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May 16, 2026, 1:05 AM

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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more  —  On Friday, OpenAI launched a new set of personal finance tools in preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the U.S. …
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
OpenAI memo: Greg Brockman says he will lead product strategy as part of a reorg, folding ChatGPT, Codex, and developer-facing API into one core product team  —  OpenAI is once again reorganizing its executive ranks as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex into one core product experience.
Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have “incontrovertible evidence” of AI-generated work  —  The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.
Reuters:
Sources: SpaceX aims to make its IPO prospectus public by next week, targeting a June 12 listing on Nasdaq, driven by a faster-than-expected SEC review  —  Elon Musk's rocket and satellite maker SpaceX is planning to price its blockbuster initial public offering as early as June 11 …
Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal:
Semiconductor stocks fell globally on Friday after the Trump-Xi summit concluded without major chip deals; Nvidia closed down 4.42% and AMD closed down 5.69%  —  Beijing hasn't formally approved Nvidia shipments of its H200 chips to China  —  Global semiconductor stocks skidded …
Meaghan Tobin / New York Times:
Kwanwoo Jun / Wall Street Journal:
South Korea's Hana Bank agrees to acquire a 6.55% stake in Dunamu, which runs South Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit, for $672.5M from Kakao  —  The deal would make Hana Bank the fourth largest shareholder in Dunamu  —  Hana Bank will buy a roughly $670 million stake …
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How tech companies are using open source initiatives to achieve critical strategic goals and how such efforts are reshaping industries like AI, AVs, and more  —  How the Smartest Executives Are Using Open Source Techniques to Optimize Corporate Strategy  —  Nearly 27 years ago, on July 12 …
Josh Sisco / Bloomberg:
Sources: the US FTC is investigating whether Arm is trying to illegally monopolize parts of the semiconductor market  —  Arm Holdings Plc is facing an antitrust investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission over the UK company's licensing of its semiconductor technology …
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