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Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.3Bvs. $12.2B est.net income of $5.28Band forecasts Q2 EPS below estimates; NFLX drops 8%+ after hours — Netflix Shares Fall as Guidance Disappoints Investors — Video Player is loading. — Unmute — Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 32.21% Playback RateMore:
Tim Barnwell / Silicon Republic: Netflix shares fall on Q2 forecast as co-founder Hastings steps aside
Matt Horne / Android Authority: NETFLIX IS PREPPING A MOBILE REVAMP WITH A TIKTOK-STYLE VERTICAL VIDEO FEED AND ALL
Cris Tolomia / Quartz: Netflix shares sank after soft Q2 forecast and Reed Hastings' board departure
Brooke DiPalma / Yahoo Finance: Netflix stock slides as forecast missesco-founder Reed Hastings announces departure from board
Trader Edge / Blockonomi: Netflix (NFLX) Shares Plunge 9% on Disappointing Q2 Forecast and Hastings Board Exit
Matthew Dolgin / Morningstar: Netflix Earnings: No Guidance RaiseLight Q2 Margin Forecastand International Slowdown Disappoint
Austin Blake / iPhone in Canada: Netflix to Overhaul Mobile App with New Vertical Video Feed as Profits Surge
Nathan Jolly / Mumbrella: Reed Hastings to step down as Netflix chair
Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: Netflix Revenues Up 16 Percent to $12.3 Billion
Eric Fisher / Front Office Sports: Ted Sarandos says Netflix continues to be interested in live sports and is in discussions to expand its relationship with the NFL
Lillian Rizzo / CNBC: Netflix reports earnings after the bell. Here's what to expect
Lukas I. Alpert / MarketWatch: Netflix shatters profit expectations thanks to price increase and $2.8 billion breakup fee from Warner Bros.
Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net: Netflix sees modest bump in revenue during Q1; Reed Hasting to leave board
Martha Williams / Daily Mail: Wall Street punishes Netflix after huge price hikes - as dismal earnings sends stock plunging as founder pushed out
Dade Hayes / Deadline: Netflix Q1 Revenue And Earnings Beat Street ExpectationsBut Shares Still Plunge
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@tvgrimreaper: An extra game or two to Netflixand five “new” games to You Tube (as currently rumored) isn't increasing the NFL rights fees by much. Any significant increase will have to come from the current big rights holdersmany of whom are balking!
Alex Sherman / @sherman4949: “Our sports strategy is pretty much unchanged,” Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos saysreiterating Netflix is mostly interested in big events. But he said say “pretty much!” There's some wiggle room! “We are in discussions right now” with NFL to “expand” that relationship.
Joseph Carlson / @joecarlsonshow: Today follows the long-held and respected tradition of Netflix putting out a banger earnings report and the stock dropping 10%. We must respect the traditionas the stock will inevitably grind back to all-time highs in the coming months.
Joseph Carlson / @joecarlsonshow: I agree Meta is cheaper today on earnings. But to add some context to this. Netflix has direct control over their EPSthey can increase it or decrease it any timelike turning a spigot...Netflix will not be increasing content spend by $3 billion every year. They are very likely to do a big jump up in spending one yearthen hold more in that area for a whilecausing operating leverage to kick in and EPS to jump.
@richlightshed: Netflix clearly flexing their long-term pricing power $NFLX “we think we are delivering one of the best entertainment values that has ever existed...in the US right nowNetflix subscribers are paying the least per hour of viewing compared to other SVOD offerings...in some casesyou'd have to pay 2x per hour to get a competitive service.”
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Netflix chairman and co-founder Reed Hastings will step down from the company's board after his term expires in June to focus on philanthropy and other pursuits — Co-founder won't stand for re-election to the boardNetflix says in first earnings report since pulling out of Warner Discovery bidMore:
Business Today: “My real contribution wasn't a single decision,” says Reed Hastings as he exits Netflix
Ananya Gairola / Benzinga: Reed Hastings Reveals His ‘All-Time Favorite Memory’ At Netflix As He Steps Down— ‘When We Enabled...’
Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: Reed Hastings is leaving Netflix after 29 years
Ashya Rose / EasternEye: The man behind Netflix's streaming rise to leave board amid slowest growth in a year
Subhojit Sarkar / Fortune India: Reed Hastings to step down from Netflix board in June; Q1 revenue jumps 16% on subscriber growth
Samriddhi Srivastava / People Matters: Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings to step down from board in June
Amanda Gerut / Fortune: Reed Hastings' exit from $455 billion Netflix ‘had nothing to do with’ the failed Warner Bros. dealsays Ted Sarandos
Brooke DiPalma / Yahoo Finance: Netflix stock slides as earnings beat estimatesco-founder Reed Hastings announces departure from board
Erik Gruenwedel / Media Play News: Reed Hastings' Legacy: Streaming PioneerIndustryCorporate Culture Disruptor
James Hale / Tubefilter: Reed Hastings leaves Netflixwhich says it “really built our M&A muscle” during failed deal with Warner Bros. Discovery
Bram Berkowitz / The Motley Fool: Netflix Reports Strong Earnings and Co-Founder Reed Hastings' Departure. But Here's the Real Reason the Stock is Getting Crushed in After-Hours Trading
Sara Fischer / Axios: Reed Hastings to step down from Netflix board
James Faris / Business Insider: Netflix shares plunge after weak guidance and news that cofounder Reed Hastings will leave the board
Christopher Grimes / Financial Times: Netflix founder Reed Hastings to step down from board
Max Knoblauch / Sherwood News: Netflix beats on Q1 revenueissues downbeat Q2 forecastand says Hastings will leave in June
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times: Reed Hastings Will Leave Netflix as Board Chairman
Jennifer Maas / Variety: NetflixWith Warner Bros. Off the TableBeats Q1 Expectations
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Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga: Is Netflix Still A Buy? Experts Dismiss ‘Front-Loaded’ CostsPredict A $10 Billion Ad Goldmine
Julian Clover / Broadband TV News: Netflix points to partnershipspricing and advertising growth in latest results
