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Coinbase says it received an SEC notice warning the company of potential US securities law violations and recommending that the SEC take an enforcement action — - The SEC issued crypto exchange Coinbase a Wells notice, warning the exchange that it identified potential violations of U.S. securities law.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
The US SEC sues Tron founder Justin Sun and his companies for the alleged “unregistered offer and sale of crypto asset securities” TRX and BTT, fraud, and more — The SEC alleged TRX, BTT are unregistered securities, and claimed Sun created an “extensive wash trading” program to boost their trading volume.
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| CNBC: |
Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul, and other celebrities agree to pay a combined $400K to settle SEC charges over promoting TRX and BTT without disclosing compensation — - The SEC unveiled charges against diplomat Justin Sun for fraud and securities violations, while also charging celebrity backers including Jake Paul and Lindsay Lohan.
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| Washington Post: |
Poll of 1,027 US adults: 41% support a TikTok ban, 25% oppose it, and 71% are concerned that ByteDance is based in China; 17% of US daily users support a ban — As D.C. pushes for action against TikTok, a Washington Post poll finds more support than oppose banning the app
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
GitHub announces Copilot X, a new Copilot version with chat and voice features using OpenAI's GPT-4 to help with certain coding tasks, available via a waitlist — Microsoft Corp.'s GitHub unit created one of the first widely deployed programs using OpenAI's language-generation tools …
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| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI has fixed a “significant issue” in ChatGPT after a bug in an open-source library let some users see titles of other users' chat history — ChatGPT-owner OpenAI said on Wednesday it had fixed a bug that caused a “significant issue” of a small set of users …
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| Chris Stokel-Walker / BuzzFeed News: |
Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins says Midjourney banned him after he made images of a Donald Trump arrest; the company banned the word “arrested” in its tool — “I suspect it was pushing my luck when I did the [Twitter] thread,” Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins said.| Sean Endicott / Windows Central: |
Microsoft launches Loop, its Notion and Asana competitor, in preview, letting users collaborate in shared Microsoft 365 workspaces on the web, Android, and iOS — You can now try out Microsoft's new collaboration tool Loop. — What you need to know — Microsoft Loop is now available in preview.
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| New York Times: |
A look at RightWingGPT, an experimental AI model fine-tuned to manifest conservative viewpoints, made by a researcher who claims ChatGPT has a left-leaning bias — After criticizing A.I. companies for liberal bias, programmers started envisioning right-wing alternatives, making chatbots a new front in the culture wars.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Singapore-based Kredivo Holdings, formerly called FinAccel, whose services include BNPL, loans, and neobanking, raised a $270M Series D led by Mizuho Bank — The funding landscape in Southeast Asia is still wintery, but one fintech managed to land a major round.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla announces Mozilla.ai, an AI-focused startup with a $30M seed from the Mozilla Foundation to create a “trustworthy”, independent open-source AI stack — On the eve of its 25th anniversary, Mozilla, the not-for-profit behind the Firefox browser, is launching an AI-focused startup.
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| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Job listings site Indeed lays off ~2,200 people, or ~15% of its headcount, citing falling HR Tech revenue; Tokyo-based Recruit acquired Indeed in September 2012 — Job listings site Indeed.com told employees on Wednesday that it's laying off 2,200 people, representing 15% of its headcount … | Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Crypto exchange Bitget acquires a controlling stake in crypto wallet company BitKeep with a $30M investment at a $300M valuation — - Bitget has invested $30 million in BitKeep at a $300 million valuation. — The crypto exchange is now the controlling stakeholder of the wallet provider.
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FinSMEs, Bitget, CryptoSaurus, BeInCrypto, The Information, InvestingCube, blockchainreporter, crypto.news, Cryptonews, Forkast, Cointelegraph, and CoinDesk
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@yogita_khatri5, @bitkeepos, @yogita_khatri5, @top7ico, and @yogita_khatri5
| TechCrunch: |
After the Russia-linked Clop ransomware gang claimed to hit 130 companies, victims are coming forward, many of which used Fortra's GoAnywhere file transfer tool — Clop claimed it mass-hacked 130 organizations. Now the list of known victims is growing — The number of victims affected … | Meta: |
WhatsApp unveils an updated app for Windows that it says loads faster and enables group video calls with up to eight people and audio calls with up to 32 people — Takeaways — We're launching a new WhatsApp app for Windows desktop that loads faster and enables group video calls …
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