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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A deep dive into Apple Watch and Health efforts; sources: iOS 27 to get a revamped AirPods control panel and default support for AirPlay rivals like Google Cast — Also: iOS 27 AirPods, Genmoji and AirPlay details. — Now over a decade old, the Apple Watch is in need of a shake-up as the health and fitness wearables market pivots.
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, The Next Web, and iClarified
X: @markgurman, @tgod34748, @markgurman, @markgurman, @mweinbach, @markgurman, and @markgurman
Forums: r/AppleWatch and r/apple
| 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.| Financial Times: |
How the AI boom is transforming global M&A, now dominated by the AI-driven race to control the world's energy, fiber networks, and computing capacity — Deals hit record highs, unloved companies turn sexy and PE finds a new gold mine. Up until this week, NextEra Energy … | David Oks: |
Rising DRAM prices are driving “forced premiumization” in the smartphone market in India and Africa, as consumers in the sub-$200 segment risk being priced out — The global memory crunch and the great repricing of consumer electronics — One of the most remarkable things …
More: The Next Web, Crypto Briefing, and Simon Willison's Weblog
| Jack Jenkins / RNS: |
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.
More: NBC News, Straight Arrow, The Daily Wire, New York Sun, and vaticannews.va
X: @jackmjenkins. LinkedIn: Brian Green. Bluesky: @jackjenkins.me and @robertscotthorton. Mastodon: @munin@infosec.exchange
| Bloomberg: |
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.
More: DeepSeek, South China Morning Post, Implicator.ai, Engadget, The Next Web, Reuters, The Tech Portal, Tech in Asia, and The Decoder
X: @deepseek_ai, @yuchenj_uw, @goodalexander, @zerohedge, @healthranger, @vaibhavsisinty, @rish404, @jahooma, and @jukan05
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/DeepSeek, r/hermesagent, and r/singularity
| Reuters: |
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 …
More: Financial Times, This Week in Fintech, Crypto Briefing, The Block, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, and El País. X: @mikebelshe
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Tether buys out SoftBank's ~26% stake in bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, taking Tether's stake to ~71%; SoftBank's stake was worth ~$679M — Tether has bought out SoftBank Group Inc.'s ownership in the digital-asset treasury company Twenty One Capital Inc. … | Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Moment, which develops AI tools for automating fixed-income and equities trading tech, raised a $78M Series C led by Index Ventures, with a16z participating — Moment, the financial-technology company founded by a cohort of former Citadel Securities quantitative traders and researchers …
More: The Next Web, PYMNTS, FinTech Global, Ventureburn, FinSMEs, and Moment Technology, Inc.
| 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 … | Alexandra Alter / New York Times: |
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: |
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
Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Princeton Digital Group to sell its Chinese data center assets for as much as $1B, as 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.
LinkedIn: Arjun Neil Alim
| New York Times: |
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” … Sponsor Posts
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