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Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Fridaya breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is scheduled to walk into the West Wing on Friday for a meeting with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles … More:
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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7saying it is a “notable improvement” on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering and comes with a new “xhigh” effort level — Our latest modelClaude Opus 4.7is now generally available. — Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement …
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Thomas Claburn / The Register: Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283
Harsh Shivam / Business Standard: Anthropic rolls out Claude Opus 4.7 with gains in coding and reasoning
Ross Kelly / ITPro: ‘We experimented with efforts to differentially reduce these capabilities’: Anthropic toned down Opus 4.7's cyber uses in wake of Claude Mythos release
Alina Maria Stan / The Next Web: Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with benchmark-leading coding and agentic performance
David Hollingworth / Cyber Daily: Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.7 as researchers reveal fake Claude installer spreading malware
Aaron Brown / GB News: Claude Mythos is an AI that's SO good at hackingits creators have been forced to lock it away
Business Today: Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 is here: Check improvementssafety featuresand what's new
Estefano Gomez / Crypto Briefing: EU unable to review Anthropic's Mythos modelimpacting AI market dynamics
Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin: Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 now available in several Microsoft products and services
Taryn Plumb / Computerworld: Anthropic's latest model is deliberately less powerful than Mythos (and that's the point)
Shaurya Shubham / Moneycontrol: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 launched with ‘Mythos-like’ capabilities: Here's how it advances Opus 4.6
Kahekashan / The Hans India: Anthropic Unveils Claude Opus 4.7 for Public UseExpands AI Capabilities
Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer: Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7Tightens API Rules
Amaya Nichole / Inc.com: Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 Is Hereand It's Already Outperforming Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT 5
Katelyn Chedraoui / CNET: NoAnthropic's New Claude Opus 4.7 Model Is Not Mythos Preview
Maxwell Mutuma / Blockonomi: Anthropic Debuts Claude Opus 4.7 Across Cloud Platforms
Caroline Ryan / Benzinga: Anthropic Releases Claude 4.7Introducing Mythos-Inspired Cybersecurity Protections
Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: Claude Opus 4.7 Is Here: Anthropic's Latest Model DeliversBut It's a Token Eating Machine
Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada: Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7
Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.7 as Mythos looms
Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.7 to Test Cyber Safeguards Below Mythos
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Claude / @claudeai: Introducing Claude Opus 4.7our most capable Opus model yet. It handles long-running tasks with more rigorfollows instructions more preciselyand verifies its own outputs before reporting back. You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision. [image]
Miles Brundage / @miles_brundage: Anthropic? The “we do not wish to advance the rate of AI capabilities progress” company? [image]
Ethan Mollick / @emollick: It basically rarely seems to think on analysiswritingor research taskswhich means it isn't using tools or web search. Haven't tested everything yetso not definitivebut I am often getting lower quality answers for that sort of use case that Opus 4.6 Extended Thinking. [image]
@ashen_one: image recognition on opus 4.7 is really really good i couldn't even read this screenshot myself and opus 4.7 read the entire thing completely [video]
Ethan Mollick / @emollick: With max thinking Opus 4.7 is quite impressivewith a real sense of In two prompts: “implement the Tower of Babelin 3Din as sophisticated and visually interesting a way as possible. It should be interactive” and then “make it better.” Play: https://tower-of-babel-1776392618.netli fy.app/ [video]
Ethan Mollick / @emollick: It is not well-explainedbut with the adaptive switch offI get no thinking. I can set thinking levels in Claude Codebut not in Claude Cowork. AI companies keep seeming to assume that coding/technical work is the only kind of important intellectual work out there (it is not)
Mikhail Parakhin / @mparakhin: A definite +1 to Ethan. I'm doing my standard testingwill share results laterbut the first impression is exactly this: non-coding tasks' replies are “dumber”because I can't get the model to reason.
Ethan Mollick / @emollick: I think the adaptive thinking requirement in Claude Opus 4.7 is bad in the ways that all AI effort routers are badbut magnified by the fact that there is no manual override like in ChatGPT. It regularly decides that non-math/code stuff is “low effort” & produces worse results. [image]
@theprimeagen: It's truly space age technology that we can make something worse and then increment a number and re-release it the public.
Mike Krieger / @mikeyk: Claude Opus 4.7 is out! Handles ambiguousmulti-step work even better than 4.6. Cursor's internal bench cleared 70%up from 58% on 4.6. Notion saw a 14% lift on their evals with a third of the tool errors 🔨
Noah Zweben / @noahzweben: Yet another intelligence leap!
@scaling01: Highlights of the Opus 4.7 Launch: - new tokenizer - new xhigh reasoning effort - big improvements on all benchmarksexcept long-context and cyber (they keep cyber capabilities artificially low) - notable are gains in real-world tasks - improved vision (incl larger input
@victortaelin: Anthropic just launched a model that loses in ALL benchmarks to another model... that is also theirs 😭 I'm thankful yet worried - are we entering a world where the big labs just stop publishing their leading AI's? As a Brazilian I can only ask: for the betaswhat remains?
Derya Unutmaz / @deryatr_: Claude Opus 4.7 is released! It improves on most benchmarks compared to 4.6. Graduate-level reasoning is now on par with GPT-5.4 & Gemini 3.1 Pro! It's SOTA for agentic coding and computer use! Haven't checked the token costbut it's likely not cheap. AI progress is exponential!
