Sources: Chinese officials have told Tesla that Beijing has tentatively approved the company’s plan to launch its Full Self-Driving software in the country (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)

Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Chinese officials have told Tesla that Beijing has tentatively approved the company’s plan to launch its Full Self-Driving software in the country  —  Tentative approval comes after chief executive Elon Musk made an unannounced visit to Beijing, where he met with Premier Li Qiang

The second AI summit, a primarily virtual event in Seoul on May 21 and May 22, faces challenges, as sources say far few leaders and ministers are set to attend (Martin Coulter/Reuters)

Martin Coulter / Reuters:
The second AI summit, a primarily virtual event in Seoul on May 21 and May 22, faces challenges, as sources say far few leaders and ministers are set to attend  —  Last year, a who’s who of world leaders, corporate executives and academic experts gathered at Britain’s Bletchley Park …

China removes restrictions on Tesla cars after its China-made vehicles passed the country’s data security requirements; five other local brands also got cleared (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)

Evelyn Cheng / CNBC:
China removes restrictions on Tesla cars after its China-made vehicles passed the country’s data security requirements; five other local brands also got cleared  —  Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated …

An interview with MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria on leading the company for a decade, the evolution of databases, AI hype, transitioning to a SaaS model, and more (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
An interview with MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria on leading the company for a decade, the evolution of databases, AI hype, transitioning to a SaaS model, and more  —  A decade is a long time in tech  —  A lot has happened since Dev Ittycheria took the reins at MongoDB, the $26 billion database company he’s led …

Akamai: US Post Office phishing sites got significantly more DNS queries, cumulatively, than the legitimate website during some weeks of the 2023 holiday season (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Akamai: US Post Office phishing sites got significantly more DNS queries, cumulatively, than the legitimate website during some weeks of the 2023 holiday season  —  Security researchers analyzing phishing campaigns that target United States Postal Service (USPS) saw that the traffic …

AI is making Meta’s apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram (Scott Nover/Fast Company)

Scott Nover / Fast Company:
AI is making Meta’s apps basically unusable, as the company adds Meta AI everywhere and viral user-generated AI images proliferate on Facebook and Instagram  —  The intended and unintended generative AI flooding Facebook and Instagram.  —  Meta has flooded its social media platforms with artificial intelligence.

Lawmakers, TikTok staff, and others detail how TikTok lost the war in Washington, including due to CEO Shou Zi Chew’s failure to build support on Capitol Hill (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Lawmakers, TikTok staff, and others detail how TikTok lost the war in Washington, including due to CEO Shou Zi Chew’s failure to build support on Capitol Hill  —  Combination of coordinated efforts by its critics and missteps by the company led to the law forcing a sale or ban of the popular app