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The US SEC approves spot bitcoin ETFs from BlackRock, Grayscale, ARK 21Shares, Bitwise, WisdomTree, Fidelity, VanEck, Invesco, Valkyrie, Hashdex, and Franklin — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved 11 spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds, including those of Grayscale …
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
US SEC Chair Gary Gensler concedes that losing in court after rejecting Grayscale's spot bitcoin ETF left the agency with little choice but to approve such ETFs — The SEC chair said a court forced his hand and that the agency's decision to greenlight a spot bitcoin ETF doesn't signal support of that or any other digital asset.| Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI debuts a GPT Store for paid users to share and find custom chatbots and plans to start sharing revenue in Q1; users have already made 3M+ chatbots so far — The store will feature a bot leaderboard, and will eventually introduce payments. — OpenAI has launched an online store …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Team, a new subscription plan for teams of up to 149 people, for $30 per user per month, or $25 per user per month billed annually — OpenAI is launching a new subscription plan for ChatGPT, its viral AI-powered chatbot, aimed at smaller, self-service-oriented teams.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google is reorganizing the Devices & Services teams working on the Pixel, Fitbit, and Nest; Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman are leaving Google — Google is reorganizing the Devices & Services teams responsible for Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit hardware.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X quietly removes the ability for paying subscribers to set an NFT as a profile picture, a feature Twitter launched in January 2022 for Twitter Blue subscribers — On Tuesday, Elon Musk's X wrote about a grand vision for the company in 2024, which includes launching peer-to-peer payments and more AI-powered tools.| The Verge: |
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy confirms plans to cut 500+ jobs, or ~35% of its staff, and says its workforce was oversized for its business' size, after March 2023 cuts — Twitch is laying off more than 500 employees, or around 35 percent of its staff, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy announced this morning.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI is in talks with CNN and Fox Corp. to license their text, video, and image content; Time “is in discussions with OpenAI” about a content deal — - Startup has said it's in discussions with dozens of publishers — Negotiations come as OpenAI faces New York Times lawsuit
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| Kat Bailey / IGN: |
Valve plans to add an “AI disclosure section” to Steam, asking developers to describe how their games use AI content and to let gamers report illegal AI content — New survey update will ask developers to disclose how their games use generative AI.| Rohan Goswami / CNBC: |
The US DOJ says SAP will pay $220M+ to settle investigations into worldwide “recidivist” foreign bribery practices, and enter a three-year deferred prosecution — - SAP, the $192 billion German enterprise tech company, will pay more than $230 million to settle investigations into worldwide …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
The US ITC files its opposition to Apple's motion for the Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 sales ban to remain paused for the duration of the company's appeal — The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) today formally opposed Apple's motion for the Apple Watch sales ban to remain paused for the duration of Apple's appeal.
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix says its ad tier has 23M+ MAUs globally, up from 15M+ in November 2023, and 85% of customers on the ad tier are streaming for over 2 hours per day — Netflix is seeing strong growth of its advertising-based plan, having recently eclipsed 23 million global monthly active users, president of advertising Amy Reinhard said.| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI, Inflection, and Cohere held back-channel talks on AI safety with Chinese state-backed groups in Geneva in July 2023 and October 2023 — OpenAI, Inflection and Cohere held back-channel talks with Chinese state-backed groups in Geneva — US artificial intelligence companies OpenAI …
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| Politico: |
Sources: Amazon won't offer concessions to the European Commission to garner approval for its $1.4B takeover of iRobot; the EU's final deadline is February 14 — Amazon won't offer concessions to the European Commission in a bid to garner approval for its planned $1.4 billion takeover …
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