Filing: crypto-friendly US bank Silvergate delays its annual report, citing investigations from regulators, Congress, and the DOJ; SI plunges over 40%
Shares fell over 10% in after-hours trading. — Christy Goldsmith Romero … Commissioner — U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
The Biden administration releases its cybersecurity strategy, seeking to impose minimum standards, shift responsibility to larger software makers, and more
The strategy represents a shift in how Washington approaches cybersecurity, veering toward a more strictly regulated approach.
Following criticism, OpenAI says the company won't use data submitted via its API for “service improvements” like AI model training, unless a customer opts in
As the ChatGPT and Whisper APIs launch this morning, OpenAI is changing the terms of its API developer policy …
After a report said Binance misplaced ~$1.8B in USDC, Binance offered confused and sometimes contradictory responses, continuing its petulant and defensive tone
The FUD is coming from inside the building, says David Z. Morris, CoinDesk's chief insights columnist.
Microsoft updates its Bing chatbot to let users toggle between creative, balanced, and precise tones, hoping to counter Bing's wild outbursts
Microsoft has added a new feature to its Bing chatbot that lets you toggle between different tones for responses.
A profile of Emily M. Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington who co-wrote a paper in 2020 to illustrate what LLMs can and cannot do
Nobody likes an I-told-you-so. But before Microsoft's Bing started cranking out creepy love letters; before Meta's Galactica spewed racist rants … Mastodon: @ben@werd.social , @emilymbender@dair … , ...
After Twitter cut off API access, Tapbots and The Iconfactory update Tweetbot and Twitterrific, asking subscribers to consider declining prorated refunds
Long story short: If you're a subscriber to either Tweetbot or Twitterrific, you can help them out with three simple steps:
Coinbase switches banking partners for Prime accounts from Silvergate to Signature, after Silvergate reported being “less than well-capitalized”
Coinbase said it was no longer accepting or initiating payments to or from Silvergate after the troubled crypto bank said yesterday that it may be …
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT API for businesses, with dedicated capacity plans, priced at $0.002/~750 words, and says Snap and Shopify are among the early adopters
What Does This Mean? Michael Kan / PCMag : ChatGPT Is Coming to an App Near You: OpenAI Launches API for Its Chatbot GitHub : openai-python| /chatml.md — This commit does not belong to any branch o...
Researchers detail UEFI bootkit BlackLotus, capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot even on up-to-date Windows 11 systems and selling for $5K since October 2022
The first in-the-wild UEFI bootkit bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on fully updated UEFI systems is now a reality
Snap plans to let Snapchat users pause Streaks by buying Streak Restores for $0.99 each time and will soon let Snapchat+ subscribers pause Streaks indefinitely
Maintaining Snap Streaks — where you send a snap to your friend once every 24 hours — is really important to a lot of Snapchat users.
Microsoft researchers unveil Kosmos-1, a multimodal LLM they claim can understand image content, pass visual IQ tests, and accepts a variety of input formats
Microsoft believes a multimodal approach paves the way for human-level AI. — On Monday, researchers from Microsoft introduced Kosmos-1 …
Email app BlueMail's co-founder says Apple blocked an update that added ChatGPT-powered features over inappropriate content concerns, requiring a 17+ age limit
iPhone maker asks email app with AI-language capabilities to set a 17-and-older age restriction — Regulation of Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence
Sources: Chinese officials have declined to process Arm China's transfer to a new Vision Fund entity, holding up Arm's plan to exit the joint venture
Unresolved restructuring looms over SoftBank's plans for blockbuster listing of UK chip designer — China is holding up Arm's plan …
Sources: EU regulators seem likely to approve Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, satisfied by the company's Nintendo and Nvidia licensing deals
EU antitrust regulators are not expected to demand that Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) sell assets to win approval for its $69 billion acquisition …
A profile of former FTX engineering chief Nishad Singh; filings show Singh owned 7.8% of FTX US, 10% of FTX Ventures, and 44M shares in the main exchange
He is the latest member of FTX's inner circle to plead guilty to fraud — Nishad Singh followed Sam Bankman-Fried into the high-stakes world of cryptocurrency trading.
A profile of OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, who previously led Tesla's Model X development and has been at the helm of OpenAI's strategy to test its tools in public
OpenAI unlocked the generative-AI boom with tools like ChatGPT and Dall-E—and that's why it's our Most Innovative Company of the Year. Tweets: @ainsleyoc , @imkarthikk , @mikehofman , @davidlidsky , a...
Sources: the FDA rejected Neuralink's clinical trial application, citing dozens of issues to fix before human testing, like the device's removal and its battery
Musk has said his brain implant company, Neuralink, will make the paralyzed walk, the blind see and eventually turn people into cyborgs.
