New lawsuit filings: Genesis creditors accuse Barry Silbert of fraud and propelling the 2022 crypto market collapse by misrepresenting his companies' finances (Kevin T. Dugan/Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/crypto-billionaire-accused-of-defrauding-creditors-propelling-industrys-2022-collapse-2cce4f22?st=hJySAg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p46#a250519p46

The California Public Utilities Commission approves Waymo's proposal to expand its services to more parts of the Bay Area, including "nearly all of San Jose" (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/19/alphabet-waymo-approval-to-expand-driverless-ride-hailing-to-san-jose.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p45#a250519p45

Huawei launches its first laptops running on HarmonyOS, including the 18-inch foldable MateBook Fold, and is working to make the OS compatible with 2,000+ apps (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-19/huawei-unveils-in-house-operating-system-to-replace-windows
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p44#a250519p44

The US House Budget Committee advances a budget bill that would ban US states from enforcing any law regulating AI for 10 years; the bill now goes to the House (Clare Duffy/CNN)

http://www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/tech/house-spending-bill-ai-provision-organizations-raise-alarm
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p43#a250519p43

SAG-AFTRA files an NLRB unfair labor practice charge against Epic's Llama Productions for using AI to recreate James Earl Jones' Darth Vader voice in Fortnite (Todd Spangler/Variety)

https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/sag-aftra-fortnite-ai-darth-vader-unfair-labor-practices-james-earl-jones-1236403553/
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p42#a250519p42

Source: the US DOJ has opened a probe into a recent data breach at Coinbase; Coinbase says it's working with the DOJ and other law enforcement agencies (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-19/coinbase-customer-data-theft-investigated-by-justice-department
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p41#a250519p41

Investigation: New Orleans police secretly relied on facial recognition tech to scan city streets for two years, in apparent defiance of a 2022 city ordinance (Washington Post)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/19/live-facial-recognition-police-new-orleans/
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p40#a250519p40

Trump signs the Take It Down Act, criminalizing the distribution of nonconsensual intimate content and requiring platforms to promptly remove it when notified (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/news/661230/trump-signs-take-it-down-act-ai-deepfakes
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p39#a250519p39

Graphiant, a San Jose-based NaaS startup, raised a $19M Series B extension led by Aramco's Wa'ed and Saudi Telecom's Tali, bringing the round total to $102M (Fahad Abuljadayel/Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-19/aramco-saudi-telecom-join-sequoia-in-backing-us-based-graphiant
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p38#a250519p38

Sources: Circle recently engaged in informal talks to sell itself to Coinbase or Ripple, seeking at least $5B, the valuation it is targeting in a potential IPO (Luisa Beltran/Fortune)

https://fortune.com/2025/05/19/circle-internet-coinbase-ripple-goldman-sachs-ipos-cryptocurrency-mergers-sp-500/
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p37#a250519p37

Qualcomm plans to launch a CPU for data centers designed to work with Nvidia's GPUs, marking its re-entry into the data center market dominated by Intel and AMD (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/19/qualcomm-to-launch-data-center-processors-that-link-to-nvidia-chips.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p36#a250519p36

Microsoft announces Microsoft Discovery, an agentic platform to accelerate scientific discovery and enterprise R&D efforts (Pradeep Viswanathan/Neowin)

https://www.neowin.net/news/the-new-microsoft-discovery-agentic-platform-targets-scientists-and-researchers/
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p35#a250519p35

Researchers: GPT-4 was 64.4% more persuasive than humans in one-on-one debates when given basic personal information about the person it was trying to persuade (Isaac Schultz/Gizmodo)

https://gizmodo.com/ai-gets-a-lot-better-at-debating-when-it-knows-who-you-are-study-finds-2000603977
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p34#a250519p34

Verizon halts its launch of the Moto Razr 2025 foldable with some in-progress shipments reversed, amid rumors of fire hazards and quarantines of in-store stock (Chris Thomas/Android Police)

https://www.androidpolice.com/moto-razr-2025-verizon-shipments-on-hold-rumors/?taid=682b71ca2e3a9d00019ccde6
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p33#a250519p33

Q&A with Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI agents and MCP, web search, NLWeb, the relationship with OpenAI, how new hardware and optimizations benefit AI, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/669409/microsoft-cto-kevin-scott-interview-ai-natural-language-search-openai
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p32#a250519p32

Microsoft adds Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini to its Azure AI Foundry service (Tom Warren/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/news/668762/microsoft-grok-3-xai-models
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p30#a250519p30

Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan will now let clients buy bitcoin, adding "We're not going to custody it. We're going to put it in statements for clients." (CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/19/jpmorgan-ceo-jamie-dimon-says-the-bank-will-let-clients-buy-bitcoin.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p31#a250519p31

Protesters disrupt Build keynote; one then emailed thousands of Microsoft coworkers calling the company's report on its tech's impact on Gaza civilians a "lie" (Tom Warren/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/news/669362/microsoft-employee-protest-build-conference-satya-nadella
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p29#a250519p29

For its Copilot Studio agents, Microsoft announces a "computer use" feature available in its Frontier program for select US users, WhatsApp integration, more (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

https://venturebeat.com/ai/microsoft-just-taught-its-ai-agents-to-talk-to-each-other-and-it-could-transform-how-we-work/
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p28#a250519p28

Microsoft introduces Foundry Local, a service coming to Windows AI Foundry as well as macOS, to run AI models and tools on-device, using ONXX Runtime (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/19/microsoft-gives-its-ai-dev-tools-for-windows-a-fresh-coat-of-paint/
http://www.techmeme.com/250519/p27#a250519p27