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OpenAI’s GPT-5 is here

OpenAI has launched GPT-5, a new flagship AI model that will power the company’s next generation of ChatGPT. GPT-5, which was released Thursday, is OpenAI’s first “unified” AI model and combines the reasoning abilities of itso-seriesof models with the fast responses of itsGPT series. The next-generation model signals a new era for ChatGPT — and […]

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AI agents aren’t the ‘new Google,’ says Airbnb CEO

After a second-quarter earningsbeat, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky shared his thoughts on the company’s AI strategy, cautioning investors that AI chatbots can’t yet be thought of as the “new Google.” That is, AI chatbots, while potentially driving new leads to the travel and services business, aren’t entirely a replacement for the referrals that the dominant

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The backlash against Duolingo going ‘AI-first’ didn’t even matter

Duolingoannouncedon Wednesday that it beat its quarterly revenue estimates, even though the company faced widespread backlash for choosing to embrace generative AI over human workers. Duolingo stock rosealmost 30%on the news. In April, CEO Luis von Ahnsharedthat Duolingo would become an “AI-first” company, phasing out its use of contract workers. He also discouraged teams from

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Alan Turing Institute: Humanities are key to the future of AI

A powerhouse team has launched a new initiative called ‘Doing AI Differently,’ which calls for a human-centred approach to future development. For years, we’ve treated AI’s outputs like they’re the results of a giant math problem. But the researchers – from The Alan Turing Institute, the University of Edinburgh, AHRC-UKRI, and the Lloyd’s Register Foundation

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Elon Musk says X plans to introduce ads in Grok’s responses

X owner Elon Musk told advertisers in a live discussion on Wednesday that the platform plans to introduce ads in Grok’s responses, as reported by theFinancial Times. The move would help power X’sstruggling ads businessfollowing the departure offormer CEO Linda Yaccarino. “Our focus thus far has just been on making Grok the smartest, most accurate

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Truth Social’s AI search is powered by Perplexity, but the platform can set limits on sources

AI startup Perplexity is powering a new AI-powered search engine on Truth Social, President Donald Trump’s social media platform.  The search engine, dubbed Truth Search AI, is already available on the web version of Truth Social, with public Beta testing on its iOS and Android apps planned for “the near future.” Trump Media said ina

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Elad Gil — one of tech’s sharpest minds — on early bets, breakout growth, and what’s coming next at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Elad Gil isn’t just ahead of the curve — he practically lives there. Before most of the world had even asked ChatGPT its first question, Gil was writing early checks into companies like Perplexity, Character.AI, and Harvey. And that’s just a slice of the story. His track record includes seed or Series A investments in

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New ‘persona vectors’ from Anthropic let you decode and direct an LLM’s personality

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now Anew studyfrom theAnthropic Fellows Programreveals a technique to identify, monitor and control character traits in large language models (LLMs). The findings show that models can develop undesirable personalities (e.g., becoming

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The initial reactions to OpenAI’s landmark open source gpt-oss models are highly varied and mixed

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now OpenAI’s long-awaited return to the “open” of its namesake occurred yesterday withthe release of two new large language models (LLMs):gpt-oss-120B and gpt-oss-20B. But despite achieving technical benchmarks on par with

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Google denies AI search features are killing website traffic

Numerous studies indicate that theshift to AI search featuresand the use ofAI chatbotsare killing traffic to publishers’ sites. But Google on Wednesday denied that’s the case, at least in aggregate. Instead, the search giant says that total organic click volume from its search engine to websites has been “relatively stable” year-over-year and that average click

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