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GPT-5 to power Copilot Smart Mode

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30 July 2025 20h14

BREAKING 🚨: Another confirmation that Copilot Smart Mode is expected to be powered by GPT-5!

Microsoft started a broader rollout of Smart Mode today and iOS app still holds old assets from internal testing.

GPT-5 when? 👀 pic.twitter.com/JzyxMX1jE6
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 30 juillet 2025

BREAKING : Another confirmation that Copilot Smart Mode is expected to be powered by GPT-5! Microsoft started a broader rollout of Smart Mode today and iOS app still holds old assets from internal testing. GPT-5 when?

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30 July 2025

Apple Consolidates AI Acquisitions Into New AGI Division

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30 July 2025 20h12

Breaking news: Apple will consolidate all its AI acquisitions into a new division, to be called AGI (Apple Graveyard of Intelligences).

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30 July 2025

Copilot launches on Mac and Windows in 170+ countries

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@mustafasuleyman

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30 July 2025 19h53

live on Mac + Windows in 170+ countries (everywhere we have Copilot)

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30 July 2025

US Companies Abandoning Open Weights Strategy for Chinese Models

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@emollick

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30 July 2025 19h47

Open weights is no longer a strategy for US companies – they may release occasional models, but they will reserve their best work for closed models. Companies who want to run open models, and governments thinking about the future of AI, are going to need to rely on Chinese labs.

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30 July 2025

Meta Closes Models as Chinese Open Weights Lead Frontier

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30 July 2025 19h30

Especially notable given Zuckerberg's note that Meta will not necessarily open source future models. US companies are still doing great small open models, but, aside from whatever OpenAI releases, it appears that frontier open weights will mean Chinese models (& maybe Mistral).

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30 July 2025

OpenAI Researcher Predicts Short AGI Development Timelines

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@swyx

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30 July 2025 19h29

oh shit openai researcher has short timelines

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30 July 2025

Palo Alto’s $25B CyberArk acquisition: Strategic investment analysis

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@tiernanraytech

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30 July 2025 18h35

Giving Palo Alto the benefit of the doubt on the CyberArk deal Investors blanched at Palo Alto’s $25 billion purchase of CyberArk, its largest acquisition ever, and also a deal that’s fairly expensive. I would credit CEO Nikesh Arora with having a fairly thoughtful approach to

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30 July 2025

DeepSeek’s Quiet Months: Latest R1-0528 Model Family

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@simonw

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30 July 2025 18h33

… and I didn't even mention DeepSeek! They've had a quiet couple of months, their last model release was the DeepSeek-R1-0528 family back in May

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30 July 2025

Europe Regulates AI While United States Dominates Innovation

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30 July 2025 17h54

My op-ed in @Valeurs Europe celebrates its AI Act while the United States builds super AI @MistralAI has talent. But without an ecosystem and industrial vision, genius is suffocated

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30 July 2025