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May 25, 2026, 8:40 AM

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Nikkei Asia:
Huawei says it aims to make 1.4nm chips by 2031 using its “LogicFolding” tech, which is based on its new Tau Scaling Law intended to bypass Moore's Law limits  —  TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies on Monday said it has found a new way to design chips to bring its semiconductor capabilities close …
New York Times:
Pope Leo XIV presents Magnifica humanitas, his encyclical on AI, calling for AI regulation, protection for children against hypersexualized AI images, and more  —  The document marks a powerful foray by the leader of the Roman Catholic church into the debate about the misuse or overuse of artificial intelligence.
Océane Herrero / Politico:
Sources: Meta, Google, and Amazon execs met Vatican officials on April 29, as part of a quiet lobbying push ahead of Pope Leo XIV's first AI encyclical  —  As Leo XIV prepares his first encyclical, technology firms and Western diplomats have worked to make their case inside the Vatican.
Joshua McElwee / Reuters:
In his ~43,000-word encyclical, the Pope urged governments to slow down AI development and decried “new forms of slavery” in AI and tech supply chains  —  Pope Leo urged governments to slow down the development of AI systems in his first major document, released on Monday …
Sophie Shulman / CTech:
Sources: Wix is expected to cut ~1,000 jobs in the coming months, or ~20% of its workforce, after weak Q1 earnings and a ~50% collapse of its stock in 2026  —  The company will reduce roughly 20% of its workforce after a steep stock decline and rising AI-related costs.
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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.
New York Times:
How the Trump admin gutted the CFTC, ousting enforcers and appointing industry-friendly officials, as Trump family got into crypto and prediction markets  —  Last fall, a high-stakes struggle unfolded inside the red brick walls of an obscure federal agency.
@bookwormengr:
A look at DeepSeek's model optimization to reduce HBM use, potentially enabling domestic memory, ASIC, and CPU makers to create a Chinese AI hardware ecosystem  —  Have you ever wondered, how DeepSeek may make money, and lot of it?  They didn't come up with competitive coding plans like GLM, MoonShot and MiniMax.
Ionut Arghire / SecurityWeek:
More than 5,500 GitHub repositories were infected with malware in a supply chain attack, dubbed Megalodon, on May 18 that relies on automated commits  —  Fake automated commits injected GitHub Actions workflows containing payloads to steal credentials, CI secrets, keys, and tokens.

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