Microsoft veteran Ralf Groene has retired after 17 years at the company. Groene was responsible for the design of Microsoft’s Surface tablets, and has been a key part of the company’s tablet and PC hardware efforts over the past decade. Groene has retired less than a year after former Surface chief Panos Panay departed for Amazon, and just weeks after Microsoft named a new Windows and Surface chief.

The investment into G42 brings Microsoft’s AI services and chips to the United Arab Emirates. Meanwhile, G42 will run on Azure. Microsoft president Brad Smith will also join G42’s board.

The New York Times reports the Biden administration helped broker the deal. Under the transaction, G42 will agree to remove Chinese technology from its operations.

Meta is launching new filters that will appear at the top of your chat list: All (the default view), Unread (just messages marked as unread), and Groups (group chats and Community subgroups).

The filters start rolling out today, and will become available to all WhatsApp users “in the coming weeks.”

None other than The Washington Post is holding Amazon to account for missing the mark on jobs produced at HQ2.

The company was supposed to add 2,500 new jobs at the site last year, but dropped 200 existing positions instead.

Amazon risks losing tax incentives, but insists its goal of creating 25,000 jobs by the end of this decade remains on track.

There’s a new Indie World showcase for tomorrow, at 10 A.M. ET. The last Nintendo event — which was a full Direct back in February — was a bit of a nothing burger unless you considered Grounded and Pentiment going multiplatform an extinction level event. This showcase though, might have some substance with the recent news that Hollow Knight: Silksong has been rated in Australia.

Just like its existing partnership with Ticketmaster, TikTok has now teamed up with AXS to allow users to search and purchase the ticket outlet’s offerings directly on the video-sharing platform.

The feature is currently live in the US, UK, Sweden, and Australia. Performers on TikTok can promote their shows by adding AXS event links to their videos.

Could it be the next pair of Nothing Ear buds?

That’s the question being raised by its Oversight Board, which today announced two new cases looking into how Meta handled explicit fakes of female public figures posted to Facebook and Instagram. One of which could concern the fake Taylor Swift images that circulated online earlier this year.

The board’s investigation will take a few weeks before reaching a final non-binding decision.

After experimenting with its $1-ish annual “Not A Bot” subscriptions in New Zealand and the Philippines, Elon Musk suggests that a broader rollout is coming to the service built upon freely contributed content. Only question is when?

While the fee might curtail bot creation, it will definitely curtail new user signups.

Elon Musk’s lawyers have reportedly undercut his free-speech theatrics related to ye old Twitter’s refusal to block accounts as ordered by the country’s highest court. According to Reuters, X’s lawyers said the following in a letter addressed to Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Monday:

“As already communicated to the federal police, X Brasil informs that all orders issued by this Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court will continue to be fully complied with by X Corp.”

Despite being a .Swoosh-exclusive this BSOD-themed shoe doesn’t have any NFT links or crypto wallet requirements (although you will need to register an account by April 18th).

Nike’s web3 plans for .Swoosh seem mostly dead, with a January blog post saying digital gaming item tie-ins will skip the blockchain and instead just link to Nike accounts.

It’s pretty tough for a company to submit a copyright claim unless it owns the copyright!

While the “recent” filter should make it easier to find real-time search results, the “top” option shows popular posts related to your search. The test is only rolling out to a small number of users, according to Instagram head Adam Mosseri.

OpenAI’s Batch API now lets users upload a file of bulk queries to the AI model, like categorizing data or tagging images, with the understanding that they won’t need immediate attention. Promising results within 24 hours lets them run when there is unused compute power, and keeps those pricey GPUs humming around the clock.

You know, in case that sort of thing is relevant to you.

Geneva Long, CEO of RV company Bowlus, wrote on LinkedIn that in the company’s tests, the dual-motor Cybertruck could only tow Bowlus’ 3,250lb Volterra electric RV trailer for 160 miles before its battery gave out. Others have seen similar results.

Long says the Tesla Model X, on the other hand, pulled the same trailer 235 miles.