The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's flagship AI agency, plans to focus on defense, environment, and health, after staff criticized its leadership in December (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
The Alan Turing Institute, the UK's flagship AI agency, plans to focus on defense, environment, and health, after staff criticized its leadership in December  —  Chief of Britain's flagship AI agency says ‘big strategic’ shift is needed  —  Britain's flagship artificial intelligence agency …

An interview with White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, a Peter Thiel protégé confirmed by the Senate on March 25, on US plans to counter Beijing on AI (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
An interview with White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, a Peter Thiel protégé confirmed by the Senate on March 25, on US plans to counter Beijing on AI  —  Michael Kratsios will work to counter Beijing without disrupting U.S. businesses  —  WASHINGTON—Many Trump …

PumpSwap, a new DEX launched by Pump.fun's creators, processed $2.43B in cumulative trading volume after just 10 days, shaking up the Solana DEX ecosystem (Zack Abrams/The Block)

Zack Abrams / The Block:
PumpSwap, a new DEX launched by Pump.fun's creators, processed $2.43B in cumulative trading volume after just 10 days, shaking up the Solana DEX ecosystem  —  - PumpSwap, the DEX recently launched by memecoin platform Pump.fun, has processed $2.43 billion in cumulative trading volume after just 10 days …

Cambridge, UK-based Camgraphic, which is developing graphene-based photonics chips for AI, HPC, autonomous cars, and other applications, raised a €25M Series A (Maya Dharampal-Hornby/Sifted)

Maya Dharampal-Hornby / Sifted:
Cambridge, UK-based Camgraphic, which is developing graphene-based photonics chips for AI, HPC, autonomous cars, and other applications, raised a €25M Series A  —  The money will be used to develop the startup's R&D operations in Pisa and establish a pilot manufacturing line in Milan

As ChatGPT's Studio Ghibli-style images going viral sparks a debate, AI may not devalue human-created art and may even elevate it by fueling a creation economy (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)

M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
As ChatGPT's Studio Ghibli-style images going viral sparks a debate, AI may not devalue human-created art and may even elevate it by fueling a creation economy  —  There are fundamental questions likely without good answers; let's focus on how this needs to work for everyone

A look at inZOI, a new life simulation game by South Korean studio Krafton that aims to appeal to players in Asia, where The Sims never gained popularity (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
A look at inZOI, a new life simulation game by South Korean studio Krafton that aims to appeal to players in Asia, where The Sims never gained popularity  —  inZOI, a new life-simulation video game, gets more realistic and more multicultural  —  Most people have fantasized about inhabiting someone else's life.