In Today's AI for Business News:

• OpenAI rolls out a coding agent that acts like a virtual teammate for developers, helping write and test code more efficiently.
• University of London researchers show that AI agents can build shared social rules just by interacting, without any central control.
• Italy fines Replika €5 million for privacy violations, including failing to verify users' ages and lacking legal data protections.
• Microsoft expands its cloud AI offerings by hosting rival models from Meta, xAI, and others, giving users more model choices.

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Source:

https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu9368

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/italys-data-watchdog-fines-ai-company-replikas-developer-56-million-2025-05-19

https://www.reuters.com/business/microsoft-hosts-developer-conference-focus-grows-ai-profits-2025-05-19