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In today's Techpresso:
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🚀 SpaceX acquires xAI 💻 OpenAI launches Codex app for macOS 🚗 China to ban hidden car door handles 🔄 OpenAI shifts focus from research to ChatGPT 🚨 French police raid X offices in Paris 🎁 + 13 other news & articles you might like 🧰 + 6 trending tools
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🚀 SpaceX acquires xAI
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- SpaceX has purchased Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, forming the world's most valuable private company with a combined value of $1.25 trillion, according to Bloomberg News reporting on the deal.
- Musk wrote that the merger focuses on building space-based data centers, arguing that global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with terrestrial solutions without harming communities and the environment.
- The two companies face different pressures: SpaceX is working to prove Starship can reach the moon and Mars, while xAI competes with Google and OpenAI and burns around $1 billion monthly.
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💻 OpenAI launches Codex app for macOS
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- OpenAI released a new macOS app for its Codex coding agent, offering a visual interface on top of the Codex CLI agent along with new features like Skills support and Automations for scheduled tasks.
- The app is built with Electron and Node.js, and OpenAI plans to bring it to Windows very soon, with Automations currently limited to running only when your laptop is powered on.
- OpenAI hints that Codex works as a general agent beyond just coding, similar to how Claude Code rebranded to Cowork to cover broader knowledge work, though OpenAI may keep the Codex name.
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🚗 China to ban hidden car door handles
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- China will ban hidden, electronically actuated car door handles starting January 1, 2027, requiring all vehicles sold there to have mechanical releases on exterior doors instead.
- The ban follows fatal incidents where occupants became trapped in vehicles because electronic door locks failed to get enough power from the battery system to work properly.
- More than 40 domestic manufacturers and foreign automakers like Ford, Toyota, and Volkswagen helped draft the new rules, but Tesla was not listed as an official drafter.
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🔄 OpenAI shifts focus from research to ChatGPT
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- OpenAI is moving away from long-term research and putting more resources into improving ChatGPT, a change that has pushed several senior employees to leave the company in recent months.
- Ten current and former staff members confirmed the pivot, with some saying teams working on non-language-model projects like Sora and DALL-E felt undervalued and lacked resources for their work.
- The shift followed CEO Sam Altman's December alert about improving ChatGPT after Google's Gemini 3 model outperformed OpenAI's in independent tests and Anthropic's Claude improved its code-generation features.
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🚨 French police raid X offices in Paris
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- French police raided offices belonging to Elon Musk's X platform in Paris as part of an investigation into how the company's algorithms work, with support from cybercrime units and Interpol.
- Paris prosecutors also issued summonses to Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino for voluntary interviews in April 2026, and announced they would stop using X and communicate only on LinkedIn and Instagram.
- The investigation covers allegations that X's algorithms gave greater prominence to certain political content without user knowledge, plus a newer charge related to pedo-pornographic images created by Grok over the 2025 holidays.
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Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features
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Adobe Animate is shutting down as company focuses on AI
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Palantir’s AI story finally looks like a business
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PayPal’s CEO change blindsided HP’s board
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Spain set to ban social media for under 16s in broader crack down on tech giants
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OpenAI's dissatisfaction with Nvidia chips sparked Cerebras deal
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Fintech CEO and Forbes 30 Under 30 alum has been charged for alleged fraud
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What Oracle Has to Lose From OpenAI and Nvidia’s Rocky Relationship
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OpenClaw – Amazing Hands for a Brain That Doesn’t Yet Exist
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The Switch is now Nintendo’s best-selling console of all time
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xAI seeks crypto finance expert to help train its AI models
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🧰 Trending tools
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Atoms: an AI team that researches markets, designs products, builds full-stack apps with auth and payments, and ships production-ready businesses from your ideas.
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Helply: an AI support agent that autonomously resolves customer tickets, executes actions, integrates with help desks, and escalates complex issues with full context citations.
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Yavy: converts any public website into an MCP server that feeds accurate, crawled content directly to AI assistants, eliminating manual copy-pasting of documentation.
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Pangolin: an open-source, WireGuard-based access control system that replaces VPNs by granting identity-based permissions to specific internal resources without network complexity.
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screenpipe: open-source library that continuously records your screen and microphone, then feeds that context to LLMs for AI-powered search and automation.
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safe-now.live: displays live FEMA disasters, NWS alerts, weather data, and local emergency resources in a sub-10KB text-only website.
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