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Ex-Zelensky aide hit with $3.2 million bail in corruption case (www.rt.com)
2026-5-14

As Meta prepares to lay off ~10% of its staff on May 20, sources say morale is low, and Meta forcibly moved 1,000+ engineers to an AI unit to build GenAI models (www.wired.com)
2026-5-14 AI

Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust raised $1.75B in its US IPO, selling 87.5M shares at $20 each, and plans to acquire data centers worth $250M to $1.5B (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-14 IPO

Zhaopin: Chinese graduates returning home from abroad rose 12% YoY in 2025, fueling Beijing's plans to take on Silicon Valley; China is offering big incentives (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-14 China

Dell confirms its SupportAssist software causes Windows BSOD crashes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-14

Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to ~$67B and net profit up 19% YoY to ~$1.6B, meeting est., as it boosts AI server production, its largest revenue source (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-14 AI

US charges suspected Dream Market admin arrested in Germany (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-14 Germany

Trump's Iran U-turn won't solve Israel's insecurity Trap (www.juancole.com)
2026-5-14 Trump Israel Iran

The Spectral Palestinian: Presence Before Politics (www.juancole.com)
2026-5-14

NATO member's government collapses after Ukrainian drone incident (www.rt.com)
2026-5-14 Drone Ukraine

New Fragnesia Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-14 Linux

Physicists Find Possible Errors In 100-Year-Old Model of the Universe (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-14

Filing: Jensen Huang's foundation bought $108.3M worth of AI computing time from CoreWeave and is donating it to universities and other nonprofit institutes (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-14 AI

Canadian legaltech company Clio says its ARR has reached $500M, citing demand for its AI services; it was valued at $5B after a $500M Series G in November 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-14 AI Canada

Sources: the US cleared ~10 Chinese companies, including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com, to buy Nvidia H200 chips, but no deliveries have been made (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-14 China Alibaba Tencent Nvidia

Bookshelf: the CIA in the 21st century (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-14

Riyadh-based Stitch, which develops software for banks and financial services companies, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, its first investment in the Gulf (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-14

Sources: climate watchdog SBTi drops proposed rules that would limit tech companies' claims that gas-fueled data centers are covered by clean energy investments (www.ft.com)
2026-5-14 Energy Climate

OpenAI Trial Wraps Up With 'Jackass' Trophy For Challenging Musk (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-14

LY Corp launches a bid with Bain Capital to buy Kakaku.com, which operates restaurant review and booking site Tabelog, for $4B, challenging EQT's $3.75B offer (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-14

Musk v. Altman filing: Sam Altman holds $2B+ in stakes in companies that have done business with OpenAI, including a $1.7B stake in fusion startup Helion Energy (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-14 Energy Startup

ZipRecruiter: IT and CS job postings are up 14.2% YoY in April; entry-level roles fell from 8.1% a year ago to 7.4%, while senior roles grew from 38.8% to 43.1% (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-14

Microsoft updates Edge with new AI features, including letting Copilot gather information from open tabs and use browsing history for more relevant answers (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-14 Microsoft AI

OpenAI says it would support a global AI governance body that is led by the US and includes China as a member, similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-14 China Energy AI

French Socialist MEP advised to ignore poor voters ahead of election – Politico (www.rt.com)
2026-5-14 France

Britain expands Hormuz mission as Starmer faces calls to quit (www.rt.com)
2026-5-14 U.K.

Australia should see Sri Lanka as more than a China–India contest (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-14 China Australia India Sri Lanka

Sources: Google plans to announce a new Gemini model at its I/O conference next week; the model will land roughly in the class of GPT-5.5, but short of Mythos (sources.news)
2026-5-14 Google Google I/O

TikTok launches TikTok GO in the US for users to book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly in the app, partnering with Booking.com, Expedia, and others (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-14

Nothing Stops This Train (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-5-14

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