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February 13, 2025news

After Meta laid off 3,600 of its “lowest performers” on February 10, some say they had good performance reviews, and experts say the label is highly subjective (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)

Meta says it’s most recent round of layoffs was aimed at ‘low performers’—not everyone agrees. Read More »

February 13, 2025news

Identity security company CyberArk acquires identity governance and administration platform Zilla Security for $165M in cash and an additional $10M “earn

CyberArk has acquired identity access and governance platform Zilla Security in a deal worth up to $175 million. Read More »

February 13, 2025news

YouTube updates Shorts to integrate Google DeepMind’s latest video model Veo 2, letting creators generate AI video clips to add to any of their Shorts (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

YouTube Shorts is integrating with Google DeepMind’s latest video model, Veo 2, allowing creators to generate AI video clips for their posts. […]

February 13, 2025news

Germany’s Bundeskartellamt charges Apple with abusing its market power via App Tracking Transparency, giving itself preferential treatment, and requires changes (Reuters)

Germany’s Bundeskartellamt charges Apple with abusing its market power via App Tracking Transparency, giving itself preferential treatment, and requires changes (Reuters) Read […]

February 13, 2025news

Sources: Apple continues to work with Baidu to develop AI search and Siri features for iPhone users in China even after onboarding new partner Alibaba (Qianer Liu/The Information)

By Qianer Liu / The Information. View the full context on Techmeme. Read More »

February 12, 2025Uncategorized

OpenAI Roadmap Update: GPT-4.5 and GPT-5

OpenAI has announced significant updates to its AI roadmap, focusing on simplifying its product offerings and enhancing user experience. The…

February 12, 2025news

Sam Altman says GPT-5 will include o3, which will no longer be offered as a standalone model, GPT-4.5 will be OpenAI’s last non-chain-of-thought model, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

OpenAI has effectively canceled o3, which was slated to be its next major AI model release, in favor of what CEO Sam […]

February 12, 2025news

Sources: Apple will unveil an Android app for Apple TV+ as early as Wednesday as it looks to boost subscriptions and compete with Netflix and Disney+ (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple will unveil an Android app for Apple TV+ as early as Wednesday as it looks to boost subscriptions and compete […]

February 12, 2025news

Snowflake and Anthropic partner to integrate Claude 3.5 Sonnet into Snowflake’s new Cortex Agents platform, embedding AI agents into corporate data environments (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Snowflake partners with Anthropic to launch Cortex Agents, bringing Claude’s enterprise-grade AI capabilities directly into corporate data environments with 90% accuracy on […]

February 11, 2025news

Sources: Altman told staff OpenAI’s board has not gotten an official offer from Musk and other investors, and if it happens, the board plans to reject the “bid” (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)

OpenAIâs CEO claims the company has yet to receive an official offer from Elon Muskâs team, sources say. Read More »