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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 (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-20

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 (simonwillison.net)
2026-5-20

Boston-based CircuitHub, which manufactures circuit boards based on customers' requirements, raised a $28M Series A led by Plural (www.axios.com)
2026-5-20

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 (9to5google.com)
2026-5-20 Android Google Apple

Google updates Project Genie, its interactive world builder, with Street View integration, and expands access to the tool to AI Ultra subscribers globally (www.engadget.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

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 (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-20 Trump Fintech

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 (www.pcgamer.com)
2026-5-20

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 (www.cnet.com)
2026-5-20 Google Mobile

On-demand manufacturing startup SendCutSend raised $110M co-led by Sequoia, Paradigm, and Stripe co-founders Patrick and John Collison, valuing it at $1B (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-20 Startup Manufacturing

Plex Triples Lifetime Subscription Cost To $750 (news.slashdot.org)
2026-5-20

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 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20

Google debuts Gemini for Science, a set of experimental tools that help researchers generate hypotheses, conduct testing, and understand scientific literature (www.engadget.com)
2026-5-20 Google

Max-severity flaw in ChromaDB for AI apps allows server hijacking (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20 AI

Sources: SpaceX expects to proceed with its acquisition of Cursor 30 days after its public trading debut, which is expected to occur on June 12 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20 SpaceX

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 (www.forbes.com)
2026-5-20 AMD

Cybercrime service disrupted for abusing Microsoft platform to sign malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20 Microsoft

Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years (search.slashdot.org)
2026-5-20 Google

Roblox authorizes its first share buyback program, aiming to repurchase up to $3B of its stock, including $1B over the next year; RBLX is down ~45% YTD (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20

Analog Devices agrees to buy Empower Semiconductor, which makes chips used to regulate voltage, for $1.5B in cash (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-20

Google adds a conversational search feature to YouTube and rolls out the new Gemini Omni model in YouTube Shorts Remix and the Create app (www.androidcentral.com)
2026-5-20 Google YouTube

NextEra and Dominion's $67 Billion Mega-Merger Is All About the Data Centers (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-20

OpenAI introduces Guaranteed Capacity, a new offering that lets customers guarantee access to OpenAI's compute through one- to three-year commitments (openai.com)
2026-5-20

Discord rolls out end-to-end encryption on voice, video calls (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20

Meta begins laying off 8,000 employees, or 10% of staff, in a push to become an AI-first company; another 7,000 workers will be reassigned to AI initiatives (www.nytimes.com)
2026-5-20 AI

Google unveils Pics, an AI image editor in Workspace that lets users edit specific elements and modify text, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra users (www.engadget.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

Sources: Google DeepMind has reached a ~$100M deal to hire 20+ researchers from Contextual AI, including CEO Douwe Kiela, and license its technology (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-20 Google AI

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation's first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state; the CFTC has sued Minnesota in response (www.npr.org)
2026-5-20 CFTC

OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic (slashdot.org)
2026-5-20

Ocean, which uses AI agents to detect email attacks, raised a $20M Series A led by Lightspeed, following an $8M seed in 2024 (www.calcalistech.com)
2026-5-20 AI

Microsoft Self-Service Password Reset abused in Azure data theft attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-20 Microsoft

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