Weekly#622

  • “…OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model…O3-mini is priced at $0.55 per million cached input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, where a million tokens equates to roughly 750,000 words. That’s 63% cheaper than o1-mini…”
  • “…Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the company was slow to respond to TikTok’s meteoric rise because executives didn’t view it as truly social, offering a rare window into how the tech giant missed one of social media’s biggest shifts in recent years…Meta’s Ray-Bans smart glasses sold more than 1 million units last year
  • US Probing If DeepSeek Got Nvidia Chips From Firms in Singapore
  • Finout raises $40M Series C for its cloud cost management service
  • LLM Evaluation Tooling – A Review
  • Microsoft is forming a new unit to study AI’s impacts
  • Finout raises $40M Series C for its cloud cost management service
  • Hubble’s largest panorama ever showcases 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy
  • Humanity’s Last Exam
  • Apple Reports Best Quarter Ever in 1Q 2025 Results: $36.3B Profit on $124.3B Revenue
  • SoftBank in talks to invest as much as $25B in OpenAI, report says
  • Atomic scientists adjust ‘Doomsday Clock’ closer than ever to midnight.The metaphorical clock is set to 89 seconds to midnight.Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created clock in 1947
  • Welcome to the Microsoft Excel World Championship
  • Preventing The AI Plateau