Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:
A US judge denied Sam Bankman-Fried's request for a new trial based on what SBF called new evidence; SBF tried to withdraw his request, but the judge refused  —  A federal judge rejected FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried's do-it-yourself motion for a new trial based on what the former crypto king claimed was new evidence.

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and that offers web search tools for AI agents, raised a $100M Series B at a $2B valuation  —  Parallel Web Systems raised $100 million in Series B funding to continue building web search for AI agents

Will Knight / Wired:
OpenAI's Codex instruction set contains a line, repeated several times, that forbids Codex from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures  —  “Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely …

Mitchell Hashimoto:
Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages  —  I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008.  —  Since then, I've opened GitHub every single day.  Every day, multiple times per day, for over 18 years.

Financial Times:
Sources: Goldman Sachs stopped its bankers in Hong Kong from using Anthropic's models; Anthropic says its models were never officially “supported” in Hong Kong  —  Employees were unable to access company's AI models as of a few weeks ago  —  Goldman Sachs has stopped its bankers …