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On a stop in London, the OpenAI CEO called for balanced regulation and warned of the risks of deepfake disinformation.

Become a jack of nearly all trades with the right multi-tool in your glove box or pocket.

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Elementl, which offers data orchestration services based on Dagster, raised a $33M Series B led by Georgian, bringing its total funding to $48.8M  —  Elementl, a startup that is building a data platform based on the popular Dagster orchestrator, today announced that it has raised a $33 million Series B round […]

Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcement on Twitter Spaces suffers crashes, feedback glitches, and audio failures  —  – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcement plans evening were derailed by massive technical glitches on Twitter that prevented him from declaring his candidacy.

The Verge: Sony announces a handheld device, known as Project Q, with an 8-inch screen for streaming games from a PS5 via Remote Play over Wi-Fi, launching later in 2023  —  Sony has officially confirmed it’s working on a PlayStation handheld to make it easier to play your PS5 games.

Existing solar cells are normally only used on flat, static surfaces to avoid them cracking, but now there is a flexible alternative with the same energy-generating efficiency

On April 24, MIT celebrated outstanding students and employees at the annual Change-Maker Awards for their diligent work to eradicate sexual misconduct and support survivors. These architects of positive change exemplify one of MIT’s core values: striving to make our community a more humane and welcoming place where all can thrive. Hosted by MIT Violence […]

Imagine you’re enjoying a picnic by a riverbank on a windy day. A gust of wind accidentally catches your paper napkin and lands on the water’s surface, quickly drifting away from you. You grab a nearby stick and carefully agitate the water to retrieve it, creating a series of small waves. These waves eventually push […]

Five criteria to determine when — and to what degree — to democratize data.

Is AI the future of the Web?

Big isn’t categorically bad, but it should invite public suspicion and scrutiny.

The i5 has at last arrived with a good range, impressive speed, and even in-car gaming to banish charging boredom. But there’s an issue if you’re in the UK.

Conversation around generative AI tends to focus on whether its development is open or closed. It’s more responsible to envision releases along a gradient.

Antibody treatments clear amyloid protein from patients’ brains, slowing the progression of their disease but potentially inducing deadly swelling.

Bloomberg: Istanbul-based AI marketing startup Insider raised $105M at a $2B valuation, up from $1.22B during its $121M Series D in March 2022, taking its funding to $274M  —  Insider, a Turkish artificial intelligence-backed marketing platform, was valued at almost $2 billion in a funding round …

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Figure, which is developing a humanoid robot that recently took its first step, raised a $70M Series A led by Parkway, following a self-financed $100M seed  —  I spent a bit of time at Figure’s Sunnyvale offices during a recent visit to the South Bay.  The firm is currently in that […]

Soo-Hyang Choi / Reuters: US filing: South Korea, Samsung, and SK Hynix ask the US to review its chip subsidy criteria, concerned over the impact on limiting chip investment in China  —  South Korea has asked Washington to review its criteria for new semiconductor subsidies, concerned over the impact of rules …

Many of the biological materials that researchers are most interested in studying, including those associated with major diseases, don’t lend themselves to the conventional methods that researchers typically use to probe a material’s structure and chemistry. One technique, called magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance, or MAS-NMR, has proven highly successful as a way of determining […]

In computer graphics and computer-aided design (CAD), 3D objects are often represented by the contours of their outer surfaces. Computers store these shapes as “thin shells,” which model the contours of the skin of an animated character but not the flesh underneath. This modeling decision makes it efficient to store and manipulate 3D shapes, but […]

And it’s happening in plain sight.

From Silo to Ted Lasso, here’s everything you need to be watching on the streamer.

“Container registries” are ubiquitous software clearinghouses, but they’ve been exposed for years. Chainguard says it now has a solution.

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: Tokyo-based taxi-hailing app Go says it raised ~$72M from Goldman Sachs at a ~$1B valuation and commands 70% of the Japanese market, outpacing Uber and Didi  —  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has made Japan’s leading taxi-hailing provider, Go Inc., a unicorn with its biggest startup investment in the country.

