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Sources: Apple is testing two new high-end Macs, one with M2 Max, and the other with the unannounced M2 Ultra chip with 60 graphics cores and up to 192GB of RAM (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Amazon agrees to pay $25M to settle FTC and DOJ charges over the company keeping Alexa voice recordings and geolocation data collected from children for years (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

Torrent site RARBG, founded in 2008, shuts down and stops its content releases, citing COVID-related health problems, the Russia-Ukraine war, and inflation (Ernesto Van der Sar/TorrentFreak)

Fidelity estimated in a recent disclosure that Twitter is now worth about 33% of Elon Musk's $44B purchase price, based on a markdown of its own Twitter stake (Bloomberg)

Block Party says its anti-harassment tool for Twitter is going on an indefinite hiatus starting May 31 due to Twitter API changes, and announces Privacy Party (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

A Chinese government report says Chinese organizations launched 79 LLMs in the country over the past three years, vs. US organizations launching 96 in the US (Reuters)

Sources: Google plans to launch the Pixel Watch 2 in fall 2023 with a Snapdragon W5 chip and Fitbit Sense 2-like health sensors, alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro (Abner Li/9to5Google)

While OpenAI has become more upfront about ChatGPT's limitations, the company should do more to make clear the bot can't reliably distinguish fact from fiction (James Vincent/The Verge)

Miami-based Transak, which sells payment and onboarding infrastructure for Web3 games and financial apps, raised a $20M Series A led by CE Innovation Capital (Brandy Betz/CoinDesk)

JioCinema breaks the global record for the most concurrent views to a live-streamed event with 33M+ viewers for the May 29 IPL final, surpassing Hotstar's 25.3M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

A look at Ukraine's Diia app, used by 19M citizens to access digital IDs and other government services, along with an "e-Enemy" feature to report Russian troops (Dave Lawler/Axios)

MCNA Dental, one of the largest US government-sponsored dental insurers, says hackers stole data of ~8.9M people; LockBit claimed responsibility for the attack (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Glassnode: 14.85% of all ether was held in exchange-controlled wallets on May 25, the lowest level since summer 2016, as staking soaks up the available supply (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)

Tokyo-based Gitai, which develops a robotic arm and a robotic rover for in-space applications, raised a ~$30M Series B extension led by Global Brain Corporation (Aria Alamalhodaei/TechCrunch)

South Korea's Naver plans to offer versions of its ChatGPT-like AI model to governments worried about US data controls, addressing political and cultural issues (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)

Nvidia announces a range of AI products and updates, including the DGX GH200 supercomputer platform, data center networking tools, and a robotics platform (Bloomberg)

An interview with IBM VP of Quantum Computing Jay Gambetta on the company's plan to build a 100,000-qubit computer within 10 years, finding scientists, and more (Michael Brooks/MIT Technology Review)

A survey of 3,000 US workers, an equal number of Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials, and Gen Zers, finds 85% of them have used AI tools to perform tasks at work (Sara Korolevich/Checkr)

A look at hCaptcha, a reCAPTCHA alternative used by Discord and others that is using AI-generated images to train ML systems and generative adversarial networks (Matthew Gault/VICE)

Analysts and others say Wind Information, described as a Chinese alternative to Bloomberg terminal, is limiting international users' access to some information (Rebecca Feng/Wall Street Journal)

Activists and telecom experts say the Kenyan government's plan, permitted by the Supreme Court, to track counterfeit phones is "excessive" and threatens privacy (Damilare Dosunmu/Rest of World)

A profile of Tapbots founders Paul Haddad and Mark Jardine; ex-Twitter exec Amir Shevat says ~17% of engagement on Twitter historically was via third-party apps (Andrew Logan/Texas Monthly)

Source: South Korea won't encourage its memory-chip firms to grab market share in China lost by Micron, as it could disrupt its bilateral relations with the US (Sam Kim/Bloomberg)

Chartbeat data for 1,350 publishers: Twitter referral traffic fell from 1.9% in April 2018 to 1.2% in April 2023; medium-sized publishers' traffic dropped 40% (Aisha Majid/Press Gazette)

US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says the US "won't tolerate" China's ban on Micron chips and calls the decision an "economic coercion" (Bloomberg)