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| Sam Bankman-Fried / @sbf_ftx: |
[Thread] FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried apologizes, says he “fucked up” and his priority is “doing right by users”, plans to raise funds and close Alameda, and more — 1) I'm sorry. That's the biggest thing. I fucked up, and should have done better.
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| Reuters: |
Sources detail FTX's rise and fall: Changpeng Zhao's ~$100M investment in 2019, the souring Binance relationship, Alameda's series of losses in 2022, and more — On Tuesday morning, Sam Bankman-Fried, owner of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, caught his employees off-guard with a somber message.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: SBF told investors that Alameda owes FTX ~$10B and FTX extended loans to Alameda using customer funds, describing the decision as a poor judgment call — FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried told an investor this week that Alameda owes FTX about $10 billion
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
FTX US warns users that it could halt trading in the coming days, hours after SBF said that FTX US was “100% liquid”; some Tron-linked funds can be withdrawn — Sam Bankman-Fried said the FTX US entity's users would be able to withdraw all their funds.
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| Bryce Elder / Financial Times: |
As FTX faces bankruptcy, an attempt to untangle its extremely complex corporate structure, which could pose a problem for liquidators and law enforcement — Relationship status: it's complicated — With crypto exchange FTX short $8bn and hurtling towards bankruptcy … | Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Tether freezes FTX's $46M in USDT on the Tron blockchain at the request of law enforcement while investigations occur — The stablecoin lost its $1 peg earlier on Thursday. — Stablecoin issuer Tether has frozen $46 million of USDT held on the Tron blockchain by failing crypto exchange FTX following a request from law enforcement.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sequoia tells partners the firm marked down its FTX investment of $213.5M across two funds to $0, saying it “ran a rigorous diligence process” before investing — - Its $150 million of exposure to both FTX and FTX.US in its third global growth fund represents less than 3% of that fund's total capital commitment.
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| Callan Quinn / The Block: |
Binance shares addresses for its wallets and details its holdings: 475K BTC, 4.8M ETH, 17.6B USDT, 21.7B BUSD, 601M USDC, 58M BNB, and a $1B SAFU fund — - Binance has released the addresses of its hot and cold wallets. — It provided a snapshot of its current holdings.
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| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Twitter's chief privacy officer, CISO, and chief compliance officer have resigned; legal now asks engineers to “self-certify” compliance with FTC rules — Twitter's privacy and security teams are in turmoil after Elon Musk's changes to the service bypassed its standard data governance processes.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
In his first email to Twitter staff, Elon Musk warns of “difficult times ahead” and bans remote work, saying employees must be in the office 40+ hours per week — New Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk emailed his workers for the first time late Wednesday to prepare them for …
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| The Verge: |
Elon Musk says Twitter will not survive “without significant subscription revenue” and that the company needs roughly half of revenue to come from subscriptions — Elon Musk has sent his first email to Twitter employees, warning them to prepare for a “dire” economy and putting an immediate end to remote work.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple plans to launch Emergency SOS with Satellite in November and pay $450M to US companies enabling the texting feature, with the majority going to Globalstar — - Apple said Thursday that it will spend $450 million with U.S. companies including Globalstar to enable its new emergency satellite texting feature.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon started a monthslong cost-cutting review of its unprofitable businesses, like its devices unit, which had a $5B+ operating loss in recent years — Review takes a close look at devices unit, which includes Alexa and has had an annual operating loss of $5 billion in some recent years, documents show
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple limits iOS' AirDrop in China for receiving files from non-contacts to 10 minutes after its use in protests, and plans to change the global default in 2023 — Apple Inc. has limited the AirDrop wireless file-sharing feature on iPhones in China after the mechanism was used by protesters to spread images to other iPhone owners.
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Fake Twitter accounts of athletes and other celebrities, some now suspended, are spreading fake announcements and chaos as paid Blue checkmarks become available — Elon Musk's mercurial leadership and half-baked product plans are already creating fertile ground for confusion on Twitter.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mem, a work-focused app that uses AI to organize notes, raised $23.5M led by the OpenAI Startup Fund at a $110M valuation, bringing its total funding to $29M — Last year, OpenAI announced the OpenAI Startup Fund, a tranche through which it and its partners, including Microsoft …
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