Deedy / @deedydas: Opus 4.7 benchmarks colored by ranking. - Strong coding (SWE-Bench) bump - Strong Computer use bump - Strong visual reasoning (CharXiv) bump - Weak Terminal Bench bump - BrowseComp regression Slots in between 4.6 and Mythos. [Chart generated by 4.7] [image]
Rohan Anil / @_arohan_: The pace at which Anthropic is shipping Opus variants is a very new thing in the industry.
Laki / @laki_0x: the new Claude Opus 4.7 has been released has improved in two areas: → writes code (+10%) → understands images and graphs (+13%) otherwiseit's pretty much the same as before but the next model the Mythos is already shown in the table next to it. It's even more powerful
Angel / @angaisb_: So the price is the same but it thinks more and now inputs are split into more tokens It's going to be really expensive to use it isn't it [image]
Felix Rieseberg / @felixrieseberg: Happy model launch day! Opus 4.7 is now available on all products and a significant step up from Opus 4.6. It's better at codingcomputer usefinanceand general knowledge work. 🧵 I'll put the 5 things I find most interesting in thread! [image]
@scaling01: Opus 4.7 much less likely to sudo rm -rf (taking destructive actions in production envs) [image]
Matt Shumer / @mattshumer_: As you use Claude Opus 4.7keep in mind that however good it isMythos is still substantially better. The frontier is getting insanely powerful.
Alex Albert / @alexalbert__: Some of my favorite things in Opus 4.7: - Very good at async work and following instructions - Effort levels are far more predictable for token control (+ new xhigh level) - No more downscaling of high-res images - Noticeably more taste in UIsslidesdocs
Nathan Lambert / @natolambert: Opus 4.7 has a new tokenizer. This means it's also a new base model. Glory days of pretraining still very much going. [image]
Lance Martin / @rlancemartin: ive had a lot of fun using Opus 4.7 over the past weeks. one impt tip: there's a new effort level (xhigh) that is recommended for most agentic / coding use-cases. https://x.com/... [image]
@coderabbitai: We ran Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 against our hardest benchmark - complex concurrency bugs that require multi-step reasoning. Almost 20% better than previous generations. Here's what we did to get it production-ready and what you can take from it for your own stack 👇 [video]
@scaling01: Confirmed: Anthropic keeping Cyber capabilities of Opus 4.7 artificially low “during training we experimented with efforts to differentially reduce these capabilities” [image]
@testingcatalog: Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 👀 Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement over Opus 4.6 in software engineering and vision tasks. > Opus 4.7 handles complexlong-running tasks with rigor and consistencypays precise attention to instructionsand devises ways to verify its own [image]
Dave Kennedy / @hackingdave: Lets hope this model goes back to how amazing Opus 4.6 was a month ago.
@notionhq: Opus 4.7Anthropic's most intelligent modelis now in Notion! It's a real step up from Opus 4.6 for multi-step workflows. It uses fewer tokens. About 3× fewer tool errors. And it can troubleshoot weird mid-workflow issues like a real teammate. [image]
Zvi Mowshowitz / @thezvi: No rest for the wickedand no rest for anyone elseI suppose.
Himanshu / @himanshustwts: benchmarks asidethis is the real BIG change in Opus 4.7 and Opus 4.6. [image]
Yuchen Jin / @yuchenj_uw: Claude Opus 4.7 is out! Benchmark scores look pretty strongbut clearly much worse than Mythos. It's a nerfed Mythosthey deliberately reduced cyber capabilities during training. [image]
@kimmonismus: Claude Opus 4.7 is out. the TL;DR Anthropic released Opus 4.7 today. Same pricing as 4.6 ($5/$25 per million tokens)available across APIBedrockVertex AIand Microsoft Foundry. What changed vs Opus 4.6: Coding (obviously). Biggest gains on the hardestlong-horizon [image]
Nathan Lambert / @natolambert: The current pace of token-efficient reasoning improvements across minor Claude Opus/GPT model versions is pretty wild. All signs point to this continuing. 4.6 to 4.7 could've been presented as a fairly large model bump in the past with this plot. [image]
@scaling01: Opus 4.7 with a 371.75x speedup over baseline improves over Opus 4.6 in all benchmarks [image]
Amol Avasare / @theamolavasare: Opus 4.7 is out! Live on our APIClaude CodeCoworkand Claude chat. Thing I'm noticing internally: people are re-scoping what they hand to the model. Work that got chunked into small pieces for 4.6 because it was too ambiguous or too long is now going in as one task.
@cognition: Claude Opus 4.7 is now part of Devin's agent harness! Anthropic has clearly optimized Claude Opus 4.7 for long-horizon autonomyunlocking a class of deep investigation work we couldn't reliably run before. Claude Opus 4.7 model costs within Devin will be available at
Vittorio / @iterintellectus: IT'S HAPPENING [image]
@cursor_ai: Claude Opus 4.7 is now available in Cursor. We've found it to be impressively autonomous and more creative in its reasoning. We're launching it with 50% off for a limited time. Enjoy!
@scaling01: Opus 4.7 comes with much improved reasoning-efficiency over Opus 4.6 basically everything is now moved up one tier low is as good as medium medium as good as high high as good as max [image]
@alexpalcuie: asked claude opus 4.7 about reliability and it blamed the kv cache before serving a single public token [image]
Claude / @claudeai: In Claude Codethe new /ultrareview command runs a dedicated review session that reads through your changes and flags what a careful reviewer would catch. We've also extended auto mode to Max usersso longer tasks run with fewer interruptions.
Claude / @claudeai: On the APIa new xhigh effort level between high and max gives you finer control over reasoning and latency on hard problems. Task budgets (beta) help Claude prioritize work and manage costs across longer runs.
Claude / @claudeai: Opus 4.7 also has substantially better vision. It can see images at more than three times the resolution and produces higher-quality interfacesslidesand docs as a result.
