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🌩️ China’s Cloud Surge, Farewell Skype, DOJ vs. Google · Newslit Daily

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Tuesday,
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  SPEAKER_00: May 6th,
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  SPEAKER_00: and you are listening to Newslet Daily,
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  expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to
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  supercharge your mornings.
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  In today's edition,
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  how China is gaining ground in the Middle East cloud computing race.
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  SPEAKER_00: Huawei,
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  Alibaba and Tencent are making inroads in the Middle East by
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  tailoring cloud
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  SPEAKER_00: services to local needs,
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  forming telecom partnerships and embedding AI into regional infrastructure.
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  SPEAKER_00: The internet says goodbye to Skype and thanks for all the calls.
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  SPEAKER_00: Microsoft is retiring Skype after two decades,
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  shifting focus to Teams as users move to other platforms during
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  the pandemic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Skype for Business will continue.
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  SPEAKER_00: DOJ pushes for Google to sell its advertising platforms.
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  SPEAKER_00: After a court ruling on digital ad monopolies,
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  SPEAKER_00: the DOJ wants Google to divest key ad tech platforms.
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  SPEAKER_00: Google is pushing back with its own proposal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Microsoft shrinks its Surface Laptop down to 13 inches, priced at $899.
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  Microsoft's new 13-inch Surface Laptop drops facial recognition
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  and legacy ports,
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  SPEAKER_00: adds Snapdragon X Plus and AI features,
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  SPEAKER_00: launches May 20th.
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  SPEAKER_00: Why the humanoid workforce is running late.
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  SPEAKER_00: Humanoids are making progress,
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  SPEAKER_00: but challenges like limited reasoning,
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  SPEAKER_00: power constraints,
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  and industry fit are slowing their path from lab demos to
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  real-world jobs.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's it for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: See you tomorrow.