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FTC should stop OpenAI from launching new GPT models, says AI policy group

Hong Kong’s attempt to attract cryptocurrency companies is getting help from an intensifying crackdown by U.S. regulators

Your houseplants deserve to thrive. These are our favorite tech gadgets for plant parents.

Microsoft’s Surface Hub 2S is finally getting an upgrade

If residents vote against e-scooters, Paris would become the biggest city to ban rental scooters outright

Super73 launches Adventure Series and first e-bike for danger babies

Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting ads

Soaring rents and school fees, costly groceries, and Uber fares comparable to New York make Dubai less appealing for some expats

Wall Street is taking a closer, critical look at Etsy, the longtime darling.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said he had a “fun meeting with the creators behind award-winning iPhone and iPad games like Genshin Impact” after visiting HoYoverse in Shanghai on Thursday.

How researchers, including at Meta's AI lab, use AI to study EEG readings, decoding how neurons in the brain communicate and exploring the nature of cognition (@mims / Wall Street Journal)

Apple Music Classical gives subscribers more to listen to, but competing apps offer higher-quality recordings and more information about the songs, artists, and performers.

Tourism recovery & easing of China's COVID restrictions a plus. Silicon Valley Bank fallout a new concern for the region.

Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun is said to have held talks about selling a stake in digital-asset exchange Huobi Global.

The era of the combustion engine is giving way to new energy vehicles, and Toyota finds itself playing catch-up with the likes of Tesla, Volkswagen and Ford. How will Toyota, led by its new chief, navigate this treacherous path?

Rishi Sunak's year-old push to make the UK a crypto hub is being undermined by banks

Even if you stare at a computer all day, you don't have to accept eye strain. Here's what to do about it.

A senior Chinese central bank official is calling for stronger regulation of digital finance, citing recent banking failures linked to US lenders involved in crypto transactions

Meta isn’t finished with its plans to slash its expenditures.

Arc’s mobile browser is here — and it’s not really a web browser at all

The quickly negotiated agreement could allow Japanese vehicles to qualify for the $7,500 EV tax credit.

Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are increasingly providing a backbone for the climate-inspired electrification of everything. But reports of fires believed to be caused by them have increased and so have the number of bills calling on more regulation.

Eye problems increased during the pandemic, as people stared at smartphones and computers. While demand for contact lenses is rising, airfreight costs out of Ireland, where J&J makes them, have risen.

“The rapid growth of Kenya’s fintech sector has been accompanied by a rapidly evolving threat environment targeting both customers and fintech operators”

Intelligence officials and law enforcement are facing mounting pressure to be more transparent about how data collected by the 702 program is used in ongoing investigations.

A shortage of truck drivers and skilled machine operators is inspiring the development of autonomous vehicles for use in construction, farming, heavy industry and even freight rail.

It takes a variety of overlapping sensors working together for self-driving cars to accurately perceive the world around them.

Andreessen Horowitz is now openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia, despite U.S. strains

The Motorola Moto G Play is a decent phone for under $200, but there are better options if you're willing to spend just a bit more.

Andreessen Horowitz is now openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia, despite U.S. strains

Andreessen Horowitz is now openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia, despite U.S. strains

Andreessen Horowitz is now openly courting capital from Saudi Arabia, despite U.S. strains

Galaxy Digital founder Michael Novogratz says that thanks to an "energized" investor base, crypto prices are rising despite government crackdown on the industry

Companies are sticking with their choices; 97% believe using the software has increased workers’ productivity.

The Pinterest and Instagram-like app Lemon8 may serve as something of a back-up plan for ByteDance if the US issues an outright TikTok ban.

The first commercially available human-shaped robots designed for warehouse work were unveiled by a company called Agility Robotics, for delivery in 2025.

Bitcoin’s surprisingly fast exit from crypto winter put it atop the financial leader-board as the best-performing asset this quarter, and by a wide margin

The Sonos Era 100 offers excellent sonics, refined design and one of the best streaming platforms for any speaker.

Ocado wins AutoStore's lawsuit after the UK High Court invalidated two of AutoStore's warehouse automation patents for being publicly disclosed before filing (@briwessling / The Robot Report)

Qihoo 360 founder says call by tech experts for pause in AI development amid ChatGPT concerns will not hamper China

Crypto businesses are still welcome in Bermuda despite recent crises in the industry, according to the leader of the island nation: “The future of finance is digital”

Returns on online purchases skyrocketed during the pandemic, and now Amazon is trying to scale them back—the e-commerce giant has now been adding a "frequently returned" tag on some products.

