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August 2, 2023, 9:45 AM

Top News

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Wall Street Journal:
Internal Binance data and current and former employees say Chinese users traded ~$90B in crypto assets on the exchange in May 2023, despite China's crypto ban  —  Retaining its Chinese footprint will be crucial for Binance as it faces a global regulatory crackdown
Aidan Ryan / The Information:
Sources: Changpeng Zhao tried to liquidate Binance.US earlier this year, before pivoting to attempting to sell the company, holding talks with Gemini and others  —  Binance founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao attempted to shut down the crypto exchange's U.S. offshoot earlier this year …
Chavi Mehta / Reuters:
Meta begins the process to end news access on Facebook and Instagram in Canada, in response to a law forcing some companies to negotiate deals to pay publishers  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) said on Tuesday it has begun the process to end access to news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada.
Carly Page / TechCrunch:
Halcyon: Cloudzy, a Wyoming-registered web hosting company likely operating out of Tehran, is acting as a command-and-control provider for state-backed hackers  —  A little-known cloud company provided web hosting and internet services to more than two dozen different state-sponsored hacking groups …
Steven Church / Bloomberg:
A Voyager Digital lawyer says the crypto lender's user data may have been stolen when the company started letting customers recover their funds in June 2023  —  - Voyager customers hit with scams amid bankruptcy payout  — Voyager lawyers referred potential hack to law enforcement
Jen Christensen / CNN:
An early-stage study of 80,000 women in Sweden who underwent a mammogram in 2021 and 2022 finds AI-supported screening increased breast cancer detection by 20%  —  Artificial intelligence found more breast cancers than doctors with years of training and experience and cut doctors' mammogram …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
In a challenge to TikTok, YouTube releases new Shorts creation tools for remixing, adding effects, going live, as well as an interactive Q&A sticker, and more  —  As competition with TikTok and Instagram Reels heats up, YouTube today announced an expanded suite of creation tools …
Fortune:
A look at Katie Haun's $1.5B crypto fund, launched in spring 2022 just before the crypto crash, which has now deployed ~30% of its cash to ~24 startups  —  On a sunny morning in April, Katie Haun trudged up a winding path around the Stanford Dish in the hills over Palo Alto.

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