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March 13, 2023, 1:30 AM
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U.S. Department of the Treasury:
The US Treasury, Federal Reserve, and the FDIC: all Silicon Valley Bank depositors will be “fully” protected, and their money will be available on March 13  —  WASHINGTON, DC — The following statement was released by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen …
Bloomberg:
SVB draws support from 500+ VCs, including General Catalyst and Sequoia, while 5,000+ founders and CEOs sign a Y Combinator petition asking US Congress to act  —  More than 100 venture capital and investing firms have signed a statement supporting Silicon Valley Bank, part of mounting industry calls …
Financial Times:
Sources: the UK is seeking a buyer for SVB's British arm, which had nearly £7B in deposits on March 10, with an UAE-based company as the “lead white knight”  —  ‘Lead white knight’ eyeing British arm of tech lender that had billions in deposits
Bloomberg:
Founders fear that the collapse of SVB, which had branches in the UK, Canada, China, Germany, India, Israel, and more, could wipe out startups around the world  —  The fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is beginning to spread around the world.
CNBC:
New York shuts down Signature Bank as US regulators cite a “systemic risk exception” like for SVB, announcing all of Signature's depositors will be “made whole”  —  U.S. regulators said Sunday it shut down New York-based Signature Bank, a second financial institution …
Frank Chaparro / The Block:
Circle says $3.3B of its ~$40B USDC reserves remain at Silicon Valley Bank and that the crypto payments firm will follow state and federal regulators' guidance
New York Times:
SVB's implosion leads to finger-pointing and factionalism, as crypto advocates blame centralized banking and investors argue crypto collapses led to the crisis
Bloomberg:
Coinbase and Binance temporarily suspend conversions of USDC; USDC depegged and traded at ~$0.90 as investors reacted to Circle's SVB exposure
Financial Times:
Sources: Tim Cook has pressed ahead with an MR headset debut in 2023, overruling Apple designers who wanted to wait until the tech catches up with their vision  —  New launch will be first steered entirely by CEO and under direction of operations team  —  When Tim Cook unveils Apple's new …
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
A developer runs Meta's 13B LLaMA model, considered to be competitive with GPT-3, on his laptop, showing local language models are feasible on consumer hardware  —  The open release of the Stable Diffusion image generation model back in August 2022 was a key moment.
Rob Wile / NBC News:
Etsy warns sellers that SVB's collapse is causing payment processing delays and hopes to pay them via its other partners “within the next several business days”  —  Etsy is warning sellers that the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday is causing delays in processing payments …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Roblox and other companies disclose their exposure to SVB in SEC filings; Roblox says ~5% of its $3B cash and securities balance was at SVB as of February 28
John Sakellariadis / Politico:
Worried that cloud giants offer concentrated hacking targets, the US plans to regulate the security practices of Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and others  —  Governments and businesses have spent two decades rushing to the cloud — trusting some of their most sensitive data to tech giants …

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