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Aran Komatsuzaki / @arankomatsuzaki: Nearly 1/3 of surveyed people in Anthropic now think entry-level engineers and researchers are likely replaced by Mythos within 3 months [image]
@intern: thanks for giving us Opus 4.7 with Mythos mogging it ur actually goated for that. it's probably the coolest thing ive seen in my lifeyou released an AI model to AI users but you put Mythos there so we know it's the mid version. heroic. i love worse models thats fire bro thanks [image]
Nathan Calvin / @_nathancalvin: This part of the 4.7 Opus system card is pretty neat and seems potentially worth emulating (Anthropic showed Mythos the private discussions/evidence underlying the system card and asked Mythos if the Opus system card accurately characterized that private evidence) [image]
Tommy / @shaughnessy119: Opus 4.7 publicly marks the divide between what's available to you (4.7) vs what's available to them (Mythos) Top private AI models were always closedbut now the top tier is both closed and unavailable
Haseeb / @hosseeb: Interesting that they are now showing these benchmarks side-by-side with Mythosto reinforce that you do not have access to the most intelligent model. I always wondered when we'd get here. But we have now for the first time entered the undemocratic era of AI. You are not important enough to have access to the greatest intelligenceand Anthropic wants you to know that.
Dan McAteer / @daniel_mac8: Claude Opus 4.7 is here. Significant benchmark jumps over Opus 4.6. OpenAI's turn now. ‘Spud 🥔’ is baked. Let's eat. I bet Spud 🥔 benchmarks are closer to Mythos Preview than Opus 4.7. [image]
@scaling01: Opus 4.7 (orange) with higher verbalized evaluation awareness than Claude Mythos (green) Opus 4.6 (blue) Sonnet 4.6 (yellow) [image]
@scaling01: Claude Opus 4.7 exactly on the Anthropic ECI trend Claude Mythos notably above the trend! [image]
Anthony Kroeger / @kr0der: Opus 4.7 has arrived 👀 looks like a small improvement over Opus 4.6 in most of the benchmarksbut this image feels like it's advertising Mythos not Opus 4.7 the new /ultrareview in Claude Code looks interesting thoughdefinitely trying that out
Andrew Curran / @andrewcurran_: Many sightings of Opus 4.7 in the wildit's looking like today is the day. If it feels like this is too soonthat's because the last Opus release was only 73 days ago. Let's call it Mythos-induced acceleration. Today was also the rumored release day for Spudaka GPT-5.5. Not
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Boris Cherny / @bcherny: Opus 4.7 uses more thinking tokensso we've increased rate limits for all subscribers to make up for it. Enjoy!
Bogdan Ionut Cirstea / @bogdanionutcir2: seems probably good for safetyespecially if most capabilities gains came from pretraining
Matthew / @topmass: opus 4.7 tokenizer is new and uses more tokens for the same inputs... AND the new default reasoning effort inside of claude code will be high - get ready to tear through your limits! [image]
Nathan Lambert / @natolambert: There's good discussion around this one ways that it could just be adaptation at midtrainingbut base model is the simplest explanation so that's my bet.
@myainotez: New Opus is outthey mention a new tokenizer too. Maybe we will have breadcrumbs of mythos in this one
Christophe Henner / @schiste: Oh goshthey removed 4.6 altogether from selectors. So I have to saythis does looks a lot like a downsell disguised in an upsell. A few upgradesbut a new tokenizer eating tokens much faster. Wellwe knew the time to stop brut forcing things with Opus had to end. [image]
Maxime Labonne / @maximelabonne: My bet is that Mythos uses a new tokenizerand they switched Opus over to it (through midtraining) for distillation
Andrew Carr / @andrew_n_carr: 4.7 has a new tokenizer (in-part) because of the 3x vision scaling improvements
Sigrid Jin / @realsigridjin: opus 4.7 has a new tokenizer which means a new base model underneathnot just a post-training refresh [image]
@kunchamsathwik: Claude Opus 4.7 launched Thing I noticed: 1. They changed the tokenizer which may map to 35% more tokens. 2. Model by default thinks more. Overallhigher token use and faster rate limit hits. [image]
Sigrid Jin / @realsigridjin: tldr; @ClaudeDevs opus 4.7 just shipped as expected > the tokenizer changed. same input maps to 1.0 to 1.35x more tokens depending on content type > output tokens also go up at higher effortthe model thinks longer on later turns in agentic loops > new effort level called
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Q&A: Ronan Farrow on his Sam Altman profile in The New Yorkerhow Altman changed in 18 months of reportingOpenAI's board drama and enterprise shiftand more — Today on DecoderI'm talking with Ronan Farrowone of the biggest stars of investigative reporting working today.| Megan Morrone / Axios: |
OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalindan AI model for life sciences researchincluding drug discoveryas a research preview for customers such as Moderna and Amgen — OpenAI announced a new series of AI models built to help life sciences researchers work faster.More:
Laura Varley / Silicon Republic: OpenAI to rival Google's AlphaFold with new AI model for life sciences research
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalinda reasoning model built for life sciences research
Ana Maria Constantin / The Next Web: OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalinda specialised AI model for drug discovery and life sciences research
Maria Garcia / Implicator.ai: OpenAI's Biology Model Is Not a Lab Breakthrough. It Is an Access Strategy.
Asif Razzaq / MarkTechPost: OpenAI Launches GPT-Rosalind: Its First Life Sciences AI Model Built to Accelerate Drug Discovery and Genomics Research
John Timmer / Ars Technica: OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM
Karthik Mudaliar / Neowin: OpenAI goes after Google DeepMind's turf with a new biology-focused AI model: GPT-Rosalind
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Andrew Dunn / @andrewe_dunn: NEW: OpenAI is the latest tech giant to move into biopharmalaunching Thursday GPT-Rosalinda life sciences-tailored version of its LLM Trails behind the very similar launch of Anthropic's Claude for Life Sciences by ~5 months. More here: https://endpoints.news/...
