Global VC funding fell 53% YoY to $76B in Q1 2023, down from $162B in Q1 2022, including OpenAI's $10B and Stripe's $6.5B; $39.2B went to late-stage startups (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Study: ChatGPT cited nonexistent Washington Post, Miami Herald, and Los Angeles Times articles and fabricated a sexual harassment story about a law professor (Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:20 Rating: 5

Tests show that Twitter's "stay informed" labels, implemented in February 2022 to flag tweets with links to Russia or China-controlled sites, no longer appear (Semafor) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:22 Rating: 5

A week ahead of Ethereum's Shanghai and Capella upgrades, ETH is up 6% over the past three days, surpassing $1,900 to a nine-month high and outperforming BTC (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:21 Rating: 5

OpenAI details its approach to AI safety, including conducting safety evaluations, improving safeguards after launch, protecting kids, and respecting privacy (OpenAI) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:23 Rating: 5

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