In its response to a US federal court, the SEC says Coinbase has no right to compel the agency to issue guidelines for crypto companies “on a specific timeline”
The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a response to Coinbase's complaint requesting the agency to establish regulatory clarity for the industry.
WhatsApp debuts Chat Lock, letting users put chats in a password- or biometrics-protected folder and removing sender and message contents from notifications
WhatsApp is getting a new “Chat Lock” feature intended to make it easier to keep conversations more private.
Sam Altman tells Congress that AI regulation is “essential” but must let companies be flexible and adapt to new tech, recommends safety measures, and more
OpenAI's chief executive Sam Altman will tell US lawmakers on Tuesday that regulation of artificial intelligence must allow companies …
Apple announces a suite of features to improve cognitive, vision, and speech accessibility on iOS and iPadOS, rolling out later in 2023
Apple previewed a suite of new features today to improve cognitive, vision and speech accessibility. These tools are slated to arrive on the iPhone, iPad and Mac later this year.
Apple rolls out new concert discovery features in Apple Maps and Apple Music, including Guides to local venues in select cities and Set Lists for select artists
Apple is bringing concert discovery to two of its flagship apps, Apple Music and Apple Maps, the company announced today.
A live blog of testimony from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, IBM VP Christina Montgomery, and professor Gary Marcus before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will testify to Congress on AI like ChatGPT as regulations and oversight are being considered.
Source: Twitter buys recruiting startup Laskie for “tens of millions” in cash and stock, its first deal of the Elon Musk era; PitchBook: Laskie had raised $6M
Twitter appears to have made its first deal of the Elon Musk era: Buying a job-matching tech startup called Laskie, Axios has learned.
Twitter's encrypted DMs don't offer end-to-end encryption, making them vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks and open to government access requests
A promised audit hasn't actually happened, sources say. PLUS: Twitter's Turkey problem, and a new CEO
SEC court filings: Jump Trading secretly purchased tens of millions of dollars worth of TerraUSD and made ~$1B profit per year before the coin's 2022 collapse
Chicago firm made about $1 billion through dealings with crypto mogul Do Kwon's company, according to the agency
EU states approve the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) rules, becoming the first major global jurisdiction with a crypto licensing regime, taking effect in 2024
The landmark Markets in Crypto Assets regulation was given final approval by the EU's Council, which also agreed a new law for sharing data on crypto tax holdings.
Pharmacy services provider PharMerica says hackers breached its system and stole the names, addresses, SSNs, and health data of 5.8M+ patients on March 12, 2023
Pharmacy services provider PharMerica has disclosed a massive data breach impacting over 5.8 million patients, exposing their medical data to hackers.
Irish Council for Civil Liberties: 75% of the Irish DPC's GDPR decisions in EU-level cases since 2018 have been overruled by the European Data Protection Board
Meta, Google, Airbnb, Yahoo!, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple and Tinder account for 87^% of cross-border GDPR complaints to Ireland's DPC Source: Irish Council … .
Q&A with Michael Lewis on his FTX book, “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon”, slated for October 3, visiting SBF, the forthcoming trial, and more
About a year after the author Michael Lewis began to shadow Bankman-Fried, the founder of the crypto exchange FTX, Bankman-Fried was arrested.
EU regulators approve Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition after Microsoft made concessions to keep rivals' access to Call of Duty and other games
but the saga is ‘unlikely to end soon’ Sofia Wyciślik-Wilson / BetaNews : EU approves Microsoft's multi-billion-dollar Activision Blizzard acquisition despite UK and US opposition Arjun Kharpal / CNBC...
Q1 2023 filings: Berkshire Hathaway sold its TSMC shares after cutting its position by 86% in Q4 2022, while Tiger Global and Coatue added to their TSMC stakes
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. drew mixed bets from top investors in the first quarter, as Warren Buffett closed …
Discord users are scouring servers to find any remaining US military documents from the recent leak, after prosecutors suggested more might still be online
The government secrets leaked on Discord have become fodder for users seeking fun and attention — WASHINGTON—Videogame enthusiasts … Tweets: @jessdonati , @citizenfreepres , @oknox , @blackvaultcom ...
Pluto TV co-founder Ilya Pozin's Telly opens a waitlist to give away 500K 55-inch 4K HDR TVs, which have a second screen for constantly showing ads, in 2023
but there's a massive catch Cesar Cadenas / TechRadar : This free TV has a second screen for extra ads - and it could be a privacy nightmare Axios : Axios Pro: Media Deals Kyle Funk / Techaeris : Want...