CRM startup Attio, which claims better performance than Salesforce and its rivals, raised a $23.5M Series A led by Redpoint and crossed $1M ARR in December 2022
While a partner at a VC firm, Nicolas Sharp took on the project of finding customer relationship management (CRM) software for the firm.
Sources: Arm decided against a London listing for now to focus on a sole NYC listing later in 2023; in 2022, SoftBank was aiming for a $60B+ valuation for Arm
Apptopia: so far in 2023, TikTok has generated $205M more in IAP revenue than Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter combined
Big social networks are pulling a massive revenue U-turn since Apple's introduction of App Tracking Transparency. The user privacy feature …
TikTok introduces new well-being features, including improving screen time controls, adding new default settings for teens, and expanding Family Pairing
but this potentially is a big first step away from the App Addiction business model https://twitter.com/... Philip Lewis / @phil_lewis_ : TikTok announces “every account belonging to a user below age ...
In a letter, YouTube head Neal Mohan outlines his key priorities and teases upcoming features, such as new generative AI tools for creators and Shorts additions
supporting the success of creators, building for the YouTube of the future, and protecting the YouTube community Here's what creators need to know! https://twitter.com/... @youtube : in 2022, Shorts g...
OpenAI, founded as a nonprofit to “focus on a positive human impact”, now operates as a closed-source, for-profit company at the center of a chatbot arms race
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $8.38B, vs. $7.99B est., Q1 revenue guidance above est., and doubles its share buyback to $20B; CRM jumps 10%+
CRM giant beats growth forecasts, guides strongly and announces more shareholder return Jordan Novet / CNBC : Salesforce shares jump 16% on better-than-expected forecast Orianna Rosa Royle / Fortune :...
Twitter users globally reported multiple site issues for over two hours, including the timeline not loading on the web and mobile; most users could still tweet
but (my take): other tech companies have taken note: you can run a company at 25% of the workforce https://www.nytimes.com/... Tom Coates / @tomcoates : So twitter's timeline was down for about 2-3 ho...
How Commerce Department Secretary Gina Raimondo became a key player in the US' stricter China policy, including helping steer the CHIPS Act, exports, and TikTok
China's Big Fund pledges to invest ~$1.9B more in memory chipmaker YMTC, suggesting Beijing is again boosting its beleaguered chip industry after US tech curbs
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Amazon's Ring names former Meta and Microsoft executive Elizabeth Hamren as its CEO, replacing Ring founder Jamie Siminoff, who will remain as chief inventor
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Robinhood launches a standalone Robinhood Wallet app globally on iOS, with Polygon and Ethereum network support, and says an Android app is coming later in 2023
Zeynep Geylan / CryptoSlate :
A history of the Xerox Alto, a computer that debuted in the early spring of 1973 at PARC and presaged personal, interactive, networked, and graphical computing
David C. Brock / IEEE Spectrum : Tweets: @leapingrobot Tweets: Patrick McCray / @leapingrobot : “Despite its age, using it feels so familiar and natural that it's sometimes difficult to appreciate ju...
Staff and analysts: FIS is spinning off Worldpay as the ~$43B deal suffered from incompatibility, Worldpay's slow response to changing customer needs, and more
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A look at India's homegrown digital payments system UPI, which is run by the NPCI nonprofit and used by close to 300M individuals and 50M merchants
both formal and informal—had a digital wallet option available. But what was so striking was that practically every one I saw was different than the next. https://www.nytimes.com/... Mujib Mashal / @m...
NYC-based SpotDraft, which develops contract lifecycle management software, raised a $26M Series A led by Premji Invest, bringing its total funding to $30.5M
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Snowflake reports Q4 revenue up 53% YoY to $589M, vs. $576M est., lowers FY 2024 guidance below est., and authorizes a $2B share buyback; SNOW drops 10%+
Emily Bary / MarketWatch :
Paris-based Sesamm, which uses NLP to generate insights helping companies adhere to their ESG goals, raised a €35M Series B2, taking its total funding to €50.5M
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch :
GitHub's free secret scanning alerts service, which notifies users of potential repository leaks, hits general availability, after a December 2022 beta release
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer :
Analysis: at least eight companies that went public via SPACs filed for bankruptcy since June 2022, almost 100 are spending unsustainably, and 73 trade below $1
Bloomberg : Tweets: @mattzeitlin , @carlquintanilla , @herbgreenberg , @hkanji , and @thestalwart Tweets: Matthew Zeitlin / @mattzeitlin : If we scrapped the accredited investor rules, it's not like ...
A profile of Christos Rammos, the key investigator of the Greek government's spyware scandal engulfing PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis' administration since summer 2022
Wunderkind, which lets brands target web visitors through emails, texts, and more, raised a $76M Series C, bringing its total funding to $150M+
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.