🇨🇦 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.

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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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🤑 Ripple Reinforces Commitment to the Middle East with Expanded Presence in the UAE

Ripple today announced an expansion of its presence in the UAE with the opening of its new Middle East and Africa (MEA) regional headquarters in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), creating capacity to grow its local team as demand for regulated blockchain-powered payment and custody solutions continues to accelerate across the region.

The new office, which is located within DIFC, reflects the scale of that growth and provides the space to double the size of Ripple's regional team as it deepens support for clients and partners across the Middle East and Africa, including established clients such as Zand Bank, Ctrl Alt, Garanti BBVA, Absa Bank, and Chipper Cash.

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🤖 NSA Testing Anthropic’s Mythos to Find Flaws in Microsoft Tech

The National Security Agency has been testing the capabilities of Anthropic PBC’s new AI model to find cybersecurity vulnerabilities in popular software, including Microsoft Corp. products. NSA officials studying the Mythos model have been impressed by its speed and efficiency in searching for potential security flaws.

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🇺🇸🇳🇴 Humanoid Maker 1X Opens New US Factory, Plans to Build 10,000 Home Robots in First Year

1X Technologies AS, the Norway-founded robotics startup backed by OpenAI, has opened a new 58,000-square-foot factory in Hayward, California, where it aims to be one of the first players to build humanoids for consumers at scale.

The facility, completed over the course of a few months, will serve as a manufacturing hub with the capacity to build 10,000 robots in its first year, according to 1X executives. The company said it plans to make 100,000 robots by the end of 2027, as it works to complete construction on a larger manufacturing facility in San Carlos, California. Shipments are expected to begin by the end of this year.

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