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Q&A with a16z partner Martin Cascado, who leads an AI investment team, on why recent AI progress is an industrial-revolution scale event, AI economics, and more (giftarticle.ft.com)
16 days ago AI

Alibaba's new Token Hub unit releases Happy Oyster, a new AI world model that can create 3D environments, interactive videos, films, video content, and games (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago Alibaba AI

Lebanon: From 'Switzerland of the Middle East' to Iran's Puppet (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
16 days ago Switzerland Iran Lebanon

YouTube now lets users set a zero-minute Shorts time limit, effectively removing them from its iOS and Android app; the lowest previous option was 15 minutes (www.theverge.com)
16 days ago Android IOS YouTube

Analysis and filings: Google owns a ~5% SpaceX stake, down from 6.11% at 2025's end; if SpaceX hits a $2T IPO valuation, Google's stake would be worth $100B (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago Google IPO SpaceX

Copenhagen-based Spektr, which develops AI agents for compliance teams in financial services, raised a $20M Series A led by NEA, taking total funding to $26M (news.crunchbase.com)
16 days ago AI

TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35.1% YoY to ~$35B, net income up 58.3% YoY to ~$18B, both above est., and says 7nm or smaller chips were ~74% of its wafer revenue (www.cnbc.com)
16 days ago

Germany-based Synera, which develops AI agents to automate CAD and engineering workflows, raised $40M to expand across Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific (siliconangle.com)
16 days ago Germany Europe Asia AI

Most Germans dissatisfied with Merz government – poll (www.rt.com)
16 days ago

Lebanon and Israel Have Opened a Historic Door. Washington Must Not Let Iran Shut It (www.gatestoneinstitute.org)
16 days ago Israel Iran Lebanon

The Iraq and the Iran Wars: Parallel Strategic Pathologies (www.juancole.com)
16 days ago Iraq Iran

UK Households To Be Urged To Use More Power This Summer As Renewables Soar (hardware.slashdot.org)
16 days ago Renewable

Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (restofworld.org)
16 days ago AI

A primer on interpretability and how AI researchers are figuring out how to open and understand the “black box” that holds the formulas within most AI models (www.nytimes.com)
16 days ago AI

How cyberscammers are bypassing major banks' KYC facial scans using stolen biometric data and virtual camera tools sold via Telegram channels (www.technologyreview.com)
16 days ago

India produces over 1.5M CS graduates annually, but scale is no longer an advantage with the rise of AI coding tools; Infosys revamps hiring to focus on AI (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago India AI

The 2026 National Defence Strategy delivers more of the same (www.lowyinstitute.org)
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Analysis: China's chipmaking tool imports from Singapore rose 17% YoY to $5.7B in 2025, from Malaysia rose 2x+ to $3.4B; direct US imports fell 34% YoY to ~$2B (asia.nikkei.com)
16 days ago China Singapore Malaysia

2026 National Defence Strategy: views from ASPI analysts (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
16 days ago

Sources say Ola's AI venture Krutrim's smart assistant Kruti is unavailable to users and the development of its Indian multilingual LLM, Krutrim 3, has stalled (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
16 days ago India AI

Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes, Study Finds (news.slashdot.org)
16 days ago

Amazon launches its first smart warehouse in Shenzhen, aiming to cut local merchant storage costs by up to 45% as competition with Shein and Temu intensifies (www.scmp.com)
16 days ago Amazon Shenzhen

The Mental Devastation of Racism: Beyond Public Accommodation (www.juancole.com)
16 days ago Racism

Rome halts Israel Military Pact, amid calls to cut Ties (www.juancole.com)
16 days ago Israel

Ohio's gambling regulator proposes to fine Kalshi $5M for unlicensed sports gambling, after a federal judge ruled that Kalshi's sports bets constitute gambling (www.dispatch.com)
16 days ago

The Largest Foreign Holders of US Treasury Securities and the “Basis Trade”: April 2026 Update (wolfstreet.com)
16 days ago

NDS 2026 – The Australia-US Alliance: the art of dealing with a great power (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
16 days ago Australia

OpenAI updates Agents SDK with native sandboxing and an in-distribution harness for deploying and testing agents on long-horizon tasks (techcrunch.com)
16 days ago

Companies that hire young “AI natives” have found that AI tools can be both helpful and debilitating to workers, in some cases requiring more careful oversight (www.bloomberg.com)
16 days ago AI

European VC funding in Q1 2026 rose nearly 30% YoY to $17.6B, AI claimed over 50% of all European funding for the quarter, and deal volume dropped 40% YoY (news.crunchbase.com)
16 days ago Europe AI

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