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Dutch authorities arrest a Tornado Cash developer suspected of involvement in concealing money laundering, two days after the US sanctioned the crypto mixer — - The Tornado Cash developer arrested by Dutch authorities on Wednesday is Alexey Pertsev, his wife has confirmed to The Block.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Uber plans to end its free loyalty program Uber Rewards on November 1, 2022, to focus on its new Uber One membership program for $10 per month or $100 per year — You have until October 31st to spend your leftover Uber Rewards points — Uber is ending its free loyalty program, Uber Rewards …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Stable Diffusion, a DALL-E 2-like system now available to 1K+ researchers, raises tricky ethical questions by allowing depictions of public figures and more — DALL-E 2, OpenAI's powerful text-to-image AI system, can create photos in the style of cartoonists, 19th century daguerreotypists, stop-motion animators and more.| Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: before ATT, Apple suggested possible revenue-sharing deals to Meta, like taking a cut from “boosted posts” via IAP and an ad-free Facebook subscription — The two tech giants discussed revenue-sharing arrangements, including a potential ad-free, subscription version of Facebook
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| Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News: |
Brooklyn-based Overtime, which shares original sports content on social media, raised a $100M Series D at a $500M valuation, bringing its total funding to $250M — Sports league startup Overtime closed a $100 million Series D valuing the company at $500 million.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: YouTube plans to launch a “channel store” for streaming services as early as Fall 2022 and is talking with partners about subscription revenue sharing — Ultracompetitive U.S. market is prompting streaming services to seek new ways to find subscribers| Financial Times: |
Big investment firms, including Abrdn, BlackRock, and Charles Schwab, are embracing digital assets despite the crypto crash, as consumer groups raise concerns — Abrdn, BlackRock and Charles Schwab have done deals or launched products tied to digital assets this month| Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: Tencent and Alibaba, whose stocks have dropped 60% and 65% respectively since February 2021, have lost more market value than any other stock globally — Just 18 months ago, Tencent Holdings Ltd. was on the cusp of becoming Asia's second trillion-dollar company …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
New York City-based Kumospace, which offers video chat and remote work tools with a “virtual office” feel, has raised a $21M Series A led by Lightspeed — After more than two years of remote work, many employees have no interest in returning to the office — at least not without good reason.
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| Anil Ananthaswamy / Quanta Magazine: |
Some computational neuroscientists say self-supervised AI learning models have shown a closer correspondence to brain function than supervised-learning models — Self-supervised learning allows a neural network to figure out for itself what matters. The process might be what makes our own brains so successful.
Tweets: @freakonometrics and @sustainhistory
| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
A profile of COO Javier Olivan, who has become Meta's “unofficial fixer” and has had a hand in all of the company's major competitive battles and acquisitions — In 2008, Facebook was offered only in English—and struggling to expand internationally.
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
D-Wave completed its planned SPAC merger last week, the third quantum computing startup after Rigetti and IonQ to go public via a SPAC deal within the past year — Yet another quantum computing company has gone public via SPAC. — D-Wave completed a planned merger on Monday with DPCM Capital …
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