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Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: Models like o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro feel like “Jagged AGI”: unreliable, even at some mundane tasks, but still offering superhuman capabilities in many areas  —  New models and new thresholds  —  Amid today’s AI boom, it’s disconcerting that we still don’t know how to measure how smart … […]

Alphabet’s Google plans to appeal against the “adverse” portion of the court decision in the US Department of Justice’s monopoly case against the technology giant. On Thursday US District Judge Leonie Brinkema found Google liable for “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in markets for publisher ad servers and ad exchanges. Publisher ad servers are

Ryan Lawler / Axios: API-based background check provider Checkr acquires income and employment verification startup Truework, which had raised $125M+ and was last valued at ~$480M  —  Checkr, an API-based background check provider, is acquiring income and employment verification startup Truework, Checkr CEO Daniel Yanisse tells Axios exclusively. Source link

OpenAI released two new artificial intelligence (AI) models on Wednesday. Dubbed o3 and o4-mini, these are the company’s latest reasoning-focused models with visible chain-of-thought (CoT). The San Francisco-based AI firm stated that these models come with visual reasoning capability, which means they can analyse and “think” about an image to answer more complex user queries.

Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: Docusign unveils AI contract agents, which can analyze agreements and surface issues that usually require human intervention, available by the end of 2025  —  Docusign launched AI contract agents, which will analyze agreements, highlight risks and surface issues that usually require human intervention. Source link

India plans to bring hundreds of millions of new users onto Unified Payments Interface, its real-time payments system, while pitching the platform for wider adoption overseas.  National Payments Corporation of India aims to draw an additional 200 million to 300 million Indians to UPI to “break their cash memory” through initiatives including delegated accounts for

Pranav Mukul / The Economic Times: Goldman Sachs Alternatives acquires India-based HR SaaS company PeopleStrong from Multiples PE, sources say for $130M; Tracxn: Multiples PE held an 84.3% stake  —  This is a second major private equity buyout deal of a SaaS firm this year, after Singapore-based private equity firm Everstone … Source link

Google introduced the seventh generation of its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), Ironwood, last week. Unveiled at Google Cloud Next 25, it is said to be the company’s most powerful and scalable custom artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator. The Mountain View-based tech giant said the chipset was specifically designed for AI inference — the compute used by

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: Sources: TSMC is close to finalizing specs for a new chip packaging method, known in the industry as “panel-level”, to meet rising demand for powerful AI chips  —  TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is close to finalizing the specifications for a radically new approach … Source link

Google Chrome will soon receive a patch for a privacy bug that existed for over two decades, allowing a malicious website to identify sites that were previously visited by a user. Over the years, some web browsers previously introduced some measures to deal with the issue, but Google says that the latest fix prevents sites