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July 14, 2024, 3:05 AM

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Washington Post:
Letter: OpenAI whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe OpenAI's allegedly restrictive NDAs barring staff from warning regulators about the risks its tech may pose  —  In a letter exclusively obtained by The Washington Post, whistleblowers asked the SEC to probe company's allegedly restrictive non-disclosure agreements
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction market with a focus on elections that has raised $70M+ and traded $350M+ in predictions on the US election  —  Prediction markets can provide a clear signal through even the most deafening noise.  That's why Americans are obsessively refreshing this one.
Matthew Connatser / The Register:
Hugh Langley / Business Insider:
Source: Google and Samsung's XR headset, codenamed Moohan and initially planned for Q1 2024, is now set for March 2025, with a developer version in October 2024  —  - Google recently reshuffled the ranks to consolidate teams working in augmented reality.  — The release of Google …
Nikou Asgari / Financial Times:
Galaxy Digital: investment in crypto by VCs and others rose to $3.2B in Q2 2024, the highest amount in a quarter since Q4 2022, and up from $2.5B in Q1 2024  —  Plus, updates on former FTX executives and PayPal's stablecoin … Crypto start-ups trying to raise money have found it very difficult over the past few years.
Anuj Ahooja / augment:
Threads needs to foster community builders rather than get celebrity creators from platforms like Instagram, who tend not to do well on a microblogging platform  —  It's been just over a year since Meta launched Threads, a microblogging platform built upon Instagram's foundation.
Steven Levy / Wired:
A look at MetaFilter, which turns 25 on July 14; owner Jessamyn West, who helped stabilize it after its near death, doesn't plan to license its archives to AI  —  After a quarter century the community-driven site hasn't changed much.  And don't ask it to license its archive to AI.
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Arkham: the German government appears to have sold its last bitcoin on July 12, after authorities seized ~50K bitcoin, worth $2B+, in January 2024 from suspects  —  - The German government had received 50,000 Bitcoin in January  — Bitcoin's price has been choppy in recent weeks on worries
Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
A look at the rise and fall of Jump Crypto and former President Kanav Kariya, and Jump's involvement in some of crypto's biggest scandals, like FTX's collapse  —  The Zoom meeting at Jump Crypto was always running.  And in May 2021, a scrum of employees was on the screen, discussing a mounting crisis.

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