Microsoft's Phone Link app now lets iPhone owners use a Windows 11 PC to send and receive messages via iMessage, but not in group chats, and make or take calls
Tom Warren / The Verge :
As the European Central Bank prepares to pilot a digital euro in October, consumers, financiers, and politicians are questioning the project's aims and benefits
Europe's central bank is pushing ahead with the development of electronic currency even as politicians question its purpose Tweets: @mamdorsky , @sonjadav , @izakaminska , @alexstubb , @alemannoeu , a...
River, which offers Bitcoin brokerage, mining, wallet, and custody services, raised a $35M Series B led by Kingsway Capital, with Peter Thiel among investors
The Series B funding for the Bitcoin financial services provider was led by Kingsway Capital. — Bitcoin technology …
Amazon job listings mention an “AI-first initiative to re-architect” search and “reimagining Amazon Search with an interactive conversational experience”
Matt Day / Bloomberg :
MoffettNathanson: US pay TV users fell 7% YoY to 75.5M in Q1 2023, with household penetration at 58.5%, the lowest level since 1992; only YouTube TV grew in Q1
lowest point since 1992, 2 years before DirecTV launched Only #YoutubeTV added 300k subs in Q1 #cable https://variety.com/... @nickandmore : There are currently about 75.5 million pay-TV customers in ...
A jailed Saudi dissident's sister sues Twitter under the RICO Act, arguing its negligence let staff reveal his identity and thousands of others' to Saudi agents
Joseph Menn / Washington Post :
An interview with Kevin Systrom on Artifact's new writer features, serving writers as a key to the news app's growth, matching consumers with writers, and more
Artifact aims to unlock new, cross-platform audience relationships for people who write for a living
Sources: the IRS quietly built a prototype system to let Americans file tax returns digitally and free of charge, with a pilot slated to launch in January 2024
Futu and Tiger Brokers, two Nasdaq-listed online brokerages catering to clients in China, plan to remove apps from Chinese app stores and stop taking on users
James T. Areddy / Wall Street Journal :
MTN plans to build East2West, a $320M inland fiber cable connecting 10 African countries, in Q4 2023, after its subsea cable that landed in Cape Town in 2022
Bloomberg :
Zip, which sells procurement management software, raised a $100M Series C led by Y Combinator at a $1.5B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $181M
Ups Valuation To $1.5B LinkedIn: Kendall Ashe : It's an exciting day here at Zip (ziphq.com) - announcing our series C & the launch of our intake-to-pay solution! — https://www.forbes.com/... … John...
After decades of slumber, Japan's tech industry, which has produced just ~10 unicorns, musters momentum as its startups raised ~$6.2B in 2021 and ~$6.4B in 2022
some of whom are questioning the wisdom of moving fast and breaking things in a world now breaking apart.” https://restofworld.org/...
Hippocratic AI, which is building an LLM for health care, raised a $50M seed co-led by General Catalyst and a16z at a “triple digit millions” valuation
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Baidu reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$4.5B and ~$834M net income, both above analyst estimates, driven by its ad and cloud businesses
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg :
Ethernovia, which builds automotive ethernet chips and software, raised a $64M Series A from Porsche SE, Qualcomm Ventures, VentureTech Alliance, and others
Jane Lee / Reuters :
Google's I/O 2023 suggests that AI is a sustaining innovation for Big Tech; the true fight will be between the major players' centralized models and open source
The founders of Indian BNPL startup ZestMoney, which has raised $130M+, resign amid fundraising struggles, after a deal to be acquired by PhonePe fell through
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Docs: in an informal Azure investigation, EU regulators ask rivals and clients if Microsoft leveraged its market power and business info to squeeze competitors
Together, which aims to build open-source LLMs and was part of RedPajama, a project where six companies replicated Meta's LLaMA dataset, raised a $20M seed
Victor Dey / VentureBeat :
Source: OpenAI is preparing to publicly release its first open-source LLM amid the proliferation of open-source alternatives, including variants of Meta's LLaMA
Cloudflare debuts Cloudflare One for AI, a zero-trust security controls suite to help businesses use generative AI tools while protecting IP and customer data
Victor Dey / VentureBeat :
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