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Samsung Electronics rejects a labor union-accepted mediation proposal, raising the prospect of a workers' strike; a general work stoppage will proceed on May 21 (Bloomberg)

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Berlin-based bunch, an AI-native platform for managers and institutional investors to manage the entire fund lifecycle, raised a €30.1M Series B led by Portage (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups)

Berlin-based bunch, an AI-native platform for mana...

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GitHub says it's investigating "unauthorized access" to its internal repositories, and there's no proof of customer data outside its repositories being impacted (@github)

GitHub says it's investigating "unauthorized acces...

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Q&A with Google SVP James Manyika on AI's ability to automate tasks versus occupations, his optimism about the labor market despite AI-driven layoffs, and more (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Q&A with Google SVP James Manyika on AI's ability ...

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Sources: a draft White House EO would create a "voluntary framework" for AI companies to give government agencies early access to models before public release (Ashley Gold/Axios)

Sources: a draft White House EO would create a "vo...

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The Take It Down Act, a law requiring social networks to remove nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours of reporting or face fines, took effect on May 19 (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

The Take It Down Act, a law requiring social netwo...

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Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens and $9 per 1M output tokens, 3x the price of Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 6x the price of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)

Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per 1M input tokens a...

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Boston-based CircuitHub, which manufactures circuit boards based on customers' requirements, raised a $28M Series A led by Plural (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

Boston-based CircuitHub, which manufactures circui...

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Google unveils Continue On, a new feature in Android 17 that will let users move tasks between Android devices, similar to Apple's Handoff feature (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Google unveils Continue On, a new feature in Andro...

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Google updates Project Genie, its interactive world builder, with Street View integration, and expands access to the tool to AI Ultra subscribers globally (Jessica Conditt/Engadget)

Google updates Project Genie, its interactive worl...

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Trump signs an EO calling on regulators and the Fed to review policies that could support fintech growth, including expanding fintech access to payment accounts (Reuters)

Trump signs an EO calling on regulators and the Fe...

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On-demand manufacturing startup SendCutSend raised $110M co-led by Sequoia, Paradigm, and Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison, valuing it at $1B (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)

On-demand manufacturing startup SendCutSend raised...

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Google announces updates to Flow and Flow Music: Gemini Omni support, mobile apps, the ability to create custom tools like a video resizer or shaders, and more (Macy Meyer/CNET)

Google announces updates to Flow and Flow Music: G...

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Discord says voice and video calls outside of stage channels are now end-to-end encrypted by default, after launching its encryption protocol in September 2024 (Jess Kinghorn/PC Gamer)

Discord says voice and video calls outside of stag...

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Google debuts Gemini for Science, a set of experimental tools that help researchers generate hypotheses, conduct testing, and understand scientific literature (Jackson Chen/Engadget)

Google debuts Gemini for Science, a set of experim...

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Sources detail growing concerns inside SoftBank over Masayoshi Son's $60B+ bet on OpenAI, which some fear concentrates too much capital into a single company (Bloomberg)

Sources detail growing concerns inside SoftBank ov...

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Sources: Zyphra, which trains and runs inference for its open-weight models on AMD hardware, is raising a $500M Series B at a valuation of at least $5B (Anna Tong/Forbes)

Sources: Zyphra, which trains and runs inference f...

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Threat actors published 600+ malicious versions to npm as part of the Shai-Hulud supply chain campaign; most of the affected packages are in the @antv ecosystem (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Threat actors published 600+ malicious versions to...

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