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Redbox's owner, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, files for bankruptcy protection; Chicken Soup took on $325M in debt when it acquired Redbox in 2022 — Redbox's owner, Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, filed for bankruptcy protection overnight.
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| Paul Kiernan / Wall Street Journal: |
The US finalizes rules requiring custodial crypto platforms to report user transaction info to the IRS; DeFi platforms are exempt amid fierce crypto lobbying — Treasury finalizes rules to deter crypto tax evasion—but softens them after industry lobbying push| The Information: |
Source: Amazon plans to use a controversial trade rule used by Temu and Shein, which exempts packages worth $800 or less from tariffs, for its discount section — Amazon is planning to use the same controversial trade rule as Temu and Shein to import items sold on its upcoming discount …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU tech regulators asked Temu and Shein to provide details on how they comply with the Digital Services Act by July 12, following complaints by consumer bodies — Chinese fast-fashion e-commerce retailer Temu and China-founded peer Shein were ordered by EU tech regulators to provide details …
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| Financial Times: |
European fintech execs say financial services are shunning AI over job loss and regulatory fears, despite evidence that AI will boost productivity and cut costs — Industry leaders say concerns over impact of technology are outweighing benefits such as productivity gains and cost cuts
Forums: Hacker News
| Wired: |
Filings and DOJ officials describe how a gang threatened, assaulted, and tortured 11 victims in likely the worst crypto-focused serial extortion case in the US — More than a dozen men threatened, assaulted, tortured, or kidnapped 11 victims in likely the worst-ever crypto-focused serial extortion case of its kind in the US.
More: US Department of Justice, Metacurity, and The Daily Hodl
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
A US judge rules that SEC charges against Binance, Binance.US, and CZ for violating federal securities laws can proceed, but dismisses secondary sales charges — A federal judge ruled the SEC had plausibly alleged Binance, Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao violated federal securities laws.| Dallin Grimm / Tom's Hardware: |
Hugging Face unveils Open LLM Leaderboard v2 that tests models across six benchmarks; Chinese models dominate the top 10 with Alibaba's Qwen taking the top spot — Optimizing LLMs to be good at specific tests backfires on Meta, Stability. — Hugging Face has released its second LLM leaderboard …
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| Evgeny Morozov / Financial Times: |
How Avery Johnson and Warren Brodey, early members of the American Society for Cybernetics, created a lab in 1967 with a utopian vision to personalize computing — In the late 1960s, a secret US lab was dedicated to mapping the edges of computing — At around 3pm on October 24 1968 …
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| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
An interview with Plaid's first president, Jennifer Taylor, on expanding beyond its traditional fintech customers as its enterprise customer base crosses 1,000 — As Plaid has expanded its fintech services, so, too, has it grown its customer base. — Plaid got its start as a company …
X: @techcrunch and @bayareawriter
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
SK Hynix plans to invest ~$75B on chips through 2028, allocating ~80%, or $60B, on manufacturing HBM chips, as part of the parent company SK Group's bet on AI — - About 80%, or $60 billion, will be spent on HBM memory chips — Plan underscores overhaul at S. Korea's No. 2 business group
More: Reuters
| Bloomberg: |
Solera, which offers SaaS tools for integrated vehicle lifecycle and fleet management, files for a US IPO; sources: Solera may seek to raise as much as $1.5B — - Company may seek to raise as much as $1.5 billion in offering — Solera taken private in 2016 at about $6.5 billion valuation
More: MarketWatch and Reuters
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