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Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg: A look at the Guillemot family’s attempts to retain control of Ubisoft, which has hit setbacks that led to a stock plunge and made the company a takeover target  —  Every second Monday of the month for over three decades, the five Guillemot brothers — whose company gave the world …

New York Times: Microsoft’s Activision deal is the biggest test yet of the new alignment on antitrust enforcement between the US FTC, the European Commission, and the UK’s CMA  —  Until recently, antitrust regulators in Europe and the United States took different approaches.

A Kenyan moderator sued the company for work-related PTSD. Next week, a new ruling on his case could signal a global reckoning for Big Tech outsourcing.

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Greg Ritchie / Bloomberg: JPMorgan: 53% of institutional traders predict AI will be the most influential technology for trading in the next three years; 72% have no plans to trade crypto  —  Traders are betting artificial intelligence and machine learning will have the biggest impact on financial markets in the coming years.

Sanket Jain / MIT Technology Review: How 1M female health care workers in India are using WhatsApp to fight dangerous medical misinformation and combat the country’s high maternal mortality rates  —  Female volunteers are using messages, statuses, and hyperlocal groups to fight dangerous medical misinformation and combat the country’s high maternal mortality rate.

Wall Street Journal: A look at “de-influencers”, a rising cohort of TikTok users criticizing viral products and promoting thoughtful shopping; #deinfluencing videos passed 68M views  —  TikTok users are speaking critically about viral products and advocating for thoughtful shopping habits.

As plastic pollution continues to mount, with growing risks to ecosystems and wildlife, manufacturers are beginning to make ambitious commitments to keep new plastics out of the environment. A growing number have signed onto the U.S. Plastics Pact, which pledges to make 100 percent of plastic packaging reusable, recyclable, or compostable, and to see 50 […]

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It’s a good value with a premium feel and lots of space. But can XPeng challenge more established automakers in the West?

Plus: The FTC cracks down on GoodRx, Microsoft boots “verified” phishing scammers, researchers disclose EV charger vulnerabilities, and more.

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says open-source developers should be exempt from the EU’s AI Act; the EU parliament is set to vote on a draft in the coming months  —  GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says that open source developers should be made exempt from the European Union’s (EU) …

James Vincent / The Verge: Financial influencers are pumping out videos promoting dubious ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes, such as selling chatbot-generated tutorials on sites like Udemy  —  The world of financial influencers promise viewers they can use ChatGPT to make big bucks with no effort.

Donal Griffin / Bloomberg: A look at little-known UK-based fintech Transactive, which processes €1B+ monthly and has UK and Lithuania licenses, and questions about staff ties to scammers  —  In the space of just five years, a little-known company on the outskirts of London has grown into a payments-industry powerhouse …

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With great titles like God of War, Maneater, and The Last of Us Remastered, Sony’s subscription service is the perfect jump start for new PS5 owners.

Kelsey Weekman / BuzzFeed News: After YouTuber MrBeast made a video about paying for 1,000 blind people’s eye surgery, critics raise questions about “stunt philanthropy” and “charity porn”  —  Is it stunt philanthropy or self-funded charity in the YouTube age?  —  A YouTuber just helped treat 1,000 people with blindness and low vision.

Social media has conditioned people to watch, react, and move on. But what is inherent in the Nichols video cannot be swept away with ease.

New York Times: Alphabet, Amazon, and other tech firms begin 2023 by championing austerity after facing the worst year on Wall Street in 2022 since the 2008 financial crisis  —  After years of expansion and billions in profits, Big Tech is pulling back from its famously lavish spending as a long boom finally ends.

Nilesh Christopher / Rest of World: Flipkart-owned Indian fashion retailer Myntra is penalizing users who return items too often; studies: 25% to 40% of clothes sold online in India are returned  —  Across India, e-commerce giants like Myntra and Flipkart are canceling free returns to boost profits.  —  • BENGALURU, INDIA

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Many are celebrating Australia’s decision to pave the way for these psychedelic therapies, but questions around accessibility remain.

