As crypto flows into Tornado Cash despite sanctions, a look at the trial against its co-founder, who says he cannot prevent abuse of a system beyond his control (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
As crypto flows into Tornado Cash despite sanctions, a look at the trial against its co-founder, who says he cannot prevent abuse of a system beyond his control  —  Tuesday’s verdict in the trial of Alexey Pertsev, a creator of crypto-privacy service Tornado Cash, is the first in a string …

OpenAI announces GPT-4o, its new flagship generative AI model, which is faster and cheaper, natively multimodal, and is available for free to all ChatGPT users (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI announces GPT-4o, its new flagship generative AI model, which is faster and cheaper, natively multimodal, and is available for free to all ChatGPT users  —  OpenAI is releasing a new flagship generative AI model called GPT-4o, set to roll out “iteratively” across the company’s products over the next few weeks.

Google Pixel 8a review: 120Hz OLED display, strong battery life, excellent cameras, and great value at $499+, but slow wireless charging and thick bezels (Sam Rutherford/Engadget)

Sam Rutherford / Engadget:
Google Pixel 8a review: 120Hz OLED display, strong battery life, excellent cameras, and great value at $499+, but slow wireless charging and thick bezels  —  The company didn’t mess with its winning formula for the A-series, delivering another great handset for $499.  —  Senior Writer, Reviews

Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute releases Falcon 2 11B, an open-source LLM to compete with Llama and Gemini that supports five European languages (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Abu Dhabi’s Technology Innovation Institute releases Falcon 2 11B, an open-source LLM to compete with Llama and Gemini that supports five European languages  —  – Model shows UAE is a “serious player” in AI, official says  — Abu Dhabi plans to commercialize Falcon with new unit AI71