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Top 10 — News
- FirstFT: Fund managers take most bearish position on dollar for a decade Also in today’s newsletter: UK proposes audit changes to attract Chinese listings, and Japan reports weak GDP data
- Starmer cancels plans to delay 30 local council elections in England Latest government U-turn comes after Reform UK launched legal action over proposal
- Six of Sarah Ferguson’s companies winding down The move follows further revelations over her friendship with the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
- How dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from years of harm Detectives desperate to locate a 12-year-old, seen abused online, found a surprising lead.
- Tuning into the future of collaboration When work went remote, the sound of business changed.
- Car dealership tycoon ousted from his Kent company in ‘coup’, high court hears Peter Waddell is alleged to have made racist and sexist remarks that led to removal as CEO of Big Motoring World A multimillionaire used-ca…
- UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears Exclusive: First meeting to be held over domestic payments system aimed at reducing reliance on US networks UK bank bosses will hold their…
- A fluid can store solar energy and then release it as heat months later Sunlight can cause a molecule to change structure, and then release heat later.
- Get ready for new Macs and iPads: Apple announces “Special Experience” on March 4 Apple has not confirmed whether you'll be able to watch live, but Ars will bring you the news.
- Have money, will travel: a16z’s hunt for the next European unicorn
According to a16z, it has eyes around the world in order to spot companies as early as local funds might.
AI tools & model updates
- OpenAI Is Nuking Its 4o Model. China’s ChatGPT Fans Aren’t OK As OpenAI removed access to GPT-4o in its app on Friday, people who have come to rely on the chatbot for companionship are mourning the los…
- Manus new “Agents” mode arrives on Telegram first despite Meta owning WhatsApp Manus launches its AI agent on Telegram, letting users run complex tasks directly in chat.
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openai==1.1.9 Release update (see link for changelog).
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openai==1.1.8 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-node: v6.22.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-python: v2.21.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help organizations defend against prompt injection and AI-driven data exfi…
- huggingface/transformers: v5.2.0: GLM-5, Qwen3.5, Voxtral Realtime, VibeVoice Acoustic Tokenizer Release update (see link for changelog).
- Alibaba’s free Qwen3.5 signals that China’s open-weight model race is far from slowing down Chinese AI labs keep shipping new models at a rapid clip.
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.10.dev1
Release update (see link for changelog).
Full list — News (50)
Also in today’s newsletter: UK proposes audit changes to attract Chinese listings, and Japan reports weak GDP data
Latest government U-turn comes after Reform UK launched legal action over proposal
Draft legislation on local content by European Commission seeks to protect bloc’s manufacturing industries
Prime minister is said to be examining how to bring forward plans to spend 3 per cent of UK GDP on military
The heads of Nato and EU Commission offer competing visions.
Central bank plans to ease capital requirements in an effort to shift home lending back to banks, top official says
Young people are sharing tips on how to deflect parental inquisitions during the holidays
Former Melrose boss Simon Peckham wants to continue with the ‘buy, improve, sell’ model as company heads for FTSE 250
The conventional view has struggled to contend with robust economic growth
How and on what basis the continent’s governments can secure financing should not be based on external discretion
The move follows further revelations over her friendship with the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Detectives desperate to locate a 12-year-old, seen abused online, found a surprising lead.
The treasury minister prepares to deliver a budget with a "significant rise" in personal allowances.
When work went remote, the sound of business changed.
Peter Waddell is alleged to have made racist and sexist remarks that led to removal as CEO of Big Motoring World A multimillionaire used-ca…
Exclusive: First meeting to be held over domestic payments system aimed at reducing reliance on US networks UK bank bosses will hold their…
Sunlight can cause a molecule to change structure, and then release heat later.
Competing domestic priorities, Treasury borrowing limits and already nervous lenders are among the many obstacles Keir Starmer has few opti…
Apple has not confirmed whether you'll be able to watch live, but Ars will bring you the news.
Employee allegedly exploited Best Buy's discount system for months.
Hollywood backlash puts spotlight on ByteDance's sketchy launch of Seedance 2.0.
According to a16z, it has eyes around the world in order to spot companies as early as local funds might.
The reason why this nascent startup had VCs lining up is the founders.They are so famed in the AI world, everyone tried to hire them.
Apple is starting to test end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages with the developer beta of iOS 26.4 released Monday.
Apple is upgrading its Podcasts app to let users "seamlessly" swap between audio and video podcasts using its HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) tec…
Deals have been admittedly pretty dry since the holidays, but now that February is in full swing, we’re starting to see strong discounts re…
Apple is hosting a "special Apple experience" in New York City on Wednesday, March 4th at 9AM ET, instead of at the Apple Park location it…
Today, let’s talk about the camera company Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state.
Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, says new economic data shows AI is measurably increasing productivity in t…
India is the second-largest market for both ChatGPT and Claude.
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The new release of fff.nvim showed out the new compatiblity for the code search both for human and agents - typo resistant and usable code…
A pretty simple but fun to play with simulator for a concept from mathematical physics called the "2D Coulomb gas".
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I like to use org files a lot, but I wanted some way to browse and edit them on my phone when I'm out.
Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
As OpenAI removed access to GPT-4o in its app on Friday, people who have come to rely on the chatbot for companionship are mourning the los…
Manus launches its AI agent on Telegram, letting users run complex tasks directly in chat.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
As a USA 501(c)(3) the OpenAI non-profit has to file a tax return each year with the IRS.
Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help organizations defend against prompt injection and AI-driven data exfi…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Someone asked if there was an Anthropic equivalent to OpenAI's IRS mission statements over time .
Release update (see link for changelog).
Chinese AI labs keep shipping new models at a rapid clip.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
I'm a very heavy user of Claude Code on the web , Anthropic's excellent but poorly named cloud version of Claude Code where everything runs…
Bytedance has announced it will restrict its AI video tool Seedance after Disney threatened the company with legal action.
Release update (see link for changelog).
The open-source framework Mastra compresses AI agent conversations into dense observations modeled after how humans remember things, priori…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt This piece by Margaret-Anne Storey is the best explanatio…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Amazon Connect now provides AI-powered Task overviews with suggested next actions so agents can understand work items faster and resolve th…
A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic colla…
GABRIEL is a new open-source toolkit from OpenAI that uses GPT to turn qualitative text and images into quantitative data, helping social s…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).