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Microsoft Teams is down worldwide. Microsoft Teams is down and experiencing an outage worldwide. The issues started at around 6:30AM this morning, and are blocking connectivity for many Microsoft Teams users across Europe and Asia. (Tom Warren via The Verge)
Iranian ships swarmed U.S. coast guard vessels in Persian gulf. A group of boats from Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps harassed two U.S. Coast Guard ships earlier this month in the Persian Gulf, Navy officials said, the first such incident in a year.(Gordon Lubold via Wall Street Journal)
Tesla reports first-quarter earnings after the bell. Tesla reported first-quarter results after the bell on Monday. The company beat expectations handily, buoyed by sales of bitcoin and regulatory credits, but the stock dipped as much as 3% after hours as investors digested the numbers. (Lora Kolodny via CNBC)
Biden's 100-day stock market performance is the hottest going back to the 1950s. President Joe Biden has witnessed an unprecedented growth on Wall Street in his first 100 days in office, better than any of his predecessors going to at least Dwight Eisenhower. (Jeff Cox via CNBC)
India's Moral Failure. This month, Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi, India's capital and home to millions, tweeted that the city was facing an “acute shortage” of medical oxygen. (Vidya Krishnan via The Atlantic)
This Researcher Says AI Is Neither Artificial nor Intelligent. Technology companies like to portray artificial intelligence as a precise and powerful tool for good. Kate Crawford says that mythology is flawed. In her book Atlas of AI, she visits a lithium mine, an Amazon warehouse, and a 19th-century phrenological skull archive to illustrate the natural resources, human sweat, and bad science underpinning some versions of the technology. (Tom Simonite via WIRED)
Google Cloud lands Univision digital transformation pact. Google Cloud said Univision has signed a multi-year contract for artificial intelligence, machine learning and cloud services. Univision will also collaborate with other Google products such as YouTube, Android and the company's advertising and search tools. (Larry Dignan via ZDNet)
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