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| 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.| 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
| 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
| 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 … | 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.
| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Tether buys out SoftBank's ~26% stake in bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital, taking its 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., adding to its control … | 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, Engadget, Reuters, The Next Web, Tech in Asia, The Decoder, and The Tech Portal
X: @deepseek_ai, @yuchenj_uw, @goodalexander, @zerohedge, @healthranger, @vaibhavsisinty, @rish404, @jahooma, and @jukan05
Forums: Hacker News, r/DeepSeek, r/hermesagent, and r/singularity
| 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, The Daily Wire, New York Sun, and vaticannews.va
X: @jackmjenkins. LinkedIn: Brian Green. Bluesky: @jackjenkins.me and @robertscotthorton. Mastodon: @munin@infosec.exchange
| 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: |
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.
LinkedIn: Arjun Neil Alim
| 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
| 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” … | 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 …
More: Pulse 2.0
| Sophia Cai / Politico: |
A look at a copy of the AI EO that President Trump was expected to sign on May 21; the unsigned EO emphasized that government AI reviews would be voluntary — The draft also includes language aimed at bad actors. It directs the attorney general to enforce the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and …
More: Shelly Palmer, Crypto Briefing, Wall Street Journal, Seoul Economic Daily, Benzinga, Gizmodo, Fortune, and SiliconANGLE
X: @sophiacai99, @tim_roehn, and @politico
Bluesky: @dandrezner and @elfsternberg
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