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A speculative scenario titled "Europe 2031" projects economic and political instability in the EU if it fails to keep pace with the US and China in the AI race (@aishakdown / The Guardian) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

How success of AI-related companies in South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan is driving stock gains, bigger bonuses, and a retail investing frenzy in Asian markets (Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Granta says it will stop publishing short story contest winners or join publishing partnerships it doesn't control after AI use allegations against a winner (@ella_louise_c / The Guardian) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Claude Guillemot, co-founder of Ubisoft and chairman of gaming hardware company Guillemot Corporation, died at 69 after a plane crash in France (Angela Cullen / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

An interview with Smartbird CEO Nadia Carlsten about the shoe company Allbirds becoming an AI infrastructure company, plans to deploy compute clusters, and more (@timfernholz / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

A look at Russia's push to develop homegrown AI talent, as the country is hampered by scarce access to AI hardware and a brain drain of top technical talent (@nikostro / Time) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Q&A with Signal's Meredith Whittaker on why online child safety efforts risk mass surveillance, leaving the markets that demand weakening of encryption, more (@mishalhusain / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources: the UK government is expected to consult as early as this month on rules to make public service news more prominent on social media and video platforms (Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources: PC makers, including HP, are in talks with their supply-chain partners about using CXMT's memory chips in products bound for Asia as DRAM prices soar (Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Paris-based Kyber, which develops a low-latency remote device control SDK and is founded by VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf, raised $5M led by Lightspeed (@abracarioca / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources: Bain Capital stands to make $15B+ in profits on its 2018 Kioxia buyout, a ~20x return, as Kioxia's stock has surged 5,000%+ since its December 2024 IPO (Financial Times) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

An interview with Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki on his early decision not to prioritize ad revenue, whether every mega platform becomes an everything app, and more (@tylercowen / Conversations with Tyler) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Nothing won't launch a new phone this year in its budget-focused CMF Phone series due to RAM prices (@nexusben / 9to5Google) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

DOJ says two brothers pleaded guilty to robbing a Minnesota family of $8M+ in cryptocurrency after holding them at gunpoint for over eight hours in 2025 (@jesuisnaga / The Block) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Sources: Abu Dhabi's MGX is exploring buying Singapore-based data center operator DayOne; last month, sources said DayOne planned a US IPO at a $20B valuation (Reuters) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Docs: OpenAI burned through $3.7B in Q1, on revenue of $5.7B, and ended the quarter with $73B+ in cash and marketable securities vs. $40B at the end of December (@erinkwoo / The Information) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

The departure of John Jumper, a key member of Google's AI coding development team, further strains Google's efforts to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI (Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

South Korean media: Hyundai plans to buy SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325M to make the US robotics company a wholly owned subsidiary (Reuters) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Trump says he saw Anthropic last week as a national security threat, but signals relations have since improved because Dario Amodei was "nice" and "smart" at G7 (@m_ccuri / Axios) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

Oura Ring 5 review: impressive thinness, live activity tracking, and conversational AI, but not very durable, LEDs are distracting, and the app is confusing (@heysamantha / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)