Meituan and Pinduoduo, pandemic winners in China, are adapting to renewed competition from Douyin, Alibaba, and others, as China sheds its zero-COVID-19 policy (Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 01:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Thoma Bravo is in advanced talks to acquire Coupa Software, which helps companies manage their spending, after outbidding Vista Equity Partners (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:42 Rating: 5

With AI image generation tools like Stable Diffusion and DreamBooth, it's easy to make damaging deepfakes using just a few images of a person from social media (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Twitter's Community Notes, the crowd-powered feature to fact check tweets previously known as Birdwatch, starts rolling out to all users globally (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:44 Rating: 5

Ex-staffers say Twitter's mass firing of security staff and growing reliance on automation will help China and other authoritarian regimes in silencing critics (Adam Rawnsley/Rolling Stone) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:42 Rating: 5

Sony's CTO and NEC's CEO say US chip export controls may temporarily impact China's ability to procure chips but question the sanctions' long-term effectiveness (Eri Sugiura/Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 02:43 Rating: 5

A look at some early-adopters using ChatGPT, GPT-3, and other text generator bots to write business emails, find creative inspiration, and more (Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:42 Rating: 5

Pactum, which offers AI-powered software to help big companies like Walmart automate routine supplier negotiations, raised a $20M Series A extension led by 3VC (Brendan Murray/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:43 Rating: 5

Layoffs and rescinded job offers are threatening Amazon's reputation in the tech job market, where it was already facing challenges, per a leaked June 2022 memo (Jason Del Rey/Vox) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:42 Rating: 5

How AI-based natural language processing algorithms can be applied to biological data to create protein-language models and cut drug discovery time to months (Karen Hao/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:42 Rating: 5