Codex, which is building a blockchain for stablecoins, raised a $15.8M seed led by Dragonfly, with Coinbase, Circle, and others participating (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
Ben Weiss / Fortune : Codex, which is building a blockchain for stablecoins, raised…
ChatGPT-5 is on hold as OpenAI changes plans and releases new o3 and o4-mini models
ChatGPT-5 is delayed by a few months The time will allow OpenAI to better integrat…
Trump says he will sign an EO to keep TikTok running for an additional 75 days, as a deal "requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Trump says he will sign an EO to keep TikTok running for a…
How Trump's tariffs affect Meta, which relies heavily on SMBs around the world for ad revenue; 10% of Meta's 2023 revenue was from Chinese advertisers like Temu (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
Mike Isaac / New York Times : How Trump's tariffs affect Meta, which relies hea…
Businesses still haven’t stopped using weak passwords, and it’s getting super risky
Businesses still haven't stopped using easily crackable passwords Germany, the…
YouTube quietly removed "gender identity" from its hate speech policy after Trump took office; Google says enforcement of the policy remains unchanged (Taylor Lorenz/User Mag)
Taylor Lorenz / User Mag : YouTube quietly removed “gender identity” from its hate …
Nvidia says its custom processor for Nintendo's Switch 2 has "dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores," enabling DLSS support and real-time ray tracing on Switch 2 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
Jay Peters / The Verge : Nvidia says its custom processor for Nintendo's Switch…
Without a fresh UI and customization features, the Switch 2 is Nintendo's most boring looking console ever
While there are still a few question marks, the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct has taught u…
Sources: Justin Sun bailed out Techteryx's TrueUSD after $456M in reserves, managed by First Digital, became illiquid; Techteryx says it was a victim of fraud (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk : Sources: Justin Sun bailed out Techteryx's TrueUSD af…
FDUSD stablecoin depegged 9% after Justin Sun raised concerns over Hong Kong-based First Digital Trust's solvency; Binance alone holds ~$2.2B worth of FDUSD (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
Daniel Kuhn / The Block : FDUSD stablecoin depegged 9% after Justin Sun raised conc…
Anthropic debuts a Claude for Education tier for colleges, with Learning Mode, where it asks questions to test understanding, shares templates for papers, more (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch : Anthropic debuts a Claude for Education tier for colleg…
Sources: a16z is in talks to join the Oracle-led frontrunner bid for TikTok's US arm, after being approached along with Blackstone Group and others (Financial Times)
Financial Times : Sources: a16z is in talks to join the Oracle-led frontrunner bid …
Gave up trying to install Chrome on Windows 11 because it wouldn’t work? Google has fixed this error, but I can’t believe how long it took
Google’s Chrome installer for PCs with AMD and Intel CPUs has been broken for the p…
TikTok is shutting down its Instagram competitor, TikTok Notes, on May 8, directing users to Lemon8, a similar ByteDance-owned app (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : TikTok is shutting down its Instagram competitor, TikTok…
Google Hotels now lets you track prices, and I can't wait to use it for my next trip
Google's latest feature drop might be a big win for summer travel As with flig…
Apple releases visionOS 2.4 with Apple Intelligence, a Spatial Gallery app that features Apple-curated media, with "new content released regularly", and more (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Apple releases visionOS 2.4 with Apple Intelligence, a Sp…
Apple releases iOS 18.4 with Priority notifications for Apple Intelligence, which gets support for eight more languages, Ambient Music via Control Center, more (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
Juli Clover / MacRumors : Apple releases iOS 18.4 with Priority notifications for A…
Substack rolls out a TikTok-like video feed in its app, initially featuring short-form videos under 10 minutes (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch : Substack rolls out a TikTok-like video feed in its app, …
Apple's current enterprise offerings are built for single machines and have complex virtualization rules, saddling high-end users with inefficient remote setups (Ernie Smith/Tedium)
Ernie Smith / Tedium : Apple's current enterprise offerings are built for singl…
This is the world's first Thunderbolt 5 LTO tape drive and I can't understand why it exists in the first place
MagStor's Thunderbolt 5 LTO drive builds on its 2020 Thunderbolt 3 model TB5 c…
Ethereum is struggling to keep the interest of investors and developers, having fallen out of step in an industry transformed by the embrace of Donald Trump (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg : Ethereum is struggling to keep the interest of investors and developers…
Here's why you should reinstall Windows 11 every two months - no, I'm not kidding
Look, I love Windows, I do, I really do. It's one of those things that I just can…
A look at drone delivery startup Zipline, which has raised $500M+, made 1.4M+ deliveries in seven countries, and delivers packages for Walmart in two US cities (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : A look at drone delivery startup Zipline, …
Kalshi sues Nevada's gaming regulators to keep offering event contracts to bet on sports and politics, citing federal regulation by the US CFTC (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)
Robert Burnson / Bloomberg : Kalshi sues Nevada's gaming regulators to keep off…
Megawatt-class AI server racks may well become the norm before 2030 as Nvidia displays 600kW Kyber rack design
Rubin Ultra GPUs previewed at Nvidia GTC 2025 with Kyber rack mockups Each NVL576 …
A look at AI-generated fake movie trailers on YouTube; WBD, Paramount, and Sony have earned ad revenue from some videos instead of defending their copyright (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
Jake Kanter / Deadline : A look at AI-generated fake movie trailers on YouTube; WBD…
CoreWeave opens down 2.5% at $39 in its Nasdaq debut; CoreWeave's offering is the largest US IPO since UiPath's NYSE debut in 2021 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
Jordan Novet / CNBC : CoreWeave opens down 2.5% at $39 in its Nasdaq debut; CoreWea…
The 'AI economy is currently a closed loop' - and that's probably why OpenAI, not Microsoft, invested a whopping $12bn in CoreWeave
Microsoft pulled out of a $12bn deal with CoreWeave, citing delays OpenAI took ove…
Michael Novogratz's Galaxy Digital will pay $200M as part of a settlement with the New York AG over the firm's role in promoting the failed Luna cryptocurrency (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg : Michael Novogratz's Galaxy Digital will pay $200M a…
The iPhone mini won't be returning, according to rumors – and you think that's a mistake
There are reportedly no current plans for another iPhone mini The last 'mini&#…
Anthropic says it created a new tool for deciphering how LLMs "think" and used it to resolve some key questions about how Claude and probably other LLMs work (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune : Anthropic says it created a new tool for deciphering how LL…
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