Andrew Dunn / @andrewe_dunn: All of a suddenit's a crowded space of tech players looking to work with and sell to biopharma OpenAI's GPT-Rosalind Nvidia's BioNeMo Anthropic's Claude for Life Sci AWS' Amazon Bio Discovery (launched earlier this week) Edison Scientific Phylo & more that I'm surely missing
Bo Wang / @bowang87: It is clear that every frontier AI lab will have dedicated frontier models for biology and drug discovery 🔥 Great time to be working on AI &Bio ! Can't wait to see what GPT-Rosalind can unlock for drug discovery!
@sporadica: i like it when the big labs release tools specifically for accelerating scientific researchinstead of just more addictive chatbots good release
Greg Brockman / @gdb: Announcing GPT-Rosalindour frontier model for life science research. This model is a step towards one of our most important goals — accelerating science and improving human outcomes. Excited to work with many amazing partners on deploying and improving this model. [image]
Benedict Kerres / @benedictk__: GPT-Rosalind. We may be too quiet about this but we have a model for biology and drug discovery now. It's very cool and the people working on it are amazing. Super happy we get to do this and tackle very hard problems.
Dean W. Ball / @deanwball: Available to “qualified customers.” As I wrote after Mythosexpect more models to have staggered releasesoften exclusive to large firms and governments at firstdue to a combination of safety reasons (biorisk in this case) and compute constraints.
Dean W. Ball / @deanwball: It is also interesting that OpenAI is de-emphasizing safety concerns herenot mentioned at all in the tweets and only lightly discussed in the blog post. One imagines that if Anthropic had trained a similar modelthey'd be way more “risk-forward.” It's not obvious to me which of these approaches is betterbut OpenAI's strategy at least doesn't result in the inevitable and obnoxious cycle of “it's just hype for regulatory capture” takeswhich I imagine they want to avoid....
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Brian O'Meara / @omearabrian: OpenAI is releasing a model “tuned” for science. They say they measured performance for “phylogenetic interpretation of DNA sequences” among other things. — My guess is NJ but bad. — My fear is essentially some real software running without attribution. But we'll all see... …
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Google updates AI Mode in Chromeletting users open links side by side with AI Mode on desktop; users can search across multiple tabs on desktop and mobile — Google announced on Thursday that it's rolling out a new way to explore the web with AI Modeits conversational search experience.More:
Sweta Kumari / Business Standard: Google now lets you explore the web side-by-side with AI Mode: Details
The Indian Express: Goodbye tab hopping: Google Chrome's new ‘AI Mode’ lets you browse and chat side-by-side
Arthur Kay / Ghacks: Chrome AI Mode Adds Split-Screen Browsing and Cross-Tab Context for Search on Desktop and Mobile
MC Learn / Moneycontrol: Google Chrome gets AI-powered product comparison featuretab-based search and side-by-side browsing tools
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: AI Mode in Chrome adds split-screen view to enhance the web search experience
Matt G. Southern / Search Engine Journal: Google AI Mode in Chrome Gets Side-by-Side Browsing
Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada: Google Launches New AI Mode for Chrome
Karthik Mudaliar / Neowin: Google's AI Mode in Chrome gets a major upgrade that fixes one of its biggest frustrations
Macy Meyer / CNET: Google Is Adding New Ways to Use AI Mode in Chrome
Timi Cantisano / Android Police: Chrome just flipped the switch on its new enhanced AI Modeand it's a huge upgrade
Stephen Schenck / Android Authority: CHROME IS LEVELING UP AI MODE WITH SPLIT-SCREEN VIEW AND LOCAL TAB SEARCH
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Google AI Mode in Chrome now lets you search deeper with fewer tabs
Reece Rogers / Wired: Google's AI Mode Update Tries to Kill Tab Hopping in Chrome
Amanda Caswell / Tom's Guide: I tested Chrome's new AI Mode — it's a productivity dream that your RAM will hate
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: Google Chrome makes it easier to wrangle different tabs in AI Mode
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Parisa Tabriz / @laparisa: 📢 New AI Mode experience in @googlechrome! This UX removes a lot of back-and-forth tab switching when using AI Modeso you can ask follow up Qs about and w/ web contentall in one view. 🕸️❤️✨ More at https://blog.google/...
@newsfromgoogle: We're introducing a new Search experience in Chrome in the U.S. today that makes it easier to access and engage with content and dive deeper into what you findall without switching tabs. Nowwhen you click on a webpage from AI Mode in Chrome desktopit opens side-by-side with [video]
@google: We're introducing a new Search experience in @GoogleChrome that lets you open webpages side-by-side with AI Mode - no tab switching required. Nowyou'll be able to compare details and ask follow-up questions while still maintaining the context of your searchwhether you're [video]
Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe: Oh boyI'm not sure publishers will be thrilled with this change -> AI Mode will now open publisher links side by side with AI Mode (versus taking you directly to the publisher website). So both AI Mode and the site will be open at the same time. “Nowwhen you're using AI Mode
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OpenAI updates its Codex desktop app with features like computer controlan in-app browserimage generationautomation memoryplugin supportand more — ZDNET's key takeaways — Codex Desktop expands from coding into full productivity workflows. — Automation can generate imageschartsand workflow outputs.
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Kahekashan / The Hans India: OpenAI Expands Codex Into Full-Scale AI Development Assistant With Automation and Memory
Anamarija Pogorelec / Help Net Security: Codex can now operate between apps. Where are the boundaries?
