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Kickstarter retracts stricter rules on mature content after creator backlash, and says it adopted the tougher rules because of its payment processor Stripe (www.engadget.com)
2026-5-20

Exploit released for new PinTheft Arch Linux root escalation flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20 Linux

Russia's Sberbank says it hopes to use Chinese chips to power its flagship GigaChat AI model, as sanctions continue to block the country's access to hardware (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-20 Russia China AI

175 Islamic State militants killed in Nigeria-US operation (www.rt.com)
2026-5-20 Nigeria Islam

Bond Bloodbath Worsens on Inflation, Lax Fed, and Flood of New Debt. Mortgage Rates hit 6.75% (wolfstreet.com)
2026-5-20 mortgage Bond Inflation

Document and sources: China banned Nvidia's RTX 5090D V2 chip, aimed at gamers and animators, while Jensen Huang was visiting China with Donald Trump last week (www.ft.com)
2026-5-20 Trump China Nvidia

Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest $2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via SAFE (www.theinformation.com)
2026-5-20 Startup Equity

China-Russia-US relations: Zero-sum is gone for good (www.rt.com)
2026-5-20 Russia China

Russia and China are building something America cannot break (www.rt.com)
2026-5-20 Russia China U.S.

Kremlin responds to ‘borderline crazy' threat from NATO state (www.rt.com)
2026-5-20 Russia

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20 GitHub

Webb Discovers One of the Universe's First Galaxies (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-20

Microsoft shares mitigation for YellowKey Windows zero-day (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20 Microsoft

GitHub investigates internal repositories breach claimed by TeamPCP (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20 GitHub

An analysis based on current valuations of OpenAI and Anthropic suggests ~$370B of philanthropic assets tied to the two AI companies are poised to become liquid (nanransohoff.substack.com)
2026-5-20 AI Asset

Two research papers describe how Google's Co-Scientist and nonprofit FutureHouse's AI tools can succeed at drug-retargeting tasks by forming hypotheses (arstechnica.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

Q&A with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on launching the legal AI startup in 2022, how AI could shake up law firm business models, legal AI competition, and more (www.ft.com)
2026-5-20 Startup AI

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)
2026-5-20 China AI Layoffs

More risk and cost: de-scoped Collins LOTE strengthens case for looking to Japan (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-20 Japan

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)
2026-5-20 IPO Asset London

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)
2026-5-20 AI chatbot Vietnam

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)
2026-5-20

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)
2026-5-20 Nvidia

Israel detains former South African envoy on Gaza aid mission (www.rt.com)
2026-5-20 Israel Africa South Africa

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)
2026-5-20 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)
2026-5-20 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)
2026-5-20 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)
2026-5-20 Samsung

Minnesota Becomes First State To Ban Prediction Markets (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-20 Ban

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)
2026-5-20 Germany AI

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