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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 (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-5-25

A section of the Pope's encyclical describing AI's unpredictability suggests influence from Anthropic, whose co-founder Christopher Olah attended the unveiling (www.washingtonpost.com)
2026-5-25 AI

Pope Leo XIV presents Magnifica humanitas, his encyclical on AI, calling for AI regulation, protection for children against hypersexualized AI images, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-25 AI

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 (www.securityweek.com)
2026-5-25 GitHub

In the ~43,000-word text, the Pope urged governments to slow down the development of AI systems and decried “new forms of slavery” of people tending AI systems (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-25 AI

Pope Leo XIV presents his encyclical on AI, calling for regulation of AI companies, protection for children against hypersexualized AI images, and more (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-25 AI

Sources: execs from Meta, Google, and Amazon met with Vatican officials in April, as part of a quiet lobbying push ahead of Pope Leo XIV's first AI encyclical (www.politico.eu)
2026-5-25 Google Amazon AI

A growing number of execs are creating AI digital twins to manage tasks; Reid Hoffman says “Reid AI” has delivered 75+ addresses and presentations since 2024 (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-25 AI

It's Like the Olympics - But Steroids Are Allowed (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-25

A look at Xiaomi's AI push to future-proof its hardware and EV ecosystem, as it recently committed ~$8.8B in AI investments over the next three years (www.scmp.com)
2026-5-25 AI Xiaomi

A profile of Meta CTO Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, a top lieutenant of Mark Zuckerberg who is leading the gargantuan effort to transform Meta into an AI-first company (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-25 AI Zuckerberg

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 (x.com)
2026-5-25 China AI

California Executive Order Directs Businesses and State Agencies to Prepare for AI-Driven Workforce Disruption (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-25 AI California

The UK, outpaced by the US and China in AI, is turning to experimental technologies like neuromorphic computing in search of computing sovereignty (giftarticle.ft.com)
2026-5-25 China AI

At an IEEE conference, Huawei proposed a new chip scaling law and said it aims to design chips with transistor density equivalent to 1.4nm by 2031 (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-25

Plenary Americas LP, La Caisse's infrastructure arm, agrees to acquire and take private Canadian database company ISC for $872M, expected to close in Q3 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-25 Database Canada

Quartermaster, which is building an analytics platform and a SmartMast, with sensors on a ship's mast to relay real-time maritime data, raised a $43M Series A (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-25

AI 'Crashes the Party' at This Year's Cannes Film Festival - Including Multi-Year Meta Partnership (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-5-25 AI

How the Trump admin gutted the CFTC, ousting enforcers and appointing industry-friendly officials, as Trump family got into crypto and prediction markets (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-25 Trump CFTC

Demand for security engineers is surging, with job postings up 11% YoY in Q1, driven by threats from AI-generated code and models like Mythos and GPT-5.4-Cyber (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-25 AI

FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-5-25

Canonical Is Shutting Down Ubuntu Pastebin (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-25 Ubuntu

Sources: Uber weighs a higher bid after it approached a major Delivery Hero shareholder with a €38-per-share bid, valuing the group at €11.5B+, but was rebuffed (www.ft.com)
2026-5-25 Uber

Mozilla Brings Web Serial Workflows to Firefox, Collaborates With Adafruit (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-25 Firefox Mozilla

Disney's 'Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu' Opens to 'Mixed' Box Office Results (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-5-25

The ECB summons Eurozone banks to a meeting on Tuesday to discuss risks posed by the latest AI models and hopes US banks with Mythos access will share lessons (www.ft.com)
2026-5-25 AI

Apple Preparing New 'Gen AI' Website Ahead of WWDC — and New AI Features? (apple.slashdot.org)
2026-5-25 AI Apple

A look at the scourge of smartphone thefts in London, as victims describe receiving texts threatening them into unlinking Apple IDs from stolen iPhones (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-25 Apple London

Wind and Solar Generated More Power Than Gas Globally in April (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-25 Solar

Scammers Are Abusing an Internal Microsoft Account to Send Spam Links (slashdot.org)
2026-5-25 Microsoft

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