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From Techmeme: How AI tools such as Naver's Talking Buddy and SuperBrain are helping South Korea's elderly ease loneliness, detect emergencies, and slow cognitive decline (Choe Sang-Hun/New York Times)

From Techmeme: Amazon debuts Supply Chain Services, allowing other companies to use its logistics network to move, store, and deliver raw materials, final products, and more (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)

From Techmeme: Instructure reported a data breach on April 30; ShinyHunters added Instructure to its victims list and claims it has 3.65TB of data from ~9K institutions (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek)

From Techmeme: Jensen Huang said Nvidia's market share of AI accelerators in China has "now dropped to zero" and that US export policy "has already largely backfired" (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

From Techmeme: Source: Cerebras is expected to price its shares at between $115 and $125 and go public with the "CBRS" ticker; Cerebras is targeting a $40B valuation (Reuters)

From Techmeme: Legislators and experts criticize the EU's €20B sovereign compute data center plan, questioning whether there is demand and the plan's reliance on Nvidia GPUs (Pieter Haeck/Politico)

From Techmeme: An analysis of 1.6M Polymarket accounts since November 2022: 0.1% of users take 67% of profits, with the highest-frequency traders seeing the most success (Wall Street Journal)

From Techmeme: A profile of William Savitt, Sam Altman's lead lawyer against Elon Musk, who represented Twitter against Musk in 2022 and helped OpenAI's for-profit transition (Jacob Shamsian/Business Insider)

From Techmeme: Chinese state media: AI-generated Chinese microdramas to be worth $3B+ in 2026, out of a $14B+ total microdrama market, boosted by tools like Seedance 2.0 (New York Times)

From Techmeme: Sources: some lenders are exploring private deals to sell their data center debt, and some banks are seeking to offload their Oracle-linked loans at a discount (Financial Times)

From Techmeme: Sources: SoftBank plans to make lithium- and cobalt-free data center batteries in Japan as soon as FY2027, as Japan tries to cut its reliance on Chinese metals (Natsuki Yamamoto/Nikkei Asia)

From Techmeme: China's Linkerbot, which holds 80%+ of global dexterous robotic hands market, raised a Series B+ at a $3B valuation and seeks a $6B valuation in its next round (Laurie Chen/Reuters)

From Techmeme: Sources: Anthropic is finalizing a deal for a $1.5B JV with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, Hellman & Friedman, and others to sell AI tools to PE-backed companies (Wall Street Journal)

From Techmeme: Apple's handling of vibe coding apps draws complaints from startups like Replit and Anything that iOS App Store rules for their apps are applied erratically (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

From Techmeme: How music streaming services are adapting to the rise of AI-generated music by labeling, deranking, and demonetizing tracks, using AI detection tools, and more (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

From Techmeme: GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen says he is making an unsolicited ~$56B offer to buy eBay and will take the offer to shareholders if the company is not receptive (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)

From Techmeme: A profile of music AI startup Suno, valued at ~$2.5B with 2M+ paying users and $300M annualized revenue as of February, as it battles record labels and artists (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

From memeorandum: Inside Spirit Airlines' failed 'Hail Mary' to the Trump administration (Betsy Klein/CNN)

From memeorandum: Trump administration is increasingly ignoring US courts, new analysis shows (Associated Press)