Microsoft announced fresh AI capabilities for advertisers, along with new Surface PCs and a Windows update.
Read more: Here’s everything Microsoft announced at its Surface and Copilot event in New York

Heat pumps are energy efficient replacements for fossil fuel powered furnaces and air conditioners. They use electricity to transfer rather than generate heat.
Read more: States announce major push to get to 20 million installed heat pumps, a cleaner alternative to gas furnaces that also provide AC

Amazon introduced new hardware and software with generative artificial intelligence features on Wednesday.
Read more: Amazon gives Alexa an AI facelift as it launches new smart speakers

Instacart shares dropped Wednesday, leaving them narrowly above their debut price.
Read more: Instacart’s 11% plunge on second day of trading wipes out almost all of its IPO gains

There are billions of tons of critical minerals on the ocean floor, but whether they should be mined has become a global controversy.
Read more: Deep-sea mining could help solve the global critical minerals shortage, but it’s a lightning rod for controversy

Software developer Klaviyo debuted on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, a day after Instacart started trading on the Nasdaq
Read more: Klaviyo rises 9% in muted NYSE debut after software vendor priced IPO at a share

A group of prominent U.S. authors has sued OpenAI over alleged copyright infringement in using their work to train ChatGPT.
Read more: John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and other prominent authors sue OpenAI

The FTC said it has begun notifying more than 37 million people that they may be entitled to compensation from a settlement with Epic Games.
Read more: How to get your share of the 5 million Fortnite settlement

The government must recognizes that new market entrants can’t compete if the existing giants are allowed to deploy whatever competitive practices they want.
Read more: Op-ed: FTC’s crackdown against Amazon is necessary for long-term innovation, startup investor argues