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WhatsApp introduces ‘Locked Chats’ 🔒 that will allow users to lock and hide conversations, Meta announces. Sky News reports.

Samsung explores digital currency 💲 signing a memorandum of understanding with South Korea’s central bank to conduct technical research on a central bank digital currency. CNBC reports.

Floating power plants 🌊‍ the wind power industry looks to super-sized turbines, disruptors are betting on radical designs. CNBC reports.

The man behind ChatGPT is about to have his moment on Capitol Hill
🦾️to testify before Congress on the risks artificial intelligence poses for society, and what safeguards are needed for the technology. CNN reports.