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Apps in ChatGPT could be OpenAI's most ambitious platform play to date, drawing parallels with Facebook's 2007 efforts to become a platform via social graph (Casey Newton/Platformer)

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Qualtrics agrees to acquire Press Ganey Forsta, which helps healthcare companies compile feedback from patients and doctors, for $6.75B including debt (Financial Times)

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Google launches a dedicated AI bug bounty program that offers security researchers up to $30,000 for finding vulnerabilities in its AI products (Elissa Welle/The Verge)

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Oracle urges customers to patch an E-Business Suite vulnerability that's being exploited by cybercriminals; Mandiant said the Clop hacking group exploited it (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

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OpenAI unveils the Apps SDK, built on MPC, in preview to let developers build apps for ChatGPT, and says it will begin accepting app submissions later this year (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

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OpenAI announces apps that work inside ChatGPT, starting with Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow for users outside of the EU (OpenAI)

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SCOTUS turns down Google's request to halt key parts of a judge's order requiring Google to make major changes to Play Store in an antitrust case filed by Epic (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)

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Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says the AI chipmaker pulled its IPO filing to share updated financials, admitting it was a mistake not to explain the move sooner (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

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Sources: the SEC has been probing AppLovin over allegations that it violated platform partners' agreements to push more targeted ads to consumers; APP drops 14% (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)

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OpenAI announces API updates, including GPT-5 Pro, Sora 2 in preview, and gpt-realtime-mini, a voice model that is 70% cheaper than gpt-realtime (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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Bee Maps, a decentralized mapping project powered by Hivemapper on the Solana blockchain, raised $32M to expand its network by distributing AI-enabled dashcams (CoinDesk)

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OpenAI makes Codex generally available, and announces new features: Slack integration, a new Codex SDK, and new admin tools (OpenAI)

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OpenAI launches AgentKit, a toolkit for building and deploying AI agents, including Agent Builder, which Sam Altman described as like Canva for building agents (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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OpenAI will let developers build apps that work inside ChatGPT (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT feature that lets users connect to third-party apps like Spotify and Zillow directly within the chatbot (Bloomberg)

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Sam Altman says ChatGPT has reached 800M weekly active users, 4M developers "have built with OpenAI", and OpenAI processes over 6B tokens per minute on its API (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)

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A live blog of the OpenAI DevDay 2025 keynote, where Sam Altman announced new developer tools (CNBC)

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Coupa, a Thoma Bravo-owned supply chain tech company, acquires procurement tech startup Scoutbee, with the deal expected to close by the end of October (Colin Campbell/Axios)

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The DOJ and Google wrap up a two-week remedies hearing in the US v. Google ad tech trial; both sides will offer closing arguments in November (New York Times)

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Deloitte announces a deal to roll out Anthropic's Claude to more than 470,000 of its employees globally, marking Anthropic's largest enterprise deployment ever (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

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