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Signature's and SVB's collapse was aided by GOP-led Dodd-Frank reforms that raised the “stress test” threshold from $50B to $250B, pushed for by SVB executives — Officials with Signature and Silicon Valley banks, which regulators seized in recent days, called for looser financial requirements for midsize banks.
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| Iain Withers / Reuters: |
HSBC acquires Silicon Valley Bank's UK arm for £1, citing “strategic sense for our business”; as of March 10, SVB UK had ~£5.5B in loans and ~£6.7B in deposits — HSBC (HSBA.L) said on Monday it is acquiring the UK subsidiary of Silicon Valley Bank for 1 pound.| Andrew Ackerman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the FDIC is planning another SVB auction, after failing to find a suitor on March 12; at least one offer had been made, which was rejected by the FDIC — Auction comes after failed attempt to find suitor on Sunday — The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: What You Need to Know| Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block: |
Meta plans to wind down its work on NFTs “for now” to focus on other ways of supporting creators and will continue working on Meta Pay — - Meta is ditching its NFT efforts, for now, according to executive Stephane Kasriel. — Meta is ditching its pursuit of NFTs as the company looks …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to cut another 10,000 jobs and withdraw around 5,000 open roles, just four months after cutting 11,000 jobs — Meta plans to cut its workforce by another 10,000 people and close around 5,000 open roles that it has not filled yet, company's founder …
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Sources: Microsoft laid off one of its responsible AI teams that was tasked with assessing the risks associated with integrating OpenAI's tech into its products — As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone — I.| Bloomberg: |
Source: US prosecutors are looking at Telegram group chats between employees at Jump, Jane Street, and Alameda in May 2022 over the collapse of TerraUSD — US prosecutors are scrutinizing chat-group conversations among prominent trading firms including Jump Trading Group and Jane Street Group …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google announces AI-powered features for Docs, Gmail, Sheets, Slides, and other Workspace apps, helping users generate text, summarize topics, and create images — Google has announced a suite of upcoming generative AI features for its various Workspace apps, including Google Docs, Gmail, Sheets, and Slides.
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Sources and documents: India plans to force smartphone makers to let users remove pre-loaded apps and will mandate screening OS updates via new security rules — India plans to force smartphone makers to allow removal of pre-installed apps and mandate screening of major operating system …
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| William Shaw / Bloomberg: |
UK bank NatWest places a £1,000 daily and £5,000 monthly limit on transfers to crypto exchanges, citing scams, after similar moves by Lloyds and HSBC — NatWest Group Plc has restricted customers' crypto activity, becoming the latest UK bank to put limits on the volatile asset class.| Rest of World: |
An in-depth look at tech's terrible 2022 in numbers: VC investment and IPOs falling globally, an 85% drop in new unicorns, layoffs impacting 280,000+, and more — Reduced investment and large-scale layoffs have created dark times for tech globally. — In March 2022, the future of Muni, a Colombian e-commerce startup, looked bright.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft plans to make 3D avatars available to all Teams users in May 2023, after announcing the feature in 2021 and testing them privately in recent months — Microsoft originally announced the avatars feature in 2021 and has been testing it privately in recent months.| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
Experts say that, in the short term, the promise and perils of generative AI may be more modest than the fervor surrounding tools like ChatGPT makes them seem — Hype and fear collide in the tech industry's latest boom — If you listen to its boosters, artificial intelligence is poised …
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| Janko Roettgers / The Verge: |
A look at the shift to the ATSC 3.0 TV broadcast standard, still not available in many major markets since its 2017 launch, as free streaming TV channels surge — Antenna television is back. In recent years, millions of cord-cutters have rediscovered antennas as a reliable … | Kim Mackrael / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft signs a 10-year deal with Boosteroid to distribute Call of Duty if the Activision deal is approved, the third such deal; Boosteroid has ~4M users — Agreement is part of push to convince regulators that the planned $75 billion acquisition won't harm the videogame industry
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Trend Micro: the Emotet botnet, which has returned after a months-long hiatus, is using binary padding and other new tricks to get users to download malware — Quoting Herman Melville is only one of Emotet's latest innovations. — Widely regarded as one of the Internet's top threats …
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| Kate Clark / The Information: |
Sources: Y Combinator will not raise another Continuity Fund, which backs late-stage startups, and the two partners who led the fund plan to leave the company — Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator won't raise another continuity fund, which backs mature private tech companies, two people familiar with the matter said.
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