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May 29, 2025, 11:30 AM

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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia reports Q1 revenue up 69% YoY to $44.06B, above $43.31B est., Data Center revenue up 73% to $39.1B, and net income up 26% to $18.78B; NVDA jumps 5%+  —  Nvidia reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue on Wednesday, as the company's booming data center business recorded year-over-year growth of 73%.
Bloomberg:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Chinese AI rivals are filling the void left by US companies leaving China and Huawei has become “quite formidable”  —  Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang said that Chinese AI rivals are filling the void left by the departure of US companies …
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Elon Musk departs the Trump administration as a “special government employee”, defending DOGE's mission to reduce wasteful government spending  —  Elon Musk pivoted to damage control in his final days as a “special government employee,” publicly recommitting to Mars …
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Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
DeepSeek says its R1 update can perform mathematics, programming, and general logic better than the previous version, and comes close to o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro  —  The Chinese startup DeepSeek said Thursday that its upgraded artificial-intelligence model can perform mathematics, programming …
New York Times:
NYT and Amazon agree to a content licensing deal for use in Amazon's AI platforms and to bring the NYT's “content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences”  —  In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement.  Now its editorial content will appear across Amazon platforms.
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
The US Court of International Trade blocks Trump from imposing sweeping import tariffs under an emergency-powers law, finding Trump exceeded his authority  —  A federal trade court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.
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Axios:
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI may wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike US unemployment to 10%-20% in the next one to five years  —  Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence — has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us:
Jennifer Young / Windows Central:
Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50%  —  You can download GeForce NOW on Valve's Steam Deck today and play PC titles outside of the handheld's capabilities over the cloud.
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
GreyNoise researchers detail a novel botnet infecting 9K+ routers from Asus and others with a persistent SSH backdoor, enabling access after reboots and updates  —  Over 9,000 ASUS routers are compromised by a novel botnet dubbed “AyySSHush” that was also observed targeting SOHO routers from Cisco, D-Link, and Linksys.
Financial Times:
Sources: the US Commerce Department tells electronic chip design automation groups, which include Cadence and Synopsys, to stop supplying their tech to China  —  Move by Washington is latest effort to stymie geopolitical rival's technological advance  —  Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington …
Financial Times:
The Czech Republic says that the state-sponsored Chinese hacking group APT31 has targeted its foreign ministry's unclassified communications network since 2022  —  ‘Malicious’ assault blamed on group known as APT31 that has been linked with Chinese state security ministry
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Victoria's Secret replaces its website with a message saying “we identified and are taking steps to address a security incident”, and closes some store services  —  Fashion giant Victoria's Secret has taken down its website and some store services because of an ongoing security incident.
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Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Samsung releases the first One UI 8 beta for Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra, with an updated Quick Share and more, in South Korea, the US, and other regions  —  Samsung just released its very first One UI 8 update in beta, and while it's not as big of an update as One UI 7 was …
Rest of World:
Migrant Filipino workers in Taiwan's chip industry say job brokers control everything from paychecks to dorm beds, leaving them feeling trapped and exploited  —  In Taiwan's AI-fueled chip boom, brokers control everything from paychecks to dorm beds, leaving workers feeling trapped and exploited.
Reuters:
Marco Rubio says the US will impose visa bans on foreign nationals “who censor Americans” and calls arrest warrants for social media posts “unacceptable”  —  The U.S. will impose visa bans on foreign nationals it deems to be censoring Americans, Secretary of State Marco Rubio …
Wall Street Journal:
Making a short AI film with tools from Google, Runway, ElevenLabs, and Midjourney shows the tech has improved but it takes tedious work to get scene consistency  —  We tried to direct an AI film with Veo and Runway.  The tools are magic.  The process is madness.  —  Click for Sound

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