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The UK, which launched open banking in 2018, is seeing its fintech sector struggle to make open banking-powered payments a viable alternative to card payments (Akila Quinio/Financial Times)

The UK, which launched open banking in 2018, is seeing ...

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Akila Quinio / Financial Times: The UK, which launched open banking in 2018, i...

Tesla is set to launch its robotaxi service in Austin in June, but city officials say they are still awaiting important information regarding safety protocols (Jessica Mathews/Fortune)

Tesla is set to launch its robotaxi service in Austin i...

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Jessica Mathews / Fortune: Tesla is set to launch its robotaxi service in Aust...

Taiwan is ramping up its defense drone push with help from startups like Coretronic, as giants like TSMC and Foxconn hold back due to a smaller local market (Bloomberg)

Taiwan is ramping up its defense drone push with help f...

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Bloomberg: Taiwan is ramping up its defense drone push with help from startups...

The Browser Company says it is pivoting away from its Arc browser to build AI-native browser Dia, citing Arc's complexity and limited mass-market appeal (Keeping Tabs by The Browser Company)

The Browser Company says it is pivoting away from its A...

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Keeping Tabs by The Browser Company: The Browser Company says it is pivoting a...

India's crypto industry is lobbying for tax cuts on domestic trading, hoping to seize on New Delhi's softening crypto stance as it negotiates a US trade deal (Financial Times)

India's crypto industry is lobbying for tax cuts on dom...

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Financial Times: India's crypto industry is lobbying for tax cuts on domestic ...

Researcher: factoring 2048 bit RSA integers could be done with ~20x fewer noisy qubits than previously estimated, though still far beyond current quantum tech (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt)

Researcher: factoring 2048 bit RSA integers could be do...

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Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: Researcher: factoring 2048 bit RSA integers could...

European industrial groups Schneider, Siemens, ABB, and Legrand collectively added €151B in market value due to AI demand after ChatGPT's November 2022 launch (Financial Times)

European industrial groups Schneider, Siemens, ABB, and...

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Financial Times: European industrial groups Schneider, Siemens, ABB, and Legra...

The European Commission says it is investigating Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos for potential child safety DSA violations "as a matter of priority" (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)

The European Commission says it is investigating Pornhu...

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Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: The European Commission says it is invest...

Documents: self-driving truck startup TuSimple transferred critical autonomous driving tech and data to Chinese partners despite a 2022 agreement with CFIUS (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)

Documents: self-driving truck startup TuSimple transfer...

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Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: Documents: self-driving truck startu...

Xiaomi reports Q1 revenue up ~50% YoY to ~$15.5B, above ~$15.17B est., as it invests heavily in autonomous EVs and growing its smartphone business (Bloomberg)

Xiaomi reports Q1 revenue up ~50% YoY to ~$15.5B, above...

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Bloomberg: Xiaomi reports Q1 revenue up ~50% YoY to ~$15.5B, above ~$15.17B es...

SpAItial, which is building text-to-3D environment generation tools, raised a $13M seed led by Earlybird and plans to license its foundation model to developers (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)

SpAItial, which is building text-to-3D environment gene...

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Anna Heim / TechCrunch: SpAItial, which is building text-to-3D environment gen...

Temu-owner PDD reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$13.3B, below ~$14.4B est., and says it is fulfilling US orders exclusively via local warehouses and merchants (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)

Temu-owner PDD reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$13.3B...

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Luz Ding / Bloomberg: Temu-owner PDD reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$13.3B,...

JioHotstar has grown its subscriber base from 50M in March to over 280M in May, driven by IPL cricket streams, nearing Netflix's global subscriber count of 300M (Financial Times)

JioHotstar has grown its subscriber base from 50M in Ma...

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Financial Times: JioHotstar has grown its subscriber base from 50M in March to...

A look at the UAE's Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI, which aims to supply talent to Emirati companies, incubate startups, and serve as the UAE's AI R&D arm (Bloomberg)

A look at the UAE's Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI,...

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Bloomberg: A look at the UAE's Mohamed bin Zayed University of AI, which aims ...

Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group aims to raise $2B in fresh equity and another $1B via a convertible bond to buy cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin (Financial Times)

Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group aims to raise...

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Financial Times: Sources: Trump Media and Technology Group aims to raise $2B i...

CB Insights: VC investment in voice AI startups rose from $315M in 2022 to $2.1B in 2024, driven by growing business adoption of voice AI agents in call centers (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)

CB Insights: VC investment in voice AI startups rose fr...

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Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: CB Insights: VC investment in voice AI startu...

A database tracking instances where lawyers got caught presenting AI hallucinations shows that, of 116 cases dating back to June 2023, 20 occurred this month (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

A database tracking instances where lawyers got caught ...

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Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: A database tracking instances where l...

The EU says Shein's practices breach rules against false discounts, deceptive product labels, and more, and warn that it could face fines if it doesn't comply (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)

The EU says Shein's practices breach rules against fals...

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Edith Hancock / Wall Street Journal: The EU says Shein's practices breach rule...

Meta's AI team has faced a talent drain, with just three of the 14 authors credited on the landmark 2023 Llama paper still at Meta; several joined Mistral (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)

Meta's AI team has faced a talent drain, with just thre...

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Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: Meta's AI team has faced a talent drain, with...

Scam victims in Singapore lost a total of ~$858M last year, up 70% YoY; most are contacted via Meta-owned apps, and deepfakes in scams are increasingly common (Owen Walker/Financial Times)

Scam victims in Singapore lost a total of ~$858M last y...

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Owen Walker / Financial Times: Scam victims in Singapore lost a total of ~$858...

Sources, including 30+ current and former Meta employees and 10+ US officials, detail Mark Zuckerberg's embrace of Trump, which has yet to pay major dividends (Bloomberg)

Sources, including 30+ current and former Meta employee...

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Bloomberg: Sources, including 30+ current and former Meta employees and 10+ US...

People are using ChatGPT for unsparing assessments of their looks, with many also asking the chatbot to create plans to "glow up" their appearance (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)

People are using ChatGPT for unsparing assessments of t...

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Tatum Hunter / Washington Post: People are using ChatGPT for unsparing assessm...

The top contributor to X's Community Notes is Web3 Antivirus, a startup that uses an automated process to flag crypto scam posts and has posted 52,000 times (Alexios Mantzarlis/Indicator)

The top contributor to X's Community Notes is Web3 Anti...

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Alexios Mantzarlis / Indicator: The top contributor to X's Community Notes is ...

Sources: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son pitched a joint US-Japan sovereign fund to top DC and Tokyo officials to back large tech and infrastructure projects in the US (Financial Times)

Sources: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son pitched a joint US-Ja...

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Financial Times: Sources: SoftBank's Masayoshi Son pitched a joint US-Japan so...

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