The lunar rover, called Iris, will be the first privately-made American robot to explore the surface of the moon, according to the project’s website.

Crypto lender Babel's plea for an extension to its creditor protection was put on hold after a Singapore court withheld a decision

A grocery store chain dedicated to getting affordable food to underprivileged communities is expanding to a fourth location. Daily Table's new outpost in Mattapan Square, Boston is now open.

Older adults are interested in staying fit and protecting themselves online. @juliejargon shares the top five tech topics that are most important to people ages 50 and up.

It’s April Fools’ Day, but this Asus ROG Ally handheld gaming PC might not be a joke

Unlike Apple and Google, which prompt users to opt in or out of highly personalized ads with a click, Meta will review objection forms to evaluate reasons provided by individual users to end such data collection before it will approve any opt-outs.

Krablr develops generative AI language to boost crab yields

Lyft’s new CEO says his priorities are boosting employee morale and overhauling the customer and driver experience

This message was delivered in an open letter with signatories counting hundreds of the biggest names in tech, including Elon Musk.

SpaceX moves Starship to launch site, and liftoff could be just days away

Elon Musk requested a meeting with FTC Chair Lina Khan late last year, but he was rebuffed and told to stop dragging his heels on providing documents and depositions needed for the Commission's investigation into Twitter's privacy and data practices.

An investigation details how a Georgia man was wrongfully arrested based on a bad facial recognition match and other tech intended to make policing easier (New York Times)

Virgin Orbit runs low on cash, ByteDance pushes a TikTok replacement, and Canoo settles with the SEC

How much money do we think Substack lost last year?

Virgin Orbit runs low on cash, ByteDance pushes a TikTok replacement, and Canoo settles with the SEC

Apple's latest flagship smartwatch is seeing some steep discounts for 2023.

The 27-inch Lenovo IdeaCentre AIO 5i is a standout among midrange all-in-one desktops for its peppy performance and its roomy high-resolution display.

Court rules Elon Musk broke federal labor law with 2018 tweet

Bill Gates is a self-described “car guy,” but he says he’s ready to hand the control over to machines—and predicts that the day is coming “sooner rather than later.”

Justin Sun, the 32-year-old crypto celebrity and founder of the Tron blockchain, has experienced multiple blows in less than two weeks.

Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried may challenge the validity of new charges filed in New York against the FTX co-founder since he was extradited to the US from the Bahamas

NASA and Boeing announced this week that the first crewed flight of the Starliner will now take place no earlier than July 21, providing more time to assess how its parachutes perform in different environments.

A prominent Google AI researcher quit in January after raising red flags that Google was training its Bard chatbot with data from OpenAI's ChatGPT.

Despite the market meltdown and law-enforcement crackdown on crypto in the US, it's a very different story in France, writes @LionelRALaurent via @opinion

Ledger, a startup making hardware “wallets” for crypto investors, has raised the bulk of its €100 million funding round as it benefits from turmoil elsewhere in the industry

Sony's technology not only records the movements of participants and utensils during a Japanese tea ceremony, it uses AI to reproduce tea bowls on a monitor in 3D.

Sources: Lyft founders' departures followed months of staff concerns as the company's market value fell 85% to under $3.5B in two years, while Uber fared better (Wall Street Journal)

Thousands of employees of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and Credit Suisse have discovered the hard way that the stock they receive from their employer can become worthless overnight.

Humans vs. machines: the fight to copyright AI art

Blue checks on Twitter are set to disappear from accounts that won’t pay for the badges.

Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter, on this week’s @DecoderPod

Krablr develops generative AI language to increase crab yields

NLRB says Activision Blizzard broke US labor law by illegally surveilling staff during a walkout and threatening to close some Slack channels amid a union drive (@danwiessner / Reuters)

Kraken signed a multi-year global pact with F1 team Williams Racing, marking the crypto exchange’s first major sponsorship deal. Details on the deal here

The rebuke called out the open letter co-signed by Elon Musk for ignoring 'actual harms' caused by AI today such as worker exploitation, data theft, and synthetic media that supports current power structures.

As Google and Microsoft retrofit their search engines with AI assistants, the CEO of thinks he can do better.

Apple wins appeal against UK antitrust probe into mobile browser dominance