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March 3, 2023, 3:20 PM

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Matt Day / Bloomberg:
Amazon pauses second phase of construction of its HQ2 in Virginia as it reassesses office needs following its deepest-ever job cuts; phase one nears completion  —  Amazon.com Inc. is pausing construction on its sprawling second headquarters near Washington, a decision that coincides …
Wall Street Journal:
Internal docs detail efforts by Tether Holdings and Bitfinex to maintain access to the global banking system by using shadowy intermediaries and shell companies  —  Tether Holdings and related crypto broker obscured identities, documents show  —  In late 2018, the companies behind …
Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Meta cuts the price of Quest Pro, its mixed and virtual reality headset meant for business users, from $1,500 to $1,000, and its 256GB Quest 2 from $500 to $430  —  Mark Zuckerberg has announced that the Meta Quest Pro, the company's mixed and virtual reality headset focused on business users …
Axios:
Sources: Founders Fund cut Fund VIII, which is expected to start deploying capital in Q2 2023, from ~$1.8B to ~$900M; the money will be pushed to its ninth fund  —  Founders Fund has quietly cut the size of its eighth venture capital fund in half, from around $1.8 billion to around $900 million, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
New York Times:
US lawmakers warn about AI, but few are trying regulation and many struggle to understand the tech and its dangers; EU policymakers proposed AI rules in 2021  —  Tech innovations are again racing ahead of Washington's ability to regulate them, lawmakers and A.I. experts said.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Foxconn plans to invest ~$700M to build a plant for iPhone parts on a 300-acre site in Bengaluru, India; the plant is expected to create ~100K jobs  —  Apple Inc. partner Foxconn Technology Group plans to invest about $700 million on a new plant in India to ramp up local production …
Erik Schatzker / Bloomberg:
Coinbase acquires One River, a crypto asset management startup that serves only institutional clients, like pension funds; One River was valued at $186M in 2021  —  Coinbase Global Inc., still reeling from a plunge in trading volume on its exchanges, is expanding into a less-volatile corner …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Brave Search debuts Summarizer, a feature that offers a search results synopsis for some queries using Brave's LLM trained to fight “unsubstantiated assertions”  —  It is raining AI-powered features all across search engines.  Today, Brave Search launched a new “Summarizer” …
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Martin Coulter / Reuters:
TikTok told Ofcom it blocks an average of ~180K underage UK accounts a month; Snapchat blocks ~60, says it stops tens of thousands of account creation attempts  —  Snapchat (SNAP.N) is kicking dozens of children in Britain off its platform each month compared with tens of thousands blocked by rival TikTok …

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