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China is catching up with the US in AI, robotics, and other sectors, driven by an R&D spending rise, hitting $500B in 2024, up 3x since Xi took office in 2012 (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-22 China AI Robot

New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station (science.slashdot.org)
2025-5-22 China

OpenAI buys iPhone designer Ive's hardware startup, names him creative head (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-22 iPhone Startup

How animation startup Toonstar uses its AI tools to make animated content up to 90% cheaper than traditional methods; its YouTube series has 30M weekly viewers (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-22 Startup AI YouTube

An overview of major streamers' revenues, subscriber churn, cancellation rates, shares of US TV viewing time, and shares of US sports TV rights deals since 2023 (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-22

What is Lumma Stealer, the malware Microsoft says infected more than 394,000 Windows PCs worldwide? (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-22 Microsoft

Takeaways from Computex 2025: little focus on consumer AI, Chinese AI and chip advances loom large, Intel and Nvidia courting Taiwanese partners, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-22 China Taiwan Intel AI Nvidia

Microsoft researchers and others detail Aurora, an AI weather model they say makes accurate 10-day forecasts faster and at smaller scales than many other models (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-22 Microsoft AI

Sources: Telegram told investors ahead of a ~$1.5B bond offering that revenue reached $1.4B in 2024, up from $343M in 2023, and net profit reached $540M in 2024 (www.ft.com)
2025-5-22

A profile of Bill Zanker, who sources say has been key in marketing the $TRUMP memecoin and organizing a dinner with Trump for the top 220 holders of the coin (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-22 Trump

An NY jury convicts Braden John Karony, the former CEO of cryptocurrency company SafeMoon, of conspiracy to defraud the US, money laundering, and wire fraud (cointelegraph.com)
2025-5-22 Conspiracy Cryptocurrency

Denver Detectives Crack Deadly Arson Case Using Teens' Google Search Histories (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-22 Google

Marcos Galperin, founder and CEO of Latin American e-commerce giant MercadoLibre, will step down in late 2025 and be replaced by commerce head Ariel Szarfsztejn (www.reuters.com)
2025-5-22 U.S. Latin America

Bitcoin surges to all-time peak as crypto sentiment improves (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-22 Bitcoin

Hacker who breached communications app used by Trump aide stole data from across US government (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-22 Trump Hacker

Google is much more than an advertising company…privilege to have users trust in us: Sundar Pichai (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-22 Google

Leaked recording: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI aims to ship 100M AI “companion” devices, with the goal of releasing a device by late next year (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-22 AI

Brembo's New Brakes Cut Particulate Emissions By 90 Percent (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-22

NYC-based Siro, which offers AI-powered coaching for sales reps, raised a $50M Series B led by SignalFire, bringing its total raised to $75M (techcrunch.com)
2025-5-22 AI

Amazon introduces AI shopping experts, an audio feature that summarizes product details, customer reviews, and more, on select products for some US customers (www.geekwire.com)
2025-5-22 Amazon AI

Microsoft says it's reducing “politically focused emails” within the company, as workers are unable to send emails mentioning “Palestine”, “Gaza”, or “genocide” (www.theverge.com)
2025-5-22 Microsoft

Phone Companies Failed To Warn Senators About Surveillance, Wyden Says (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-22

Nansen: the 220 winners of Trump's May 22 dinner contest spent $394M total on the $TRUMP token, with the top seven spending $10M+ each and a third $1M+ each (www.nbcnews.com)
2025-5-22 Trump

Digital physical therapy provider Hinge Health raised $437M in its US IPO, after the company and its backers sold 13.7M shares at $32 each, the top of its range (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-22 IPO

Google DeepMind says Gemini Diffusion, an experimental text diffusion model demoed at Google I/O and available by waitlist, generates 1,000-2,000 tokens/second (fortune.com)
2025-5-22 Google Google I/O

OpenAI updates its Responses API for building agentic applications to include remote MCP server support, image generation and Code Interpreter tools, and more (venturebeat.com)
2025-5-22

SEC Sues Crypto Startup Unicoin and Its Executives For Fraud (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-5-22 Startup

Bitcoin reached a new all-time high, surpassing $110,000 and breaking its January record, after slumping to $74,000 in April (www.cnbc.com)
2025-5-22 Bitcoin

Signal says it will block by default screenshots of its Windows 11 desktop app due to the privacy risks of Microsoft's Recall; users can enable them in settings (arstechnica.com)
2025-5-22 Microsoft

Quebec To Impose French-Language Quotas On Streaming Giants (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-5-22 France Quebec

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