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The SEC sues Terraform Labs and Do Kwon, accusing them of selling unregistered securities and perpetrating a fraudulent scheme that lost $40B+ in market value — The US Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to sue the company behind TerraUSD, a crypto stablecoin whose collapse …
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| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
The SEC says Do Kwon and Terraform Labs have withdrawn $100M+ in fiat currency from a Swiss bank since June 2022, after moving 10K+ Bitcoin out of a cold wallet — Crypto fugitive Do Kwon and the firm he founded transferred over 10,000 Bitcoin out of their doomed project and turned …
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| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki plans to step down after nine years, to be replaced by Neal Mohan as SVP and head of YouTube; Wojcicki was Google's 16th employee — One of the most prominent women in tech — and one of Google's earliest employees — is leaving the company.
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Documents: Binance used secret access to Binance.US' Silvergate bank account to move $400M+ in Q1 2021 to Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao's trading firm Merit Peak — Global cryptocurrency exchange Binance had secret access to a bank account belonging to its purportedly independent U.S. partner …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple's iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4 betas add support for Safari web apps on the homescreen to send push notifications and show notification badges — Apple's new iOS and iPadOS 16.4 betas will let Safari web apps on your homescreen send you push notifications, according to a new post on the WebKit blog.
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OpenAI plans to improve ChatGPT's behavior to reduce biases, allow more user customization, and get more public input into decision-making about system defaults — We're clarifying how ChatGPT's behavior is shaped and our plans for improving that behavior, allowing more user customization …
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| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
OpenAI, Stanford, and Georgetown researchers warn disinformation campaigns could use LLMs and propose governments could restrict training data and AI hardware — As generative language models become more accessible, easier to scale, and write more persuasive text, they could be used to spread disinformation.
Tweets: @motherboard, @marshallk, @leahmcelrath, @tante, @mistresssnowphd, and @danmcquillan
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
In an email, Google's Search SVP tells staff to rewrite Bard's bad responses in a “neutral tone” and to “not imply emotion” as the tool “learns best by example” — - Google executives sent a document to employees with the do's and don'ts of fixing bad responses …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft authorizes Parallels Desktop 18 to support Windows 11 on Apple's M1 and M2 Macs, after previously only licensing ARM versions of Windows to OEMs — Microsoft is officially supporting Windows 11 on Apple's M1 and M2 Macs thanks to a partnership with Parallels to allow the operating system to run in a virtual environment.
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| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
DoorDash Q4: revenue up 40% YoY to $1.8B, vs. $1.77B est., a $642M net loss, vs. $265M est., up from $155M YoY, and 32M+ MAUs, up from 25M+ YoY; DASH jumps 5%+ — People are spending more on food delivery even as prices rise — DoorDash Inc.'s DASH -1.95%decrease; red down pointing triangle revenue rose …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches Instagram Channels, a broadcast chat feature that lets select US creators share public, one-to-many text, images, and more with their followers — Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is launching a new broadcast chat feature on Instagram called “Channels.”
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Sources: Meta gave ~10% of staff subpar ratings in recent performance reviews, a sign of more workforce reductions, and cut a bonus metric to 85% of its target — The performance-review process is expected to set the stage for more workforce reductions this year — Why Tech Layoffs Don't Reflect the Job Market
Tweets: @samro
| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Source: the UK CMA is investigating a deal in which Google pays Apple a portion of search revenue generated by people using Chrome on iOS — Those billions just may have dissuaded iPhone giant from building rival search, beefing up Safari — EXCLUSIVE Google has been paying Apple a portion …
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| Erika Wheless / Ad Age: |
TikTok quietly launches its in-app shopping checkout feature in the US; apparel brands Pacsun, Revolve, and Willow Boutique seem to be among the pilot partners — Pacsun and Revolve appear to be among the pilot brands — TikTok has quietly launched its shop pilot in the U.S. … | Mia Sato / The Verge: |
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