🇷🇺🇨🇬 Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with Republic of the Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso

The two leaders are expected to discuss a wide range of issues related to the further development of bilateral relations in various fields, including energy, transport, trade and investment, as well as exchange views on current developments on the regional and international agendas.

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🏛 Meta Accused of Failing to Keep Children Off Instagram and Facebook in Europe

Meta has failed to implement needed safeguards to keep children under the age of 13 off Instagram and Facebook in violation of a European Union online safety law. Meta Platforms must do more to block children under 13 from accessing the social networks, EU regulators said.

Meta does not have an adequate system to identify and remove the accounts of the children who flout the social media giant’s age limits, the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, said in a preliminary ruling. Without changes, Meta could face fines and other penalties.

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🇨🇦 Canada moves to ban crypto ATMs, labeling them as 'primary method' for fraud

In the country's spring economic update, the government said that it is proposing to ban crypto ATMs, describing them as a "primary method for scammers to defraud victims and for criminals to place their cash proceeds of crime." The government didn't elaborate further on the proposal or a timeline in the document.

Canada is home to roughly 4,000 crypto ATMs — one of the highest concentrations in the world — yet the sector operates without industry-specific regulations. Despite the proposed ban, Canadians can still buy crypto assets from legitimate brick-and-mortar money services businesses.

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🤑 Stellar Development Foundation’s CMO on Why Stablecoins Are the Gateway to Tokenizing Everything

❔Why it matters: Crypto still suffers from a branding gap despite growing institutional adoption, according to Stellar CMO Jason Karsh.

⚫️Karsh said the industry leans too heavily on “esoteric words and verbiage” that alienate everyday users.
⚫️He argued crypto “peaked in public” too early due to speculative mania, distorting its real potential.
⚫️The bigger opportunity: rebuilding global financial rails to move and store value more efficiently.

⭐️ The big picture: Stellar is positioning itself at the center of tokenization and cross-border payments as institutions enter crypto.

🟠The network has focused on payments and real-world financial use cases since launching in 2014.
🟠That long-term approach is now paying off as regulators warm to stablecoins and tokenized assets.
🟠Karsh said the goal is to eventually move “trillions” of dollars on-chain, beyond early pilot programs.

⚡️ What’s next: Karsh expects growth to come from replacing legacy financial systems with blockchain rails. He predicts both humans and AI agents will drive transaction growth. Near-term success depends on onboarding “100 million humans” first.

📱 Watch the full video on YouTube

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🇨🇳 China’s LineShine Supercomputer To Hit 2 ExaFlops With 47,000 CPUs and Zero Reliance on Foreign Chips

China has unveiled its new supercomputer, called LineShine, the fastest domestic supercomputer project. It'll be built in two phases and will deliver over 2 ExaFlops of compute. Currently, the world's fastest supercomputer is the AMD-based El Capitan, which has a peak compute of 2.8 Exaflops.

The entire system will house a total of 92 compute cabinets with a total of 47,000 CPUs, 36 network cabinets with large-scale expansion to hundreds of thousands of nodes, a million-port interconnect, and will all be assembled as China's largest supercomputing storage base. All of the tech inside the supercomputer will be domestically produced with zero reliance on international vendors.

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🎉 Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate and… the launch of a top-requested feature!

Google Translate has added a new feature that lets users practice their pronunciation and enunciation of words and phrases in different languages. The feature is rolling out in the U.S. and India, and currently supports English, Spanish, and Hindi.

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🤑 ChainPatrol: Proud to protect Stellar 🛡

Delivering 24/7 threat detection and proactive defense against scams, phishing, and impersonation attacks, protecting the Stellar Development Foundation and its global ecosystem 🔐

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🇺🇸 IBM to Add 750 Jobs in AI, Quantum Computing at Chicago Tech Hub

International Business Machines Corp. is deepening its bet on the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park in Chicago, with plans to add 750 jobs over the next five years.

“IBM’s investment in Illinois is a powerful vote of confidence in our state’s growing technology and quantum ecosystem and the world-class workforce that powers it,” — said Governor JB Pritzker.

The positions will be focused AI, quantum computing, cybersecurity and data science, according to the statement from the company and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker. IBM, which will get $19 million from a state tax-credit program, said it would also establish the FutureNow Chicago center at the tech hub.

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🤝 Greece agreed with ‌Qatar to bolster cooperation in areas including trade, energy

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and ⁠Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin ​Hamad Al Thani discussed bilateral ​ties and investment opportunities in Greek infrastructure, energy and data centres. Greece ⁠has been seeking to attract investment from Qatar, a leading global ⁠gas ​supplier, since the two ​countries agreed in 2024 to strengthen ties.

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🔬 Apple Plans a Siri Camera Mode and Upgraded Visual AI in iOS 27

Apple is preparing to integrate AI more deeply into the iPhone camera with iOS 27. As part of the change, the company will move its Visual Intelligence feature — currently tied to the Camera Control button — into the camera app itself. That will make it more prominent within the iPhone interface.

Apple is also adding new capabilities. The camera will be able “to scan nutrition labels on food packaging to log dietary data” and “capture contact information to save directly to the address book”.

Apple is set to unveil iOS 27 and its broader AI strategy at WWDC26 in June, with a public release expected this fall.

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🚗 Hyundai unveils Tesla-inspired infotainment system with 17-inch screen, AI assistant

Hyundai Motor Co. unveiled a next-generation infotainment system as South Korea’s top automaker accelerates its shift toward software-defined vehicles. The new Pleos Connect system, which draws on Tesla Inc.’s minimalist aesthetic, pairs a wide central screen touch display designed to stay within the driver’s line of sight.

Powering the new system is the Gleo AI, a voice assistant that is capable of understanding regular conversations instead of forcing users into giving robotic voice commands. Hyundai has retained physical controls on the steering wheel and below the screen to improve safety and usability.

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🇺🇸🇬🇱 Trump’s Greenland Envoy Landry to Make First Visit to Nuuk

US special envoy to Greenland Jeff Landry is set to embark on his first trip to the Arctic island next month. Landry appears on the guest list for the Future Greenland business conference scheduled for May 19-20 in the territory’s capital, Nuuk.

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🇺🇸🇯🇵 SoftBank Plans to Create and List AI Vehicle Roze in the US — and already eyeing a $100B IPO

Japan's SoftBank Group plans to create and list ​an AI and robotics company called ‌Roze in the U.S. to make data center construction more “efficient”. It would do that by — among other things — deploying autonomous robots to help build server farms.

Founder and CEO Masayoshi Son ​wants to list the business as ​he seeks to offset commitments including pledges to ‌ChatGPT ⁠maker OpenAI. The Japanese investment firm aims to create and float such a vehicle as soon as this year, though the timing on that could slip to 2027.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇦 Trump Signs Permit for Pipeline from Canada Echoing Keystone XL

US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a presidential permit authorizing Bridger Pipeline’s project meant to carry Canadian crude to Wyoming — the latest in years of back-and-forth over oil pipelines linking the countries.

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