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May 17, 2026, 11:10 AM

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Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:
Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps  —  Chinese artificial intelligence groups have moved ahead of US rivals in video generation, a key battleground in generative AI …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's revamped Siri may launch in beta, and will have an option to auto-delete chats; Apple plans to add Suggested Genmoji to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27  —  Also: A Genmoji upgrade is coming in iOS 27.  —  Apple's Siri app in iOS 27 will include privacy features unique to the chatbot market.
Kim Zetter / ZERO DAY:
Experts: Stuxnet-linked Fast16 malware, designed to subvert nuclear weapons testing simulations, was likely part of a campaign to slow Iran's nuclear ambitions  —  Fast16 didn't predate Stuxnet but was contemporaneous with it.  It also wasn't aimed at altering nuclear weapons …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Filings: in Q1, Trump traded $220M-$750M in NVDA, MSFT, AMZN, META, ORCL, and other stocks; millions of dollars of NVDA were bought shortly before major news  —  President Donald Trump reported thousands of financial transactions totaling hundreds of millions of dollars …
Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch:
Nectar Social, which offers an agentic OS for marketers, raised a $30M Series A led by Menlo Ventures, with GV and True Ventures among investors  —  AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund …
Deedy / @deedydas:
SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth  —  The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope
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Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more  —  On Friday, OpenAI launched a new set of personal finance tools in preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the U.S. …

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