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AI deals that the US struck with the UAE and Saudi Arabia reinforce its AI leadership, but raise security concerns that the US can mitigate through safeguards — 5 GW Datacenter, HUMAIN, G42, Diversion and Misuse Risks, Security Requirements, American AI Wins
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| Financial Times: |
Nvidia's deals with Saudi Arabia's Humain and the UAE's G42 highlight its strategy to diversify beyond Big Tech customers by partnering with nation states — Chipmaker establishes ties with nation states and ‘neoclouds’ in effort to reduce reliance on Microsoft, Amazon and Google
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| Alana Yzola / Wired: |
A look at EA's attempts to shut down “anti-DEI” mods for The Sims 4, including one that changes LGBT and Black NPCs to straight and white — The download automatically changed Black NPCs to white, trans NPCs to cis-gendered, and gay NPCs to straight. And it's just the beginning.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
What to expect at Google I/O 2025: an updated Gemini Ultra model, updates for Android 16, Project Astra AI assistant, and Project Mariner AI agents, and more — Google I/O, Google's biggest developer conference of the year, is nearly upon us. — Scheduled for May 20 to 21 …
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| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Chime's S-1: MyPay revenue totaled $64.3M in Q1 vs. estimated credit losses from the product of $57.3M, highlighting the risks with the paycheck advance product — Last summer, banking app Chime introduced a lending product that let customers borrow small amounts to get them through to their next paycheck.| Sayan Chakraborty / Nikkei Asia: |
Venture Intelligence: Indian deep tech startups have raised $4.7B since 2014, accounting for just 3.2% of Indian startup funding, signaling a sector-wide crunch — BENGALURU — Arjun Rao wanted to go off the beaten track with his venture capital firm Speciale Invest, convinced … | Nikkei Asia: |
About 30% of South Korean schools have adopted AI-powered digital textbooks since the country's education ministry began a full-scale rollout in March 2025 — JEJU, South Korea/TOKYO — Digital textbooks that make use of artificial intelligence are being adopted throughout South Korea.| Bloomberg: |
How rapid advances in AI are helping Harvard's Galileo Project and other UFO research efforts process huge amounts of data in real time from multiple sources — Harvard's Galileo Project has brought high-end academic research to a once-fringe pursuit, and the Pentagon is watching.
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| Jessica Testa / New York Times: |
An analysis of YouTube's new weekly ranking of top podcasts in the US by watch time shows many popular and well-established podcasts did not rank in the top 100 — YouTube, now the most popular platform for consuming podcasts, is introducing a chart ranking shows by watch time.| Wall Street Journal: |
Government officials and experts say there have been dozens of recorded crypto-related abductions globally over the past year; France saw five in recent months — As bitcoin soars, investors and executives are taking their swollen digital wallets offline for safety. Criminals are coming after them, violently.| Kinling Lo / Rest of World: |
Chinese startups are highlighting their roots instead of downplaying them as they grow overseas, fueled by the success of Chinese social media apps and DeepSeek — Following DeepSeek's rise, more Chinese companies are highlighting their roots as they expand overseas.
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| Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph: |
A Fireblocks survey of 295 finance executives: 49% say their institutions use stablecoins in payments, 23% are testing them, and 18% are in the planning stages — A report from enterprise-grade digital assets platform Fireblocks shows that 90% of institutional players are using or exploring the use of stablecoins in their operations.
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| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's next chip for China will not be from the Hopper series following US restrictions on Hopper H20 chip sales to China — Nvidia is evaluating how to address the China market after the U.S. government placed limits on sales of its Hopper H20 chip there but will not put … | Marc Vartabedian / Wall Street Journal: |
NYC-based Optimal Dynamics, a provider of AI-powered fleet management software to trucking companies, raised a $40M Series C led by Koch Disruptive Technologies — With this latest investment, Koch's venture wing has put over $300 million to work across seven startups in the sectorSponsor Posts
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