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  • Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is choosing chatbots over podcasts

    While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he likes podcasts, he might not actually be listening to them anymore. That tidbit comes towards the end of a longer Bloomberg profile of Nadella, with a focus on Microsoft’s AI strategy and its complicated relati…

  • MIT disavows doctoral student paper on AI’s productivity benefits

    MIT says that due to concerns about the “integrity” of a high-profile paper on the effects of artificial intelligence on the productivity of a materials science lab, the paper should be “withdrawn from public discourse.” The paper in question, “Artific…

  • Laser-powered fusion experiment more than doubles its power output

    The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility increased the yield of the experiment in recent attempts.

  • TechCrunch Week in Review: Coinbase gets hacked

    Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of news for you this week, including a hack at Coinbase; YC thinks Google is a ‘monopolist’; layoffs at Microsoft; and much more. Have a great weekend! Uh-oh: Coinbase says that customers’ pers…

  • Epic Games asks judge to force Apple to approve Fortnite

    Epic Games is escalating its efforts to pressure Apple to allow its game Fortnite into its App Store, with a new court filing asking Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to require that Apple “accept any compliant version of Fortnite onto the U.S. storefront o…