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Sources: the US cleared ~10 Chinese companies, including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com, to buy Nvidia H200 chips, but no deliveries have been made (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-14 China Alibaba Tencent Nvidia

Bookshelf: the CIA in the 21st century (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-14

Riyadh-based Stitch, which develops software for banks and financial services companies, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, its first investment in the Gulf (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-14

Sources: climate watchdog SBTi drops proposed rules that would limit tech companies' claims that gas-fueled data centers are covered by clean energy investments (www.ft.com)
2026-5-14 Energy Climate

OpenAI Trial Wraps Up With 'Jackass' Trophy For Challenging Musk (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-14

LY Corp launches a bid with Bain Capital to buy Kakaku.com, which operates restaurant review and booking site Tabelog, for $4B, challenging EQT's $3.75B offer (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-14

Musk v. Altman filing: Sam Altman holds $2B+ in stakes in companies that have done business with OpenAI, including a $1.7B stake in fusion startup Helion Energy (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-14 Energy Startup

ZipRecruiter: IT and CS job postings are up 14.2% YoY in April; entry-level roles fell from 8.1% a year ago to 7.4%, while senior roles grew from 38.8% to 43.1% (www.wsj.com)
2026-5-14

Microsoft updates Edge with new AI features, including letting Copilot gather information from open tabs and use browsing history for more relevant answers (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-14 Microsoft AI

OpenAI says it would support a global AI governance body that is led by the US and includes China as a member, similar to the International Atomic Energy Agency (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-14 China Energy AI

French Socialist MEP advised to ignore poor voters ahead of election – Politico (www.rt.com)
2026-5-14 France

Britain expands Hormuz mission as Starmer faces calls to quit (www.rt.com)
2026-5-14 U.K.

Australia should see Sri Lanka as more than a China–India contest (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-14 China Australia India Sri Lanka

Sources: Google plans to announce a new Gemini model at its I/O conference next week; the model will land roughly in the class of GPT-5.5, but short of Mythos (sources.news)
2026-5-14 Google Google I/O

TikTok launches TikTok GO in the US for users to book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly in the app, partnering with Booking.com, Expedia, and others (techcrunch.com)
2026-5-14

Nothing Stops This Train (dailyreckoning.com)
2026-5-14

Lessons for Trump from Nixon-Mao summit (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-14 Trump

OpenEvidence, an AI-powered medical search tool, says it's used by two-thirds of US physicians, or ~650K doctors, and an additional 1.2M doctors internationally (www.nbcnews.com)
2026-5-14 AI

Mr Trump goes to Beijing – Views from ASPI analysts (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-14 Trump China

Sources: Apollo Global, Morgan Stanley, and others are testing Grok internally as part of xAI's finance sector push, but financiers are rarely using it for work (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-5-14 Morgan Stanley

China's chance in Papua to bolster Indonesia's green credentials (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2026-5-14 China Indonesia

Anthropic unveils Claude Agent SDK credits for paid plans, which users can allocate for programmatic use of third-party agents like OpenClaw, starting June 15 (venturebeat.com)
2026-5-14

Man Who Stole Beyonce's Hard Drives Gets Five-Year Sentence (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-5-14

Source: Cerebras priced its IPO at $185 per share, above the expected range of $150 to $160, raising at least $5.55B and valuing it at $56.4B fully diluted (www.cnbc.com)
2026-5-14 IPO

Netflix says its ad tier now has 250M monthly active viewers, up from 94M in 2025, and is expanding to 15 new countries, as it tests an ad personalization tool (www.theverge.com)
2026-5-14 Netflix

West Pharmaceutical says hackers stole data, encrypted systems (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-14

For Indo-Pacific states, the Arctic's security importance is rising (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2026-5-14

SOLAI Launches $399 Solode Neo Linux AI Computer (hardware.slashdot.org)
2026-5-14 Linux AI

Iranian hackers targeted major South Korean electronics maker (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-5-14 Korea Iran

Sources: Microsoft is in discussions to acquire LLM developer Inception; SpaceX also courted Inception, which is looking for a price of over $1B (www.reuters.com)
2026-5-14 Microsoft SpaceX

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