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May 12, 2025, 5:55 AM

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Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI is negotiating with Microsoft to enable a future IPO; Microsoft is offering to cut its equity stake for access to OpenAI's tech beyond 2030  —  High-stakes talks to revise terms of multibillion-dollar partnership are key to plans to adopt for-profit model
Financial Times:
The US and China agree a deal to lower tariffs for the next 90 days, a sign of easing tensions; the US will cut tariffs on Chinese goods to 30% from 145%  —  Both sides agree to steep reductions in duties for the next 90 days  —  Joe Leahy in Beijing, Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington and Mercedes Ruehl in Geneva
Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
The Trump administration fired US Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter; her office had raised concerns about xAI using copyrighted content to train AI  —  The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, two sources familiar with the situation confirmed to CBS News Saturday.
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
A profile of HoYoverse, the creator of Genshin Impact, which is exploring new game genres as its titles begin to cannibalize each other and revenue growth slows  —  HoYoverse plots a future path to reach further than its anime roots  —  For decades, Chinese video games and American gamers just didn't mix.
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Tyler Cowen / Conversations with Tyler:
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UiPath:
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Nicole Kobie / Wired:
As the consumer metaverse falters, the World Economic Forum projects the industrial metaverse will reach $100B by 2030, led by platforms like Nvidia Omniverse  —  Forget Mark Zuckerberg's vision of VR meetings; the industrial metaverse bridges digital and physical worlds in a way that's actually useful.
Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch:
Cairo-based Nawy, Africa's largest proptech platform combining listings with brokerage services, raised a $52M Series A led by Partech Africa  —  For decades, buying property in Egypt meant navigating a fragmented real estate market, relying on personal networks, dealing with commission-driven brokers …

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