OpenAI has updated GPT-4o to generate more realistic images. GPT-4o has now replaced DALL-E 3 as the default image generation model in ChatGPT. The updated image generation abilities are now available to ChatGPT Free, Plus, Team, and Pro users. OpenAI used a group of human trainers, who labeled training data for the model, to improve the model's abilities, enabling it to generate more accurately rendered and useful images and follow human directions more closely. An example image generated by the updated model is available in the article.
2025.03.26·links.tldrnewsletter.com·3 min read·TLDR Commonwealth Fusion Systems has installed a key component of its SPARC demonstration reactor called the cryostat base. The milestone signifies a transition into a new stage of the project that involves building the actual tokamak itself. SPARC is expected to come online in 2027 - if it works as anticipated, it could be the first tokamak to produce more power than it takes to run. Three other major pieces of the tokamak will be installed simultaneously later this year or early next year - it will take several months after that to ensure all of the pieces work together as planned.
2025.03.26·techcrunch.com·3 min read·TLDR Julian Kelly, Google Quantum AI's director of hardware, says that the technology is only five years away from running practical applications that can't be calculated on modern computers. The technology will be able to do cutting-edge physics and potentially generate new kinds of data. Google's most advanced quantum computer has 105 qubits - experts say 1 million or more qubits will be needed for useful applications. Quantum technology has been in the spotlight recently as Google announced a breakthrough in error correction and Microsoft revealed a new quantum computing chip.
Aggressive AI web crawlers are increasingly overloading community-maintained infrastructure, essentially causing persistent distributed denial-of-service attacks on vital public resources. Some open source projects now see as much as 97% of their traffic coming from AI companies' bots. This is dramatically increasing bandwidth costs and service instability and burdening maintainers. New defensive tools have emerged to protect websites from unwanted AI crawlers as prominent industry players have shown little incentive to adopt more cooperative practices.
2025.03.26·arstechnica.com·6 min read·TLDR Somebody added malicious code to the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action a week ago, making the compromised action leak secrets to build logs. The attack was possible because it's common practice to refer to tags in a GitHub Actions workflow - changing a tag can make an action run different code the next time it runs. Specifying a git commit ID instead creates a reference that will run the same code every time. This post presents a script that enables you to check whether there are any mutable references within your GitHub Actions workflows.
2025.03.26·alexwlchan.net·5 min read·TLDR The 4 Day Week Foundation is urging tech businesses to sign up for a six-month trial from June 30 in the UK. There will be a six-week workshop and training that starts on May 22. Hundreds of British companies have already shown that a four-day, 32-hour working week with no loss of pay can be a win-win for workers and employers. The results of the upcoming pilot will be reviewed by researchers at the University of Sussex and Newcastle University.
2025.03.26·theregister.com·3 min read·TLDR WikiTok is an infinite controlling Wikipedia built on Bun, React, and TypeScript. The app was created using Claude through Cursor, which did a vast majority of the work. The developer gave it the specs they wanted and prompted away. This post details the lessons that the developer learned while building the app and after it went viral.
Multiple companies with logos on 11x's website were not actual customers and at least one is threatening legal action over this.
2025.03.26·techcrunch.com·11 min read·TLDR YouTube accounted for 11.6% of all TV use in the US in February.
2025.03.26·hollywoodreporter.com·1 min read·TLDR A screenshot of the Messages app in iOS 19 shows an interface heavily inspired by visionOS, with glass-like elements, depth, and shadows.
2025.03.26·9to5mac.com·2 min read·TLDR For the world to benefit from your work, you have to make it known.
2025.03.26·solipsys.co.uk·3 min read·TLDR This article takes a look at the robots Nvidia unveiled at a recent weeklong AI conference - it includes photos and videos of a variety of machines.
2025.03.26·nytimes.com·3 min read·TLDR 56% of Gen Zs and 43% of millennials find social media content more relevant than traditional TV shows and movies.
2025.03.26·hollywoodreporter.com·4 min read·TLDR Sponsored
AI companies face a unique problem when it comes to pricing: On one hand, users expect a frictionless experience that allows experimentation without barriers. On the other, every product interaction comes at a very real price. Training models can cost millions, and expenses for API calls quickly add up.
2025.03.26·metronome.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI OpenAI's GPT-4o introduces improved image generation with precise text rendering, instruction following, and multi-turn editing.
