LinkedIn launches three Wordle-style puzzle games: theme-based guessing game Pinpoint, Sudoku and Minesweeper-style crossover Queens, and trivia game Crossclimb (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Karissa Bell / Engadget:
LinkedIn launches three Wordle-style puzzle games: theme-based guessing game Pinpoint, Sudoku and Minesweeper-style crossover Queens, and trivia game Crossclimb  —  How long until “What I learned about B2B sales from playing Crossclimb”?  —  LinkedIn, the professional network known …

In a letter to the US Labor Department, Google says the US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized (Emilia David/The Verge)

Emilia David / The Verge:
In a letter to the US Labor Department, Google says the US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized  —  The US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized, Google says in a letter sent to the Department of Labor.

Elliptic, MIT, and IBM release an experimental new AI detection model and its 200M-transaction training dataset to help identify Bitcoin money laundering (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Elliptic, MIT, and IBM release an experimental new AI detection model and its 200M-transaction training dataset to help identify Bitcoin money laundering  —  Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it’s trained on …

Changpeng Zhao’s short sentence suggests he had some leverage, and the hearing had references to sealed documents and “cooperation”, perhaps over user details (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)

Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Changpeng Zhao’s short sentence suggests he had some leverage, and the hearing had references to sealed documents and “cooperation”, perhaps over user details  —  There are a lot of differences between Changpeng Zhao and Sam Bankman-Fried, and now we can add one more to the list …

US NTIA head Alan Davidson says Starlink is an option in extremely remote areas where running fiber is pricey, as part of the $42B high speed internet program (Eva Dou/Washington Post)

Eva Dou / Washington Post:
US NTIA head Alan Davidson says Starlink is an option in extremely remote areas where running fiber is pricey, as part of the $42B high speed internet program  —  Officials say Starlink’s satellites will probably fill gaps in the Biden administration’s $42 billion push to hook every American home up to high-speed internet