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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 -
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” -
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 -
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 -
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” -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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