2025.03.26·links.tldrnewsletter.com·6 min read·TLDR AI DeepSeek has released its new V3-0324 model, which outperforms GPT 4.5 in most benchmarks and features major improvements in performance.
2025.03.26·api-docs.deepseek.com·3 min read·TLDR AI Qwen has released a strong vision language model that is open and can run reasonably well on consumer hardware.
2025.03.26·qwenlm.github.io·6 min read·TLDR AI Midjourney has released some work to improve diversity in creative writing models. It was able to post-train a small 7B model that outperforms much larger open and closed models in creative writing.
2025.03.26·arxiv.org·20 min read·TLDR AI Test time compute for video that uses a guidance model to reject frame paths that don't conform to physics or the user specified prompt. Using test time compute for this task dramatically improves performance on benchmarks.
2025.03.26·liuff19.github.io·27 min read·TLDR AI FFaceNeRF enhances 3D face editing by overcoming fixed mask limitations in NeRF-based methods.
2025.03.26·arxiv.org·22 min read·TLDR AI VGGT is a feed-forward neural network that directly infers all key 3D attributes of a scene, including extrinsic and intrinsic camera parameters, point maps, depth maps, and 3D point tracks, from one, a few, or hundreds of its views, within seconds.
2025.03.26·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI Dereflection Any Image (DAI) introduces a new diffusion-based approach for reflection removal, leveraging a high-quality dataset and progressive training.
2025.03.26·abuuu122.github.io·2 min read·TLDR AI FastCuRL-1.5B-Preview advances slow-thinking reasoning models with curriculum reinforcement learning, achieving state-of-the-art results in fewer training steps.
2025.03.26·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI SISO is an inference-time optimization method that personalizes images from a single subject image without training. It can personalize the subject of a given image or generate new images with the personal subject.
2025.03.26·siso-paper.github.io·8 min read·TLDR AI Outreach founder Manny Medina has launched Paid, a platform designed to help AI agent startups manage pricing and profitability. With backing from top investors, Paid aims to redefine how AI agents are billed and valued in the emerging agent economy.
2025.03.26·techcrunch.com·5 min read·TLDR AI Pete Florence, previously a senior research scientist at DeepMind, has left to form Generalist AI, a robotics startup backed by Nvidia's VC arm, NVentures. The company aims to create general-purpose robots, with Florence highlighting the vision of reducing the marginal cost of physical labor to zero. Florence joins other former DeepMind scientists in launching tech ventures amidst Nvidia's growing influence in AI.
2025.03.26·techcrunch.com·2 min read·TLDR AI Claude now features web search functionality for real-time insights and up-to-date responses, complete with source citations.
2025.03.26·links.tldrnewsletter.com·2 min read·TLDR AI OpenAI has introduced new audio models, including Voice Engine, capable of generating realistic voices from short samples.
2025.03.26·links.tldrnewsletter.com·4 min read·TLDR AI AI search startup Perplexity is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of $18 billion.
2025.03.26·techcrunch.com·2 min read·TLDR AI World Network is in discussions with Visa to integrate onchain card features into its self-custody crypto wallet. If integrated, World Wallet would be capable of stablecoin payments, fiat on and offramping, and transactions with merchants worldwide. The move builds on recent developments like the World Chat application and crypto-based transfers, positioning World Network as an all-in-one fintech solution.
Circle has announced local partnerships, including a joint venture with SBI Holdings, to drive USDC adoption in Japan. Major exchanges in the region are planning to launch support for USDC, which will be the first global dollar stablecoin approved under Japan's stablecoin framework. The goal of the initiative is to improve digital payment solutions and liquidity within Japan's digital finance ecosystem.
Mizu and Hyperbeat have launched HyperEVM Vaults, a new way to automate liquidity deployment into top Hyperliquid protocols, offering yield and rewards from asset issuers and ecosystem partners. By depositing assets into these vaults, users can access diversified DeFi opportunities while supporting emerging protocols with liquidity solutions.
2025.03.26·links.tldrnewsletter.com·5 min read·TLDR Crypto BlackRock is expanding its blockchain-based money market fund, BUIDL, to Solana, allowing crypto investors to park cash with yield-earning capabilities on a fast-growing blockchain. This move aligns with the broader trend of financial tokenization, as BlackRock and other major firms push to integrate traditional finance with blockchain technology.
