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How Kazakhstan’s super apps beat the law – The Diplomat

By Frank M. EverettMay 22, 2026

Commercial banks in Kazakhstan are increasingly offering attractive super-apps with convenient functions that go beyond traditional financial services for the…

Starbucks Korea’s Tank Day promotion on massacre anniversary causes political storm – The Diplomat

Between alliance commitment and strategic coverage – The Diplomat

Japan, Philippines to begin negotiations on intelligence-sharing deal – The Diplomat

Attacks on Sufis and their shrines increase in Bangladesh – The Diplomat

Vietnamese auction fetched Tycoon’s luxury car and Hermès handbags for over $1 million – The Diplomat

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Half of Republican senators were ready to vote with Democrats to kill Trump’s slush fund

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The increase in AI-generated “pro se” cases, or suits brought by self-represented litigants, democratizes the legal system but consumes more judicial resources (New York Times)

Massachusetts officially recognizes the App Drivers Union, which says it represents about 70,000 workers and is the first state-certified rideshare union in the United States (Bryan Hecht/The Boston Globe)

Iranian state media reports that President Massoud Pezeshkian has ordered the reopening of international internet access after a nearly 90-day power outage (Reuters)

A look at the UK’s AI Safety Institute, whose researchers study safety flaws in AI models, as its work becomes a model for other governments’ AI policies (New York Times)

SoftBank shares jumped 4.6% to a record high on Monday, boosted by hopes of big returns from the company’s stakes in OpenAI and SB Energy Corp if they go public (Bloomberg)

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How Kazakhstan’s super apps beat the law – The Diplomat

Developers say Chinese AI labs are leading their U.S. rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast libraries of short-form videos from their own apps (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

How AI is transforming golf: Optimizing course operations, virtual assistants managing tee time reservations, and AI instructor apps improving player performance (Bradley S. Klein/Wall Street Journal)

How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile and Luel AI pay users for data that AI companies can use to train models, from phone calls to location videos (Shubham Agarwal/The Guardian)

Iranians turn to Starlink, decentralized messaging apps and VPNs to get around an internet outage; NetBlocks says connectivity is within 1% of ordinary levels (Bloomberg)

Chinese matchmaking apps like Wanmei Qinjia, which has 50 million users and lets parents find spouses for their children, are booming as marriage rates continue to fall (Kohei Fujimura/Nikkei Asia)

Google rejected 1.75 million policy-violating Android apps and blocked more than 80,000 developer accounts on Google Play in 2025, compared to 2.36 million apps and 158,000 accounts in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Apple adds support for third-party voice chat apps in CarPlay starting with iOS 26.4, giving CarPlay users access to apps like AI chatbots (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

EU says TikTok’s ‘addictive design’ illegal under DSA, citing app’s infinite scrolling and recommendation algorithm, in preliminary findings (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

TikTok users in the US have been presented with a new privacy policy; the changes were part of the app’s ownership transition and now enable precise location tracking (Reece Rogers/Wired)