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March 9, 2023, 7:40 PM

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Financial Times:
Silicon Valley Bank launches a $2.25B share sale after losing ~$1.8B on its ~$21B of US Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities; SIVB closes down 60.41%  —  Technology-focused lender suffered loss on $21bn portfolio of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities
Erin Woo / The Information:
Some VC firms are encouraging their portfolio companies to pull funds out of Silicon Valley Bank while others are advising startups to keep no more than $250K  —  Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker on Thursday told top venture capitalists in Silicon Valley to “stay calm” …
Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Meta's Head of WhatsApp, Will Cathcart, says the service would refuse to comply with the UK's Online Safety Bill requirements to remove end-to-end encryption  —  Meta's head of chat app says it would not comply with the requirements set out in online safety bill
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple unveils a standalone classical music iPhone app with 5M+ tracks and more, available for pre-order now to Apple Music subscribers and launching on March 28  —  Apple is launching a new music streaming service focused on classical music.  Based on its 2021 acquisition …
Washington Post:
An investigation details how a group of conservative Colorado Catholics spent millions to buy mobile app tracking data to identify priests using gay dating apps  —  A group of philanthropists poured money into a Denver nonprofit that obtained dating and hookup app data and shared …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
The UK's CMA filings: Microsoft details how Call of Duty games could run on the Nintendo Switch, citing an “optimized” game engine and the success of past ports  —  In a filing (pdf) submitted to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Microsoft shared some details …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Discord starts testing a ChatGPT-powered version of its Clyde bot and other AI features, such as conversation summaries and tools for moderating servers  —  Discord is now using OpenAI's ChatGPT technology to transform its existing Clyde bot into a talkative chatbot.
CoinDesk:
New York's AG sues KuCoin, alleging the Seychelles-based crypto exchange offers tokens, such as ETH, that meet the definition of a security, without registering  —  A press release said the lawsuit was part of ongoing “efforts to crack down on unregistered cryptocurrency platforms.”
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Grammarly announces GrammarlyGO, a generative AI tool that can write and rewrite content in a user's style, coming to all users via a beta program in April 2023  —  Generative AI was made popular by ChatGPT at the end of 2022, and for the first few months of 2023, the floodgates have opened up for the technology.
Jesselyn Cook / NBC News:
Investigation: some Pinterest users are creating sex-themed image boards of kids and the company's algorithm surfaces such content for adults who seek it out  —  Like other kids her age, 9-year-old Victoria signed up for Pinterest because she wasn't allowed on TikTok.
Bloomberg:
Researchers call for transparency on AI tools' carbon footprint; training GPT-3 took an estimated 1.287 GWh of electricity, or what ~120 US homes use in a year  —  Artificial intelligence has become the tech industry's shiny new toy, with expectations it'll revolutionize trillion-dollar industries from retail to medicine.
Yusuf Mehdi / Bing Blogs:
Microsoft says Bing crossed 100M DAUs, driven by the new Bing preview's millions of active users, of which roughly a third are new to the search engine  —  It's hard to believe it's been just over a month since we released the new AI-powered Bing and Edge to the world as your copilot for the web.
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
The White House's proposed budget is set to include a provision closing tax loss harvesting on crypto transactions, with the change expected to raise up to $24B  —  The U.S. President is expected to unveil his budget proposal on Thursday.  —  U.S. President Joe Biden's proposed budget …

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