Axios

It's something you might find inside James Bond's Aston Martin: A gun that only lets a specific person use it.

Driving the news: It's what Biofire Technologies, a company based in Broomfield, Colorado, on Thursday said it created, launching the world's first biometric handgun, The Biofire Smart Gun, according to a company statement.

The New York Times is publicly testing a new game called Digits as it explores careful and limited expansion of its puzzle game portfolio.

Driving the news: Digits, a math-based game, entered public testing on the Times’ website this week.

San Francisco police have arrested a tech consultant in connection with the April 4 killing of Cash App founder Bob Lee.

Driving the news: Police said the suspect, Nima Momeni, and Lee knew each other, but at a news conference Thursday declined to give additional details on what led to Lee's fatal stabbing. Momeni has been charged with murder and will be arraigned Friday.

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes got headlines earlier this week after a judge ruled that she must soon begin serving her prison sentence, but Holmes wasn't the only ex-CEO of a health tech unicorn to leave court unhappy.

Driving the news: Rishi Shah, who founded Outcome Health and led it to a $5.5 billion valuation, on Tuesday was found guilty of mail fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering.

Insider plans to begin experimenting with ways to leverage AI in its journalism, its global editor-in-chief Nicholas Carlson told Axios.

Why it matters: "A tsunami is coming," Carlson said. "We can either ride it or get wiped out by it."

Amazon Web Services is announcing several new tools and services aimed at convincing developers to use its cloud to build and host generative AI systems.

Why it matters: Cloud providers see tremendous opportunity in AI, especially the white-hot generative AI trend, which tends to require massive amounts of computing to achieve its impressive results.

Amazon's "best days" are ahead despite "turbulent times," CEO Andy Jassy wrote in his second annual shareholder letter.

Driving the news: Large language models, and Generative AI projects specifically, are going to be "transformative" for the company, he said.

Generative AI programs like ChatGPT, which can supercharge  fraudsters' efforts to rip taxpayers off, are a new wild card for tax filing season this year.

Driving the news: The IRS' “2023 Dirty Dozen list” of top scams, released last week, includes gambits like made-up pitches about pending large refunds, phishing emails trying to get personal information, and fraudulent advice from social media accounts.

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday denied Tesla's petition to review a case involving allegations of systemic racial discrimination at the company's facilities in the state.

Why it matters: The unanimous ruling allows Black workers at a Tesla assembly plant in Fremont to seek a public injunction requiring the electric vehicle maker to acknowledge and address discrimination in the workplace.

SoftBank Group has agreed to sell SoftBank Ventures Asia to a new entity co-founded by Taizo Son, the younger brother of SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son.

Why it matters: Beyond the nepotism, this is SoftBank walking away from one of its oldest venture capital efforts. SBVA was launched in 2000 and reports over $2 billion in funds under management.

OpenAI's early lead in today's generative AI race provides no guarantee of long-term success.

The big picture: "First movers" in previous technology leaps have often stumbled, eventually absorbed by larger rivals.