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    Walgreens’ digital door screen drama.

    For the past couple of years, Walgreens has been locked in a legal battle with CoolerX, a startup founded by the pharmacy chain’s former CEO, according to a report from Bloomberg. CoolerX replaced glass refrigerator doors with digital screens inside hundreds of Walgreens stores, but frequent glitches reportedly led Walgreens to attempt to exit its 10-year contract.

    However, Bloomberg reports that CoolerX responded with a $200 million lawsuit over breach of contract and “secretly cut the data feeds” to dozens of stores, leading customers unable to see what’s inside of the fridges.

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    Amazon is investing billions more into its Mississippi data centers.

    The ecommerce giant will spend $16 billion building the two campuses in Jackson, MS — $6 billion more than what it originally planned to invest, according to state documents seen by Bloomberg. The biggest portion of its spending will go toward servers, fiber-optic cable, and other technology equipment, Bloomberg reports.

    Meta, OpenAI, and Elon Musk’s xAI are similarly pouring billions into setting up data centers across the US.

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    Microsoft is creating an “Advanced Planning Unit” to study AI.

    Just weeks after Microsoft established a new AI engineering division, the company’s AI head Mustafa Suleyman announced that the company is recruiting for another team that will examine how AI will change our world. Here’s how a job listing describes the new unit:

    The Advanced Planning Unit will operate in the Office of Microsoft AI’s CEO and will combine cutting edge research across Microsoft and beyond, explore and articulate a range of possible scenarios for the future of AI, craft concrete product recommendations, and suggest planning outcomes based on them. 

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    GPT-5o will probably just be called GPT-5.

    That’s just one of the updates OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed during a Reddit AMA, saying that the launch of the next-gen model doesn’t “have a timeline yet.” Altman also hinted at updates to advanced voice mode, as well as the full release of its o3 reasoning model in “more than a few weeks, less than a few months.”

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    DirecTV’s sports streaming package is rolling out to more places.

    MySports, which offers access to live games from the NFL, NBA, and MLB, has expanded access to 122 more cities, including Denver, Cleveland, West Palm Beach, New Orleans, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, and others. It was previously only available in 24 metro areas at launch.