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CHATGPT APP $2B REVENUE

Since launching in 2023, ChatGPT's mobile app has reached $2B in consumer spending, with an average return of $2.91 per install, vastly outpacing other AI mobile apps.

2025.08.18
techcrunch.com2 min readTLDR AI

GPT-5 HAS A HIDDEN SYSTEM PROMPT

GPT-5, when accessed via the OpenAI API, has its own hidden system prompt that is independent from the system prompt users specify in their API calls. It is very resistant to sharing the details of this secret system prompt. The prompt seems to specify a level of 'oververbosity' where the assistant prioritizes direct answers with minimal extra content and keeps explanations short unless users ask for more.

2025.08.18
simonwillison.net4 min readTLDR AI

I VIBE-CODED A TRITON KERNEL

A Triton implementation of GPT-OSS was included in the release, but the kernels are forward-only - this developer vibe-coded their own kernel to use for training.

2025.08.18
benanderson.work6 min readTLDR AI

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2025.08.15
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INTRODUCING GEMMA 3 270M: THE COMPACT MODEL FOR HYPER-EFFICIENT AI

Google's Gemma 3 270M is a compact 270 million parameter model designed for task-specific fine-tuning that offers strong instruction-following and text structuring capabilities. The model ensures extreme energy efficiency - it only uses 0.75% battery for 25 conversations on a Pixel 9 Pro SoC. Ideal for high-volume, well-defined tasks, it allows for rapid iterations and on-device processing to reduce costs and ensure privacy.

2025.08.15
developers.googleblog.com5 min readTLDR AI

LEAK: OPENAI'S BROWSER WILL USE CHATGPT AGENT TO CONTROL THE BROWSER

OpenAI is preparing a Chromium-based browser that will use Agent mode to control actions. Agent mode is being updated to choose between operating on a remote cloud/virtual browser and a first-party local browser. It looks like the cloud browser feature will only be enabled as a fallback when using OpenAI's upcoming browser.

2025.08.15
bleepingcomputer.com2 min readTLDR AI

COHERE HITS A $6.8B VALUATION AS INVESTORS AMD, NVIDIA, AND SALESFORCE DOUBLE DOWN

Cohere raised $500 million at a $6.8 billion valuation, marking a $1.3 billion increase from its previous round just over a year ago. The Toronto-based company has carved out a distinct position targeting enterprise security rather than consumer applications, recently nabbing longtime Meta research head Joelle Pineau as chief AI officer.

2025.08.15
techcrunch.com3 min readTLDR AI

META RELEASED DINOV3

Meta's DINOv3 is a scalable self-supervised learning model that delivers state-of-the-art results across varied image domains like web and satellite imagery.

2025.08.15
ai.meta.com4 min readTLDR AI

DOOMPROMPTING IS THE NEW DOOMSCROLLING

"Doomprompting", the cycle where AI interactions devolve from purposeful queries into mindless iteration loops, has become a new form of digital addiction. What starts as intentional problem-solving degrades into passive negotiation with systems that offer infinite variations without genuine understanding. Unlike doomscrolling's passive consumption, doomprompting creates an illusion of productivity where users feel they're thinking and creating while they're actually outsourcing cognitive effort.

2025.08.15
workingtheorys.com12 min readTLDR AI

EXPLORING FOUNDATION MODELS' TOOL-USE EFFICACY

Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes LLM tool use. It is quickly becoming the norm for tool integrations. Despite MCP's rapid adoption, experiments show that models often failed to use tools effectively, with GPT-5 performing best but struggling when limited to only relevant tools. This highlights ongoing challenges in generalizing tool use and optimizing AI agent performance in complex scenarios.

2025.08.15
osmosis.ai4 min readTLDR AI

CRYSTAL

Crystal is an Electron desktop application that lets users run, inspect, and test multiple Claude Code instances simultaneously using git worktrees. Users can resume conversations anytime and test changes instantly without leaving Crystal. Crystal has built-in rebase and squash operations, and users can view diffs and track modifications. It allows users to test, compare approaches, and manage AI-assisted development workflows in one desktop app.

