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March 11, 2023, 11:25 AM

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Frank Chaparro / The Block:
Circle says $3.3B of ~$40B USDC reserves remain at Silicon Valley Bank and it will follow guidance provided by state and federal regulators  —  - After being largely silent on Friday, Circle said it has $3.3 billion in exposure to Silicon Valley Bank, which collapsed earlier in the day and was placed in FDIC receivership.
Bloomberg:
Coinbase says it is “temporarily pausing” conversions of USDC into USD during the weekend; USDC traded at ~$0.90 as investors reacted to Circle's SVB exposure  —  The second-largest stablecoin in crypto fell from its intended $1 peg on Saturday, trading as low as 81.5 cents …
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Circle's USDC sees $1B in net redemptions since SVB's shutdown and has lost its $1 peg, after Circle said SVB is one of six banks managing USDC cash reserves  —  Stablecoin issuer Circle held an undisclosed amount of USDC's cash reserves at now-failed Silicon Valley Bank.
TechCrunch:
How startup founders are reacting to Silicon Valley Bank's collapse, as some worry about frozen funds, operating expenses, and paying employees full salaries  —  Engineers at Polymath Robotics were working late Wednesday night on multiple projects when co-founder and CEO Stefan Seltz-Axmacher noticed chatter …
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sarah Wynn / The Block:
Filing: crypto lender BlockFi, which filed for bankruptcy in November 2022, has $227M in uninsured funds in SVB; BlockFi may have violated US bankruptcy law  —  - Crypto lender Blockfi has millions in uninsured funds because the cash is a money market mutual fund, according to a bankruptcy document filed on Friday.
Dan Primack / Axios:
Matt Levine / Bloomberg:
Marc Rubinstein / Net Interest:
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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
How the FBI proved that NetWire was a Remote Access Trojan and not a legitimate remote admin tool, leading to the seizure of the website selling the malware  —  On Thursday, the U.S. government announced that it had seized a website used to sell malware designed to spy on computers and cellphones.
Giovanni Colantonio / Digital Trends:
ChatGPT seems to have plagiarized at least one mobile game to “invent” a game called Sumplete, after being prompted to create a Sudoku-like puzzle  —  ChatGPT can add another job to its résumé: game developer.  With just a few simple prompts from a user …
James Vincent / The Verge:
LinkedIn's decision to start publishing “AI-powered conversation starters” to provoke discussions is a milestone and may herald semiautomated social networks  —  It makes sense that LinkedIn would be the first major social network to push AI-generated content on its users.

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