{"id":4909,"date":"2025-05-21T16:12:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T13:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2025-06-06T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T11:59:11","slug":"top-tech-stories-of-the-week-may-18th-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/top-tech-stories-of-the-week-may-18th-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tech Stories of the Week \u2013 May 18th, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Google introduces the Deep Think reasoning model for Gemini 2.5 Pro and a better 2.5 Flash &#8211; Engadget | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ai\/google-introduces-the-deep-think-reasoning-model-for-gemini-25-pro-and-a-better-25-flash-174531020.html\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Everything Google Announced at I\/O 2025 &#8211; WIRED | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/everything-google-announced-at-io-2025\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>France Endorses the UN\u2019s Open Source Principles. Here\u2019s How It\u2019s Leading the Open Source Initiative &#8211; Tech Report | <a href=\"https:\/\/techreport.com\/news\/france-endorse-un-open-source-principles\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Claude Blackmailed an Engineer Having an Affair to Survive in Test Run &#8211; Business Insider | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/claude-blackmail-engineer-having-affair-survive-test-anthropic-opus-2025-5\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Shein\u2019s \u2018fake discounts\u2019 break the law, EU says &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/674575\/shein-fake-discounts-eu-consumer-protection-law\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SES&#8217;s Intelsat acquisition nears EU approval to counter Starlink: report &#8211; Capacity Media | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capacitymedia.com\/article\/ses-intelsat-acquisition-nears\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Reddit sues AI startup Anthropic for breach of contract, \u2018unfair competition\u2019 &#8211; CNBC | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/06\/04\/reddit-anthropic-lawsuit-ai.html\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Google&#039;s Gemini Means for Robotics\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1oSSex9b6fc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google introduces the Deep Think reasoning model for Gemini 2.5 Pro and a better 2.5 Flash &#8211; Engadget | Link Everything Google Announced at I\/O 2025 &#8211; WIRED | Link France Endorses the UN\u2019s Open Source Principles. Here\u2019s How It\u2019s Leading the Open Source Initiative &#8211; Tech Report | Link Claude Blackmailed an Engineer Having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[153],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4918,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/4918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}