The US chip-maker Nvidia has said cryptocurrencies do not “bring anything useful for society”, writes The Guardian's Alex Hern. 

Crypto market players expressed unease on Monday following the seizure over the weekend of Signature Bank, a crypto-friendly New York regional bank, writes Jacquelyn Melinek. Here is the link: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/13/signature-bank-seizure-creates-obstacles-for-crypto-industry-while-promoting-unbanked-innovations/

Banking regulators devised a plan Sunday to backstop depositors with money at Silicon Valley Bank, writes Jeff Cox. Here is the link: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/12/regulators-unveil-plan-to-stem-damage-from-svb-collapse.html

HSBC has scooped up the UK arm of failed Silicon Valley Bank, writes Michelle Toh. Here is the link: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/investing/svb-uk-business-deal-intl-hnk/index.html

Romania’s prime minister has presented his “new honorary adviser” – an artificial intelligence assistant named “Ion”, according to the report. Here is the link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/02/romania-ion-ai-government-honorary-adviser-artificial-intelligence-pm-nicolae-ciuca

Silicon Valley Bank collapsed Friday morning after a stunning 48 hours in which a bank run and a capital crisis led to the second-largest failure of a financial institution in US...

Meta, the parent firm of Facebook and Instagram, is hashing out a plan to build a standalone text-based content app that will support ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol powering Twitter...

The chatbot is the most polished iteration to date in a line of large language models going back years, writes Will Douglas Heaven. Here is the link: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/08/1068068/chatgpt-is-everywhere-heres-where-it-came-from/

Facebook’s large language model, which is usually only available to approved researchers, government officials, or members of civil society, has now leaked online for anyone to download, writes Joseph Cox. Here is...

The Bluesky social media app, created by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has been released in beta for testing, but currently remains accessible only by invitation, writes Nikki Main. Here is the...

Facebook and Instagram are launching a new subscription service that will allow users to pay to become verified, writes Roshan Fernandez. Here is the link: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/20/1158334690/instagram-facebook-meta-verified-zuckerberg

Tesla is voluntarily recalling 362,758 vehicles and warns that its experimental driver-assistance software, marketed as Full Self-Driving Beta, may cause crashes, writes Lora Kolodny. Here is the link: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/16/tesla-recalls-362758-vehicles-says-full-self-driving-beta-software-may-cause-crashes.html

Three weeks after iOS 16.3’s release, Apple finally seeded the first iOS 16.4 beta to developers, writes Rajesh Pandey. Here is the link: https://www.cultofmac.com/806474/ios-16-4-beta-features-changes/

This blog post is a pretty good summation of the AI-powered Bing acting like a petulant human. A search engine wants to harm a human being; wait, what? Of course, there is...

Microsoft has permanently disabled the desktop version of Internet Explorer on certain versions of Windows 10, and updated its newer browser, Microsoft Edge, writes Simrin Singh. Here is the link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/microsoft-permanently-disables-internet-explorer/