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Reject all cookies

Google Chrome has finally begun its years-long plan to kill off cookies for good. Yesterday morning, the Chrome browser disabled cookies for just ~1% of its users… which, by the standards of Chrome’s enormous influence, still amounted to ~30 million people seeing cookies vanish.

Since launching in 2008, Chrome has surged above competitors, dominating the browser market for over a decade. Now, following an onslaught of privacy disputes and two deadline pushbacks, Chrome is at long-last ousting behavior-tracking cookies in favor of powering its ad ecosystem with new Privacy Sandbox technologies — which some industry participants believe may simply end up favoring Google’s own enormous advertising network, at the expense of smaller publishers.

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OpenAI releases ChatGPT 5.5 — more complex “knowledge work” for fewer tokens

Right on the heels of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, OpenAI has also released the next incremental improvement to its flagship frontier model.

OpenAI says that ChatGPT 5.5 performs better on complex coding and data analysis tasks, and more carefully follows instructions, even when the instructions are vague.

Importantly, this gain in capability does not mean developers and companies have to shell out for more tokens (as is the case with Claude Opus 4.7) — the model uses fewer tokens that ChatGPT 5.4.

OpenAI says the new model has strengthened safeguards to ensure that the model’s strong cybersecurity capabilities aren’t used for malicious attacks.

Introducing GPT-5.5

Importantly, this gain in capability does not mean developers and companies have to shell out for more tokens (as is the case with Claude Opus 4.7) — the model uses fewer tokens that ChatGPT 5.4.

OpenAI says the new model has strengthened safeguards to ensure that the model’s strong cybersecurity capabilities aren’t used for malicious attacks.

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Elon Musk said a Waymo hit a bus. Waymo says that’s not what happened, and there are no NHTSA crash reports backing Musk up.

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On Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in a blog post that AI is now writing 75% of new code at the company. This is up from 50% last fall. Pichai said all code is “approved by engineers.”

Google announced new TPU 8 chips today at its annual Cloud Next event. Pichai wrote:

“We’re now shifting to truly agentic workflows. Our engineers are orchestrating fully autonomous digital task forces, firing off agents and accomplishing incredible things.”

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