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Abu Dhabi's TII releases Falcon Arabic, an AI model that it claims can match the performance of models up to 10 times its size, and smaller model Falcon H1 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-21 AI

Google Meet's AI translator hands-on: emulates voice and tone, translating with a few seconds of lag, similar to watching an overdubbed foreign-language speaker (www.wsj.com)
2025-5-21 Google AI

Inside China's “stolen iPhone building”: electronics traders in Shenzhen describe how even remotely locked stolen iPhones can be stripped and sold at a profit (www.ft.com)
2025-5-21 China iPhone Shenzhen

Google says weather apps have “graduated from beta” on Android Auto and Cars with Google built-in, and Android Auto will “soon” get browser and video apps (9to5google.com)
2025-5-21 Android Google Browser

Google unveils Beam, a 3D video calling platform that brings digital interactions to life (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-21 Google

Book excerpt: a profile of AI-obsessed autodidact Eliezer Yudkowsky, who introduced the DeepMind founders to Peter Thiel and inspired DeepMind's Shane Legg (www.wired.com)
2025-5-21 AI

Indonesian ex-scammers reveal how Southeast Asian scam farms lured them via Facebook and Telegram ads; Indonesia says 6,700+ people were tricked since 2020 (restofworld.org)
2025-5-21 Facebook Indonesia Southeast Asia

Nvidia says US export controls on AI chips to China were ‘a failure' (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-21 China AI Nvidia

Intel explores sale of networking and edge unit, sources say (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-21 Intel

I tried out Google's Android XR Glasses and I'm convinced this is the AI assistant I have been waiting for (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-21 Android Google AI

SAG-AFTRA files unfair labor practice charge over use of AI to make Darth Vader's voice in Fortnite (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-21 AI

AMD unveils Radeon RX 9060 XT with 16GB VRAM, likely to cost around Rs 25,000 in India (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-21 India AMD

Epic Games' Fortnite returns to Apple App Store in US after nearly 5 years (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-21 Apple

Jupiter Was Formerly Twice Its Current Size and Had a Much Stronger Magnetic Field (science.slashdot.org)
2025-5-21

Experts warn Trump's trade policies risk US dominance in digital services, often uncounted by traditional statistics, as the EU considers retaliatory tariffs (arstechnica.com)
2025-5-21 Trump

Google's I/O keynote was both scary and chill, a fever dream of sizzle reels selling how AI changes everything, even search, and can give users superpowers (www.platformer.news)
2025-5-21 Google AI Google I/O

New York City's AI tool, launched in 2018 to score families at risk for child abuse using factors like their neighborhood, is raising racial bias concerns (themarkup.org)
2025-5-21 AI New York Child Abuse

The US SEC sues Unicoin and its executives, alleging they broke securities laws by raising $100M+ for tokens falsely claimed to be backed by real estate (www.coindesk.com)
2025-5-21

Jensen Huang calls US AI chip export controls a “failure” that sped up China's efforts, cutting Nvidia's market share in China from 95% to 50% in four years (www.ft.com)
2025-5-21 China AI Nvidia

Fortnite Returns To Apple US App Store After 5-Year Ban (apple.slashdot.org)
2025-5-21 Apple Ban

AMD announces Zen 5-based Threadripper 9000 CPUs with up to 96 cores, along with RDNA 4-based Radeon AI Pro R9700 workstation GPU, both slated to launch in July (www.theregister.com)
2025-5-21 AI AMD

Japan's Honda To Scale Back On EVs, Focus On Hybrids (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-21 Japan Honda

Zhejiang, home to Alibaba and DeepSeek, publishes an AI policy that expects companies in the AI supply chain to make $138B+ in total operating revenues by 2027 (www.scmp.com)
2025-5-21 Alibaba AI

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson approves controversial new taxes expanding the state's sales tax on companies providing digital services, starting in October 2025 (www.geekwire.com)
2025-5-21 Tax

Google announces Firebase AI Logic, combining Vertex AI and Genkit tools to more easily integrate AI into apps, and adds Figma import support in Firebase Studio (siliconangle.com)
2025-5-21 Google AI

19-Year-Old Accused of Largest Child Data Breach in US Agrees To Plead Guilty To Federal Charges (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-5-21

Kalshi withdrew announcements about a collaboration with xAI just hours after CEO Tarek Mansour said the deal would “further take prediction markets mainstream” (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-21

KDE Is Getting a Native Virtual Machine Manager Called 'Karton' (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-21

KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-5-21

Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana says Waymo has reached 10M paid trips, doubling in the past five months, and that the company is not yet profitable (www.cnbc.com)
2025-5-21

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