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A major trucking company is advertising for long-haulers in a video game, with the theory that the game, American Truck Simulator, might breed good drivers.

Driving the news: Schneider National began running in-game ads across six in-game billboards in American Truck Simulator this spring.

The dip in chip stocks this week may be a preview of what’s to come.

Catch up fast: Shares of Nvidia and AMD briefly fell 3% yesterday after a WSJ report said that the Biden administration could tighten export rules for AI chips headed to China.

The U.S. has a key advantage over China as the two superpowers compete for supremacy in artificial intelligence: The most advanced chips used to train AI are designed in the U.S. and built with tools from allied countries.

Driving the news: The Biden administration is poised to expand its efforts to keep those highly advanced chips out of China, and thus keep Chinese AI firms behind the curve.

An excess of caution about kids’ experiences on PlayStation is the reason for Roblox’s absence from the platform, PlayStation chief Jim Ryan told investors in early 2022, according to yet another exhibit from the FTC trial.

Why it matters: Roblox, a platform on which users create their own games that others can start playing for free, is available and popular on phones, computers and Microsoft’s Xbox, but it’s not on PlayStation.

A little car-sharing service in Vienna, Austria, announced that it had tokenized part of its fleet of over 200 Tesla cars.

Why it matters: By tokenizing ownership of the fleet, the firm can distribute revenue to the co-owners as it comes in, providing real revenue to a blockchain token.

Sony’s 2022 PS4 and PS5 blockbuster Horizon Forbidden West cost $212 million to develop over a five-year period, and its 2020 hit The Last Of Us Part II cost around $220 million to make.

What's happening: Those normally closely held figures came to light via a poorly redacted legal filing that’s part of the FTC’s lawsuit to block Microsoft’s bid for Activision.

Snapchat on Thursday will announce that its subscription service, Snapchat+, has reached 4 million paid subscribers in its first year, executives told Axios.

Why it matters: Getting users to pay for social media services that they've grown accustomed to getting for free is not easy.

Meta on Thursday revealed a sweeping set of policies and explainers about the use of artificial intelligence in its products and algorithms.

Why it matters: The tech giant has spent years trying to convince critics that it takes issues like data privacy and misinformation seriously, even when it was slow to act. Now, Meta appears focused on addressing concerns about AI sooner rather than later.

As companies rush AI-powered products and services to market, some non-profits and safety-focused companies are pushing to slow them down in higher-risk use cases such as health care.

Why it matters: Since faulty AI can be a matter of life and death in health settings, healthcare providers need support in building, buying and using the technology safely.

The electric aircraft of tomorrow are finally being built, albeit slowly, as the makers of innovative air taxis prepare to write aviation's next chapter.

Why it matters: These "flying taxis" could change the way people and goods move around, but only if such aircraft can be mass-produced in a cost-effective way.

Using a revolutionary new AI-powered method, researchers are mining old insurance maps to visually reconstruct "ghost" neighborhoods — with promising results.

Why it matters: The process could help with efforts to better estimate the economic loss caused by the demolition of historically diverse neighborhoods nationwide.

Robert Leshner, the creator of decentralized finance's standard-bearing lending application, Compound, has moved on from the startup to launch a very boring mutual fund.

• Very boring, that is, with a hint of blockchain.

Why it matters: If his new product is approved, it would give the crypto rich and blockchain native funds a way to access the strong returns on government debt right now without changing their approach to portfolio management.

When the U.S. began shipping missiles to Ukraine last year, the defense community believed new supply could be spun up with relative ease. But that faith was misplaced, leading to missile stockpile shortages and an unexpected merger.

Why it matters: What's now a supply chain glitch could become a national security nightmare were the U.S. to be drawn into a larger war, in Ukraine or somewhere else.

More than half of Americans say they have experienced hate or harassment online, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation League, with a dramatic rise in incidents over the last 12 months, especially among teens.

Why it matters: Experts say what happens online is causing significant real-world harm and also keeping large numbers of people from fully participating in an increasingly digital society.

The race to lead in AI is spurring a fresh wave of corporate acquisitions and investments as tech companies seek to show customers they aren't sleeping on the red-hot technology.

Why it matters: AI is poised to reshape many industries, and the pressure is on CEOs to prove they have an AI strategy.