Jon Porter / The Verge: Samsung demos multiple OLED panels, including a long rollable display and one that measures heart rate, blood pressure, and stress levels from a user’s finger  —  The Rollable Flex is an interesting new flexible screen from Samsung Display that can be unrolled from just 49mm to 254.4mm, over five times […]

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Elliptic: some Chinese chemical suppliers accept cryptocurrency for fentanyl ingredients and the majority use “three specific exchanges” based outside of China  —  And it’s happening in plain sight.  —  Fentanyl has long been one of the most dangerous wares …

AI-generated ads fooled marketing experts and outperformed typical US print ads on a test that measured creativity and potential to spur emotional responses

At least one cryptocurrency based on the old version of Ethereum is still vulnerable to a software flaw that enables attackers to steal funds

Theo St. Francis is an MIT senior majoring in aeronautics and astronautics. He is graduating this month with a concentration in Portuguese, and has visited Brazil with the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives’ Global Teaching Labs. This year, St. Francis was the recipient of the Global Languages Margarita Ribas Groeger Distinguished Scholar award. In […]

When we think of getting on the road in our cars, our first thoughts may not be that fellow drivers are particularly safe or careful — but human drivers are more reliable than one may expect. For each fatal car crash in the United States, motor vehicles log a whopping hundred million miles on the […]

Lessons from Kuwait’s Gulf Bank.

After its successful initial public offering (IPO), how will the mainland’s first private mental health hospital group grow?

Three cybersecurity investments to target.

Social media companies claim new language models can remove harmful content in every language. But those systems’ shortcomings can have vast consequences.

Polish that Apple on your desk with these tasty apps for writing, organization, security, and more.

Scientists are testing ways to construct buildings on Mars and the moon without hauling materials from Earth. One possible solution: 3D printed melted regolith.

Reuters: Sources: in 2020 and 2021, Binance commingled customer funds with revenue; a source says the sums ran into billions of dollars in Silvergate-held accounts  —  The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, commingled customer funds with company revenue in 2020 and 2021 …

New York Times: US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy releases a 19-page report arguing social media can have a “profound risk of harm” for kids and teens and calls for action  —  Dr. Vivek H. Murthy urged immediate action from policymakers, tech companies and parents to safeguard against potential harms.

Sundar Pichai / Financial Times: Building AI responsibly matters more than competition, one company cannot fulfill AI’s potential alone, and global cooperation, especially US-EU, will be key  —  Fulfilling the technology’s potential is not something that one company can do alone  —  The writer is CEO of Google and Alphabet

A robot manipulating objects while, say, working in a kitchen, will benefit from understanding which items are composed of the same materials. With this knowledge, the robot would know to exert a similar amount of force whether it picks up a small pat of butter from a shadowy corner of the counter or an entire […]

In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country’s officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.”

Treatment in utero could cure diseases before birth. Recent advances in lab animals may bring medicine closer to achieving it—but this field is still in its infancy.

The sun is out, the flowers are budding, and it’s time to revel in your new running shoes and sleeping pads.

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: India-based Chalo, which offers online payments and commute tracking for bus operators, raised a $45M Series D led by Avataar Ventures and $12M in debt  —  Indian startup Chalo, which is working to transform bus commutes, has raised $45 million in a new funding round and secured …

Yossi Matias / The Keyword: Google expands its AI-based flood forecasting service Flood Hub to 80 countries, up from 20, offering forecasts up to 7 days in advance to 460 million people  —  Flood Hub is expanding to 80 countries, providing forecasting up to 7 days in advance of a flood to 460 million people.

Tiyashi Datta / Reuters: Zoom reports Q1 revenue of $1.11B, vs. $1.08B est., up 3% YoY, Enterprise revenue of $632M, up 13% YoY, and customers contributing $100K+ annually up ~23% YoY  —  Zoom Video Communications Inc (ZM.O) on Monday raised its annual revenue forecast, betting on hybrid work trends to sustain demand for its video-conferencing […]

MIT junior Anushree Chaudhuri has been selected as a 2023 Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation Scholar. She is only the second MIT student to win this award and the first winner since 2008. The Udall Scholarship honors students who have demonstrated a commitment to the environment, Native American health care, or tribal […]

Professor Daniel Anderson has won the 2023 Wilhelm Exner Medal, awarded by the Austrian Industry Association, for excellence in research and science since 1921. Anderson will receive the award during the Wilhelm Exner Medal Foundation’s Exner Lectures, May 22-23 in Vienna, Austria. “Professor Anderson has changed our world,” says Elazer R. Edelman, Edward J. Poitras […]

Because serotonin is one of the primary chemicals the brain uses to influence mood and behavior, it is also the most common target of psychiatric drugs. To improve those drugs and to invent better ones, scientists need to know much more about how the molecule affects brain cells and circuits both in health and amid […]

How businesses and governments can work together to build digital foundations that benefit everyone.

A senior leader who is struggling with his new boss must learn how to handle the negative work dynamic.