Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: Interview with founders of Character.ai, who say they left Google's LaMDA project to let users experiment with large language models through the use of chatbots  —  The creators of Google's LaMDA have launched...

Victoria Song / The Verge: Google Fitbit Sense 2 review: good stress tracking and nice UI but no Google Assistant or third-party apps, pricey at $300, and can't be called a smartwatch  —  The fitness tracker has industry-leading...

Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: Huobi, a top-10 crypto exchange by trading volume, has agreed to be acquired by Hong Kong-based About Capital; terms of the deal were not disclosed  —  The terms of the deal were not disclosed. ...

Casey Ross / STAT: New US federal rules requiring health care organizations to give patients access to their full health records in digital format went into effect on October 6  —  The American Revolution had July 4.  The...

Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia: SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 made just one investment in August 2022 and one in September 2022, according to CB Insights, as Masayoshi Son rethinks his strategy  —  The Vision Fund revolutionized startup investing. ...

Steve Haske / Ars Technica: A history of consumer VR since 2012, from the first Oculus developer kit and the 2016 hype cycle to Quest 2, and what mainstream success for VR could look like  —  VR hasn't...

Andy Greenberg / Wired: A look at Ukraine's efforts to block crypto donations to Russia's military and paramilitary groups, who researchers say have received $4M+ since the invasion  —  Blockchain investigators have uncovered at least $4 million—and counting—in...

Financial Times: Sources: Chinese online fast fashion retailer Shein has been valued at $65B to $85B in private markets in recent months, down from $100B+ in April 2022  —  Fast-fashion retailer popular with Gen-Z shoppers has been valued...

Financial Times: An overview of Parag Agrawal's tenure as Twitter's CEO so far, as he battles declining business performance and plunging morale amid Elon Musk's takeover bid  —  The tech prodigy's battles with a mercurial opponent are coming...

Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk: DappRadar: the largest number of DAUs on Decentraland was 675 and on The Sandbox was ~4,503; Messari: Decentraland and The Sandbox have market caps of ~$1.3B  —  While metaverse platforms Decentraland and The Sandbox...