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| Koh Gui Qing / Reuters: |
Records: FTX, its executives, and SBF's parents bought 19+ properties in the Bahamas worth ~$121M over the past two years as “residence for key personnel” — Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, his parents and senior executives of the failed cryptocurrency exchange bought …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
SBF says FTX had ~$60B in collateral in spring 2022, but a credit squeeze, market selloff, and “run on the bank” reduced it to $9B ahead of the bankruptcy — The former FTX CEO did not address concerns about customer funds being misappropriated or other recent revelations about the company.| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
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| New York Times: |
Since Elon Musk's takeover, sources say Twitter has in some cases chosen not to pay vendors, as it reviews and renegotiates deals to cut expenses — Mr. Musk and his advisers are examining all types of expenses at Twitter. Some of the social media company's vendors have gotten stiffed.
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| Liz Hoffman / Semafor: |
Despite Elon Musk publicly distancing himself from SBF, texts between them on May 5 show SBF rolled over $100M in Twitter stock during Musk's takeover — Elon Musk used Twitter, the platform he now owns, to gleefully mock the meltdown of the crypto exchange FTX.
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| Washington Post: |
Sources detail Elon Musk's rapid dismantling of Twitter's safety work, narrowing its scope to whatever he deems violent, threatening “sticks and stones” talk — Amid the wider turmoil since his takeover last month, Musk has moved rapidly to undermine Twitter's deliberative content-moderation system.
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| Washington Post: |
Pathmatics: over a third of Twitter's top 100 clients, including Mars and Jeep, as well as 14 of the top 50, haven't advertised on Twitter in the past two weeks — More than a third of Twitter's top 100 clients have not advertised on the platform in the past two weeks, data shows
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Genesis Global has $2.8B in outstanding loans, including ~30% of its lending made to related parties like its parent company DCG — The troubled brokerage Genesis Global has $2.8 billion in outstanding loans on its balance sheet, with about 30% of its lending made to related parties including …
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| Ken Sweet / Associated Press: |
In a bankruptcy hearing, FTX lawyers say a “substantial amount” of assets have been stolen from accounts; client names and addresses will be redacted for now — Lawyers for FTX disclosed Tuesday that a “substantial amount” of assets has been stolen from the accounts …
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Tweets: @jacqmelinek, @tbr90, @davidgura, @autismcapital, @kadhim, @ericbalchunas, @adamscochran, @intangiblecoins, @tier10k, @autismcapital, @blevimyers, @tombevanrcp, @ryan_browne_, @davidgura, @autismcapital, @tree_of_alpha, @davidgura, @kadhim, @kensweet, @kadhim, @matthewstoller, @markamesexiled, @tier10k, @davidgura, @nikhileshde, @akikofujita, @alexqgb, and @tier10k
| Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: |
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| Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook's Q3 Widely Viewed Content Report: in a first, none of the top 20 posts broke platform rules; sources detail Meta's latest fight against spammy content — Third-quarter content report shows only one in the top 20 posts qualified as engagement bait — What's Behind Social Media Spambots and Can They Be Stopped?| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
Meta's researchers detail Cicero, an AI trained to “human level performance” in negotiation-based strategy game Diplomacy, ranking in the top 10% over 40 games — Ever since IBM's Deep Blue artificial intelligence system defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov at his own game in 1997 …
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| Denny Jacob / Wall Street Journal: |
HP to lay off 4,000 to 6,000 employees, or up to ~10% of its workforce, over the next three years as part of a plan to achieve $1.4B in annualized cost savings — Dell warns of a worsening decline after a 17% drop in third-quarter laptop and desktop sales — HP Inc. HPQ 0.75%increase …
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CNBC, CNET, SiliconANGLE, San Francisco Business Journal, Oregonian, The Hill, CNN, Fortune, Reuters, CRN, Axios, Reuters, and Channel Futures
Tweets: @carlquintanilla and @kasdad
| Samuel Stolton / Politico: |
The UK's CMA launches an investigation into Apple's and Google's dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming, following a survey that found a “stranglehold” — Apple and Google could be forced to loosen their grip on mobile systems after the United Kingdom's competition watchdog launched …
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