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Tech Across the Globe

Zuckerberg lobbies: US President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on countries that impose digital taxes just days after Meta Platforms Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about those levies in a White House meeting.

Dell disappoints: The hardware maker shipped $8.2 billion worth of powerful servers for artificial intelligence work in the past quarter, but orders fell from the previous period and margins narrowed, worrying investors concerned about the profitability of the business.

SK Telecom fined: South Korea’s largest mobile operator was fined $97 million and hit with a stern warning from the nation’s privacy regulator after an April cyberattack compromised data of about half the population. 

Revalued

Web design startup Framer raised $100 million in a round that valued the Dutch company at $2 billion. The firm, founded in 2014, offers tools for creating websites, tracking marketing activity and publishing. Existing investors Meritech Capital Partners and Atomico led the round. 

Must Read

Quarterly results from chipmaker Nvidia, the world’s most-valuable company, were viewed by some as positive and others as negative depending on what metrics they emphasized, Ian King reports in today’s Tech In Depth. Investors had trouble figuring out the nuance in the report, which was affected as much by the actions of the US and Chinese governments as it was by Nvidia’s sales and execution, he writes.

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This Week in Q&AI

AI chatbots can be influenced to take actions in much the same way people are coaxed to do things — and flattery is one of the tricks, Dina Bass reports in this week’s Q&AI. Researchers used persuasive tactics on chatbots detailed for use with people in a best-selling book The Psychology of Persuasion, she writes.

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