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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI rolls out Codex, an AI coding agent powered by codex-1, a version of o3 optimized for software engineering, for ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team users — OpenAI announced on Friday it's launching a research preview of Codex, the company's most capable AI coding agent yet.
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Epic Games says that Apple rejected its latest Fortnite submission to the US App Store and the game on iOS will be “offline worldwide until Apple unblocks it” — Epic says the game is ‘offline’ on iPhones after Apple rejected its App Store resubmission.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple denies removing Fortnite from alternative marketplaces in the EU and says it asked Epic Sweden to resubmit the app update excluding the US App Store — Apple Inc. and Epic Games Inc. sparred over whether the iPhone maker was obstructing access to the hit game Fortnite …
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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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xAI publishes system prompts for Grok on GitHub, including telling Grok to be “extremely skeptical” and not to “blindly defer to mainstream authority or media” — The instructions tell Grok that it is ‘extremely skeptical.’ — xAI has published the system prompts …
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Charter says it will acquire Cox Communications for $21.9B, valuing Cox at $34.5B including debt and uniting two of the biggest US cable and broadband operators — Charter Communications (CHTR.O) said on Friday it would merge with Cox Communications in a deal that would value its privately held rival …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft says internal and external reviews found no evidence the Israeli military used its tech to harm civilians in Gaza, after months of employee protests — [Updated below with comments from the employee group No Azure for Apartheid.] — Microsoft said Thursday that it found no evidence … | Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook and Instagram face “an epidemic of scams” driven by crime networks; internal docs from 2022 say 70% of newly active Meta advertisers promote scams — Fake puppies and phony offers of mouthwatering bargains are often seeded by overseas crime networks …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
Sony's Haven Studios founder Jade Raymond leaves the company; sources: some developers were worried about its first game's external test 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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| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Anthropic received a $2.5B, five-year revolving credit line, and says annualized revenue reached $2B in Q1 2025, up from $1B in Q1 2024 — Earlier this week, Anthropic received a $2.5 billion, five-year revolving credit line to amp up its liquidity in an ever-expanding — and expensive … | Alexander Martin / The Record: |
Japan enacts the Active Cyberdefense Law, which permits the country's authorities to preemptively engage with adversaries through offensive cyber operations — Japan on Friday enacted a new law that would permit the country's authorities to preemptively engage with adversaries through … | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Spotify adjusts its “plays” metric for podcasts to only appear on episodes with at least 50K plays, updating at specific milestones, like 100K or 1M plays — Spotify announced last week that it would roll out public play counts on all podcasts as a way of “helping attract new fans.”| Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg: |
The FCC approves Verizon's $9.6B acquisition of Frontier Communications after Verizon agreed to pare back what Brendan Carr called “invidious” DEI practices — The deal “will unleash billions of dollars in new infrastructure builds in communities across the country … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing: Los Angeles-based Moonvalley, which is developing AI tools for video creation, raised $53M, bringing its total funding to about $124M, per PitchBook — Roughly a month after Moonvalley, a Los Angeles-based startup developing AI tools for video creation, said it secured $43 million …
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
US immigration attorneys: since January 2025, USCIS has significantly increased requests for more evidence on tech-related visa petitions, like H-1Bs and O-1s — Silicon Valley's coveted work visas are under heavy scrutiny from the Trump administration, and immigration lawyers say requests for documentation are increasing.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: since January, 36+ staff and associates of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Palmer Luckey got federal roles that oversee their companies — See how allies of four tech titans are staffing the agencies meant to regulate them, raising ethics flags and securing billions
Bluesky: @japi and @joncooper-us
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI is expected to be a primary anchor tenant for a 5 gigawatt UAE data center, which could become one of the world's largest at 10 square miles — OpenAI plans to help develop a massive new data center in the United Arab Emirates that may eventually be one of the largest in the world …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: ByteDance expects 2025 revenue to grow ~20% YoY to ~$186B, vs. 29% in 2024, driven by TikTok's global expansion; ByteDance has 4B+ MAUs across its apps — TikTok's owner expects sales to increase to roughly $186 billion from $155 billion in 2024, people familiar with its finances said.
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