How the "enshittification" cycle, in which platforms first are good to users and business customers before abusing them, has infected TikTok, Amazon, and others (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

Toronto-based Smile CDR, which offers services for health and clinical data interoperability, raised a ~$30M Series B led by UPMC Enterprises and others (Charlize Alcaraz/BetaKit) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 22:41 Rating: 5

OpenWeb, which helps outlets target readers with ads and manage comments, acquires Jeeng, an audience management service used by over 650 publishers, for $100M (CTech) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:42 Rating: 5

San Francisco asked California regulators to halt or scale back the expansion of Cruise and Waymo, after repeated incidents with stopped and idle robotaxis (David Ingram/NBC News) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Meme-stock mania companies, including GameStop and AMC Entertainment, have raised $4.7B since the hype began in January 2021, but failed to boost performance (Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Q&A with Princeton CS professor Arvind Narayanan on why he calls ChatGPT a "bullshit generator", his worries over its boom, developing his AI taxonomy, and more (Julia Angwin/The Markup) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Filing: the DOJ accuses Sam Bankman-Fried of messaging online FTX US' general counsel, a potential witness, and asks a judge to ban his private communications (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Sources detail the pressure inside Meta and Google to move faster with AI amid the surge of attention around ChatGPT, potentially sweeping safety concerns aside (Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:43 Rating: 5

New York City-based Paradigm, whose tech streamlines data aggregation and patient recruitment to speed up clinical trials, launches with a $203M Series A (Maureen Farrell/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:42 Rating: 5

Counterpoint: China's smartphone sales fell 14% YoY in 2022 to reach their lowest level in a decade; iPhone sales fell 3% as it became the country's No. 2 brand (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:46 Rating: 5