Lauren Goode / Wired:
How advanced chip packaging became one of Intel's fast-growing businesses; sources: Intel is in talks with Google and Amazon for its advanced packaging services  —  Advanced chip packaging is suddenly at the center of the AI boom.  Intel is going all in.  —  Sixteen miles north of Albuquerque …

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:
Xoople, which is developing a satellite constellation to collect earth data for training AI models, raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to $225M  —  Space data companies have argued for years that the private sector needs their products, but the real uptake has been from government buyers.

Financial Times:
Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion  —  Videos show A7 office in Nigeria, while company also claims new branch in Zimbabwe  —  A recent vacancy posted …

New Yorker:
Interviews with Sam Altman and 100+ people on if he can be trusted amid allegations of persistent lying and more: some defend him, others call him a sociopath  —  New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

Stephen Katte / Cointelegraph:
Jack Dorsey says Apple removed his Bluetooth P2P messaging app Bitchat, used during protests in Iran and Uganda, from China's App Store following CAC's demands  —  Bitchat launched in July last year and has been used during protests in Madagascar, Uganda, Nepal, Indonesia and Iran …