Mastercard and Binance plan to end their card partnership in Latin America and Middle East on September 22; Visa stopped issuing Binance cards in Europe in July
- Visa halts issuing new Binance Card while Mastercard ends pact — Crypto exchange under legal and regulatory challenges globally
Citizen suspends sales of its $350 CZ Smart smartwatch, launched on May 1; review units had extensive issues, including freezing and inaccurate tracking data
The second-generation CZ Smart launched a few months ago. Both the company and reviewers have found serious technical issues.
AMD announces new Radeon RX 7000 series video cards, $449 RX 7700 XT and $499 7800 XT, based on its new Navi 32 GPU and aimed at the 1440p gaming market
With the Gamescom convention taking place in Germany this week, AMD is using Europe's largest video game trade show as the venue for their latest Radeon video card announcements.
NYC-based digital lender Better.com closed down 94% in its Nasdaq debut on August 24, after a SPAC merger with Aurora Acquisition Corp
Once valued at $7.7 billion, Vishal Garg's SoftBank-backed company faced a cratering stock price and no plans for profitability as it went public Thursday via a SPAC merger.
US Treasury proposes new rules treating crypto exchanges more like stockbrokers, requiring them to report crypto gains to the IRS, starting in 2026
Long-delayed regulations would treat crypto platforms more like brokers who handle stocks and mutual funds
Microsoft researchers say Flax Typhoon, a hacking group with suspected links to the Chinese government, is actively targeting dozens of organizations in Taiwan
A group dubbed Flax Typhoon has targeted “dozens” of Taiwanese organizations, according to new research from Microsoft.
NYT, CNN, and some other news outlets block OpenAI's GPTBot web crawler from accessing their content; some have also blocked Common Crawl Foundation's CCBot
Chicago Tribune and Australian newspapers the Canberra Times and Newcastle Herald also appear to have disallowed web crawler from maker of Chat GPT
Meta debuts Code Llama, which can generate code and debug human-written work, under the same community license as Llama 2, free for research and commercial use
Code Llama, Code Llama - Python, and Code Llama - Instruct, fine-tuned for understanding natural language instructions. … Yann LeCun / @yannlecun : You knew that was coming: Code LLama !!! - Llama-2 ...
Meta rolls out its Threads web app to all users, featuring an app bar at the top with the same five tabs as in the mobile app; tapping Home refreshes the Feed
here's how to install it as an app or in Edge's Sidebar Juli Clover / MacRumors : Threads Social Network Expands to the Web Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage : Threads takes next step, expands to t...
Sources: Amazon has had early talks with Disney about working on a streaming version of ESPN, perhaps helping with distribution and taking a minority stake
Amazon has had early talks with Disney about working on the streaming version of ESPN it is developing, said people familiar with the matter.
Reddit launches the “Mod Helper Program”, a tiered system that rewards moderators with trophies and flairs for helping other moderators in r/ModSupport
Reddit is launching the “Mod Helper Program” to reward moderators who offer helpful advice to other moderators, along with an updated moderator help center.
Apple voices its support for California's Right to Repair Act, which passed a Senate vote 38-0 in May 2023 and now awaits approval before a full assembly vote
[1]: https://techcrunch.com/... … @Leisureguy@mstdn.ca : Jason Koebler reports in 404 Media how the Biden administration (in the NHTSA) switched from opposing the Massachusetts right-to-repair law for...
Indian instant grocery startup Zepto raised a $200M Series E led by StepStone at a $1.4B valuation, taking its funding to $560M, India's first unicorn of 2023
Instant grocery delivery startup Zepto has raised $200 million in a new funding round at a valuation of $1.4 billion, it said Friday …
Shein acquires ~33% of Forever 21 parent company Sparc and Sparc takes a Shein minority stake, letting Shein sell Forever 21 items and operate inside its stores
the deal is a win for fast fashion, but a loss for the environment PYMNTS.com : Shein's Forever 21 Returns Deal Spotlights Key Omnichannel Strategy Wajeeh Khan / Invezz : Shein just announced a deal w...
Alibaba debuts two open-source AI models: Qwen-VL, which can understand images and generate captions, and Qwen-VL-Chat, which can have “complex interactions”
- Alibaba launched on Friday two new artificial intelligence models — Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat …
Sources: Swiggy, which was valued at $10.7B in 2022, is considering an IPO in 2024, after putting the plans on hold earlier due to market conditions
Swiggy, the Softbank-backed food delivery company, is eyeing a 2024 stock market listing and has initiated talks with bankers to assess its valuation …
Walmart partners with Alphabet's Wing to test drone deliveries of up to six miles at two stores in the Dallas area, dropping off food and household essentials
Brendan Case / Bloomberg :
Dropbox ends its unlimited option, capping its “all the space you need” storage plan to 5TB, after some abused the tier by pooling storage, reselling, and more
Brody Ford / Bloomberg :
A US judge dismisses an RNC lawsuit alleging Gmail's spam filters illegally suppressed their emails, saying the RNC hadn't shown that Google acted in bad faith
Cristiano Lima / Washington Post :
Toronto-based Ideogram raised a $16.5M seed led by a16z and Index Ventures and launches a beta of Ideogram AI, its generative AI-based text-to-image product
Charlize Alcaraz / BetaKit :
Ikigai Labs, which offers a no-code generative AI service built using large graphical models for tabular data, raised a $25M Series A led by Premji Invest
at least in the sense that they offer at least a subset of what Ikigai offers. Ikigai lands $25M investment to bring generative AI to tabular data | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/... Ben Goertzel ...
How YouTube plans to integrate creators into its NFL Sunday Ticket programming, as the company looks to be a “one-stop shop for multiple types of video content”
Ainsley Harris / Fast Company :
CoinGecko: Worldcoin's WLD fell 9.1% over 24 hours to ~$1.33 and is down 43.6% since its launch a month ago, after scrutiny over data collection and privacy
Timmy Shen / The Block :
To comply with the EU's DSA, Google plans to expand its Ads Transparency Center and offer more info on EU targeted ads, give researchers more access, and more
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :
OnlyFans reports revenue up 17% YoY to $1.1B in the FY to November 30, 2022, profit up 24% YoY to $404M, creators up 47% YoY to 3.2M, and users spent $5.6B
and the platform shows no signs of slowing Peter Hoskins / BBC : OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky receives $338m payout Stuart Dredge / Music Ally : OnlyFans financials reveal it was a billion-dollar b...
Epic Games debuts the Epic First Run program, offering developers 100% of net revenue for six months if they launch PC games exclusively on the Epic Games Store
Source: Tencent Music, NetEase's Cloud Music, and others cut streaming features like virtual lucky draws at a hefty cost, amid China's online gambling crackdown
Josh Ye / Reuters :
Affirm reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $446M, vs. $406M est., net loss up 11% YoY to $206M, and GMV up 25% YoY to $5.5B, vs. $5.3B est.; AFRM jumps 20%+
Emily Bary / MarketWatch :
Customs data: China's chip production tool imports totaled nearly $5B in June and July 2023, up 70% YoY from $2.9B, mostly coming from the Netherlands and Japan
Financial Times :
Hugging Face confirms raising a $235M Series D from Salesforce, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and others, bringing its total funding to $395.2M
Uber raises the minimum age requirement for new ride-hailing California drivers to 25, but not Uber Eats, citing the rising costs of commercial auto insurance
Modular, a platform for developing AI systems, raised $100M led by General Catalyst, bringing its total funding to $130M; GV, Greylock, and others invested too
São Paulo-based Nomad, which offers Brazilians access to financial services in the US, raised a $61M Series B led by Tiger Global at a ~$361M valuation
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