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OpenAI Says Its New GPT-5.5 Model Is More Efficient and Better At Coding
GitHub - Infisical/agent-vault: A HTTP credential proxy and vault for AI agents
UK Biobank health data keeps ending up on GitHub
Microsoft offers buyout for up to 7% of US employees
My Phone Replaced a Brass Plug
Techmeme: Shenzhen-based Pudu Robotics, which makes commercial service robots, raised ~$150M, bringing its total funding to $300M+, and says its valuation exceeds $1.5B (The Robot Report)
Using the internet like its 1999
Techmeme: Intel reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to $13.58B, vs. $12.42B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; INTC jumps 15%+ after hours (Katie Tarasov
Tinder takes action against AI profiles by making users scan eyes for “proof of humanity”
Techmeme: Instagram launched Instants, an app for sharing disappearing photos, in Italy this week, after rolling out an Instants feature in its main app in some regions (Sydney Bradley
Techmeme: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty detail their “return of Xbox” strategy, including daily active players as its “new north star” (Tom Warren
Techmeme: Music publishers including UMG, Warner Music, and Sony drop a copyright suit against Verizon following a SCOTUS decision limiting ISP liability in Cox's suit (Kyle Jahner
GitHub - TypeError/secure: Modern Python library for HTTP security headers with safe defaults, configurable presets, and first-class ASGI/WSGI middleware (FastAPI, Django, Flask, Shiny, and more).
ChatGPT Confessed to a Crime It Couldn’t Possibly Have Committed
Why the Anti-Data Center Movement Is Succeeding Where Others Have Struggled
Microsoft plans first-ever voluntary employee buyout for up to 7% of U.S. workforce
Endangered Mexican axolotl discovered by girl, 10, under a bridge in Wales
France Confirms Data Breach At Government Agency That Manages Citizens' IDs
Advanced Packaging Limits Come Into Focus
Techmeme: OpenAI says “GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4 per-token latency in real-world serving, while performing at a much higher level of intelligence” (OpenAI)
Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8,000 employees, report says
Techmeme: OpenAI launches GPT-5.5, designed to handle complex tasks with minimal guidance; the model will be used to power the company's upcoming “super app” (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
Techmeme: OpenAI says GPT-5.5's improvements are strongest in agentic coding, computer use, and early scientific research, which require reasoning across longer contexts (Madison Mills/Axios)
Techmeme: GPT-5.5 is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT and Codex, and GPT-5.5 Pro to Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT (The Verge)
Techmeme: GPT-5.5 is priced at $5/1M input tokens and $30/1M output tokens, double GPT-5.4's pricing; GPT-5.5 Pro costs $30/1M input tokens and $180/1M output tokens (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
Techmeme: Anthropic says it has fixed three causes of recent Claude Code quality issues: reduced default reasoning, a caching bug, and a system prompt to reduce verbosity (Anthropic)
These Middle Eastern News Sites Are Actually U.S. Government Propaganda Operations
Why I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable — tenphi.me
Microsoft Plans First-Ever Voluntary Employee Buyout
Tim Cook Calls Apple Maps Launch His 'First Really Big Mistake' as CEO
X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam
French govt agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data
Techmeme: At a town hall, Asha Sharma said Microsoft is returning to using Xbox for its gaming division, instead of Microsoft Gaming, as “Xbox needs to be our identity” (Tom Warren
BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN
An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
Techmeme: A look at Microsoft's recent wave of executive departures, as it struggles to retain talent and changes its annual rewards and performance programs in response (Tom Warren
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