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Nintendo expects to sell 15 million Switch 2 consoles as launch nears (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-8 Nintendo

The European Commission is facing pressure from member states, led by Ireland, to require Google, Meta, and others to vet financial ads for potential scams (t.co)
2025-5-8 Europe Google Ireland

Source: Fidji Simo will oversee several OpenAI executives who previously reported to Altman, including COO Brad Lightcap, CFO Sarah Friar, and CPO Kevin Weil (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-8

Pakistan vows retaliation for Indian cross-border attacks (www.rt.com)
2025-5-8 India

New German chancellor tells US to ‘stay out' of Berlin's affairs (www.rt.com)
2025-5-8 Germany

Kremlin comments on latest peace initiative from US (www.rt.com)
2025-5-8 Russia

The US Commerce Department says it will rescind the Biden-era “AI diffusion rule” that limits exports of AI chips, which was set to take effect on May 15 (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-8 AI

OpenAI says Fidji Simo will lead its business and operations teams in her new role as CEO of Applications, overseeing sales, marketing, and finance (www.nytimes.com)
2025-5-8

Nintendo projects Switch 2 sales to reach 15M units for the fiscal year ending March 2026, below 16.8M est., and $2.2B annual operating profit, below est. (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-8 Nintendo

An IBM survey of 2,000 CEOs finds that only 25% of AI initiatives have delivered expected ROI over the last few years, and only 16% have scaled enterprise wide (www.theregister.com)
2025-5-8 IBM AI

How “AI slop farmer” Jesse Cunningham targets older women on Pinterest and Facebook with AI-generated copies of content from real bloggers and creators (futurism.com)
2025-5-8 Facebook AI

A look at Silence Speaks, a British startup that has built an AI-powered sign language avatar capable of accurately translating text to British Sign Language (www.wired.com)
2025-5-8 U.K. Startup AI

Dangerous Fungal Spores May Travel the Globe On 'Stratospheric Superhighway' (science.slashdot.org)
2025-5-8

OpenAI hires Instacart CEO Fidji Simo as CEO of Applications, reporting to Sam Altman, who says he will remain CEO, focusing on “research, compute, and safety” (openai.com)
2025-5-8

Interview with curl project founder Daniel Stenberg, who likens “AI slop” in HackerOne submissions to a DDoS attack, echoing concerns of others like Seth Larson (arstechnica.com)
2025-5-8 Interview AI

The Taiwan dollar's sharpest rally against the US dollar in nearly 40 years raises concerns about the competitiveness and earnings of Taiwanese tech companies (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-8 Taiwan

Native Gemini app for iPad debuts with multitasking and widget support (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-8 iPad

Google identifies new malware linked to Russia-based hacking group (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-8 Russia Google

Microsoft wins appeal in FTC challenge to $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-8 Microsoft

Netflix to revamp TV app interface, launch AI-powered search for iOS users (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-8 IOS AI Netflix

AI of Dead Arizona Road Rage Victim Addresses Killer In Court (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-5-8 AI

The threat spectrum (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2025-5-8

Huawei drives and dominates Thailand's digital ascent (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2025-5-8 Thailand

Blue bonds and mangrove protection: Small island nations lead in climate resilience (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-5-8 Climate

Samsung Electronics says unit Harman acquires Masimo's audio business for $350 mln (indianexpress.com)
2025-5-8 Samsung

In an email to Instacart employees, Fidji Simo says the new CEO will be an existing member of the management team and she will stay on as Chair of the Board (www.instacart.com)
2025-5-8

Latin American e-commerce and fintech giant MercadoLibre reports Q1 revenue up 37% YoY to $5.9B, $494M in net income, and Argentina revenue up 125% YoY to $1.3B (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-5-8 U.S. Fintech Latin America

OpenAI hires Instacart CEO Fidji Simo as CEO of Applications, reporting to Sam Altman, who says he'll stay CEO focusing “on research, compute, and safety” (x.com)
2025-5-8

In prepared Senate testimony, Microsoft and others urge US lawmakers to streamline federal AI energy permits and open government data sets for AI training (www.reuters.com)
2025-5-8 Microsoft Energy AI Senate

Nebius Group's Toloka, which uses human experts to train and evaluate AI models and has worked with Amazon and Anthropic, raised $72M led by Bezos Expeditions (www.reuters.com)
2025-5-8 Amazon AI

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