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Three precedent-setting court rulings in China have said that employers replacing workers with AI is voluntary cost-cutting that does not justify mass layoffs (www.nytimes.com)
8 days ago China AI Layoffs

More risk and cost: de-scoped Collins LOTE strengthens case for looking to Japan (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
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Filing and sources: PE firm Hg has spun out €500M worth of assets from its €19B software group Visma, whose London IPO remains shelved amid the “SaaSpocalypse” (www.ft.com)
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Vietnam introduces Decree 142 to implement its AI law, requiring companies to classify AI models by risk level, label deepfakes, and disclose chatbot use (asia.nikkei.com)
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Sources: an attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Huawei router software caused a three-hour nationwide telecoms outage in Luxembourg in 2025 (therecord.media)
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Sources: Nvidia's business development group, not its VC arm NVentures, has led much of its ~$90B dealmaking push across 145+ companies over the past 16 months (giftarticle.ft.com)
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Israel detains former South African envoy on Gaza aid mission (www.rt.com)
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Alibaba's T-Head unveils the Zhenwu M890 AI chip for training and inference, saying it is particularly suited for agentic tasks, and plans annual upgrades (www.bloomberg.com)
8 days ago Alibaba AI

Singapore announces a National AI Partnership with Google and an MoU with OpenAI, which will set up an AI lab and commit $234M+ to the city-state's AI ecosystem (www.cnbc.com)
8 days ago Google AI Singapore

SkyeChip becomes the first Malaysian chip design company to IPO on the Bursa Malaysia exchange, surging 300%+; the company was valued at ~$397M at its IPO price (asia.nikkei.com)
8 days ago IPO Malaysia

Samsung Electronics rejects a labor union-accepted mediation proposal, raising the prospect of a workers' strike; a general work stoppage will proceed on May 21 (www.bloomberg.com)
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Minnesota Becomes First State To Ban Prediction Markets (yro.slashdot.org)
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Berlin-based bunch, an AI-native platform for managers and institutional investors to manage the entire fund lifecycle, raised a €30.1M Series B led by Portage (www.eu-startups.com)
8 days ago Germany AI

Northern Australia needs an elite First Nations crisis capability program (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
8 days ago Australia

Japan's quiet test of China diplomacy (www.lowyinstitute.org)
8 days ago China Japan

China's Xi welcomes Putin in Beijing: LIVE UPDATES, VIDEOS (www.rt.com)
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GitHub says it's investigating “unauthorized access” to its internal repositories, and there's no proof of customer data outside its repositories being impacted (x.com)
8 days ago GitHub

Q&A with Google SVP James Manyika on AI's ability to automate tasks versus occupations, his optimism about the labor market despite AI-driven layoffs, and more (www.platformer.news)
8 days ago Google AI Layoffs

The “hiremen” inside PNG's market for Highlands violence (www.lowyinstitute.org)
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Sources: a draft White House EO would create a “voluntary framework” for AI companies to give government agencies early access to models before public release (www.axios.com)
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WATCH violent protests in Bolivia over cost-of-living crisis (www.rt.com)
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The Take It Down Act, a law requiring social networks to remove nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours of reporting or face fines, took effect on May 19 (www.theverge.com)
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Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $9 per 1M output tokens, 3x the price of Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 6x the price of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (simonwillison.net)
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China is bolstering food security with biomanufacturing. Australia should, too (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
8 days ago China Australia

Boston-based CircuitHub, which manufactures circuit boards based on customers' requirements, raised a $28M Series A led by Plural (www.axios.com)
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Google unveils Continue On, a new feature in Android 17 that will let users move tasks between Android devices, similar to Apple's Handoff feature (9to5google.com)
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Big Tech wants to join the HALO club (www.lowyinstitute.org)
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Google updates Project Genie, its interactive world builder, with Street View integration, and expands access to the tool to AI Ultra subscribers globally (www.engadget.com)
8 days ago Google AI

Trump signs an EO calling on regulators and the Fed to review policies that could support fintech growth, including expanding fintech access to payment accounts (www.reuters.com)
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Senate advances bill to limit Trump's Iran war powers (www.rt.com)
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