2025.08.15
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR AI

OPENCUA: OPEN FOUNDATIONS FOR COMPUTER-USE AGENTS

OpenCUA provides a comprehensive open-source toolkit for building computer-use agents that includes data collection tools, training pipelines, and 22K human demonstration trajectories across three operating systems and 200+ applications. Its key innovation is "reflective long Chain-of-Thought" reasoning that helps agents identify and recover from errors during multi-step tasks.

2025.08.15
arxiv.org21 min readTLDR AI

IN-CONTEXT VECTOR ARITHMETIC

A theoretical framework explaining how transformers perform factual-recall ICL tasks using vector arithmetic. It builds on hierarchical concept modeling to show that nonlinear residual transformers trained with gradient descent converge on 0-1 loss.

2025.08.15
arxiv.org17 min readTLDR AI

IS CHAIN-OF-THOUGHT AI REASONING A MIRAGE?

Whether chain-of-thought reasoning is real or not is primarily a philosophical question. It depends on having a clear definition of what 'real' reasoning is, and there is no single consensus definition of ideal reasoning. Good model reasoning papers both directly assess the quality of human reasoning skills, or ideally, provide a tight philosophical definition of what 'real' reasoning is, and use tasks that actually require reasoning rather than simply computation. They use tasks that have many paths to success and don't draw sweeping conclusions about 'real' reasoning.

2025.08.15
seangoedecke.com10 min readTLDR AI

TWITTER'S EX-CEO IS MOVING PAST HIS ELON MUSK DRAMA AND STARTING AN AI COMPANY

Parag Agrawal, Twitter's former CEO, started a company called Parallel Web Systems Inc. after being fired by Elon Musk. The company has built an infrastructure product to help AI agents search the web to find the most accurate information. One of its initial product lines is an API called 'deep research' that draws from a variety of relevant data sources on the web to create an organized analysis with citations and confidence scores that measure reliability. While Agrawal likes to say his customer is the AI agent itself, for now, Parallel's customers are developers and businesses that want to integrate its tools into their AI workflows.

2025.08.15
bloomberg.com7 min readTLDR AI

TRADING WITH CHATGPT

A significant number of investors use ChatGPT in ways that influence their trading decisions and market outcomes.

2025.08.15
marginalrevolution.com1 min readTLDR AI

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2025.08.14
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GOOGLE'S GEMINI AI WILL GET MORE PERSONALIZED BY REMEMBERING DETAILS AUTOMATICALLY

A new update for Gemini allows the AI chatbot to remember past conversations without prompting. The feature will be turned on by default, but can be disabled in settings. If turned on, Gemini automatically recalls key details and preferences and uses them to personalize its output. It has started rolling out to Gemini 2.5 Pro in select countries and will eventually come to more locations and Gemini 2.5 Flash.

2025.08.14
theverge.com4 min readTLDR AI

HUAWEI AI CHIP-POWERED DEEPSEEK R2 TIPPED TO LAUNCH THIS MONTH

DeepSeek-R2 is expected to be released before the end of the month. The model will use a more advanced Mixture-of-Experts. It could potentially have double the parameters of DeepSeek-R1. The model's release will likely lead to competition with OpenAI's GPT-5.

2025.08.14
huaweicentral.com2 min readTLDR AI

XAI CO-FOUNDER IGOR BABUSCHKIN LEAVES COMPANY

Igor Babuschkin, a technical co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI, has announced his exit from the company. He played a key role in building xAI's engineering team and shaping it into a major player in AI development since its inception in 2023.

2025.08.14
techcrunch.com1 min readTLDR AI

AI TRAFFIC IS UP 527%. SEO IS BEING REWRITTEN

AI-driven web traffic surged 527% from January to May, with LLMs like ChatGPT and Perplexity reshaping user engagement. Legal, Finance, and Health industries lead in AI-sourced sessions, indicating a shift towards AI for complex inquiries. SEO must adapt to prioritize clarity and relevance for AI selection, or risk falling behind in user discovery.

