Welcome to February, readers. We've made it through job-cuts January. I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and it was pretty hard to avoid starting every newsletter with layoffs. But we're likely not out of the woods yet.
View Pictures/Getty Images

There’s a lot of opinions flying around about the pros and cons of the future of ChatGPT, but Arvind Narayanan—a computer science professor from Princeton University—thinks the hype is still overblown at this point.
Today I drove through the suburbs, reader. After weeks of unpleasant hot girl walks on highways and under freeways in my new hometown of San Diego, I finally got a car.

Chinese-owned internet company Baidu Inc.
VCG/VCG via Getty Images
CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images
Shutthiphong Chandaeng / Getty Images

ChatGPT has been making the tech industry sweat since its rise in popularity last year, and now Amazon is feeling the heat too.
Brian Ach/Getty Images for TechCrunch