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An interview with Character.ai's founders, who say they left Google's LaMDA project to let users experiment with the latest in language AI through chatbots — The creators of Google's LaMDA have launched the chatbot startup Character.ai, which is open for anyone to try
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| Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk: |
DappRadar: the most daily active users on Decentraland ever was 675 while The Sandbox has had ~4,503; Messari: each metaverse platform has a ~$1.3B market cap — While metaverse platforms Decentraland and The Sandbox both have below 1,000 daily active users, they each have over $1 billion in valuation.
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How HBO Max, Prime Video, and other streamers are trying to grow in a crowded market, including, sources say, via discounted bundles and deals with rivals — In a crowded marketplace, Amazon, HBO Max and other streamers explore discounted packages and partnerships with rivals
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| Danny Nelson / CoinDesk: |
Hong Kong-based About Capital acquires Huobi, a top 10 crypto exchange by trading volume; Huobi says the ownership transfer won't impact trading operations — The terms of the deal were not disclosed. — Crypto exchange Huobi Global, one of the biggest token trading outposts in the Asia markets … | Natalie Wong / Bloomberg: |
A look at business email compromise scams involving US real estate, and the small Secret Service team that helped recover $244M+ in stolen BEC funds since 2019 — For weeks, the Secret Service agent had been trying to identify the scammers moving millions of stolen dollars through banks around the New York tri-state area.
Tweets: @amyokruk, @daniellesacks, @natalexisw, @jeneps, @secretservice, and @joelwebershow
| Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: |
Blizzard plans to require Overwatch 2 and Modern Warfare 2 players to use 2FA system SMS Protect to combat toxicity, but won't accept prepaid and VoIP numbers — Just like Overwatch 2, you'll need to attach a phone number to your Battle.net account to play Modern Warfare 2—and prepaid phones aren't allowed.
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| Kyle Alspach / Protocol: |
An interview with CEO George Kurtz as CrowdStrike surpasses $2B in annual revenue and looks to become a bigger player in data observability and IT operations — CrowdStrike is finding massive traction in areas outside its core endpoint security products, setting up the company to become … | Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
FTX partners with Visa to offer debit cards linked to users' FTX accounts in 40 countries, focusing on Latin America, Europe, and Asia, after their US rollout — - Visa is teaming up with global crypto exchange FTX to offer debit cards in 40 countries with a focus on Latin America, Asia and Europe.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
New York-based Alkymi, which provides no-code workflow automation tools for business users, has raised a $21M Series A led by Intel Capital — Alkymi launched in 2017 with a goal of helping financial services companies automate mundane tasks, a kind of lightweight RPA to grab information … | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Biden signs an EO to implement Privacy Shield 2.0, the EU-US data transfer framework seeking to address EU concerns of surveillance by US intelligence agencies — - President Joe Biden signed an executive order to implement a new framework to protect the privacy of personal data shared between the U.S. and Europe.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
A look at Ukraine's efforts to block crypto donations to Russia's military and paramilitary groups, which, researchers say, received $4M+ since the invasion — Blockchain investigators have uncovered at least $4 million—and counting—in cryptocurrency donations to Russia's violent militia groups.| Casey Ross / STAT: |
New US federal rules requiring health care organizations to give patients access to their full health records in a digital format went into effect on October 6 — The American Revolution had July 4. The allies had D-Day. And now U.S. patients, held down for decades by information hoarders …
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