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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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| 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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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
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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| 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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| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Nvidia says it won't send GPU designs to China to be modified to comply with export controls, after a report said it is planning a research center in Shanghai — Nvidia said it won't be sending graphics processing unit plans to China following a report that the artificial intelligence chipmaker …
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Galaxy Digital, which has traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange since 2020, started trading on the Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker GLXY; the stock closed up 4% — WATCH NOW — Mike Novogratz' crypto firm Galaxy Digital started trading on the Nasdaq Friday under the ticker GLXY.| 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 … | 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 …
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Source: Cohere crossed an annualized revenue of $100M as of May 2025, following a strategic shift in Q3 2024 to focus on customers in sectors like finance — AI startup Cohere has doubled its annualized revenue since the beginning of the year, driven by growing demand for secure …
More: BetaKit, TechCrunch, and The Information
| Reuters: |
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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| 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 … | Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
An Alabama man is sentenced to 14 months in prison for hacking SEC's X account in 2024 and posting a false announcement that the SEC had approved bitcoin ETFs — - Eric Council Jr, 26 of Alabama, was sentenced to 14 months in prison, according to a statement released on Friday …
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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 …
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| 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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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Stord, a logistics startup serving over 500 mid-market e-commerce brands, raised an $80M Series E led by Strike Capital at a $1.5B valuation and $120M in debt — Sean Henry of Stord. — Stord — In third grade, Sean Henry had enough of the baseball bat dilemma.
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