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In a Discord post, OpenAI says it’s “starting to” consider monetizing ChatGPT, possibly via ChatGPT Professional, polls members on payment preferences, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: In a Discord post, OpenAI says it’s “starting to” consider monetizing ChatGPT, possibly via ChatGPT Professional, polls members on payment preferences, and more — OpenAI this week signaled it’ll soon begin charging for ChatGPT, its viral AI-powered chatbot that can write essays, emails, poems and even computer code.

Tesla is planning a $770 million expansion of its Texas Gigafactory

The Texas Gigafactory, constructed last year, serves as the Tesla global headquarters and is the “equivalent to three Pentagons,” according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. | Image: Brandon Bell/Getty Images Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla has notified the state of Texas of its plans to spend upward of $770 million expanding its already immense Austin-based factory.

After Chinese researchers claimed to break RSA encryption using quantum computers, experts are skeptical and caution that any commercial benefits are years away (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

Richard Waters / Financial Times: After Chinese researchers claimed to break RSA encryption using quantum computers, experts are skeptical and caution that any commercial benefits are years away — China claims to have made a major breakthrough but western experts say any commercial benefits are still years away

Cologne-based DeepL, which offers instant translation-as-a-service to businesses and individuals, raised $100M-$125M led by IVP at a €1B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Cologne-based DeepL, which offers instant translation-as-a-service to businesses and individuals, raised $100M-$125M led by IVP at a €1B valuation — Artificial intelligence startups, and (thanks to GPT and Open AI) specifically those helping humans communicate with each other …

US Will Need 2.3 Million EV Chargers by 2030, Research Firm Says

(Image: Chuttersnap/Unsplash)The electric vehicle market is heating up. More Americans than ever before are expressing interest in purchasing an electric or hybrid vehicle sometime in the future, while two of every five personal car owners worldwide say they’d be interested in going electric. But with all these EVs on the world’s roads, we’re forced to

The deep problem with SPACs is the sponsors’ and warrant holders’ cuts, paid by the target company or the SPAC shareholders, leading to a bad deal for both (Matt Levine/Bloomberg)

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: The deep problem with SPACs is the sponsors’ and warrant holders’ cuts, paid by the target company or the SPAC shareholders, leading to a bad deal for both — SPAC SPAC SPAC — Simplifying a bit, the way a special purpose acquisition company works is that the sponsor of the SPAC

Court upholds arrest of Andrew Tate

Andrew Tate (seen left, holding a book) and his brother Tristan (right of Andrew) lost their appeal against the decision to extend their pre-trial detention from 24 hours to 30 days. | Image: DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP via Getty Images A court in Bucharest, Romania upheld the 30-day arrest of controversial influencer Andrew Tate on Tuesday, rejecting

Variable Width 3D Printing the Hard Way

The problem: you want to produce varying line thicknesses when 3D printing. The solution, if you are the Liqtra company, appears to be to put seven print heads together and enable one for thin lines, all of them for thick lines, and something in between for everything else. The technical details are scant, but from

As Gig Economy Companies Flee Europe, Getir Is Taking Over

Rapid grocery delivery apps are leaving the continent, putting the Turkish startup on top. But, its reign is anything but stable.

FTX Has Wrecked the Crypto Party in Paradise

The digital currency exchange’s stupendous fallout has put local Web3 companies in the Bahamas on the back foot.

Mass Climate Migration Is Coming

With rising sea levels and extreme weather events, the global north needs to prepare to welcome displaced people.

I Think My Face Was Deepfaked Into a Chinese Camping Stove Ad

Here’s how a stock image—that looked like me—made its way to Chinese marketplaces. With each repost and edit, I grew more convinced that it was me.

Intel Announces 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors Overflowing With Accelerator Engines

The delays are over — Intel has unveiled its latest 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors, code-named Sapphire Rapids. These chips are all about high-performance computing in servers and data centers, and they have the specs to prove it. The 4th Gen Xeon Scalable CPUs support up to 60 cores per socket and accelerator engines for

Easy Ways to Save a Few Extra Dollars Each Month in 2023

Saving money is a top priority for many people, and with good reason. It can be challenging to make ends meet, especially if you have a lot of financial obligations or are living on a tight budget. The good news is that there are many different ways to save money, and with a little bit

OpenAI opens waitlist for ‘experimental’ paid version of ChatGPT with faster answers

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge ChatGPT is a sensation — but one that’s burning a hole in creator OpenAI’s pocket, with the company thought to be paying millions of dollars a month to keep the chatbot free to use. It’s no surprise, then, that as OpenAI seeks billions in funding from close partner

FAA computer glitch grounds flights across the US

Photo by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images A critical Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) system has suffered a glitch, grounding flights across the US according to media reports. The FAA posted an advisory notice early Wednesday which notes that the United States NOTAM (Notice to Air Mission) system has “failed” and that engineers are working to

Analysts say Salesforce’s customers do not seem to be swayed by Slack; the messaging service’s revenue growth declined from 11.7% in Q1 2022 to 6.9% in Q3 2022 (Angus Loten/Wall Street Journal)

Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: Analysts say Salesforce’s customers do not seem to be swayed by Slack; the messaging service’s revenue growth declined from 11.7% in Q1 2022 to 6.9% in Q3 2022 — Carhartt’s CIO says the addition of the messaging app hasn’t made Salesforce’s products more appealing

UK-based Hack the Box, which wants to encourage white hat hackers via gamified training, raised a $55M Series B led by Carlyle and reports having 1.7M users (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK-based Hack the Box, which wants to encourage white hat hackers via gamified training, raised a $55M Series B led by Carlyle and reports having 1.7M users — There’s long existed a divide in the world of computer hacking between those who are taking a malicious approach to crack a system

Microsoft in Talks to Invest $10 Billion in ChatGPT

(Credit: Ramon Costa/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) AI-focused startups are a dime a dozen right now, but OpenAI is getting a lot of attention from investors following the public release of the DALL-E image generator and ChatGPT chatbot. Microsoft, which is already working with the company, is reportedly planning to invest $10 billion in OpenAI.

Drug Shortages Aren’t New. The Tripledemic Just Made You Look

Flu meds and prescription drugs have been in short supply all winter—but the problem goes back over a decade.

What CES 2023 taught us about the year ahead in TVs

Another CES has come and gone. And after spending a few days reflecting on what I saw at the big trade show, it’s clear that 2023 will be a relatively quiet year for TVs on the whole. There were no major breakthroughs or new standards demonstrated at the show — at least none that will

Plunge into Python with ‘Python Crash Course 3rd Edition’

Eric Matthes’s Python Crash Course, 3rd Edition takes a well-regarded text for getting started with Python and brings it up to date for 2023. The book not only covers Python’s basics but lets you put them to use in a series of projects involving data analysis, web development, and gaming. Many books offer either Python

Developing applications that never delete

Software is a funny business. For example, you have Account A and Account B. You withdraw from one and add to the other inside of a transaction. Except that’s not how accounting works. You should probably do this in a different way. It is not only possible to write a database application that never issues

Create your own Mastodon UX

I’ve been discussing Mastodon UX wish lists with some new acquaintances there. This excerpt from A Bloomberg terminal for Mastodon concludes with part of my own wish list. In a Mastodon timeline, a chatty person can dominate what you see at a glance. When we participate in social media we are always making bids for

Conan 2.0 revamps C/C++ package manager

Conan 2.0, a major new version of the open source C/C++ package manager created by JFrog, is due to arrive in February. The upgrade features a cleaner syntax, a new public Python API, new build system integrations, and a new graph model that better represents the relations between packages in C and C++, a JFrog

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