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| Koh Gui Qing / Reuters: |
Records: FTX, its executives, and SBF's parents bought 19+ properties in the Bahamas worth ~$121M over the past two years as “residence for key personnel” — Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, his parents and senior executives of the failed cryptocurrency exchange bought …
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| Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: |
Filings: FTX, Alameda, and other affiliates have $1.2B in cash reserves, below the $3.1B owed to the top 50 creditors; Alameda's reserves are largest at ~$393M — The bankrupt crypto exchange FTX owes around $3.1 billion to its top 50 creditors. — The various divisions …
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| Washington Post: |
Sources detail Elon Musk's rapid dismantling of Twitter's safety work, narrowing its scope to whatever he deems violent, threatening “sticks and stones” talk — Amid the wider turmoil since his takeover last month, Musk has moved rapidly to undermine Twitter's deliberative content-moderation system.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Elon Musk holds Blue Verified's relaunch until “there is high confidence of stopping impersonations” and floats using different colors for orgs and individuals — Elon Musk told Twitter employees on Monday that the company won't relaunch its paid verification subscription …
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| Liz Hoffman / Semafor: |
Despite Elon Musk publicly distancing himself from SBF, texts between them on May 5 show SBF rolled over $100M in Twitter stock during Musk's takeover — Elon Musk used Twitter, the platform he now owns, to gleefully mock the meltdown of the crypto exchange FTX.
Tweets: @semafor, @mchalfant16, @rachelhaot, @semaforben, @carlquintanilla, @cwarzel, and @gerritd
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk said Twitter is done with layoffs and actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales; Twitter has 2,700+ employees — After purging nearly two-thirds of Twitter's 7,500-person workforce in three weeks, Elon Musk is hiring again.
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| New York Times: |
After taking over Twitter, Elon Musk repeats tactics from SpaceX and Tesla, including firing workers, talking of bankruptcy, and introducing a “hardcore” style — Firing people. Talking of bankruptcy. Telling workers to be “hard core.” Mr. Musk has repeatedly used those tactics at many of his companies.
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| New York Times: |
Since Elon Musk's takeover, sources say Twitter has in some cases chosen not to pay vendors, as it reviews and renegotiates deals to cut expenses — Mr. Musk and his advisers are examining all types of expenses at Twitter. Some of the social media company's vendors have gotten stiffed.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Genesis struggles to raise $1B+ funding for its lending unit and warns potential investors that it may need to file for bankruptcy if its efforts fail — Digital-asset brokerage Genesis is struggling to raise fresh cash for its lending unit, and it's warning potential investors …
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Tweets: @tier10k, @gemini, @fintechfrank, @tier10k, @tier10k, @fintechfrank, @fintechfrank, @tier10k, @cryptocred, @tier10k, @fintechfrank, @pythianism, @tree_of_alpha, @ek_hudson, @kyledoops, @gilmoandco, @adamscochran, @chahalvermaa, @bleeding_crypto, @petergleick, @mikealfred, @kadhim, @doombergt, @ogdfarmer, @monkeycharts, @ellebeyoud, @silvermanjacob, @billcorbett, @ercwl, @kylesgibson, @hodlkryptonite, @wublockchain, @asvanevik, @0xfoobar, @0xfoobar, @marionawfal, @jnicholsonindc, @coffeebreak_yt, @_tolks, @whalecointalk, @arkloster, @ap_archpublic, @tradermayne, @concodanomics, @ramahluwalia, @cmsholdings, @biancoresearch, @lisaabramowicz1, @jasoneburack, @julianhosp, @marionawfal, @andy8052, and @sonalibasak
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Genesis Global has $2.8B in outstanding loans, including ~30% of its lending made to related parties like its parent company DCG — The troubled brokerage Genesis Global has $2.8 billion in outstanding loans on its balance sheet, with about 30% of its lending made to related parties including …
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Decrypt, CoinDesk, Reuters, and crypto.news
Tweets: @ap_archpublic, @tier10k, @loopifyyy, @darealmilkbagz, @charliebilello, @sicarious_, @ap_archpublic, @gainzy222, @delphi_digital, @delphi_digital, @wintonark, @highcoinviction, @delphi_digital, @twobitidiot, @delphi_digital, @iamdcinvestor, @nachotrades, @joeconsorti, @kadhim, @marionawfal, @dylanleclair_, @tier10k, @tier10k, @tier10k, @tier10k, @mikeburgersburg, and @twobitidiot
| Stephanie Murray / The Block: |
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao met with investors in Abu Dhabi last week to raise money for a crypto industry recovery fund — Binance Chief Executive Officer Changpeng “CZ” Zhao and several deputies met with investors in Abu Dhabi last week in an effort to raise cash …
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| Samuel Stolton / Politico: |
The UK's CMA launches an investigation into Apple's and Google's dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming, following a survey that found a “stranglehold” — Apple and Google could be forced to loosen their grip on mobile systems after the United Kingdom's competition watchdog launched …
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @s8mb, @profschrepel, @dstallibrass, @megangra, and @cmagovuk
| Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
Meta's researchers detail Cicero, an AI trained to “human level performance” in negotiation-based strategy game Diplomacy, ranking in the top 10% over 40 games — Ever since IBM's Deep Blue artificial intelligence system defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov at his own game in 1997 …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr plans to support ActivityPub, the open and decentralized social networking protocol powering Mastodon, Instagram-like Pixelfed, PeerTube, and others — Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that's today powering social networking software …
Tweets: @photomatt, @harrymccracken, @donmacaskill, @stefangreybeard, @elamhut, @jbenton, @kelseyhightower, @migueldeicaza, and @joelghill
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