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May 5, 2023, 3:30 PM

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Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal:
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
Alex Konrad / Forbes:
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.
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.
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 …
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 fined
Bloomberg:
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 …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple Q2 revenue: iPhone up 2% YoY to $51.33B, Mac down 31% YoY to $7.17B, iPad down 13% YoY to $6.67B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 1% to $8.76B  —  - Apple reported second-fiscal quarter earnings on Thursday that beat Wall Street's soft expectations for sales and revenue …
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