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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized modification was made to Grok response bot's prompt” at 3:15 AM PST on May 14 — xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok …
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Epic Games says Apple rejected its latest Fortnite submission to the US App Store and the game will be “offline worldwide until Apple unblocks it” — Epic says that the game is ‘offline’ on iPhones everywhere after Apple rejected its App Store resubmission.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta has delayed rolling out its Behemoth LLM, internally slated for an April release, to fall or later, after struggling to improve its capabilities — The company's struggle to improve the capabilities of latest AI model mirrors issues at some top AI companies
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sony's Haven Studios head Jade Raymond leaves the company she founded in 2021; sources say some developers worried over its first game's reception and progress — Her company, Haven Studios, is developing an online shooter title called Fairgames … PlayStation leadership didn't give Haven staff …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers — A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company's Claude AI chatbot … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook and Instagram face scam ad surge from Asia and Meta is reluctant to add hurdles for ad buyers; Meta says it's tackling an “epidemic of scams” — Fake puppies and phony offers of mouthwatering bargains are often seeded by overseas crime networks … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Windsurf launches SWE-1, its first family of software engineering AI models, claiming its largest model matches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4.1, and Gemini 2.5 Pro — On Thursday, Windsurf, a startup that develops popular AI tools for software engineers, announced the launch of its first family …
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| New York Times: |
Coinbase says it is working with the US SEC to resolve an investigation into whether it misstated its user numbers by reporting 100M+ “verified users” in 2021 — The inquiry continued even after the commission dropped a lawsuit accusing Coinbase of illegally marketing digital currencies to the public.
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: hackers bribed enough Coinbase customer service representatives to achieve effectively on-demand access to Coinbase customer information since January — On the long list of crypto companies that have been hacked, there are plenty of examples of financial losses that are much more painful …
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| Niket Nishant / Reuters: |
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Take-Two reports Q4 net bookings up 17% YoY to $1.58B, vs. $1.55B est., net revenue up 13% YoY to $1.58B, and forecasts FY 2026 net bookings below expectations — Bookings, a measure of sales, grew 17% to $1.58 billion in the fourth quarter ended March 31, surpassing Wall Street projections of $1.55 billion.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft stops production of its Surface Laptop Studio 2 and plans to mark the device's end of life in June, with no plans for a successor — The Surface Laptop Studio 2 is no longer being manufactured and there's no replacement in sight. … Microsoft has been quietly killing off …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Neal Mohan says the monetization rate of Shorts hit parity with core YouTube in the US and multiple other countries, and Shorts viewing grew 20% YoY in Q1 2025 — YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, the morning after the platform's big ad pitch and party in New York City, had a new milestone to share … | Zach Vallese / CNBC: |
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
FTC v. Meta: Meta asks the judge to throw out the antitrust case, arguing the FTC failed to prove that Meta is an illegal monopoly after five weeks of trial — The government just rested its case. … Meta has filed a motion for judgment on the antitrust case it's currently fighting in court.
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| Karoline Kan / Bloomberg: |
Shanghai-based Synyi AI launches a trial program in Saudi Arabia to let patients see an AI doctor for diagnoses and prescriptions, which a human doctor reviews — A Chinese startup has opened the world's first clinic in Saudi Arabia where artificial intelligence diagnoses patients …
More: Tech in Asia
| Bloomberg: |
Filing: CoreWeave secures a deal worth $4B to provide cloud computing capacity to OpenAI through 2029, on top of a nearly $12B deal announced before its IPO — The data center builder said in a filing Thursday that OpenAI will pay the sum through 2029. CoreWeave had disclosed a $4 billion deal …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance expects 2025 revenue to grow 20% YoY to $186B vs. 29% growth in 2024, driven by TikTok's global expansion; ByteDance has 4B MAUs across apps — TikTok's owner expects sales to increase to roughly $186 billion from $155 billion in 2024, people familiar with its finances said.
More: Tech in Asia
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
US immigration attorneys: since January 2025, USCIS has significantly increased requests for evidence on tech-related visa petitions, including H-1B and O-1 — Silicon Valley's coveted work visas are under heavy scrutiny from the Trump administration, and immigration lawyers say requests for documentation are increasing.Sponsor Posts
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