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OpenAI has begun rolling out its newest AI model, GPT-4.5, to users on its ChatGPT Plus tier. In a series of posts on X, OpenAI said that the rollout will take “1-3 days,” and that it expects rate limits to change. GPT-4.5 launched first for subscribers to OpenAI’s $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro plan last week. “We’d like to give everyone with access to GPT-4.5 a sizable rate limit, but we expect rate limits to change as we learn more about demand,” the company wrote in its post. GPT-4.5 is OpenAI’s largest AI model yet, trained using more computing power and data…

Kin, a direct-to-consumer digital home insurance provider, has officially launched its home insurance offering across the entire state of California.California’s homeowners have struggled for years to secure comprehensive insurance, particularly in regions prone to wildfires, Kin explained. Even prior to the devastating January 2025 wildfires in Los Angeles County, the state had seen insurers scaling back their exposure.Reports from the California Senate indicated that nonrenewal rates had tripled in the previous year, leaving tens of thousands of residents without coverage. Many policyholders were either forced to go without insurance altogether or resort to the California Fair Access to Insurance Requirements…

DXC Technology, a Fortune 500 global technology services provider, and ServiceNow, a leading AI-powered platform for business transformation, have expanded their strategic partnership to modernise operations across the insurance industry.The partnership was formed in response to growing pressures on insurers to accelerate innovation and growth while improving operational agility. Many insurance firms are still reliant on manual processes that slow down workflows and create inefficiencies. According to research from HFS Research, 45% of insurers are already investing in technology aimed at aligning front, middle, and back-office operations.Together, DXC and ServiceNow have developed DXC Assure BPM powered by ServiceNow, a comprehensive…

Many organizations are still concerned that patching operational technology (OT) systems can lead to equipment downtime and operational disruptions, and consequently they do not conduct regular patching, according to cyber-physical security firm TXOne Networks.  The data comes from TXOne’s 2024 Annual OT/ICS Cybersecurity Report, which is based on a survey of 150 C-level executives in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.  The survey found that 85% of organizations don’t conduct regular patching. A majority install patches quarterly or less often, which leaves them exposed to attacks for extended periods of time.  This is despite a vast majority experiencing…

CoreWeave’s initial S-1 document for its upcoming IPO is full of surprises. Backed by Nvidia, CoreWeave runs an AI-specific cloud service from its network of 32 data centers that together have more than 250,000 Nvidia GPUs as of the end of 2024, according to the company. Since then, it has also added a number of Nvidia’s latest product, Blackwell, which supports AI reasoning. While we don’t know yet how many shares CoreWeave plans to sell or at what price, the IPO specialists at Renaissance Capital estimate the company hopes to raise at least $3.5 billion at a $32 billion valuation,…

Duetti, a music FinTech platform, has secured $200m in new debt funding to expand its financial services for independent music creators, including new royalty and publishing catalogue deals.The company has also announced a major expansion of its offerings to support royalty and publishing catalogue deals. This new service gives independent artists, songwriters and producers broader options to unlock the value of their creative work.The company has secured $200m in new funding to support this expansion, raised through two separate credit facilities. A $150m facility was led by Truist Securities Inc., with participation from Truist Bank, City National Bank, and Regions…

Work never stops? 5 signs you’re in crunch mode getty You’re running on caffeine and cortisol, checking emails at midnight, and your gym routine is a distant memory. The pressure never stops. You tell yourself this intense period will end soon, but deep down you know; this is just how you operate now. Your default state is survival mode and it’s starting to show. Crunch mode is when work takes over everything else, turning high-pressure sprints into a never-ending marathon. It starts as a temporary push but becomes a way of life. Long hours, constant urgency, and no real off…

Google is launching a new “AI Mode” experimental feature in Search that looks to take on popular services like Perplexity AI and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search. The tech giant announced on Wednesday that the new mode is designed to allow users to ask complex, multi-part questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic directly within Google Search.  AI Mode is rolling out to Google One AI Premium subscribers starting this week and is accessible via Search Labs, Google’s experimental arm.  The feature uses a custom version of Gemini 2.0 and is particularly helpful for questions that need further exploration and…

Anna Patterson has had a storied career in Silicon Valley. She founded three startups, including search engine upstarts Xift and Cuil, as well as recall.archive.org, which became the Internet Archive. She was the vice president of engineering at Google, and later started Gradient Ventures, an AI-focused seed fund. And she isn’t done building. Patterson told TechCrunch that a few years ago she had the itch to start something new again, but was unsure she had another startup in her. But after a breast cancer diagnosis in 2023 and being out of work a lot of that year, she realized she…

SpecterOps, a security startup selling technology to secure Microsoft’s Active Directory (AD) and Azure AD deployments, has raised an unusually large $75 million Series B funding round to accelerate the growth of its BloodHound Enterprise platform.  The company said the investment was led by Insight Partners. Venture capital outfits Ansa Capital, M12, Ballistic Ventures, Decibel and Cisco Investments also took equity positions. SpecterOps has now attracted $108 million in venture capital funding. The company said the new capital comes amidst rapid adoption of its flagship BloodHound Enterprise platform, with SpecterOps reporting 100% annual recurring revenue (ARR) growth in 2024 and…