Report: Phil Harrison, the head of defunct cloud gaming service Google Stadia, left the company in January 2023; Harrison joined Google as a VP in January 2018 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:21 Rating: 5

Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group agrees to acquire mobile game maker Scopely for $4.9B; founded in 2011, Scopely was reportedly valued at $5.4B in October 2021 (Todd Spangler/Variety) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:31 Rating: 5

Twitter's new API tiers are useless for researchers; the $100/month plan is much worse than the old free plan, and the $42K-$210K/month plans are too expensive (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Everstream Analytics, a provider of predictive insights for supply chain management, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Morgan Stanley's 1GT Fund and StepStone (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Piper Sandler survey of 5,690 US teens in February 2023: 29% owned a VR device, but of those, 14% used it weekly, flat vs. fall 2022, and only 4% used it daily (Kif Leswing/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Canada's privacy commissioner launches an investigation into OpenAI in response to a complaint alleging the non-consensual collection and use of personal data (Charlize Alcaraz/BetaKit) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Genesis Market, a stolen credentials marketplace and one of the top cyber fraud platforms, was seized in an FBI-led operation with over a dozen global partners (Alexander Martin/The Record) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Instead of halting AI research, an unfeasible task, the industry must improve transparency and accountability by being open to external audits and to regulation (Sasha Luccioni/Wired) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

UK-based Quantexa, which uses AI to help businesses prevent online fraud and manage customer data, raised a $129M Series E led by GIC at a $1.8B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Apple to eliminate a small number of its corporate retail staff, marking its first known cuts since embarking on a belt-tightening effort last year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5