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The US Treasury's sanctions watchdog removes Tornado Cash from its global blacklist, after a federal appeals court ruled against the sanctions in November 2024 — The U.S. Treasury Department's sanctions watchdog removed Tornado Cash from its global blacklist Friday.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Yahoo strikes a deal to sell TechCrunch to media investment firm Regent, which acquired PCWorld publisher Foundry earlier this week — Yahoo on Friday said it has struck a deal to sell TechCrunch, the 20-year-old tech journalism site, to Regent, a media investment firm.
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| Paris Martineau / The Information: |
Source: US Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham plan to introduce a bipartisan bill with wide support that would make Section 230 expire on January 1, 2027 — In June 1995, two young congressmen reached across the aisle to introduce legislation that would become the defining legal protection …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
StubHub files for an IPO, with plans to list on the NYSE, and reports a $2.8M loss on $1.77B in revenue in 2024, vs. a $405M profit on $1.37B in revenue in 2023 — Ticket resale marketplace StubHub on Friday filed for an IPO, saying that it plans to list shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly” — The AI search startup laid out its bid for buying, and rebuilding, TikTok.| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Sources: Katie Haun is raising $1B across two new crypto-focused funds as her Haun Ventures is close to deploying most of the $1.5B raised in 2022 — Katie Haun is back on the fundraising circuit. The former federal prosecutor, who raked in $1.5 billion for her record-breaking debut venture funds in 2022 … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Coinbase is in advanced talks to buy Deribit, the largest bitcoin and ether options trading platform, which was reportedly valued at $4B-$5B in January — The companies have notified regulators in Dubai about the discussions as Deribit holds a license there, which would be taken over by any acquirer, some of the people said.| Gael Cooper / CNET: |
DoorDash partners with Klarna to offer payment plans, including credit options for purchases of $35 or more; Grubhub also uses Klarna as a payment option — Don't expect to pay for a taco in installments — a Klarna rep says the credit options can only be used on purchases of $35 and up.
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel reorganizes Intel Foundry leadership as EVP Ann Kelleher, former GM of Technology Development and now strategic adviser, plans to retire later this year — Intel reorgs Intel Foundry around two key executives. — Dr Ann Kelleher, the executive vice president at Intel responsible … | Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times: |
The FCC is investigating Huawei, Hikvision, ZTE, China Telecom, and other Chinese companies over concerns they are ignoring restrictions on US operations — Huawei, ZTE and China Telecom among companies targeted by new FCC investigation — The Federal Communications Commission …
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| Paul Liu / The Keyword: |
Google says its test removing European news content for 1% of users in eight EU countries found that there was no change to Search ad revenue due to the removal — Google ran an experiment to understand the value of European news content. The data shows people visited Google …
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta is testing a “Write with Meta AI” prompt on Instagram that gives users AI-generated suggestions to help write comments under other users' posts — In recent years, Meta has introduced many AI features and capabilities to its apps, even going so far as experimenting …
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| Rhiannon Williams / MIT Technology Review: |
OpenAI, in partnership with MIT, releases its first study on how ChatGPT use affects emotional well-being, including differences in how men and women respond — OpenAI says over 400 million people use ChatGPT every week. But how does interacting with it affect us? Does it make us more or less lonely?
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| Wired: |
Interviews with 50+ current and ex-staffers reveal Google's two-year race to catch up with OpenAI, including through layoffs and lowering some guardrails — The search giant should've been first to the chatbot revolution. It wasn't. So it punched back with late nights, layoffs—and lowering some guardrails.
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