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Sources: Nintendo picked Samsung to produce the Switch 2's main chips, aiming to sell 20M+ units by March 2026, a key win for Samsung as it competes with TSMC — Securing a contract for one of the summer's hottest new gadgets will likely help lift utilization or boost business for the Korean conglomerate's chip foundries.| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
GitHub debuts an AI coding agent for GitHub Copilot that can fix bugs, add features, improve documentation, and more, and open sources GitHub Copilot in VS Code — The AI coding agent will start working once a developer assigns it a task. … GitHub is launching an AI coding agent …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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Bluesky: @reckless, @alexeheath.com, and @edzitron.com
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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Bluesky: @parismarx.com and @reckless
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate images and requiring platforms to promptly remove them when notified — The bill sailed through Congress with a focus on deepfakes and other nonconsensual intimate images.
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Bluesky: @wired.com and @wired.com. Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump …. Mastodon: @fight@mastodon …. Threads: @joelkaplan
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| Politico: |
France says it banned Telegram founder Pavel Durov on May 12 from going to the US for “negotiations with investment funds”, after arresting him in August 2024 — The Russian-born entrepreneur is not allowed to leave France without permission following his August arrest.
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| Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg: |
The US Senate advances the GENIUS Act, a stablecoin bill, after a group of Democrats dropped their opposition, marking a major win for the crypto industry — Stablecoin legislation overcame a procedural blockade in the US Senate, marking a major victory for the crypto industry after a group …
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| Bloomberg: |
Malaysia downplays its deal to use Huawei chips to build a first-of-its-kind AI system by 2026, underscoring its delicate position in the US-China AI race — Malaysia declared it'll build a first-of-its-kind AI system powered by Huawei Technologies Co. chips, only to distance itself …
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| Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin: |
Microsoft unveils Microsoft Discovery, an enterprise agentic platform with a graph-based knowledge engine meant to help scientists and engineers accelerate R&D — At Build 2025, Microsoft announced a new enterprise agentic platform called Microsoft Discovery that will help enterprises … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
SAG-AFTRA files an NLRB unfair labor practice charge against Epic's Llama Productions for using AI to recreate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice in Fortnite — The actors union said Epic-owned Llama Productions “chose to replace the work of human performers with AI technology” …
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| Clare Duffy / CNN: |
The US House Budget Committee advances a budget bill that would ban US states from enforcing any law regulating AI for 10 years; the bill now goes to the House — New York CNN — — More than 100 organizations are raising alarms about a provision in the House's sweeping tax … | Washington Post: |
Investigation: New Orleans police secretly scanned city streets with 200+ facial recognition cameras for two years, seemingly defying a 2022 city ordinance — Following records requests from The Post, officials paused the first known, widespread live facial recognition program used by police in the United States.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/Bad_Cop_No_Donut, r/NewOrleans, and Ars OpenForum
| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: only four of the top 50 tech companies are European, and none of the top 10 quantum companies are in Europe, as the continent lags the US and China — A risk-averse business culture and complex regulations have stifled innovation on the continent, weighing on its future
Bluesky: @martijnrasser. X: @justinsayfie, @justinsayfie, @kishan__shah, @davidluhnow, and @fabricapo
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Spotify says Apple approved an update to let users in the US buy individual audiobooks from its iOS app and see audiobook prices, after the Epic v. Apple ruling — You'll see a ‘Buy’ button alongside an audiobook's price. … It's finally possible to purchase an audiobook from Spotify's iPhone app with just a few taps.| New York Times: |
President Trump's recent Middle East trip helped Elon Musk's SpaceX and Neuralink to cut deals, deepening Musk's ties with the region's autocratic monarchies — The world's richest man inked new deals as he tagged along on Trump's tour of the Gulf. — President Trump's recent trip … | Michael Peel / Financial Times: |
Study: autonomous vehicles trained to use “social sensitivity” in assessing the impact of multiple hazards will cause fewer injuries during road accidents — Driverless vehicles that respond more like humans will cause less harm during road crashes, according to research| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia unveils Isaac GR00T N1.5, an open, customizable AI model for humanoid reasoning and skills, and GR00T-Dreams, a tool for generating synthetic motion data — Nvidia said it is racing ahead with humanoid robotics technology, providing a custom foundation model for humanoid reasoning …
More: Robotics & Automation News, WebProNews, and Nvidia Newsroom
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
More: DatacenterDynamics, WebProNews, Tom's Hardware, Constellation Research, Stratechery, and Wall Street Journal. Forums: Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Chinese government data: smartphone exports including iPhones fell 72% MoM to $688.5M in April, the lowest since 2011, outpacing a 21% drop in overall shipments — Smartphone exports slid 72% to just under $700 million last month, sharply outpacing an overall 21% drop in Chinese shipments to the US … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft adds xAI's Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini to its Azure AI Foundry service; sources say Satya Nadella had been pushing for Microsoft to host Grok — Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini are both coming to Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry service. … I reported in my Notepad newsletter earlier this month …
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Bluesky: @edzitron.com, @marypcbuk, @joshsternberg.com, @karlbode.com, @parismarx.com, and @tomwarren.co.uk. Threads: @crumbler
X: @satyanadella, @kimmonismus, @elonmusk, @veggie_eric, @maxwinebach, @aiatmeta, @xai, @cb_doge, @rihardjarc, @pitdesi, and @alexeheath. Forums: Hacker News
| Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: |
The EU and the UK agree on a deal to let both regions' competition regulators work together more closely and flag important M&A investigations to each other — The agreement will give regulators a clear framework for cooperation on competition probes — The European Union and U.K …
More: Reuters, ComputerWeekly.com, and Financial Times
| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
A look at South Korea's Bithumb ahead of its 2025 IPO; Kaiko says Bithumb had 36% of the country's crypto trading in January 2024, up from 11.5% in January 2023 — After years spent in the shadow of larger rival Upbit, crypto exchange Bithumb is clawing back a more meaningful share of South Korea's tightly held digital-assets market.
More: Coinpedia Fintech News, Cryptopolitan, and Tech in Asia
| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Feng Ji, founder of top Chinese quant fund Baiont, on using AI to develop trading strategies, China's quant landscape, having a small team, and more — The founder of one of China's top-performing quant funds explains how his team of young computer scientists are using machine learning to disrupt the sector
X: @zijing_wu
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