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A trio of artists sue Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt over AI art copyright; a firm suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI over Copilot filed the lawsuit — A trio of artists have launched a lawsuit against Stability AI and Midjourney, creators of AI art generators Stable Diffusion and Midjourney …
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Pitch decks: Three Arrows Capital founders Su Zhu and Kyle Davies are hoping to raise $25M to start crypto exchange GTX, partnering with two CoinFlex executives — - Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, the founders of collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), are hoping to raise $25 million …
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| Reuters: |
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi says regulators have lifted a ban on new user registrations, signaling an end to a longrunning regulatory crackdown — China's ride hailing giant Didi Global said in a statement on Monday that it would be allowed to resume new user registration, after a more than year-long ban that curbed its growth.| Abhishek Vishnoi / Bloomberg: |
Tencent's Hong Kong stock has risen around 95% since October 28 and Alibaba's stock is up about 85% over a similar period, as China relaxes its tech crackdown — Shares of Tencent Holdings Ltd. have nearly doubled from their recent lows on growing signs that China is preparing to end … | Qianer Liu / Financial Times: |
Investigation: Alibaba paid Chinese scholars to lobby authorities to relax regulations and rehabilitate its reputation, hoping to navigate China's clampdown — Alibaba has been paying academics to lobby Chinese authorities to relax regulations and rehabilitate its reputation …
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| Craig Hockenberry / furbo.org: |
Twitterrific developer Craig Hockenberry calls Twitter's decision to ax APIs for third-party apps without notice a “shit show”, leaving customers in the lurch — Well, it happened. — We knew it was coming. — A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it.
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| Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph: |
After North Korea's Lazarus Group moved ~41K ETH, worth ~$63.5M, stolen from the Harmony bridge hack, Binance and Huobi freeze 124 BTC linked to the hackers — In a recent tweet, on-chain crypto detective ZachXBT said that the hackers have been moving $64 million in the last weekend. — 75 Total views
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Decrypt, The Block, Bitcoin News, Coinspeaker, Ethereum World News, Metaverse Post, Cryptopolitan, CoinDesk, Crypto Daily, crypto.news, Emage, CryptoPotato, CoinGape, CoinJournal, and CryptoSlate
Tweets: @zachxbt, @cz_binance, @justinsuntron, @tayvano_, @zachxbt, @whalecointalk, and @zachxbt
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: the European Commission is preparing a statement of objections to Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard deal, set to be released in the coming weeks — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is likely to receive an EU antitrust warning about its $69 billion bid for “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: seeking to win US allies, TikTok has proposed a complex, $1.5B plan to reorganize its US operations, including oversight of its key algorithms — Chinese-owned app proposes giving U.S. officials oversight of its algorithms — Two years into negotiations with U.S. regulators …
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New York Post, CNN, The Information, and City A.M.
Tweets: @deitaone, @patiencehaggin, @paul__armstrong, @jamespindell, @jchengwsj, @astaniscia86, @wsj, and @mayazi
| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Shiba Inu developers plan to launch Shibarium, an Ethereum Layer 2 network, in the coming weeks, focusing on the metaverse and gaming applications — Ecosystem tokens shiba inu, leash and bone will serve as the the upcoming Ethereum-based blockchain. — Upcoming layer 2 network Shibarium …
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Shiba Inu Ecosystem, Decrypt, The Block, The Block, Invezz, CoinGape, CoinGape, CryptoPotato, CryptoGlobe, crypto.news, The Crypto Basic, Watcher Guru, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cointelegraph, CryptoGlobe, CryptoSlate, Micky, and Ethereum World News
Tweets: @shibtoken, @shibsteve, @hsakatrades, and @cryptokoryo
| Forbes: |
A look at Deltec, an obscure Bahamian bank that got a $50M loan from an FTX-tied entity in October 2021, and chairman Jean Chalopin, who has ties to FTX leaders — The loan was among several deals struck with Jean Chalopin, the head of Deltec and Moonstone banks — and co-creator of Inspector Gadget … | Bloomberg: |
Experts raise concerns about Germany's plan to heat homes with heat expelled by data centers as the warm air isn't hot enough for most district heating networks — Germany wants to force its power-hungry data centers to harness excess heat for warming residential homes — an effort which the industry warns is likely to fall flat.
Tweets: @economics and @carolynnlook
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