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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

Northern Australia needs an elite First Nations crisis capability program (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-20 Australia

Japan's quiet test of China diplomacy (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-20 China Japan

China's Xi welcomes Putin in Beijing: LIVE UPDATES, VIDEOS (www.rt.com)
2026-5-20 China Putin

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)
2026-5-20 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)
2026-5-20 Google AI Layoffs

The “hiremen” inside PNG's market for Highlands violence (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-20

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)
2026-5-20 AI

WATCH violent protests in Bolivia over cost-of-living crisis (www.rt.com)
2026-5-20

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)
2026-5-20

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)
2026-5-20

China is bolstering food security with biomanufacturing. Australia should, too (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-20 China Australia

Boston-based CircuitHub, which manufactures circuit boards based on customers' requirements, raised a $28M Series A led by Plural (www.axios.com)
2026-5-20

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)
2026-5-20 Android Google Apple

Big Tech wants to join the HALO club (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-20

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)
2026-5-20 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)
2026-5-20 Trump Fintech

Senate advances bill to limit Trump's Iran war powers (www.rt.com)
2026-5-20 Trump Iran Senate

Discord says voice and video calls outside of stage channels are now end-to-end encrypted by default, after launching its encryption protocol in September 2024 (www.pcgamer.com)
2026-5-20

Google announces updates to Flow and Flow Music: Gemini Omni support, mobile apps, the ability to create custom tools like a video resizer or shaders, and more (www.cnet.com)
2026-5-20 Google Mobile

On-demand manufacturing startup SendCutSend raised $110M co-led by Sequoia, Paradigm, and Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison, valuing it at $1B (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-20 Startup Manufacturing

Plex Triples Lifetime Subscription Cost To $750 (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-20

Sources detail growing concerns inside SoftBank over Masayoshi Son's $60B+ bet on OpenAI, which some fear concentrates too much capital into a single company (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20

Google debuts Gemini for Science, a set of experimental tools that help researchers generate hypotheses, conduct testing, and understand scientific literature (www.engadget.com)
2026-5-20 Google

The haze over Southeast Asia clouds more than the sky (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-20 Asia Southeast Asia

Max-severity flaw in ChromaDB for AI apps allows server hijacking (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20 AI

Sources: SpaceX expects to proceed with its acquisition of Cursor 30 days after its public trading debut, which is expected to occur on June 12 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20 SpaceX

Sources: Zyphra, which trains and runs inference for its open-weight models on AMD hardware, is raising a $500M Series B at a valuation of at least $5B (www.forbes.com)
2026-5-20 AMD

Cybercrime service disrupted for abusing Microsoft platform to sign malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20 Microsoft

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