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New York's AG proposes the Crypto Regulation, Protection, Transparency and Oversight Act, or CRPTO, seeking broader enforcement authority over crypto companies — Proposed legislation would require crypto exchanges to have independent public audits of financial statements, among other new requirements| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Amazon expands Inspire, its TikTok-like video and photo feed in the Shopping app that lets users buy from influencer and brand content, to all US customers — Amazon's in-app TikTok-like shopping feed is now available to all customers in the United States, according to the company's website.
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Smartphone shipments declined 14% YoY and 7% QoQ globally to 280.2M units in Q1 2023; Samsung declined 19%, Apple 2%, Xiaomi 22%, Oppo 10%, and Vivo 18% — - The global smartphone market declined by 14% YoY and 7% QoQ to record 280.2 million unit shipments in Q1 2023.
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Coinbase plans to try a novel defense against a potential US SEC enforcement action by arguing the regulator bears some responsibility for approving its IPO — Crypto exchange says regulators' lawsuit threat is undermined by clearance of IPO — With the Securities and Exchange Commission preparing …
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A review of the $250 JBL Tour Pro 2 wireless earbuds, whose case has a touchscreen for accessing earbud settings, along with extras like timers and a flashlight — The touchscreen offers quick access to earbud settings along with extras like timers and even a flashlight.
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Sources: Ant's restructuring has been held up for over a year by China reshuffling its regulatory system; the final step is a financial-holding-company license — Powerful new regulator will have to approve the fintech giant's application to become a financial-holding company| Eric Berger / Ars Technica: |
Airbus, Eutelsat, SES, Thales, and other European satellite companies plan to bid for the IRIS² satellite constellation, to rival SpaceX's Starlink in the EU — The bid includes large players such as Airbus Defence and Space, Eutelsat, and SES. — A consortium of nearly every major …
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A look at the ByteDance investors who have billions in paper profits blocked by the US regulatory standoff over TikTok; source: Sequoia China holds a 10%+ stake — The world's most valuable startup does more than any other investment to put VCs on the Forbes Midas List, including its No. 1.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Jakarta-based Praktis, which sells end-to-end supply chain software to direct-to-consumer brands and suppliers, raised a $20M Series A led by East Ventures — Small to medium-sized enterprises contribute 60% of Indonesia's gross domestic product. But companies in the D2C space still struggle to compete against bigger brands.
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Source: a leaked April 2023 internal document by Luke Sernau, a senior software engineer at Google, argues that open-source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI — A senior software engineer at Google wrote a critique asserting that the internet search leader is losing its edge …
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| Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block: |
Dune: Ethereum's median average transaction fee jumped to ~87 gwei on May 2, the highest level since May 2022, mostly due to memecoin trading exploding again — - Average transaction fees on the Ethereum network reached highs last seen in May 2022 this week.
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| Joseph Menn / Washington Post: |
A judge sentences former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan to three years of probation, after his October 2022 conviction for covering up a 2016 data breach from regulators — The first corporate executive convicted of a crime related to a data breach by outsiders is sentenced to probation and finedSponsor Posts
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UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
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