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Binance paused bitcoin withdrawals for a few hours on Monday “due to a stuck transaction causing a backlog”; the company says BTC withdrawals have since resumed — CEO Changpeng Zhao attributed the issue to a “stuck transaction,” and promised a quick fix.| Bloomberg: |
Major cryptocurrencies crash as the crypto market cap falls below $1T: bitcoin drops 15%+ to ~$22K, ether drops 16%+ to ~$1.2K, and Solana drops 7%+ to ~$28 — Bitcoin plunged to the lowest in about 18 months in Asia trading Monday as the impact of Friday's shock US inflation data continued to reverberate through global risk assets.| Celsius: |
DeFi lending platform Celsius pauses “all withdrawals, Swap, and transfers between accounts”, due to “extreme market conditions” and citing its Terms of Use — We are writing with a very important message for our community. — Due to extreme market conditions … | Matt Turner / Bloomberg: |
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Despite differences within the AI community, pretty much all AI experts find the notion that Google's LaMDA might be sentient completely ridiculous — No, LaMDA is not sentient. Not even slightly. … Blaise Aguera y Arcas, polymath, novelist, and Google VP, has a way with words.| Sarah Lord / CNET: |
Amazon plans to test drone deliveries in Lockeford, California, after receiving FAA approval to service the town, for products ordered through Amazon Prime Air — The service will be called Prime Air and will use drones with sense-and-avoid systems to deliver packages safely. — Sarah Lord| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft updates Teams to improve echo cancellation and room acoustics on calls using ML models, resulting in less clipping when callers interrupt each other — Your Teams calls should sound a lot better — Microsoft has spent the past two years adding flashy new productivity features to Teams … | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: Alphabet offered to let rival ad intermediaries place YouTube ads, hoping to end an EU antitrust probe and avert a fine of up to 10% of global turnover — Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL.O) has offered to let rival ad intermediaries place advertisements on YouTube to address … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elon Musk will address Twitter employees and take questions at a company-wide virtual meeting on Thursday morning — Elon Musk will address Twitter Inc. employees at a company-wide meeting this week, the first time the Tesla Inc. chief executive officer will meet with employees since agreeing … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash rolls out in-app features to help users discover nearby restaurants, including written reviews, ratings for menu items, and Top 10 lists of restaurants — DoorDash announced today that it's rolling out a number of new features to give users additional ways to discover popular restaurants near them.| New York Times: |
Microsoft and the CWA union announce a deal that would make it easier for Activision Blizzard's ~7,000 US employees to unionize after the acquisition closes — The accord could ease the path for thousands of workers to unionize at the game company Microsoft is acquiring and addresses an antitrust objection.| Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: |
Qualcomm acquires Cellwize, a software service that helps carriers operate their networks more efficiently, reportedly for $350M; Cellwize has raised $56.5M — Qualcomm Inc. has acquired Cellwize Wireless Technologies Pte. Ltd., a startup with a software platform that helps carriers operate their networks more efficiently.| Steve McCaskill / SportsPro: |
Israel-based Pixellot, which offers AI-automated streaming and video analytics tech for sports broadcasting, raised a $161M Series D led by PSG — Pixellot, a specialist in artificial intelligence (AI) video technology, has raised US$161 million in additional funding to accelerate …
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