Jio Platforms to international markets, and file for an initial public offering in the first half of 2026.
Microsoft is about to shake up its Copilot pricing for businesses
It's no secret that Microsoft has been struggling to sell its Copilot AI assistant to businesses. The steep pricing has put many businesses off paying...
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Key Takeaways:
- The bundling move aims to simplify Microsoft's Copilot subscriptions for businesses and make it easier for sales teams to convince customers to buy a single Microsoft 365 Copilot license.
- Microsoft is also shifting its focus to three areas of monetizing Copilot: Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Dynamics 365.
- The company plans to introduce Agent 365, a set of tools to manage AI agents and ensure security and compliance requirements of businesses are met, at its upcoming Ignite conference.
DeepSeek Targets AI Agent Release by End of Year to Rival OpenAI - Bloomberg.com
DeepSeek Targets AI Agent Release by End of Year to Rival OpenAI Bloomberg.comTIME100 AI 2025: Liang Wenfeng Time MagazineDeepSeek plans year-end laun...
Switzerland releases its own AI model trained on public data
Switzerland launched an open-source model called Apertus on Monday as an alternative to proprietary models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude...
OpenAI acquires product testing startup Statsig and shakes up its leadership team
OpenAI is bringing on the founder of Statsig as its CTO of Applications, and making changes to other leadership roles at the company....
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Key Takeaways:
- OpenAI's acquisition of Statsig is valued at $1.1 billion, with the founder Vijaye Raji taking on the role of CTO of Applications.
- The acquisition is aimed at accelerating product development across the Applications organization, particularly for ChatGPT, Codex, and future applications.
- OpenAI's leadership team is undergoing changes, with the chief product officer Kevin Weil transitioning to a new role, and the head of engineering Srinivas Narayanan moving to a new CTO position.
Anthropic Nearly Triples Valuation To $183B With Massive New Funding
With the new funding, San Francisco-based Anthropic becomes the fourth-most valuable private company in the world and remains the second-most highly v...
OpenAI announces AI-powered hiring platform to take on LinkedIn
The OpenAI Jobs Platform is set to launch in mid-2026 and will use AI to match candidates with businesses....
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Key Takeaways:
- The OpenAI Jobs Platform aims to connect businesses and employees using AI-powered job matching.
- OpenAI also plans to offer certifications for people with different levels of 'AI fluency' through its OpenAI Academy by the end of 2025.
- The company aims to certify 10 million Americans by 2030 as part of its commitment to the White House's initiative to expand AI literacy.
DuckDuckGo adds access to advanced models to it subscription plan
With DuckDuckGo's $9.99 per month plan, users will be able to access newer models, including OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, a...
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Key Takeaways:
- The $9.99/month plan provides access to AI models like OpenAI's GPT-4o and GPT-5, Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4, and Meta's Llama Maverick
- DuckDuckGo plans to continue adding costlier plans with larger and more advanced models
- Quora's Poe offers a similar subscription service starting at $5/month, with access to a bouquet of models
OpenAI shuffles executive roles, acquires Statsig for $1.1 billion
OpenAI has started to build out its Applications team under Fidji Simo, its new CEO of Applications, who left her former position as Instacart’s CEO t...
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Key Takeaways:
- OpenAI is acquiring Statsig, a product analytics company specializing in A/B testing, for $1.1 billion.
- Vijaye Raji, founder and CEO of Statsig, has joined OpenAI as CTO of Applications, heading up product engineering for ChatGPT and Codex.
- OpenAI is also shuffling other executive positions, promoting Srinivas Narayanan to CTO of B2B Applications and transitioning Kevin Weil to the research side as VP of AI for Science.
OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations and reporting content to police
Article URL: https://futurism.com/openai-scanning-conversations-police Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45105081 Points: 99 # Commen...
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Key Takeaways:
- OpenAI is now actively monitoring users' conversations for potential harm and escalation to human review.
- The company has implemented a system to refer users who pose an imminent threat of physical harm to others to law enforcement.
- OpenAI's policy on user privacy is unclear, contradicting its stance on protecting user data and its ongoing lawsuit with the New York Times.
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Show HN: Entropy-Guided Loop – How to make small models reason
TLDR: A small, vendor-agnostic inference loop that turns token logprobs/perplexity/entropy into an e..
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