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: OpenAI drastically updates Codex desktop app to use all other apps on your computergenerate imagespreview webpages
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: OpenAI's latest Codex update builds the groundwork for its upcoming super app
John Voorhees / MacStories: OpenAI Unveils Codex “Superapp” Update with Computer UseAutomationsBuilt-In Browserand More
Sweta Kumari / Business Standard: OpenAI updates Codex with memoryautomationplugins and more: What's new
Arthur Kay / Ghacks: OpenAI Updates Codex With Computer UseIn-App BrowserMemoryand 90-Plus New Plugins
Sarthak Singh / Moneycontrol: OpenAI takes on Claude Code with Codex update: Brings computer controlmemoryand automation features
Rajesh Pandey / Cult of Mac: OpenAI's Codex can now control your Mac apps
Ayushi Jain / Digit: OpenAI upgrades Codex with computer controlimage generation to rival Claude Code
Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog: OpenAI Codex transformed into Superapp with Computer Use
Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: OpenAI Super App Takes Shape: Codex Gets Computer UseBrowserand Image Gen
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop
Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: OpenAI Releases a Major Update to Codex
Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin: OpenAI expands Codex beyond coding with computer usememoryand plugins
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@openai: Codex for (almost) everything. It can now use apps on your Macconnect to more of your toolscreate imageslearn from previous actionsremember how you like to workand take on ongoing and repeatable tasks. [video]
Gabriel / @gabriel1: it will be hard to dismiss these tools as “hype” in the coming 3 monthsas the world transitions into a new way of working
Ari Weinstein / @arix: This is the first time I've ever seen an LLM operate a GUI as fast as a personand it's surreal. [video]
Greg Brockman / @gdb: Codex is becoming a turbocharged partner for everything you want your computer to do for you:
@nvidia: Congratulations @OpenAI on bringing Codex to more of the software workflow. 🎉 Codex is becoming a system for more of a developer's workflowhelping them move across toolscreate richer outputsadapt to how they workand carry longer-running tasks forward.
@signulll: computer use is broadly here & it's genuinely very coolbut it's worth flagging the structural asymmetry here where apple & google don't have to pipe everything through accessibility apis unlike app players. vertical integration lets them operate deeper in the stack like the compositorview hierarchy& event loop itself which is a real latency & reliability moat for on device agents.
Nick Dobos / @nickadobos: With codex computer use + mac's iPhone Mirror appGPT can use any app on your phone!!! Seems less accurate with clicks vs actual mac desktop appsbut it does work! Whats the best app to use this with?! [video]
Aaron Levie / @levie: The new Codex is another jump in what agents will look like for knowledge workers. Agents that can codework with toolsand use computerscan begin to execute long running tasks in the background for all areas of work. This can mean drafting reportssetting up data rooms for a mergerreviewing contractshelping onboard clientsgenerating marketing assetsprocessing invoicesand more. With the Box plugin inside of the new Codexyou can begin to automate almost any kind of work with enterprise content. And importantlybeing able to work across multiple apps is a huge point of leverage because we can now far more easily connect our tools together.
Sam Altman / @sama: Lots of major improvements to Codex! Computer use is a real update for me; it feels even more useful than I expected. It can use all of the apps on your Macin parallel and without interfering with your direct work.
James Sun / @jameszmsun: We are super excited to launch the in-app browser inside Codex with comment mode! View any web pages & iterate with your agent quickly with just point and click. Codex will automatically capture a screenshotthe DOM elementand feed it as precise context to your next [video]
Alexander Embiricos / @embirico: Background Computer Use Computer Use in Codex has some deep OS-level wizardry. Codex can see/click/type in apps in the backgroundwithout taking over your computerand you can work in parallel. @AriX and team absolutely crushed here. Windows soon.
Dominik Kundel / @dkundel: When we say for (almost) everything we mean it! All of these features have been game changers for me in the last days beyond just coding. I had automated threads keep an eye on my SlackemailcalendarGoogle docsand more for the launch and monitor PRs along the way. So [video]
Nick O'Neill / @chooserich: Not to let Perplexity be outdoneOpen AI drops theirs 😂
@kimmonismus: The real signal is in OpenAI's own framing: 3M weekly Codex usersand they claim nearly half of usage is already non-coding. Codex is being repositioned as a general work agentnot just a dev tool. „Workbench for real workbeforearoundand after writing code. " This is a different bet than Anthropic's. Opus 4.7 pushes the frontier on model capability. Codex pushes the frontier on what an agent does all day. Claude Code stays focused on software. Codex wants your whole workflow.
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Sources: OpenAI agrees to pay Cerebras $20B+ to use its server chipsdouble the amount previously associated with the dealand may receive equity in Cerebras — OpenAI recently struck an unusual deal to lessen its dependence on Nvidia's AI chips and potentially lower its computing expenses in the coming years.More:
Mrinmay Dey / Reuters: OpenAI to spend more than $20 billion on Cerebras chipsreceive equity stakeThe Information reports
Estefano Gomez / Crypto Briefing: OpenAI secures $20B Cerebras chip dealgains equity stake
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Sam Badawi / @sam_badawi: OpenAI plans to spend more than $20B on Cerebras chips and will receive an equity stake as part of the agreement. Cerebras is targeting a roughly $35B valuation in its upcoming IPOpositioning itself as a major alternative compute supplier in the race to scale AI training [image]
Anissa Gardizy / @anissagardizy8: SCOOP: OpenAI agreed to pay Cerebras more than $20 billion to use the firms chips over the next three years—in exchange for equity rights. - OpenAI's spending could reach $30Bwhich could give OpenAI warrants for 10% of Cerebras - OpenAI has also agreed to provide Cerebras
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AI labs are buying SlackJiraand email archives from defunct startups to build “reinforcement learning gyms” and train AI agents in simulated workplaces — Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archivesJira ticketsand email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data.X:
Joanne Jang / @joannejang: this is why openai should've firewalled statsig to train on their data upon acquisition — but it's not too late!
Kim Zetter / @kimzetter: AI labs are buying internal communications of defunct startups to train their agents. EmailsSlack archivesetc. Personally identifiable info is removed by data resellers. But how would you feel knowing your former board/CEO is selling your comms to recover losses/pay debts?
