Topic: #technology
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Nasdaq cuts Nasdaq-100 entry to 15 trading days, chasing mega-cap IPOs
Nasdaq's new fast-track rules compress Nasdaq-100 inclusion from three months to 15 trading days starting May 1, 2026, aiming to lure blockbuster listings like SpaceX and OpenAI. The move risks early volatility and reweighting pressure on existing index constituents.
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Musicians sue Google over Lyria AI trained on 44M YouTube clips
Independent musicians filed a lawsuit against Google alleging the company scraped 44 million audio clips from YouTube to train its Lyria 3 music-generation model without compensation or consent from creators.
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Stellar unveils quantum-safety roadmap to protect blockchain from computing threats
The Stellar Development Foundation released a quantum-safety roadmap spanning 2026 to 2027, leveraging its structural advantage over Bitcoin and Ethereum to migrate users to post-quantum cryptography without changing addresses or account identity.
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Apple plans Siri reboot at WWDC 2026 with conversational AI and multi-app control
Apple is preparing the most significant Siri overhaul in its history, debuting at WWDC 2026 on June 8. The redesigned assistant will support conversational history, file uploads, screen awareness, and multi-app functionality to strengthen ecosystem lock-in and services revenue.
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Nvidia RTX Spark: First consumer PC chip ships this fall
Nvidia unveiled the RTX Spark, its first consumer PC chip for laptops and mini-PCs shipping this fall, putting the company in direct competition with Intel, AMD, Apple, and Qualcomm. The company claims it's the most efficient PC chip ever built but hasn't released benchmarks to support the claim.
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Huawei unveils chip tech to close TSMC gap, bypass US export controls
Huawei announced proprietary chip technologies aimed at achieving 1.4-nanometer transistor density by 2031, potentially shrinking a five-year technology gap with TSMC to three years and challenging the effectiveness of US semiconductor export restrictions.