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Lavrov boosts ‘no limits' Russia-China partnership: The latest on Western effort to ‘contain' the BRICS powers (www.rt.com)
17 days ago Russia China

Prof. Schlevogt's Compass No. 53: Europe's dying heart – Hungary's vote delivers lethal kick (www.rt.com)
17 days ago Europe

A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated (www.billboard.com)
17 days ago Spotify

Memo: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago

Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its $40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~$5B each; SoftBank has already invested $30B (www.bloomberg.com)
17 days ago

ByteDance launches its Seedance 2.0 video model to enterprise clients in 100+ countries, excluding the US amid legal disputes, after a February launch in China (www.theinformation.com)
17 days ago China

PitchBook: US growth and late-stage venture funds raised $23.6B YTD, up from $7.4B in 2025 and above the totals for any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom (www.wsj.com)
18 days ago AI

Amazon Buys Globalstar For $10.8 Billion, Moving To Expand Its Satellite Internet Service (tech.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Amazon

Q&A with ElevenLabs co-founder Mati Staniszewski on how audio models work, the company's business model, the conversational Turing Test, voice agents, and more (cheekypint.substack.com)
18 days ago

Asia's startup funding rose 93% YoY to $27.4B in Q1, the highest quarterly total in 3+ years, with Chinese startups raising $16.5B and Indian startups $3.8B (news.crunchbase.com)
18 days ago China India Asia Startup

ASML reports Q1 net sales of €8.8B, vs. €8.5B est., and €2.8B net profit, vs. €2.5B est., and raises 2026 net sales forecast to €36B-€40B from €34B-€39B (www.cnbc.com)
18 days ago

Apple endorses the ~$11.6B Amazon-Globalstar deal, citing a “proven track record” with Amazon infrastructure; Apple holds a ~20% stake in Globalstar (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago Amazon Apple

US affidavit: the man charged with attacking Sam Altman's home had a document that “identified views opposed” to AI and included other AI executives' addresses (www.nytimes.com)
18 days ago AI

The 10 Most Outrageous Military Designs from WWII (listverse.com)
18 days ago

Sources and analyst estimates: Uber is on track to spend $7.5B+ on buying robotaxis and $2.5B+ on equity stakes in their makers over the next few years (www.ft.com)
18 days ago Uber Equity

Indonesia shouldn't give blanket airspace access to the US (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
18 days ago Indonesia

ADF must master the fight tonight before betting on tomorrow's autonomy (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
18 days ago

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 robotic reasoning model, says it shows significant spatial and physical reasoning improvements over ER 1.5 (deepmind.google)
18 days ago Google Robot

Sources: ahead of US midterms, Democrats have been advised not to antagonize a ~$300M pro-AI lobby; internal polling shows broad support for tougher AI rules (www.ft.com)
18 days ago AI Democrat

Sony Is Removing Many Popular Features From Its Free OTA TV Options (entertainment.slashdot.org)
18 days ago Sony

Global smartphone shipments fell 4.1% YoY in Q1, the first decline since 2023, amid a memory chip crunch; Samsung's shipments grew 3.6% and Apple's grew 3.3% (www.idc.com)
18 days ago Samsung Apple

Sources: a Snap-Perplexity AI search deal calling for Perplexity to pay Snap $400M has fallen apart; Snap is set to announce significant layoffs on Wednesday (sources.news)
18 days ago AI Layoffs

A profile of BusPatrol, whose AI-powered cameras on 35K+ school buses in 24 US states record vehicles passing illegally, claiming they help reduce violations (www.bloomberg.com)
18 days ago AI

Pacific islands face a connectivity shock as oil prices surge (www.lowyinstitute.org)
18 days ago

Acting together? The myth of middle power fix (www.lowyinstitute.org)
18 days ago

How some mathematicians are exploring ways to incorporate LLM models into their research without losing direct experience with mathematical understanding (www.quantamagazine.org)
18 days ago

Sources: at least two US federal agencies and three congressional committees have reached out to Anthropic to test Claude Mythos, quietly bypassing Trump's ban (www.politico.com)
18 days ago Trump Ban

Car & Truck Inflation in America: Cost of Vehicle Ownership Soared by 36% since 2020 (wolfstreet.com)
18 days ago U.S. Inflation

War at the speed of light: the emerging role of directed-energy weapons (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
18 days ago Energy

Lavrov calls for end to ‘electoral neocolonialism' (www.rt.com)
18 days ago

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