- Google Wallet rolls out support for US state IDs, starting with Maryland, and plans to add IDs from Arizona, Colorado, and Georgia in the coming months (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)
- AI researchers say ChatGPT and rival chatbots are significantly less capable in languages other than English, exacerbating the bias against non-English speakers (Paresh Dave/Wired)
- The CFPB warns users of payment apps like PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, and Apple Cash that their money could be at risk as FDIC insurance does not cover the apps (Chris Isidore/CNN)
- A Kenyan court rules that Meta is the primary employer of 184 content moderators suing Meta and contractor Sama for unlawful dismissal, and pauses their layoffs (Annie Njanja/TechCrunch)
- With AR/VR startup funding from October 2022 to March 2023 falling 74% YoY to $800M, per PitchBook, the industry hopes Apple's MR headset could lure back VCs (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)
- Scientists and DNA sequencing startup Illumina identified 4.3M genetic variants in ~800 primates and then used AI to predict genetic health risks in 454K humans (Clive Cookson/Financial Times)
- A look at India's hacking-for-hire industry, which has a tacit alliance with the government and is unusually brazen, with firms publicly touting their services (David D. Kirkpatrick/New Yorker)
- A profile of Nvidia, including how Jensen Huang, Curtis Priem, and Chris Malachowsky started the company at Denny's and placed early bets on "$0B markets" (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
- Harvard's popular MOOC CS50 plans to use AI to grade assignments, teach coding, and personalize tips, and is testing a virtual TA to give feedback to students (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
- Sources: Zume, which used robots to automate pizza-making, shuts down and is undergoing liquidation; the startup raised $375M from SoftBank and $445M in total (Erin Woo/The Information)
- In an interim ruling, a Kenyan court orders the suspension of the mass sacking of 184 content moderators by Meta contractor Sama; Meta plans to appeal (Agence France-Presse)
- Sources: telecom ministers from 18 EU countries either rejected or criticized a push by European telcos to force Big Tech to help fund 5G and broadband rollout (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
- Vimeo plans to end support for its TV apps on June 27, 2023, saying video-casting will give customers a "better ongoing experience" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
- Cybersecurity firms say hackers are actively exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer file transfer software to steal data from organizations (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
- ChatGPT and other LLM tools have already replaced some marketing and social media writers as many companies decide cutting costs is worth the drop in quality (Washington Post)