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Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, saying Meta “engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets” and other IP — Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform …
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
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| Nathan Crooks / The Block: |
Report: Binance GC Han Ng, Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Hillmann, and compliance SVP Steven Christie are leaving Binance over CZ's response to the DOJ's probe — - Top executives at Binance resigned this week over CEO Changpeng Zhao's handling of regulatory investigations into the company, Fortune reported, citing sources.
Source: Fortune. More: CoinDesk, Unchained Crypto, Coinpedia Fintech News, Bloomberg, Bitcoinist.com, Ethereum World News, Cointelegraph, CryptoSlate, The Information, and CryptoPotato
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| New York Times: |
Sources: the FBI searched Kraken co-founder Jesse Powell's home in March 2023, as part of US prosecutors' probe into claims he hacked a nonprofit he founded — Federal agents were investigating Jesse Powell, the founder of the crypto exchange Kraken, over claims that he hacked and cyber-stalked a nonprofit arts group.
More: CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Coinpedia Fintech News, The Block, and Ethereum World News
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Twitter: @tier10k, @napgener, @rmac18, @fistofkhonshu69, @0xg00gly, @mikeburgersburg, @simondixontwitt, and @laurashin. Forums: r/CryptoCurrency
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases its GPT-4 API in general availability, giving all paying developers access and planning to give new developers access by the end of July 2023 — OpenAI today announced the general availability of GPT-4, its latest text-generating model, through its paid API.
More: OpenAI, Towards Data Science, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, and TechRepublic
Twitter: @openai, @openai, @kenn, and @officiallogank
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sega co-COO Shuji Utsumi says the company is withholding its biggest games from third-party blockchain gaming projects and is shelving its own blockchain games — Sega Corp., the gaming studio once regarded among the staunchest advocates of blockchain gaming, is pulling back from an arena devastated … | New York Times: |
How Tom Brady's crypto ambitions, like being an FTX “ambassador”, collided with reality, part of the humiliating reckoning facing crypto embracing celebrities — The superstar quarterback is among the celebrities dealing with the fallout from the crypto crash. Others, like Taylor Swift, escaped.
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Forums: r/TaylorSwift, r/TaylorSwift, and r/CryptoCurrency
| Kara Carlson / Austin American-Statesman: |
Volkswagen plans to start its first US tests of autonomous driving in Austin, beginning with a small fleet of ID. Buzz EVs equipped with VW and Mobileye tech — Even more driverless vehicles will be tooling around Austin, as Volkswagen joins the ranks of companies that have tested their autonomous vehicle technology in Austin.
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| Frederick Munawa / CoinDesk: |
Lightning Labs announces tools that let developers create AI agents that leverage GPT function calls to hold, send, and receive bitcoin via Lightning Network — “We are in the realm of enabling use cases that weren't previously possible,” Lightning Labs CEO Elizabeth Stark told CoinDesk.| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
A look at London-based VC firm Balderton's well-being program that helps startup founders manage nutrition, sleep, and mental health to mitigate burnout risk — VC firm Balderton will launch wellness packages as stress takes toll on entrepreneurs — When Etsy paid $1.6bn to buy Depop in 2021 …
LinkedIn: Geoff Yang, Duncan Grierson, Stephan Uhrenbacher, Matt Cooper, Scott Robinson, and Daniel Waterhouse
| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
The European Commission opens a full-scale investigation into Amazon's $1.7B iRobot acquisition, setting a November 15, 2023 deadline to clear or block the deal — Amazon's (AMZN.O) $1.7 billion acquisition of robot vacuum cleaner maker iRobot (IRBT.O) may reduce competition …
More: European Commission, Engadget, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Thurrott, and CNBC
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
TikTok launches its subscription-only standalone music streaming service TikTok Music in Indonesia and Brazil, featuring UMG's, WMG's, and Sony Music's catalogs — TikTok has already dominated the short-video and social media market, and is now looking to take on Spotify and Apple Music with its latest offering.
More: Music Business Worldwide, Music Ally, Forbes, Billboard, and Variety
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DigitalOcean plans to acquire NYC-based Paperspace, which offers cloud computing for AI models, for $111M in cash; Paperspace had raised $35M from YC and others — DigitalOcean, the cloud hosting business, today announced that it's agreed to acquire Paperspace, a New York-based cloud computing …
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