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Yogita Khatri / The Block:
Report: FTX's exchange reboot may include a joint venture, a rebrand, and stakes for certain customers; indications of interest in the restart are due this week  —  - FTX has a deadline of this week for interested parties to submit their proposals to potentially help restart the exchange, the WSJ reported.
Colin Wilhelm / The Block:
A US federal judge denies Sam Bankman-Fried's motion to dismiss or sever most of the criminal charges he faces; SBF faces 100+ years in prison if convicted
Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph:
FTX sues its former compliance officer, Daniel Friedberg, alleging he was SBF's “fixer” and that he made “hush money” payments to two potential whistleblowers
The Verge:
Sony accidentally spilled confidential PlayStation information and its Call of Duty revenue by redacting a court document with a Sharpie, revealed after a scan  —  Sony has just revealed lots of highly confidential information about its PlayStation business by mistake.
Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Proton launches its E2E encrypted open-source password manager Proton Pass, available for free on iOS, Android, and browsers Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Brave  —  A couple of months after unveiling Proton Pass, Proton — the company behind end-to-end encrypted email service Proton Mail …
Jack Schickler / CoinDesk:
The EU Commission publishes its digital euro legislative plans, including privacy and financial stability safeguards; some backers question the CBDC's benefits  —  Officials want a digital payment system available to “everyone, everywhere, for free.”  —  BRUSSELS, Belgium …
Bloomberg:
An interview with senior Binance executive Yi He, who has been out of the global spotlight and has children with CZ, on regulators, compliance, Okcoin, and more  —  One senior Binance executive has managed to stay out of the global spotlight over the past six years and counting …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Carl Pei's Nothing raised $96M led by Highland Europe before the Phone (2)'s launch, taking the company's funding to $250M; sources say 2022 revenue was $200M  —  Smartphone sales are in decline as handset makers grapple with saturated markets and a tough consumer economic climate.
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
OpenAI plans to open an office in London, its first office outside of the US, due to “world-class talent”; Sam Altman had floated Poland and France  —  ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc. has chosen London as the home of its first corporate office outside the US, according to a company statement issued Wednesday.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
DoorDash announces new features for couriers, including “earn by time” for a guaranteed hourly minimum rate, real-time location sharing, and Dash Along the Way  —  DoorDash is making a big change to the way couriers get paid.  In an announcement on Wednesday …
New York Times:
UK convenience stores are increasingly using facial recognition tech to combat shoplifting, which critics say is a disproportionate solution for minor crimes  —  British merchants are increasingly using the technology to combat shoplifting, raising questions about its spread as artificial intelligence rapidly improves it.
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Analysis: the Clop ransomware group has breached 122 organizations and stolen the data of ~15M people to date by exploiting a zero-day flaw in Progress' MOVEit  —  The dramatic fallout continues, with as many as 122 organizations now breached.  —  The dramatic fallout continues …
Andrew Brust / The New Stack:
Databricks announces LakehouseIQ, an LLM interface that lets companies use natural language to search and query their data, new Lakehouse AI tools, and more  —  We review Databricks' announcements at Data and AI Summit, and how they counter yesterday's Snowflake Summit reveals.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: the US is considering new AI chip export restrictions to China as soon as July, which could even ban the sales of Nvidia's A800 chip without a license  —  Restrictions come amid concerns that China could use AI chips from Nvidia and others for weapon development and hacking

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

More News

Kwaku Gyasi / Bloomberg:
Chicago-based public cloud infrastructure startup Fly.io, which has data centers in 37 regions globally, raised a $70M Series C led by EQT at a $467M valuation
Alexandra Sternlicht / Fortune:
How Shein's Guangzhou factory influencer tour, likely meant to foster goodwill and improve the company's image before a rumored IPO, backfired spectacularly

Earlier Picks

Miranda S. Spivack / New York Times:
Experts say there is a growing need for data centers in the US, where Statista says there were 2,701 in 2022, but finding the land and energy may be a challenge
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
EU countries and lawmakers reach an agreement on the Data Act, establishing rules on how Big Tech and other companies use European consumer and corporate data
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI updates ChatGPT for iOS with Browse with Bing for ChatGPT Plus subscribers, answering questions using information beyond ChatGPT's original training data
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Report: Google canceled its “Iris” AR glasses project earlier in 2023 to focus on creating AR software platforms to license to headset manufacturers
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
TikTok launches the TikTok Creative Challenge, which lets US-based creators with 50K+ followers submit video ads for brands and make money based on performance
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta launches new parental controls and other safety features for Messenger and Instagram in the US, the UK, and Canada, including letting parents view contacts
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