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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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| 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 that the game is ‘offline’ on iPhones everywhere after Apple rejected its App Store resubmission.
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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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| Wall Street Journal: |
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
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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: |
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 … | 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 …
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| 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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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
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 … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
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 …
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| Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
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.
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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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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.
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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| Bloomberg: |
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 …
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| Niket Nishant / Reuters: |
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| Camille Bromley / Columbia Journalism Review: |
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.”| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
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 — The government just rested its case. … Meta has filed a motion for judgment on the antitrust case it's currently fighting in court.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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 — YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, the morning after the platform's big ad pitch and party in New York City, had a new milestone to share … | Zach Vallese / CNBC: |
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