@sid_potdar_: now's the right time to announce that I'm starting the Nth RL env companybut only focused on successful company data if you're the founder of a successful startup (1b+ arr only)please DM me with a zip of your git repo and HRIS data
Tanishq Mathew AbrahamPh.D. / @iscienceluvr: how is it not obvious to these labs that this is a bad idea??? why do they want to train models to learn to run DEAD STARTUPS?!
Wes Bos / @wesbos: selling premium deadstock basecamp threads from groupon and living social daily deals era. not cheapI know what I have
Rat King / @mikeisaac: retconning my longterm strategy of being insane online as my way of data poisoning the training models
@anjneymidha: if you train on data from dead startupsyour AI will learn...how to run a dead startup mediocrity at scale
Deva Hazarika / @devahaz: RIP Enron email corpusyou served us well for a couple decades
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Memo: the White House notified Cabinet departments that OMB is setting up protections that would allow their agencies to begin using Anthropic's Mythos model — The US government is preparing to make a version of Anthropic PBC's powerful new artificial intelligence model available …
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Kalyeena Makortoff / The Guardian: Finance leaders warn over Mythos as UK banks prepare to use powerful Anthropic AI tool
Ananya Gairola / Benzinga: Trump Admin Is Embroiled In A Feud With AnthorpicNow They Are Reportedly Considering Giving Federal Agencies Access To Mythos Despite Fears
Ece Yildirim / Gizmodo: White House Is Reportedly Ready to Drop Its Anthropic Beef and Embrace the Spooky New Model
Estefano Gomez / Crypto Briefing: White House grants US agencies access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI model
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Ted Lieu / @tedlieu: If the White House is asking federal agencies to use Anthropic's Mythosthat would seem to be a significant blow to the Department of Defense's attempt to blacklist Anthropic as a supply chain risk.
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Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: Roblox agrees to pay $10 millionmake platform changes in Nevada settlement over child safety
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Uber agrees to pay ~€270M for an additional 4.5% stake in German food delivery rival Delivery Hero from Prosuswhich would bring its total stake to ~7% — German delivery group's largest shareholder Prosus has agreed to reduce its stake over EU competition concernsMore:
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Google announces a Gemini app integration between Personal Intelligence and Nano Banana 2 to let the AI image generator “automatically reflect” users' tastes — With the international expansion underwayGemini is now bringing together Personal IntelligenceGoogle Photosand Nano Banana 2.More:
Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget: Gemini can now draw on your Google data to personalize the images it generates
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Hangzhou-based Manycore shares rose 187% early in its Hong Kong debut after raising $156M in its IPO; it is pivoting to selling AI training data to robot makers — Manycore Tech Inc. built a billion-dollar valuation in China's once-sizzling real estate market.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sequoia raised ~$7B for a new fundthe first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a $3.4B vehicle in 2022 — Sequoia Capitalone of the largest and most prominent venture capital firmshas raised about $7 billion for a new fund according … More:
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Counterpoint: India's smartphone shipments fell 3% YoY in Q1 2026a six-year lowas price hikes weigh on sales; 80+ smartphone models saw price hikes of ~15% — India's smartphone shipments fell 3% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026marking their weakest quarterly performance … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Physical Intelligence says its new modelπ0.7can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained onan “early sign” of generalizationsurprising researchers — Physical Intelligencethe two-year-oldSan Francisco-based robotics startup that has quietly become … X:
Sergey Levine / @svlevine: We finished evaluating π0.7our new model at Physical Intelligence. What I'm most excited about with π0.7 is that it's starting to show some surprising emergent compositional generalizationbeing able to both perform complex tasks and learn new tasks just from instructions. [video]
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Mozilla launches Thunderboltan open-source AI client for users and businesses who want to run their own self-hosted AI infrastructureavailable on GitHub — Mozilla is the latest legacy tech brand to make a play for the enterprise AI market. But the company behind Firefox and Thunderbird … More:
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OpenAI's global policy chiefChris Lehanecalls out AI “doomers” and says “when you put some of those thoughts and ideas out therethey do have consequences” — OpenAI's Chris Lehane thinks the discussion around AI has gotten out of hand.More:
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Lauren Wagner / @typewriters: A new paradigm for corporate comms - externalizing internal debates gives the impression of thoughtfulness and builds trust with the public
Nathan Calvin / @_nathancalvin: Helpful and nuanced comments from Jason Wolfewho helps lead OpenAI's model spec work. I strongly agree with Jason that the AI industry should focus on communicating honestly about risks and earning the trust of the public through their actions. OpenAI's nonprofit mission is
Jason Wolfe / @w01fe: I like Chrisbut I really disagree with the positions presented in this article. I believe our job in the AI industry isn't just to explain why AI will be good for people. I believe our job should be to earn trust by making the benefits realbeing honest about risks and uncertaintysharing what we learnmeasuring real-world impactsand supporting public oversight and resilience. And while I of course agree that the recent violence is terribleunjustifiedand may have been encouraged by a small number of bad actorsI think it's bad for the public discourse to lump all AI critics together as “doomers” and suggest that it's inappropriate for them to express their concerns.
Justin Bullock / @justinbullock14: Having Chris Lehane as OpenAI's global policy chief is why so many people in the AI policy space no longer see OpenAI as a good faith actor on US AI policy.
Katie Miller / @katiemiller: The AI doomer that Chris Lehane should take a look at is his own boss Sam Altman: • “Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.”
• “I think that AI will probably most likely sort of lead to the end
Rob Flaherty / @rob_flaherty: There's sort of a similar thing between their putting out (good!) policy ideas for how to make the adoption of AI a societal benefit while also vigorously spending money in service of electing the very people who will prevent any of that from happening. https://x.com/...