2025.08.14
searchengineland.com6 min readTLDR AI

GPT-OSS-120B PERFORMANCE VARIES DRAMATICALLY BY PROVIDER

Artificial Analysis benchmarked OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B across 11 API providers and found striking performance differences despite hosting the same model. AIME math scores ranged from 78.3% on Azure to 93.3% on Cerebras — a 15-point gap that suggests provider infrastructure significantly impacts model capabilities. The major cloud providers (Azure, Amazon Bedrock, and Nebius Base) consistently lag behind smaller, specialized AI inference startups like Cerebras, Groq, and Fireworks.

2025.08.14
artificialanalysis.ai10 min readTLDR AI

GOOGLE IS WORKING ON THE DEEP RESEARCH API

The Gemini Deep Research team is working on the Deep Research API. This will be a big upgrade for builders. Deep Research can automatically browse hundreds of websites, think through findings, and create insightful multi-page reports in minutes. It is designed to tackle complex research tasks by breaking them down, exploring the web to find answers, and synthesizing findings into comprehensive results.

2025.08.14
threadreaderapp.com1 min readTLDR AI

IMESSAGE MCP: GIVE YOUR LLM ACCESS TO YOUR MESSAGES

@wyattjoh/imessage and @wyattjoh/imessage-mcp on JSR are open-source packages that give LLMs read-only access to users' iMessage database on macOS. They enable natural language queries for messages, with all processing done locally on users' machines. This post walks users through the installation process and getting started with the tools.

2025.08.14
wyattjoh.ca6 min readTLDR AI

VOID

An open‑source, VS Code–derived AI code editor offering direct connections to any LLM (local or cloud), agent modes, change checkpoints, and full data privacy—with no backend middleman.

2025.08.14
github.comGitHub repositoryTLDR AI

ELEVENLABS LAUNCHES ELEVEN MUSIC FOR AI-GENERATED SONGS FROM TEXT PROMPTS

ElevenLabs' Eleven Music enables users to generate studio-grade music from natural language prompts. It offers control over genre, style, and structure, with options for vocals or instrumental tracks in multiple languages. Users can edit individual sections or entire songs for sound and lyrics adjustments.

2025.08.14
elevenlabs.io1 min readTLDR AI

GOOGLE DEVELOPS MAGIC VIEW FOR NOTEBOOKLM AS POSSIBLE NEW WAY TO VISUALIZE NOTEBOOK DATA

A new feature codenamed Magic View has been spotted in Google's NotebookLM. So far, the feature launches an animation that resembles a dynamic canvas, though there's no clear indication of what its main function will be. The feature was discovered via feature flag analysis and code review. Given the pace and approach of Google's recent updates to NotebookLM, it may be a while before Magic View is widely available.

2025.08.14
testingcatalog.com2 min readTLDR AI

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2025.08.14
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2025.08.13
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PERPLEXITY BIDS $34.5B FOR CHROME

Perplexity made an unsolicited $34.5B cash offer to acquire Chrome, pledging to keep Chromium open source, invest $3B in the project, and retain Google as the default search.

2025.08.13
finance.yahoo.com4 min readTLDR AI

HOW ANTHROPIC BUILDS SAFEGUARDS FOR CLAUDE

Anthropic outlined a multi‑layer safeguards program spanning policy design, training influence, red‑teaming and testing, real‑time enforcement, and threat intelligence to reduce misuse.

2025.08.13
anthropic.com6 min readTLDR AI

GPT-5 PROMPTING GUIDE

OpenAI's GPT-5 prompting guide reveals a new verbosity API parameter that controls response length independently of reasoning depth, plus a Responses API that persists reasoning context between tool calls. The guide suggests the "minimal reasoning effort" path for latency-sensitive applications, and shows GPT-5 excels as its own meta-prompter - with users successfully deploying prompt revisions generated by asking the model how to fix unsuccessful prompts

2025.08.13
cookbook.openai.com30 min readTLDR AI