New usage data shows the launch of GPT-5 has marked a major upgrade cycle for our users. It climbed to number one in just 48 hours, growing to capture 33% of all subscriber messages on Poe within its first week.
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Company Secures $500M Funding for Enterprise AI Expansion
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We’re excited to announce $500M in new funding to accelerate our global expansion and build the next generation of enterprise AI technology! We are also welcoming two additions to our leadership team: Joelle Pineau as Chief AI Officer and Francois Chadwick as Chief Financial
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OpenAI’s GPT-5 cost-cutting strategy revealed through ChatGPT metrics
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This is an interesting article that sums up some of what we already know—but summarizes it again: OpenAIs cost-cutting with GPT-5. When you consider that ChatGPT is used by 700 million weekly active users, of whom only 3% are paid users, it reveals the enormous scale and, at the
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AI-Generated Images Look Plastic and Artificial
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I tried it too, images look very AI and plastic unfortunately, hope that's not Google
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AI Model Development Increasingly Difficult for Highly Capitalized Companies
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Some signs that catching up in the AI model space is rapidly becoming challenging for even the most highly capitalized companies.
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Apple robots, OpenAI GPT-4o return, local AI models, Microsoft hiring
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Top stories in AI today: – Apple plots AI comeback with home robots
– OpenAI brings back 4o after GPT-5 anger
– Run advanced AI models on your computer
– Microsoft goes on the offensive for Meta AI talent
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
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AI Data Centers: Massive Energy Consumption
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Meta and OpenAI are building data centers equivalent to 5 nuclear power plants.
AI devours electricity and office value. This is the new "headquarters" of AI giants. My new article co-written with @dr_l_alexandre in Trends. -
Pro AI Models Excel at Hard Problems Requiring Expert Evaluation
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The pro models (GPT-5 Pro, Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, Grok 4 Heavy) can be impressive in ways that are hard to see. They take a lot of time to answer questions & are built for very hard problems that require expert evaluation. That is a narrow, but, also very valuable, problem space.
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Tencent Releases Hunyuan-GameCraft for Interactive Video Generation
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Tencent released Hunyuan-GameCraft, an open-source, interactive video generation framework
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 14 août 2025
Built on HunyuanVideo, it generates playable and realistic clips from a single scene and action signals
Marks another open alternative to Google's Genie-3pic.twitter.com/JvIbDtIr8ETencent released Hunyuan-GameCraft, an open-source, interactive video generation framework Built on HunyuanVideo, it generates playable and realistic clips from a single scene and action signals Marks another open alternative to Google's Genie-3
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Anthropic Acquires Humanloop Team to Strengthen AI Safety
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Anthropic just acquired the co-founders and most of the team of Humanloop, the startup behind Hooli, a platform for prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 14 août 2025
The move marks a major push from Anthropic to strengthen its AI safety strategypic.twitter.com/Q61Op25kEyAnthropic just acquired the co-founders and most of the team of Humanloop, the startup behind Hooli, a platform for prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability The move marks a major push from Anthropic to strengthen its AI safety strategy