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Italy’s privacy watchdog orders San Francisco-based AI chatbot maker Replika to stop processing local users’ data over concerns its tech poses risks to minors  —  San Francisco-based AI chatbot maker, Replika — which operates a freemium ‘virtual friendship’ service based …

Erin Woo / The Information: Internal messages: Twitter wants to charge brands $1,000 per month to keep their gold verification badges, plus $50 per month for each affiliated account  —  Twitter is likely to charge brands $1000 a month to keep their gold verification badge, plus $50 a month for each affiliated account …

Aisha Majid / Press Gazette: An analysis of 68 news domains: 45 ranked worse in UK Google search results in January 2023 vs. January 2022; those with non-news content saw the biggest gains  —  Data from SEO experts Sistrix reveals big losses for news domains in organic search in 2022.  —  News websites saw a […]

Genetic engineering and personalized cell therapies could transform health care. In recent years, stem cells and gene-editing tools like CRISPR have been making headlines for the possibilities they offer to treat diseases, including cancer. But engineering cells is a slow, labor-intensive process, making it difficult to produce personalized therapies at scale. The startup Kytopen, co-founded […]

Although her research focuses on daunting issues such as global poverty, MIT Professor Esther Duflo never neglects to dedicate time to something else she finds just as important: mentoring her graduate students. To mark her unwavering support, Duflo was recently honored as “Committed to Caring” for consistently propping up graduate students, and for helping them […]

Gender norms make unemployment an unequal burden among heterosexual couples in the U.S.

What do the Apple watch and the Raptor engine of the SpaceX Starship have in common? Answer: Both are made, in part, from advanced materials developed over only a few years — as opposed to the usual decades — with the help of computers in a field pioneered at MIT. Now eight MIT professors — […]

If your workplace has changed, your evaluation process should, too.

Four strategies to ensure you’re treating employees who disclose mental health challenges fairly.

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Twitter expands Blue to Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, and plans to launch a new Spaces tab with curated spaces and podcasts  —  Twitter is in a hurry to make money, and in another step that might lead to some revenue it has expanded the Twitter Blue subscription […]

Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital sold 1,500 BTC in January, amid a rallying crypto market, to cover some of its expenses; Marathon still holds 11,418 BTC  —  The bitcoin miner sold 1,500 bitcoins in January.  —  Feb 3, 2023  —  Crypto Software Firm President: We’re Trying to Make California’s DMV More Efficient […]

Rita Liao / TechCrunch: Apple removes decentralized social networking app Damus from China App Store, two days after debut, per CAC’s demand as it includes content “illegal in China”  —  Damus, one of the fastest-growing Twitter alternatives, has been pulled from China’s App Store just two days after the app was approved by Apple.

The idea of creating tamper-proof databases has captured the attention of everyone from anarchist techies to staid bankers.

Accidental revisions to a US Help Center page sparked confusion about the streamer’s next moves. But restrictions on account sharing are still coming soon.

Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: Apple reports Q1 Services revenue up 6% YoY to $20.8B and says its install base crossed 2B active devices, up from 1.8B devices the company reported in Q1 2022  —  Along with reporting its quarterly performance, Apple shared the latest details on how many of its devices are currently active.

Tom Schoenberg / Bloomberg: Sources: US prosecutors in the DOJ’s fraud unit are investigating California-based bank Silvergate over hosting accounts tied to FTX and Alameda Research  —  US prosecutors in the Justice Department’s fraud unit are looking into Silvergate Capital Corp.’s dealings with fallen crypto giants FTX …

Yifan Yu / Nikkei Asia: Apple reports Q1 revenue in Greater China fell 7.3% YoY to $23.9B, revenue in Japan fell 5% to $6.8B, and revenue in the rest of Asia-Pacific fell 2.8% to $9.5B  —  Greater China took biggest hit with a 7.3% revenue drop  —  PALO ALTO, U.S. — Apple on Thursday reported […]

The AMASS project would involve thousands of drones, on the ground, in the air and in the water, working together in a “swarm of swarms” to overwhelm enemy defences

An artificial intelligence called SingSong can take a recording of a person singing and create a backing track for it with the appropriate rhythm, key and harmonies

A simple buzzer and some microphones help a drone to navigate and map out its surroundings, much like how a bat uses sound to see in the dark

The following press release was issued today by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. A common sign of Alzheimer’s disease is the excessive buildup of two types of protein in the brain: tangles of tau proteins that accumulate inside cells, and amyloid-β proteins that form plaques outside the cells. Researchers don’t know how these […]

The brain’s cerebral cortex produces perception based on the sensory information it’s fed through a region called the thalamus. “How the thalamus communicates with the cortex is a fundamental feature of how the brain interprets the world,” says Elly Nedivi, the William R. and Linda R. Young Professor in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory […]

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Immunotherapy — drug treatment that stimulates the immune system to attack tumors — works well against some types of cancer, but it has shown mixed success against lung cancer. A new study from MIT helps to shed light on why the immune system mounts such a lackluster response to lung cancer, even after treatment with […]

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