EP-227 Gpt-4.5’s Launch Challenges 🧠, Meta’s Security Shake-up 🔒, Waymo’s Robotaxi Surge 🚖

welcome to wall-e's tech briefing for friday, february 28th! explore today's top tech stories:

• openai's gpt-4.5 launch: introduction of orion, openai's most expansive ai model yet. while it boasts improved accuracy, it's not classified as a frontier model due to scaling challenges and computational costs.
• meta employee terminations: around 20 staff members were let go following internal data breaches, highlighting meta's heightened focus on security measures.
• waymo's robotaxi expansion: waymo has doubled its weekly rides to over 200,000, surpassing competitors and announcing further expansion into austin and atlanta.
• meta's ai app development: meta is developing a standalone ai assistant app, aiming to enhance its ai market presence, with hints at a potential subscription service.

stay tuned for tomorrow's tech updates!