James Rosen-Birch / @provisionalidea: I've said this a few timesbut the recent trend of Valley big men thinking narratives have magical mind control qualities is deeply misguided saying what people want to hear is net-negative if your actions don't match your words (you just come off smarmy and dishonest)
Harlan Stewart / @humanharlan: Chris Lehane: “Our job at OpenAI and in the AI space — and we need to do a much better job — is to explain to people why ... this is going to be really good for themfor their families and for society writ large.” This is an odd thing to say when a majority of the AI space
Nathan Calvin / @_nathancalvin: OpenAI Global Affairs: How dare you say that AI could cause a catastrophe! Also OpenAI Global Affairs: Can we please immediately have legal immunity if our AI causes a catastrophe?
Haley McNamara / @haleymcnamara: Exactly ⬇️ (& can add mass sexual exploitation to that list toowhether by sexual deepfakesusing CSAM as training databots sending sexually abusive messages to kidsetc) I'm not a “doomer” but this just shows how the full court press for immunity from liability is
Caroline O'Donovan / @ceodonovan: I talked to OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane about the violence last week and how he plans to get people to stop hating AI https://sfstandard.com/...
Max Zeff / @zeffmax: I find it fascinating that OpenAI's Global Affairs team will denounce AI doomers for being too negative and thensimultaneouslyadvocate for an Illinois bill that would shield them from liability if an AI system were to cause mass deaths or financial disasters. Why would they lobby for a bill like that if they didn't think it was possible?
Peter Wildeford / @peterwildeford: The “doomer hunters” at OpenAI should take a look at their own CEO... Guess who said these quotes: “Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.” “Evolution will continue forwardand if humans are no
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David Heaney / UploadVR: Meta Is Increasing The Price Of Quest 3 & Quest 3S
Max Freeman-Mills / T3: Meta's hiking prices on the Quest 3 and 3Sand it's sad that nobody's surprised
Tom Pritchard / Tom's Guide: Samsung Galaxy Z fold 7 deal defies RAM shortage hikes with $400 price cut
Isaiah Richard / Tech Times: Meta Quest 3Quest 3S See Price Hike Due to RAM Shortage—Here's How Much They Cost Now
Abdullah Asim / PhoneArena: Meta Quest headsets fall victim to the ongoing pricing crisis
Jacob Ridley / PC Gamer: Meta is raising the price of the Quest 3 and Quest 3S due to memory price rises made worse by Meta
Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Meta to raise Quest VR headset prices in US on rising component costs
Dashia Milden / CNET: Meta Raises Prices on Quest 3 and Quest 3S Due to RAM Shortage
Sai Krishna / Android Headlines: Meta Quest Headsets' Prices Are Increasingand RAM Crisis is to Blame
Hassam Nasir / TweakTown: Meta is raising Quest 3 and Quest 3S pricesand the RAMapocalypse is to blame again
Patrick Farmer / Android Central: The Meta Quest 3 is about to be hit with a major price hike — grab the VR headset before it's too late
Jon Fingas / How-To Geek: Thinking about a Meta Quest 3 or 3S? Buy it before the April 19 price hike
Hassam Nasir / Tom's Hardware: Meta raising Quest headset prices due to AI-driven RAM shortage — Quest 3 to cost $600Quest 3S $350 from April 19
Laurent Giret / Thurrott: Meta is Raising the Prices of its Quest 3 and Quest 3S Headsets
Marcus Stewart / Game Informer: Meta Announces Price Increases For Quest 3 Headsets
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Otis Frampton / @otisframpton: Unpopular opinion: Still worth it. The amount of entertainment value I've gotten out of my Quest 3 over the last year and half far exceeds the cost in terms of dollars spent. Being able to watch movies on a big screen in VR alone has made the Quest 3 worth it.
@questwithmatt: The thing that shocks me the most about this is that Meta took so long to raise prices lol.
@gamertagvr: @martydudeVR @vrgamerdude I really don't think it's that bad with everything else going on in the hardware sector? $50 increase. I know it's not welcome but it's hardly unexpected.
Artur Sychov / @asychov: Translation: “Since VR is not our priority anymorewe want to stop loosing money and sell these products at least at cost. Moreover we lowered down production estimates which increased pricing per unit”
@josethevrtech: new pricing is incredibly lowconsidering everything that is currently happening. Which also leads me to believe things will get worseand prices will likely double before the end of the year. (I hope to be wrong).
Fox / @distantfoxx: @Wario64 Ah yesincrease the price of the thing people already don't buy. Great idea
Cary Golomb / @carygolomb: Valve waiting to reveal the price on the Steam Machine (PS5 price increase) and the Steam Frame (Meta Quest 3 price increase) paying big dividends.
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Maria Korolov / CSO: NIST cuts down CVE analysis amid vulnerability overload
Catalin Cimpanu / Risky Business: Risky Bulletin: NIST gives up enriching most CVEs
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Daniel Karistai / @hackswithcoffee: NIST changing their priority structure for CVE enrichment is going to have some interesting implications for those who rely on the NVD for risk based decision making. https://www.nist.gov/...
Lindsey O'Donnell Welch / @lindseyod123: Update from NIST on how the NVD will operateas they grapple with “record CVE growth” https://www.nist.gov/... [image]
Eric Geller / @ericgeller: Amid an increasing volume of newly reported vulnerabilitiesNIST says it will only add detailed info to CVEs in its NVD that meet certain criteria (inclusion in CISA's KEV cataloguse in fed swor use in critical sw). It will review requests for others. https://www.nist.gov/... [image]
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Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi.risky.biz: NIST says that besides focusing on enriching only the big bugsit will also stop providing its own CVSS severity scores for NVD entriesand will now just show the severity score initially assigned by the organization that issued the CVE. — ruh-roh.... some CVSS drama incoming