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GPT-5.2 models match GPT-5 and 5.1 with a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens, but have a newer knowledge cutoff of Aug. 31, 2025 vs. Sept. 30, 2024 (simonw.substack.com)
3 days ago

An interview with Nikita Bier, who wants to lure journalists back to X with a rebuilt recommendation algorithm with no keyword suppression or manual downranking (sources.news)
3 days ago Interview Algorithm

Tim Sweeney: the Ninth Circuit's decision on Epic v. Apple contempt ruling appeal “completely shuts down” App Store rules allowing Apple to collect “junk fees” (www.theverge.com)
3 days ago Apple

Reddit files a lawsuit against Australia over its social media ban for under-16s, saying the ban “infringes the implied freedom of political communication” (www.reuters.com)
3 days ago Australia Ban Reddit

TerraUSD Creator Do Kwon Sentenced To 15 Years Over $40 Billion Crypto Collapse (yro.slashdot.org)
3 days ago

In his EO, Trump orders US AG Pam Bondi to create an “AI Litigation Task Force” that meets regularly with David Sacks to challenge “inconsistent” state AI laws (www.engadget.com)
3 days ago Trump AI

A look at French indie game studio Sandfall Interactive, whose critically-acclaimed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sold 5M+ copies with a budget of less than $10M (www.nytimes.com)
3 days ago France Budget

97% of Buildings On Earth 3D-Mapped (news.slashdot.org)
3 days ago

xAI partners with El Salvador to deploy Grok across 5,000+ public schools, reaching 1M+ students in an “AI-powered education program” over the next two years (www.theguardian.com)
3 days ago AI Education

VMware Kills vSphere Foundation In Parts of EMEA (slashdot.org)
3 days ago VMware

Broadcom CEO Hock Tan reveals that Anthropic placed a $10B order for Google's Ironwood TPU racks in Q3 and says it placed an additional $11B order in Q4 (www.cnbc.com)
3 days ago Google 4Q

On OpenAI's 10th anniversary, Sam Altman reflects on “a decade of breakthroughs, learnings, and the path toward AGI that benefits all of humanity” (openai.com)
3 days ago

Trump Signs Executive Order For Single National AI Regulation Framework, Limiting Power of States (yro.slashdot.org)
4 days ago Trump AI

President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval” (www.reuters.com)
4 days ago Trump AI

UC Berkeley Professor Uses Secret Camera To Catch PhD Candidate Sabotaging Rival (yro.slashdot.org)
4 days ago

Brave browser starts testing agentic AI mode for automated tasks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
4 days ago AI Browser

New White House guidance says AI models procured by federal agencies must have “unbiased AI principles” and ensure “truth-seeking” and “ideological neutrality” (www.axios.com)
4 days ago AI

Rivian Goes Big On Autonomy, With Custom Silicon, Lidar, and a Hint At Robotaxis (tech.slashdot.org)
4 days ago

A US judge sentences Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to 15 years in prison; Kwon pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud charges in August (www.coindesk.com)
4 days ago Conspiracy

Disney Says Google AI Infringes Copyright 'On a Massive Scale' (tech.slashdot.org)
4 days ago Google AI

Hackers exploit Gladinet CentreStack cryptographic flaw in RCE attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
4 days ago

Broadcom reports Q4 revenue up 28% YoY to $18.02B, vs. $17.49B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, with AI chip sales doubling to $8.2B (www.cnbc.com)
4 days ago AI 4Q

Sources: the NY governor proposes a rewrite of the RAISE Act, the AI bill that recently passed NY legislature, with text copied verbatim from California's SB 53 (www.transformernews.ai)
4 days ago AI California

Malicious VSCode Marketplace extensions hid trojan in fake PNG file (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
4 days ago

Notepad++ fixes flaw that let attackers push malicious update files (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
4 days ago

Google is Building an Experimental New Browser and a New Kind of Web App (tech.slashdot.org)
4 days ago Google Browser

Cisco Stock Hits New All-Time High, 25 Years After the Dotcom Bubble Burst (slashdot.org)
4 days ago Cisco

A US appeals court upholds a contempt ruling in Epic v. Apple but says Apple can charge commissions on external links, with the rate to be set by a lower court (www.bloomberg.com)
4 days ago Apple

New York Becomes First State To Require Disclosure of AI Performers in Ads (news.slashdot.org)
4 days ago AI New York

Fortnite returns to the Google Play Store in the US following a US District Court injunction; Google and Epic announced a settlement last week (www.reuters.com)
4 days ago Google

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