A16Z appears to openly court Saudi capital; Horowitz compared the US unfavorably to the Saudis after the US government appeared unmoved by an Andreessen essay (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Sources: SVB execs bought long-term assets that paid more interest based on a misplaced profit-driven strategy, falling out of compliance with its risk model (Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:41 Rating: 5

How researchers, including at Meta's AI lab, use AI to study EEG readings, decoding how neurons in the brain communicate and exploring the nature of cognition (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 23:41 Rating: 5

Ocado wins AutoStore's lawsuit after the UK High Court invalidated two of AutoStore's warehouse automation patents for being publicly disclosed before filing (Brianna Wessling/The Robot Report) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

An investigation details how a Georgia man was wrongfully arrested based on a bad facial recognition match and other tech intended to make policing easier (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Sources: FTC to file a complaint against Amazon alleging that Alexa-powered speakers collect data about kids under 13 without parental consent, violating COPPA (Josh Sisco/Politico) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Q&A with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and EVP Sax Persson on an open metaverse, walled gardens, user-generated content, a metaverse programming language, and more (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

UK's CMA drops a probe into Apple's dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming after Apple successfully argued the CMA waited too long to launch the probe (Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Seattle-based crypto exchange Bittrex shuts down its US operations, saying funds should be withdrawn by April 30, but will continue to operate Bittrex Global (Mat Di Salvo/Decrypt) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

A profile of Sam Altman, whose social-minded capitalism may make him the ideal CEO for OpenAI as some say he's too commercially minded to lead a tech revolution (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5