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Sources: OpenAI is in talks to raise $300M+ from Thrive and Founders Fund in a tender offer, valuing the company at ~$29B, up from $14B in its 2021 tender offer — Tender offer at that valuation would make OpenAI one of the most valuable U.S. startups — Cheating With ChatGPT: Can an AI Chatbot Pass AP Lit?
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US bank Silvergate, which caters to crypto, reports liquidating debt to cover $8.1B withdrawals as FTX collapsed and laying off 40% of its staff; SI falls 40%+ — Bank sold assets at a loss to cover withdrawals and cut 40% of its staff but remains committed to crypto
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Silvergate, Seeking Alpha, Reuters, Crunchbase News, The Information, TheStreet, Reuters, Blockworks, CoinDesk, CNBC, Financial Times, Watcher Guru, CryptoSlate, The Daily Hodl, Bloomberg, The Block, CoinGape, Crypto Daily, Coinspeaker, The Guardian, Finbold, Cryptonews, Web3 is Going Just Great, Bloomberg, and Decrypt
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New York AG Letitia James files a civil lawsuit against Celsius co-founder Alex Mashinsky, alleging he defrauded investors out of billions via false statements — Alex Mashinsky made false statements to investors about the crypto lender, lawsuit alleges — New York Attorney General Letitia …
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Sources: crypto lender Genesis Global laid off 30% of its staff, after cutting 20% of its 260 workforce in 2022, and is considering filing for bankruptcy — Firm suffered steep losses from loans it supplied to Alameda, Three Arrows — Massive crypto lender Genesis Global Trading Inc. laid off 30% …
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Source: Twitter laid off ~40 ad optimization data scientists and engineers, as the company targets areas that leadership considers to be failing or unimportant — Twitter laid off about 40 data scientists and engineers working on advertising late Wednesday night in what amounted to at least …
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| Jules Roscoe / VICE: |
The FTC proposes a rule banning non-compete clauses, saying the contracts harm healthy competition in the labor and product markets and block entrepreneurship — The agency stated that noncompete clauses are bad for both the labor market and innovation. The proposed rule would make them illegal.
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Lenovo unveils the Yoga Book 9i, a laptop with two 13.3" OLED displays, available in June 2023 for $2,100+ with a 13th Gen Intel Core i7-U15 and 16GB of RAM — Dual monitor setups are great and all, but how about dual screens in a strangely tall laptop? Lenovo is here to answer that …
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| Angus Berwick / Reuters: |
Source: FTX's former top lawyer Daniel Friedberg cooperated with US prosecutors, telling them on November 22 what he knew about SBF misusing customer funds — FTX's former top lawyer Daniel Friedberg has cooperated with U.S. prosecutors as they investigate the crypto firm's collapse …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
WhatsApp launches proxy support globally, letting users with blocked or disrupted connections use the app via servers set up by volunteers and organizations — Amid internet shutdowns in Iran, the encrypted messaging app is introducing proxy connections that can help people get online.
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| Leyland Cecco / The Guardian: |
Apple quietly launches a catalog of books narrated by AI on its Books app, in a move that publishers, authors, and agents warn may upend the audiobook market — Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI - but move expected to spark backlash
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| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Memo: Genesis parent company DCG shut its wealth management division HQ on January 2; filing: HQ had more than $3.5B under management as of December 2022 — Digital Currency Group, the parent company of crypto broker Genesis and the publication CoinDesk, has shut down its wealth management …
Tweets: @kateclarktweets, @kateclarktweets, and @amir
| Gabrielle Fonrouge / CNBC: |
Stitch Fix plans to cut 20% of its 1,700 salaried staff as founder Katrina Lake reassumes the CEO role from Elizabeth Spaulding, who took over in August 2021 — - Stitch Fix founder Katrina Lake announced the company will be cutting 20% of its salaried workforce. — Lake will also reassume her post as CEO.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
California's pay transparency law, which requires employers to share salary ranges on job listings, went into effect this week, revealing some Big Tech salaries — - A new law that went into effect this week requires most California employers to disclose salaries on job listings.
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| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Sony unveils Project Leonardo, a PS5 accessibility controller kit with circular gamepads, for use on its own or with DualSense; pricing and release are TBC — Sony is building a better PlayStation 5 controller with Project Leonardo, a kit that promises to make games easier to play for people with limited motor control.| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
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Documents and sources: Facebook backed off muting all recommendations of politics and other sensitive topics, finding the move had a “high and inefficient cost” — Hitting mute button on political content recommendations brought unintended consequences
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Election Law Blog and Social Media Today
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| Levi Winslow / Kotaku: |
After YouTuber Coffeezilla reported on Logan Paul's apparently sham NFT game CryptoZoo, Paul says his only mistake was trusting the project's many “bad actors” — Blockchain investigator Stephen ‘Coffeezilla’ Findeisen may see Paul in court — After keeping his mouth shut …
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Alibaba, Tencent, and other Chinese tech giants have struck a truce with the government, accepting lower growth and more controls as China eases its crackdown — In China, 2022 was the year Big Tech changed. Succumbing to a government crackdown and a pandemic that refused to go away … | Scott Stein / CNET: |
HTC unveils the $1,099 Vive XR Elite headset with a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2, 110-degree field of view, and two 90HZ 2K LCD displays, available in February 2023 — The compact, depth-sensing, $1,099 headset arrives in February. Vive boss Dan O'Brien explains the strategy. — VR has suddenly gotten more expensive.
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IGN, Engadget, Auganix.org, PC Gamer, Destructoid, MobileSyrup, Game Rant, The Verge, Forbes, Android Central, Road to VR, Laptop Mag, VentureBeat, Pocket-lint, PCMag, and Tech Advisor
Tweets: @nathievr, @nathievr, and @kishoderrek
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google says Android TV OS, the underlying platform for Google TV and Android TV, now has 150M monthly active devices, up 36%+ YoY — At CES 2023 this week Google is sharing an update on how many devices are now using Google TV and Android TV, with 150 million devices in the hands of users.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
A hacker leaks a dataset allegedly containing the email addresses of 200M+ Twitter users, claimed to be a cleaner version of the 400M dataset from December 2022 — A data leak described as containing email addresses for over 200 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacker forum for about $2.
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Tweets: @linkletter, @mayatcontreras, @youranonnews, @iamtexture, and @mister_ch0c
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