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November 9, 2022, 10:40 AM
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| Changpeng Zhao / @cz_binance: |
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says the company signed a non-binding letter of intent to acquire FTX.com and help cover its liquidity crunch, pending due diligence — This afternoon, FTX asked for our help. There is a significant liquidity crunch. To protect users, we signed a non-binding LOI, intending to fully acquire FTX.com and help cover the liquidity crunch. We will be conducting a full DD in the coming days.
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| Joshua Oliver / Financial Times: |
Memo: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says FTX's near collapse “severely” shook confidence in the crypto industry, offers some deal details, and halts FTT sales — Changpeng Zhao tells employees that the bailout of its chief rival is ‘not a win’ — The near collapse of FTX has … | Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Source: after looking at FTX's internal data and loan commitments, Binance is highly likely to scrap its acquisition — Backing out would be one more stunning development in the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire. — Cryptocurrency exchange giant Binance is highly unlikely …
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| Tom Maloney / Bloomberg: |
Sam Bankman-Fried's estimated $15.6B fortune has been eviscerated in days by the demise of FTX and Alameda, dropping to ~$1B, the largest one-day collapse ever — Just weeks ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was considered crypto's version of John Pierpont Morgan, willing to throw around his massive fortune to save the industry.
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Tweets: @tier10k, @r0h1n, @evgenygaevoy, and @kantrowitz
| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
In the wake of FTX's dramatic fall, Binance, Gate.io, KuCoin, Poloniex, Bitget, Huobi, and OKX pledge to release their Merkle tree reserve certificates — Over seven crypto exchanges will publish proof of their reserve holdings in the next month. — Crypto exchanges are now scrambling …
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| Angus Berwick / Reuters: |
In a message to staff, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says withdrawals on FTX.com are “effectively paused” after FTX saw ~$6B of net withdrawals in 72 hours — Crypto exchange FTX saw around $6 billion of withdrawals in the 72 hours before Tuesday morning, according to a message … | Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: |
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| Helen Partz / Cointelegraph: |
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| Meta: |
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to lay off 13% of its staff, or 11,000+ employees, and will cut discretionary spending and extend its hiring freeze through Q1 — Mark Zuckerberg just shared the following with Meta employees: — Today I'm sharing some of the most difficult changes we've made in Meta's history.
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Solana crashes 30%+ to ~$18; bitcoin falls ~10% to ~$17,600 and briefly hit $17,300 on November 8, its lowest since November 2020; ether drops 15% to ~$1,250 — FTX token plunges as Binance steps in to buy the crypto exchange's non-U.S. unit: CNBC Crypto World
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Twitter begins labeling select accounts “Official” as part of its Blue update; not all previously verified accounts will get the label, which won't be for sale — Twitter is rolling out another type of check mark to help distinguish accounts that users actually need to know are real.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: TSMC plans to announce a second chipmaking factory north of Phoenix, Arizona, in the coming months, investing roughly $12B and aiming to make 3nm chips — New facility would produce cutting edge 3-nanometer semiconductors — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple is working on a Custom Accessibility Mode for iOS 16.2 beta 2, codenamed Clarity, helping make the iPhone's and the iPad's UI more user-friendly — Apple on Tuesday released iOS 16.2 beta 2 to developers as the company gets ready to make the update available to the public in December.
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| Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: |
Research suggests Apple collects data about iPhone usage even when the iPhone Analytics setting to “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether” is off — For all of Apple's talk about how private your iPhone is, the company vacuums up a lot of data about you. iPhones …
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| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
YouTube says Music and Premium together have 80M+ paying subscribers, up from 50M in September 2021, and payments to creators and others reached $50B since 2019 — It's a dramatic leap, especially for a platform where so much can be had for free, and would seem to place YouTube … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
IBM announces its Osprey quantum processor with 433 qubits, up from 127 qubits in the 2021 Eagle processor, and plans to hit 4,000 qubits by 2025 — IBM wants to scale up its quantum computers to over 4,000 qubits by 2025 — but we're not quite there yet. For now, we have to make do with …
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| Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: |
Blockchain intelligence startup TRM Labs raised a $70M Series B extension led by Thoma Bravo, bringing the round to $130M — Goldman Sachs, PayPal Ventures, Amex Ventures, and Citi Ventures also participated. — Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs has raised $70 million …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
An interview with CEO Dylan Field on scaling Figma, selling the company to Adobe, retaining autonomy, WebGL, making VR Figma for the metaverse, AGI, and more — We also talk about AI and VR — but we know why you're here. … Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma …
Tweets: @hdarshane
| Dylan Martin / The Register: |
Intel announces a new Xeon CPU family and updated data center GPUs, both part of the Max Series lineup, set to arrive in early 2023 — x86 giant goes all-in with high-bandwidth memory — Intel's latest plan to ward off rivals from high-performance computing workloads involves a CPU …
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| Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal: |
Filings: after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk sold 19.5M Tesla shares, worth almost $4B, between November 4-8; Musk retains a roughly 14% stake in Tesla — The sale of 19.5 million shares this month in the electric-vehicle maker follows sales in April and August
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
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