Web3 venture funding has declined significantly from its 2022 peak, with early-stage capital still available but concentrated in fewer, higher-value deals. As token liquidity dries up, investors are focusing more on long-term growth and profitability, making it harder for founders to raise funds without clear market potential.
2025.03.26·links.tldrnewsletter.com·8 min read·TLDR Crypto The “Where Money Moves” newsletter highlights major trends in stablecoins, including Stripe's $1.1B acquisition of Bridge, Trump's push for stablecoin legislation, and Tether's massive US Treasury holdings. With stablecoin adoption surging past $229B in supply and transaction volumes hitting trillions, the industry is evolving into a parallel financial system.
Several VC-backed crypto projects are deliberately obscuring the true circulating supply by maintaining a high reported float while keeping the real float artificially low. Examples such as Mantra and Movement illustrate tactics like centralized token control, manipulated airdrop claims, and strategic backroom deals to facilitate price manipulation. Crypto is in dire need of transparent reporting and stricter regulatory oversight.
2025.03.26·links.tldrnewsletter.com·8 min read·TLDR Crypto Crypto AI and DeFI enable autonomous agents to optimize capital flows, yields, and risk management onchain, surpassing the capabilities of traditional Web2 systems. Nascent agents are leveraging decentralized data sources, token incentives, and open infrastructure to create unique moats that empower them to operate autonomously and with a higher level of intelligence than standard models or frameworks allow by default. AI furthers the programmability and capabilities of onchain primitives like stablecoins, real-world assets, and lending markets, potentially paving the way for a “Darwinian evolution” of decentralized agents moving value across the internet.
2025.03.26·links.tldrnewsletter.com·7 min read·TLDR Crypto The SEC has officially dropped its inquiry into Immutable with no enforcement action, marking a major win for Web3 gaming and digital ownership rights.
Nikita Bier shares a shift in perspective on crypto, citing a more favorable regulatory environment, increased App Store support, and Solana's growing mobile adoption as key factors making the space more attractive for consumer product builders.
Crypto investing involves strong emotional signals, with early-stage investors betting primarily on founders and information asymmetry, fully aware that most projects will fail but the few successful ones will more than compensate.
2025.03.26·links.tldrnewsletter.com·5 min read·TLDR Crypto Patrick Collins, a security researcher, tested nine popular cryptocurrency hardware wallets, evaluating them on security, open-source transparency, and ease of verifying transaction data.
Discord just refreshed its desktop app, bringing it more in line with the mobile version with updated colors, cleaner visuals, and a new full dark mode called Onyx. There are now four theme options: better spacing, a resizable channel list, and a clearer call bar to see if your mic or camera is on quickly. The game overlay is faster, customizable with widgets, and won't mess with your frame rate or get flagged by anti-cheat systems.
Pinterest's personalization strategy uses AI and the Unified Taste Graph to deliver highly relevant content based on user behavior. Unlike other platforms, it prioritizes long-term interests over fleeting engagement. This approach enhances user experience, boosts retention, and increases ad effectiveness, positioning Pinterest as a leader in personalized digital discovery.
Adobe introduced Project Slide Wow, a generative AI tool that transforms raw customer data into PowerPoint presentations, at Summit 2025. Integrated with Adobe Customer Journey Analytics, it automates slide creation, ensuring real-time updates and structured storytelling. Unlike LLMs, it uses proprietary algorithms, enhancing accuracy, scalability, and collaboration for enterprise decision-making.
2025.03.26·links.tldrnewsletter.com·4 min read·TLDR Design "Beigeification" in design refers to the growing homogenization of brands and products driven by a fear of appearing tacky or unpolished. This trend stifles creativity across fashion and branding, highlighting the need for more originality and innovation.
In design systems, naming can be either essential or frustratingly convoluted. Clear, concise names improve communication, while overly creative or abstract names create confusion. Balancing clarity and flexibility is difficult, especially for design tokens. Consistency, simplicity, and avoiding acronyms help maintain usability.
UX design has steadily improved, making major usability gains less frequent and reducing its return on investment. Early UX efforts fixed glaring usability issues, delivering high returns. By 2020, most designs followed established best practices, requiring costly refinements for marginal benefits.
2025.03.26·jakobnielsenphd.substack.com·18 min read·TLDR Design The Accessible Games Initiative aims to improve player experiences through better accessibility. It provides clear information on accessibility features in video games to ensure inclusivity.
Filter is a powerful web-based image editor with an intuitive interface for quick edits and filters.