This week: Twitter rival Bluesky gains momentum, DeepMind and LinkedIn co-founders collaborate to launch AI chatbot...

News this week centred around the return of tech royalty: former Twitter monarch Jack Dorsey made a new bid for the microblogging throne with the launch of Bluesky, while LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman teamed with DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to announce their own generative AI chatbot, Pi.

Google and Apple put their differences aside to announce a joint-effort to combat unsolicited bluetooth tracking, and the once-mighty Vice Media was reported to be heading towards bankruptcy.

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