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Today: OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant, a new default model for ChatGPT · OpenAI claims ChatGPT’s new default model hallucinates way less · AI: OpenAI's first hardware play might be a phone that replac….
Top 10 — News
- OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant, a new default model for ChatGPT The company said the model reduces hallucination in sensitive areas such as law, medicine, and finance, while maintaining the low latency o…
- OpenAI claims ChatGPT’s new default model hallucinates way less OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much.
- OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury Elon Musk argued the journals show the moment when OpenAI abandoned its mission.
- ‘I Actually Thought He Was Going to Hit Me,’ OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Says of Elon Musk OpenAI’s president wrapped his testimony on Tuesday by revealing a fiery meeting with Musk in 2017 and subsequent efforts to remove several…
- Zuckerberg ‘Personally Authorized and Encouraged’ Meta’s Copyright Infringement https://apnews.com/article/meta-mark-zuckerberg-ai-publisher...
- Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me Article URL: https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-23/stripes-former-ombudsman-pentagon-trying-to-silence-21465037.html Comments URL: htt…
- Update on “Co-authored-by: Copilot” in commit messages Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/314311 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031707 Points: 4 # Comm…
- Silicon Valley bets $200M on AI data centers floating in the ocean Panthalassa aims to test floating AI computing nodes in the Pacific in 2026.
- Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack Daemon Tools users: It's time to check your machines for stealthy infections, stat.
- ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet on his company’s monopoly: no one is coming for us
Christophe Fouquet, who became ASML's CEO in 2024 after more than a decade at the company, sat down with this editor on the rooftop deck of…
AI tools & model updates
- OpenAI’s first hardware play might be a phone that replaces your app grid with an agent task stream OpenAI is reportedly planning its own AI smartphone, with chips from MediaTek and Qualcomm and manufacturing by Luxshare.
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.83.10-stable.patch.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-classic==1.0.6 Release update (see link for changelog).
- AWS SAM CLI adds BuildKit support for AWS Lambda functions packaged as container images AWS Serverless Application Model Command Line Interface (SAM CLI) now supports BuildKit for building container images from Dockerfiles, ena…
- ollama/ollama: v0.23.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
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The company said the model reduces hallucination in sensitive areas such as law, medicine, and finance, while maintaining the low latency o…
OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much.
Elon Musk argued the journals show the moment when OpenAI abandoned its mission.
Panthalassa aims to test floating AI computing nodes in the Pacific in 2026.
Daemon Tools users: It's time to check your machines for stealthy infections, stat.
Christophe Fouquet, who became ASML's CEO in 2024 after more than a decade at the company, sat down with this editor on the rooftop deck of…
Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatG…
Altara’s AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data siloed across spreadsheets and legacy systems.
State says chatbot claimed to practice medicine, gave invalid license number.
Kennedy has made—and continues to make—many false claims about SSRIs.
Google's smart home ecosystem is getting its biggest update since the AI-fueled 2025 revamp.
SEC alleged Musk's late disclosure cheated Twitter investors out of $150 million.
Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company "engaged in one of the mos…
The Silicon Valley AV startup has not started driverless testing yet.
SAP plans to buy German AI startup Prior Labs and invest heavily in it.
The company is making a big bet that the swiping model is outdated and most matches never turn into actual dates.
Lucid Motors pulled its guidance for the year, as it navigates swelling inventory and a companywide cost-cutting measure.
As some of the biggest VCs in crypto start to consider funding AI startups, a16z crypto's new fund will stay the course.
With Apple's latest operating system updates, users will reportedly have their pick of which third-party AI models they want to use for a h…
VW Group's stake will continue to grow under the $5.8 billion joint venture with Rivian.
By bringing messaging to the web, Threads is aligning its desktop experience more closely with competitors like X and Bluesky.
Arnell joins Gebbia’s National Design Studio under Trump to unify UX across 27,000 federal sites and streamline how Americans use governmen…
According to Pennsylvania's filing, a Character.AI chatbot presented itself as a licensed psychiatrist during a state investigation, and al…
Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command.
Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused it of misleading customers about the availability of its…
Xbox is "winding down Copilot on mobile" and "will stop development of Copilot on console," new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Tuesday.
The next update to Apple's operating systems could allow users to choose their preferred AI model for running Apple Intelligence.
Nearly a year after rolling out Threads direct messaging to everyone on mobile, Meta is finally bringing the feature to the web.
Microsoft's new Xbox chief, Asha Sharma, has spent the past couple of months making her mark on the Xbox organization.
OpenAI’s president wrapped his testimony on Tuesday by revealing a fiery meeting with Musk in 2017 and subsequent efforts to remove several…
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The full story of how GPT‑5.x derived new results in theoretical physics and quantum gravity.
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OpenAI is reportedly planning its own AI smartphone, with chips from MediaTek and Qualcomm and manufacturing by Luxshare.
OpenAI is swapping out ChatGPT's default model for GPT-5.5 Instant.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
AWS Serverless Application Model Command Line Interface (SAM CLI) now supports BuildKit for building container images from Dockerfiles, ena…
AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) now supports WebSocket APIs for Amazon API Gateway, enabling you to define complete WebSocket AP…
The US Department of Commerce is expanding its AI safety testing: Following Anthropic and OpenAI, Google Deepmind, Microsoft, and xAI have…
Amazon WorkSpaces, AWS's fully managed cloud desktop service, now enables AI agents to securely access and operate desktop applications thr…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Amazon Quick, your AI assistant for work, now integrates with New Relic's AI agents, enabling on-call engineers, SREs, and engineering lead…