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Domestic demand driving Russia's economic growth – minister (www.rt.com)
2026-5-19 Russia

UK's Starmer could quit as prime minister – Daily Mail (www.rt.com)
2026-5-19 U.K.

Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin Depot, North America's largest bitcoin ATM operator, files for bankruptcy, blaming “increasingly stringent compliance obligations” (www.coindesk.com)
2026-5-19 U.S. Bitcoin

Internal chats: in March, xAI offered employees $420 in exchange for completed tax filings as training data for Grok, but the bonuses haven't been paid out (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-19 Tax

The US Is Betting On AI To Catch Insider Trading In Prediction Markets (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-19 AI

Amazon's Alexa+ now produces AI-generated “podcasts” on various topics in the US, featuring chats between two AI “co-hosts”, using content from media outlets (variety.com)
2026-5-19 Amazon AI

WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency (science.slashdot.org)
2026-5-19 Ebola

Orwell's Europe - Part I (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
2026-5-19 Europe

Arkham: Iran's largest crypto exchange, Nobitex, processed $2.3B+ since 2023 via Tron and BNB Chain, including $23M+ since the Iran war started in February (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-19 Iran

Planned EU move to damage key Ukrainian export – FT (www.rt.com)
2026-5-19 Europe Ukraine

Grafana says stolen GitHub token let hackers steal codebase (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-18 GitHub

A look at Apple's ongoing strategy of repurposing binned chips for cheaper devices; sources: Apple ordered more A18 Pros for the MacBook Neo amid its popularity (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18 Apple MacBook

Strategy acquired 24,869 bitcoin for ~$2.01B at an average price of $80,985 between May 11 and May 17, taking its holding to 843,738 BTC, or 4% of total supply (www.theblock.co)
2026-5-18 Bitcoin

Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech, raised $300M at a ~$4B valuation, up from $3.1B after raising $153M in August 2025 (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18

Iranian media: Iran launches “Hormuz Safe”, a Bitcoin-backed insurance service for shipping companies transiting the Strait of Hormuz; ~1,500 ships are trapped (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18 Bitcoin Iran Insurance

The Vatican says Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah will join Pope Leo on May 25 to launch the pope's first encyclical, setting out his views on the AI age (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Steven Soderbergh Defends AI Use in His New Documentary about John Lennon (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-5-18 AI

North Atlantic separation: What might follow a NATO divorce (www.rt.com)
2026-5-18

Sources: internal competition among Google staff and researchers for TPUs intensified as it prioritizes cloud customers and flagship AI products over research (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18 Google AI

Dust, which helps enterprises design and deploy specialized AI agents that work alongside humans, raised a $40M Series B led by Abstract and Sequoia (www.axios.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Microsoft testing adjustable taskbar, Start menu in Windows 11 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-18 Microsoft

Lifetime access to 90+ cybersecurity courses is $50 right now (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-18

EU ‘not very relevant' on global stage – ex-foreign policy chief (www.rt.com)
2026-5-18 Europe

Steve Bannon and 60+ Trump allies sign a Humans First-led letter urging Trump to mandate government testing and approval of powerful AI models before release (www.axios.com)
2026-5-18 Trump AI Bannon

How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as Meta and a16z's founders, are pouring millions into state-level election campaigns via super PACs (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-18

Moscow to help African nation fight Ebola outbreak (www.rt.com)
2026-5-18 Africa Ebola

Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing “rational” fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs (www.businessinsider.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Smartphones linked to plunging global birth rates – FT (www.rt.com)
2026-5-18

A college senior at Stanford describes how AI changed classes: cheating using AI “has become omnipresent” with students “fudging just about everything” (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-18 AI

Baidu reports Q1 revenue down 1.1% YoY to ~$4.7B, above ~$4.5B est., and net profit down 55% YoY to ~$506.6M, above ~$462.5M est., amid a slow AI payoff (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-18 AI

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