o3, trained on ARC-AGI-1 Public Training set, scored 87.5% on ARC Prize's Semi-Private Evaluation in a high-compute configuration; GPT-4o scored 5% in 2024 (ARC Prize) Reviewed by studypoint on 01:09 Rating: 5

Grindr will cover as much as $300,000 in fertility, surrogacy, and adoption costs for staffers who have been at the company for 18+ months, starting next year (Kelsey Butler/Bloomberg) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

In 150+ X posts, Elon Musk led the charge to kill a bipartisan spending deal, in part by sharing misinfo, which may lead to a government shutdown over Christmas (New York Times) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, with the ability to "reason over the most complex problems" in fields like programming and physics (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Flipboard launches Surf, an app to create custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, in beta on iOS, Android, and iPadOS (Harry McCracken/Fast Company) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Some tech leaders say they're optimistic that Trump will increase visas to highly skilled foreign workers, despite Trump curbing such programs in his first term (New York Times) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

OpenAI makes ChatGPT Search available to all logged in users, not just subscribers, and says ChatGPT Search can be set as their browser's default search engine (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) Reviewed by studypoint on 01:09 Rating: 5

Meta rolls out live AI, live translations, and Shazam to Ray-Ban smart glasses for members of its Early Access Program (Victoria Song/The Verge) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

A look at Blacksky, the Bluesky custom feed run by a team of six moderators, which is slowly turning into the main avenue for many Black users on the service (Jason Parham/Wired) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says Klarna's investment in AI let it stop hiring a year ago and its headcount fell 22% to 3,500, mostly due to attrition (Bloomberg) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Sources: in the past year, US chip companies have lobbied the US government against a China sales ban, citing billions in lost revenue, shocking US officials (Ana Swanson/New York Times) Reviewed by studypoint on 01:09 Rating: 5

Crusoe Energy, which offers cost-effective generative AI compute at scale using clean energy, raised a $600M Series D led by Founders Fund at a $2.8B valuation (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Apple Intelligence launches outside of the US for the first time and is now available in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, the UK, and South Africa (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Stainless, a startup offering an AI-powered API-to-SDK generator to customers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

OpenAI launches Sora, available as part of ChatGPT Plus, letting users generate up to 50 videos at 480p or fewer videos at 720p each month, in select countries (OpenAI) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

A look at the opportunities India provides for smartphone companies, including its growing market for premium phones and as a manufacturing hub outside of China (Andrew Williams/Wired) Reviewed by studypoint on 01:09 Rating: 5

Dell'Oro Group expects global investment in data centers to rise ~30% YoY to $463.7B in 2025, with about half coming from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta (Ryotaro Yamada/Nikkei Asia) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

X adds Aurora, an AI image generator that appears to excel at photorealistic images and has few restrictions; it isn't clear if xAI trained Aurora itself (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

xAI makes its AI chatbot Grok available to all users of X; non-Premium subscribers can send up to 10 messages to Grok every two hours (Emma Roth/The Verge) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5

Google unveils PaliGemma 2 models, which can analyze images and generate captions describing "actions, emotions, and the overall narrative of the scene" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) Reviewed by studypoint on 00:09 Rating: 5