Bryan Wood joined CIBC Mellon Industry Perspectives to talk trust, evaluation, and why “boring” AI is a win. Listen here: https://
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Bryan Wood discusses trusted agentic AI in finance
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AI Replaces Traditional Hackathons as Development Standard
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i haven't heard it dicussed yet but AI basically killed hackathons. pretty much anything you could possibly make at a hackathon in 2019 can be built better and faster by AI in 2025
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GPT-4.5 Orion Disappoints: Data Scarcity Limits Progress
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The Information about GPT-4.5/5 and more: the tl;dr GPT-4.5 (“Orion”)
Originally developed as Orion and planned as GPT-5.
Performance disappointing: no major leaps forward compared to GPT-4o.
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Anticipation for GPT-5 Release Next Week
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„Big model smell, next week“ Several voices now anticipate the „big think“ coming week; so I assume GPT-5 either Tuesday or Thursday. Can’t wait that long 🙁
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Speed and Scale: The New Imperative in Modern Innovation
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C’est un dicton has-been, il est évident que de nos jours il faut à la fois aller plus vite et plus loin, en même temps… https://t.co/cTP5LZOvxC
— Olivier Rimmel 🕊️ (@OlivierRimmel) 1 août 2025C’est un dicton has-been, il est évident que de nos jours il faut à la fois aller plus vite et plus loin, en même temps…
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Monthly LLM Newsletter: July Highlights and Tracking
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I just hit "send" on my third monthly sponsors-only newsletter, providing the ten minute highlights version of everything I've been tracking around LLMs and related topics over the past month I wrote 98 blog posts in July so there was a lot to cover! Here's the table of contents
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GPT-5 API Access Claims and OpenAI Livestream Speculation
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Some people believe that they have access to GPT-5 via API. Either OpenAI will announce a livestream in the next 20 minutes or we won't see a release today after all.
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AI Revolution: Business as Unusual?
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AI Revolution: Business as Unusual?
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Release Strategy Timing Questions for External AI Feedback
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It doesn't make sense to me – if they are sharing it with external orgs to get feedback, why would they release it the same day? Or just giving them half a day extra to access it? Feels odd
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OpenAI Raises $8.3B at $300B Valuation
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OpenAI's $300b valuation and $8.3b invention round: the tl;dr – Funding round: OpenAI has raised $8.3 billion in its latest round of financing. Valuation: The company is now valued at $300 billion. – Investors:
Lead investor: Dragoneer Investment Group with $2.8 billion
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