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 …
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 that the game is ‘offline’ on iPhones everywhere after Apple rejected its App Store resubmission.
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 …
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.
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 …
Source: Coinbase's hackers had bribed enough customer service representatives to achieve effectively on-demand access to customer info in the past five months
On the long list of crypto companies that have been hacked, there are plenty of examples of financial losses that are much more painful …
Coinbase says hackers accessed data of a “small subset” of users, but not credentials, expects to incur $180M-$400M in costs, and refuses to pay a $20M ransom
and the investigators who saw it coming Sead Fadilpašić / TechRadar : Personal information leaked in Coinbase cyberattack, cost could be $400 million Bloomberg : Coinbase Hack Could Cost Company $400 ...
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.
Sources: Microsoft has stopped production of its Surface Laptop Studio 2 and plans to mark the device as end of life in June, with no apparent successor plans
The Surface Laptop Studio 2 is no longer being manufactured and there's no replacement in sight.
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
Windsurf launches SWE-1, its first family of software engineering AI models, claiming its largest model rivals 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 …
Meta says Facebook and Instagram face “an epidemic of scams”; current and former staff say Meta is reluctant to impede its ad business, which grew 22% in 2024
Fake puppies and phony offers of mouthwatering bargains are often seeded by overseas crime networks …
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 …
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.
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 …
Court filing: Anthropic apologizes for one of its expert witnesses citing an 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 …
Apple rolls out CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, in new and existing Aston Martins in North America after months of delays, before a wider rollout
here's all the new features Aston Martin USA : A world first as Aston Martin debuts next-generation Apple CarPlay Ultra® Emma Roth / The Verge : Apple's CarPlay Ultra is finally here, if you have a ne...
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.
President Trump says he told Tim Cook that “I don't want you building in India”, “India can take care of themselves”, and Apple will be “upping” US production
what Apple can to do to appease Trump Adrija Chatterjee / Moneycontrol : India's value for money makes it a natural pick for the likes of Apple, says govt official Shouvik Das / Livemint : No change t...
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
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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.”
Sources: President Trump's Middle East AI deals open a rift with China hawks in his administration over concerns that US chips sent to the Gulf end up in China
Bloomberg :
Montana becomes the first US state to close a data broker loophole that lets police buy users' geolocation data and other digital info without a judge's warrant
Montana has become the first state to close this loophole. Mastodon: @SuffolkLITLab@esq.social : TL;DR: Montana has become the first state to close the law enforcement data broker loophole, ensuring t...
Taiwanese silicon wafer supplier GlobalWafers plans to invest $4B more in the US as it seeks to boost local supply, more than doubling its investment to $7.5B
Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal :
Coinbase says it is working with the US SEC to close an investigation into whether it misstated its numbers by noting 100M+ “verified users” in its 2021 IPO doc
After he took office, the SEC dropped a lawsuit accusing Coinbase of illegally marketing crypto to the public. — But the SEC is still investigating whether Coinbase misstated its user numbers, accor...
FTC v. Meta: Meta asks the judge to throw out the antitrust case, arguing that “after five weeks of trial”, the FTC failed to prove Meta is an illegal monopoly
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
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
Threads now lets users add up to five links to their profile bios and rolls out analytics tools to track clicks on profile links and links shared in posts
https://techcrunch.com/... #Fediverse Threads @threads : New podcast? Upcoming livestream? Newsletter drop? We're rolling out another way to help your community discover ~everything~ you bring to ...
Apple says warnings on EU App Store listings for apps not using IAP have been up since March 2024, and the EU told it to hold off on tweaks that Apple proposed
[images] Joe Rosensteel / @joesteel@duck.haus : That list is terrible. The check mark being on the right and the text on the left .. it's not giving “clarity.” — There are some big Home app vibes i...
Sources: Cohere, which has raised nearly $1B, was on pace to generate $70M in annual revenue as of February 2025; in 2023, it projected ~$450M in 2024 revenue
Jon Victor / The Information :
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
Karoline Kan / Bloomberg :
Q&A with Wired's Steven Levy on the evolving relationship between the tech industry and the press, media outlets' licensing deals with AI companies, and more
“What you find when you get into a place is always more interesting than any preconception you have.”
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
Todd Spangler / Variety :
Roblox rolls out tools to let eligible creators sell physical items from their games via its Commerce APIs, working with Shopify, its first “integrated partner”
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Pinterest apologizes for a wave of mass account bans and Pin removals that users said were unwarranted, saying that “an internal error led to over-enforcement”
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
MoviePass secures a $100M capital investment from Global Emerging Markets to accelerate the development of Mogul, its fantasy gaming service launched in May
Brent Lang / Variety : See also Mediagazer
Sources: the US DOJ is conducting a criminal antitrust probe into whether Live Nation and AEG illegally colluded on concert refunds at the start of the pandemic
Bloomberg : X: @matthewstoller and @benbrodydc See also Mediagazer X: Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller : A criminal antitrust probe of Live Nation-Ticketmaster? Yes please. https://www.bloomberg.com/.....
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