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[AINews] GPT 5.4: SOTA Knowledge Work -and- Coding -and- CUA Model, OpenAI is so very back #

[AINews] Is Harness Engineering real? #

[AINews] Anthropic @ $19B ARR, Qwen team leaves, Gemini and GPT bump up fast models #

[AINews] Truth in the time of Artifice #

[AINews] OpenAI closes $110B raise from Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank in largest startup fundraise in history @ $840B post-money #

Codex Security: now in research preview #

How Descript enables multilingual video dubbing at scale #

How Balyasny Asset Management built an AI research engine for investing #

Introducing GPT-5.4 #

Reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, and that’s good #

GPT-5.4 Thinking System Card #

Ensuring AI use in education leads to opportunity #

The five AI value models driving business reinvention #

Introducing ChatGPT for Excel and new financial data integrations #

Introducing the Adoption news channel #

Extending single-minus amplitudes to gravitons #

Understanding AI and learning outcomes #

How Axios uses AI to help deliver high-impact local journalism #

GPT-5.3 Instant: Smoother, more useful everyday conversations #

GPT-5.3 Instant System Card #

Our agreement with the Department of War #

The Download: 10 things that matter in AI, plus Anthropic’s plan to sue the Pentagon #

The Download: an AI agent’s hit piece, and preventing lightning #

How much wildfire prevention is too much? #

Online harassment is entering its AI era #

Bridging the operational AI gap #

The Download: Earth’s rumblings, and AI for strikes on Iran #

MIT Technology Review Insiders Panel #

The Download: The startup that says it can stop lightning, and inside OpenAI’s Pentagon deal #

This startup claims it can stop lightning and prevent catastrophic wildfires #

OpenAI’s “compromise” with the Pentagon is what Anthropic feared #

Google apps in the terminal #

Models on the march #

Import AI 447: The AGI economy; testing AIs with generated games; and agent ecologies #

Conversational LLM Evaluations in Minutes with NVIDIA NeMo Evaluator Agent Skills #

Bringing Robotics AI to Embedded Platforms: Dataset Recording, VLA Fine‑Tuning, and On‑Device Optimizations #

Introducing Modular Diffusers - Composable Building Blocks for Diffusion Pipelines #

PRX Part 3 — Training a Text-to-Image Model in 24h! #

Grammarly is using our identities without permission #

The best microSD Express card for the Switch 2 is the cheapest one you can find #

The Trump administration says it can’t process tariff refunds because of computer problems #

Nintendo is suing the US government for a refund of Trump’s illegal tariffs #

The best deals on MacBooks right now #

The AI Doc is an overwrought hype piece for doomers and accelerationists alike #

You can already save up to $50 on the new M4 iPad Air #

The Trump phone was a no-show at the world’s biggest mobile show #

Trump’s surgeon general nominee is running the wellness grifter playbook perfectly #

Indie games are turning the act of looking into an art #

The Future of Iran’s Internet Is More Uncertain Than Ever #

These Beats Headphones We Like Are $150 Off #

When AI Companies Go to War, Safety Gets Left Behind #

11 Best USB Flash Drives (2026): Pen Drives, Thumb Drives, Memory Sticks #

Corsair Sabre V2 Carbon Fiber and Magnesium Gaming Mice Review #

Jones Mercury FASE Snowboard Bindings Review: The Best Fast Entry System #

These 2 Apps Help Me Make Sense of My 100K Screenshots #

7 Laptop Docking Stations to Unlock the Full Desktop Experience (2026) #

From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War’s ‘Playbook’ #

Why Is Alexa+ So Bad? #

Posture Correctors That Will Straighten You Out (2026) #

The Smart Bird Feeders Everyone’s Talking About (and Actually Buying) (2026) #

Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs #

Sleep Apnea Often Goes Undetected in Women. That’s Starting to Change #

The War on Iran Puts Global Chip Supplies and AI Expansion at Risk #

Mattress Firm Coupons and Discounts: Save Up to $600 #

Norton Coupon Codes and Discounts: Up to 58% Off #

Here’s Every Country Directly Impacted by the War on Iran #

‘Uncanny Valley’: Iran War in the AI Era, Prediction Market Ethics, and Paramount Beats Netflix #

OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway #

It’s Peak Season for Bird-Watchers to Spot Migratory Hummingbirds, and Our Favorite Feeder Is on Sale #

The Controversies Finally Caught Up to Kristi Noem #

Why Fandom Discourse Feels Extra Cringe Right Now #

The Best Roku TV Is $210 Off #

Apple Blocks US Users From Downloading ByteDance’s Chinese Apps #

The Bargain-Basement MacBook Neo Exposes the Insane Price of Another Key Apple Product #

Best Gravel Running Shoes (2026): Salomon, Adidas, Nike #

Best Workout Headphones (2026), Tested in the Gym and in the Streets #

KEF Muo Bluetooth Speaker: Portable Hi-Fi #

Suunto Vertical 2 Review: Catching Up to the Pack #

Nothing Has Two New Midrange Phones, but Only One Will Be Sold in the US #

How to Survive Daylight Saving Time: Start Early (2026) #

Best Sheets Under $200 and $100 (2026): Cotton, Bamboo, Organic #

Don’t Let Industry Jargon Cost You When Shopping for a Smart Bed #

How a Music Streaming CEO Built an Open-Source Global Threat Map in His Spare Time #

These $500 Windows Laptops Show the MacBook Neo’s Competition #

Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive #

Big Tech Signs White House Data Center Pledge With Good Optics and Little Substance #

What AI Models for War Actually Look Like #

USB Hubs Can Save You Lots of Hassles—Here Are 5 We Like Best in 2026 #

Which iPhone 17 Model Should You Buy? #

Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers #

How Vulnerable Are Computers to an 80-Year-Old Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answers #

Scaling intelligent automation without breaking live workflows #

The firm that never forgets: Rowspace launches with $50M to make AI for private equity actually work #

JPMorgan expands AI investment as tech spending nears $20B #

Beyond the pilot: Dyna.Ai raises eight-figure Series A to put agentic AI in financial services to work #

Physical AI is having its moment–and everyone wants a piece of it #

AI agents prefer Bitcoin shaping new finance architecture #

Google makes its industrial robotics AI play official–and this time, it means business #

Best AI security solutions 2026: Top enterprise platforms compared #

The integration of AI in modern forex automation #

Physical AI adoption boosts customer service ROI #

Santander and Mastercard run Europe’s first AI-executed payment pilot #

AI-Native networks are no longer a 6G promise–MWC 2026 just proved it #

OpenAI launches Codex Security, an AI agent designed to detect vulnerabilities in software projects #

Softbank seeks record $40 billion loan to fund OpenAI stake #

OpenAI's new GPT-5.4 model powers ChatGPT for Excel with finance-optimized reasoning #

Oracle to cut thousands of jobs as AI spending drains cash #

AI models can barely control their own reasoning, and OpenAI says that's a good sign #

Anthropic's new study shows AI is nowhere near its theoretical job disruption potential #

Anthropic says Claude is adding over a million new users every day #

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 Thinking and Pro combining coding, reasoning, and computer use in one model #

ChatGPT users research products but won't buy there, forcing OpenAI to rethink its commerce strategy #

How our open-source AI model SpeciesNet is helping to promote wildlife conservation #

Ask a Techspert: How does AI understand my visual searches? #

The latest AI news we announced in February #

Use Canvas in AI Mode to get things done and bring your ideas to life, right in Search. #

Create new worlds in Project Genie with these 4 tips #

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale #