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DeepSeek says it will lower V4 Pro API prices by 75% to $0.435/1M input and $0.87/1M output tokens, making permanent the discount prices set to expire on May 31 — DeepSeek said it will make permanent a steep discount on its flagship V4-Pro model, maintaining prices for developers at a quarter of their original level.
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Sources: the ECB warned EU finance ministers that proposals to issue more euro stablecoins could reduce bank lending and make controlling interest rates harder — The European Central Bank warned European Union finance ministers on Friday that proposals to issue more euro stablecoins …
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How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI — (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical on AI is set to be released Monday (May 27), with Chris Olah, a co-founder of Anthropic, at his side.
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For publishers, pirated audiobooks made with AI on YouTube are a growing issue: removal is cumbersome, and some are hiring tech companies to take them down — Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Princeton Digital Group to sell its Chinese data center assets for as much as $1B, capping global buyout firms' retreat from China's data center market — Princeton Digital Group's sale process caps foreign retreat from the country's sensitive digital infrastructure.
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Q&A with Sundar Pichai on Google Search's future, Google's place in the AI race, public skepticism of AI, TPUs, being “behind the frontier” in coding, more — After a busy Google I/O, the company's chief executive sits down with the hosts of “Hard Fork” … | Financial Times: |
Crypto companies prepare for the threat that quantum computers could hack core industry security, including breaking the critical code underpinning Bitcoin — Threat to code that underpins bitcoin has moved ‘from theoretical to credible’, industry figures warn
More: PYMNTS, Benzinga, ZyCrypto, Bitcoin Insider, and Coinpedia Fintech News. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: |
Hands-on with a pre-release build of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for drafting documents, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers — An exclusive look at Docs Live, Google's new speech-powered AI project manager and writing partner — Microsoft Word brought word processing to the masses.| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Salesforce's promotional videos showcased Agentforce mock-ups and features that are not widely available, as CEO Marc Benioff defends forward-looking marketing — Patients at the University of Chicago Medicine featured in a promotional video seamlessly refill prescriptions … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Dell says it has 5,000 clients for its AI Factory, a product line of servers with Nvidia chips, software, and services, including 1,000 new clients last quarter — Dell Technologies Inc. said it added 1,000 customers for a key AI product line in the past quarter as the company tries …
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Jensen Huang urged Super Micro to tighten up compliance after Taiwan detained three people for allegedly trying to export servers with Nvidia chips to China — Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang urged Super Micro Computer Inc. to tighten up on compliance after Taiwan detained three people …
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| Noah Berman / The Wire China: |
A profile of TP-Link, whose share of the US consumer router market grew from 10% to 60%+ between 2019 and 2025, as it seeks to rebut national security concerns — When Jeffrey Chao was studying for his master's in computer science in the early 1990s, he would sometimes spend so many hours … | Matthew Prince / Wall Street Journal: |
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI won't replace builders or sellers, but it will affect middle managers, operations jobs, and other “measuring” positions — The company has less need for middle managers, operations jobs and other ‘measuring’ positions.
More: Implicator.ai, The Decoder, Bloomberg, Moneycontrol, CNN, and Inc.com
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Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview has been used to find more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities since the launch of Project Glasswing — Last month, we launched Project Glasswing, our collaborative effort to secure the world's most critical software before increasingly capable AI models can be turned against it.
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