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Jay Peters

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    Tim Cook was pressed by CNBC on making a public statement about events like what has unfolded in Minneapolis.

    See below for what he had to say. (You can read that memo Cook is referencing here.)

    The lack of an official public response so far is a noted contrast to a public statement on racism Cook shared in 2020.

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    Jay Peters
    Apple’s fall iPhone lineup might only feature a foldable iPhone and the iPhone 18 Pro.

    The standard iPhone 18 is set for a spring 2027 launch, and a “revamped” iPhone Air is in the works but isn’t expected for this year, according to Nikkei Asia.

    The Information similarly reported last May that Apple might shuffle its fall iPhone release plans.

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    Jay Peters
    GPT-4o is being retired from ChatGPT.

    After the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI brought GPT-4o back for paid subscribers because users missed it, but now, “only 0.1% of users” are still choosing GPT‑4o “each day,” the company says.

    OpenAI will retire GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini from ChatGPT on February 13th.

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    Jay Peters
    Candy Crush has been Wordled.

    Yahoo Games is launching a new daily puzzle game based off of Candy Crush, called Crushable. A new level will be available every day.

    A screenshot of Yahoo Games’ Crushable.
    Image: King / Yahoo
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    Jay Peters
    The head of Amazon Game Studios is leaving.

    Amazon announced in October that it would be ditching MMOs and cranking out party games, and now Hartmann is departing, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reports. We spoke with Hartmann in 2021 about Amazon’s gaming strategy at the time; things have changed since then.

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    Jay Peters
    The Mothership has launched.

    The new site from former Polygon staffers Maddy Myers and Zoë Hannah is now live, and Myers wrote about Mothership’s founding in a piece for The Guardian.

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    Jay Peters
    Microsoft gets approval to build 15 data centers in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin.

    The data centers will be built on land that used to be owned by Foxconn.