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Genesis agrees to a settlement with the NYDFS, under the terms of which it will surrender its BitLicense, cease operations in New York, and pay an $8M fine (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
Leo Schwartz / Fortune: Genesis agrees to a settlement with the NYDFS, under the terms of which it will surrender its BitLicense, cease operations in New York, and pay an…
Sources: PE firms Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman are competing to buy DocuSign but may partner to clinch a deal; an outcome is expected in the coming weeks (Reuters)
Reuters: Sources: PE firms Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman are competing to buy DocuSign but may partner to clinch a deal; an outcome is expected in the coming weeks …
Palantir EVP Josh Harris says Palantir and Israel agreed to a strategic partnership to use "Palantir's advanced technology in support of war-related missions" (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)
Marissa Newman / Bloomberg: Palantir EVP Josh Harris says Palantir and Israel agreed to a strategic partnership to use “Palantir’s advanced technology in support of war-related missions” — – US…
Q&A with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on managing deals with publishers, launching the GPT Store, OpenAI's corporate structure, Sam Altman's departure, and more (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: Q&A with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on managing deals with publishers, launching the GPT Store, OpenAI’s corporate structure, Sam Altman’s departure, and more — The AI…
Google plans to allow more real-money games on the Play Store, starting with India, Brazil, and Mexico in June 2024, in compliance with local laws (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google plans to allow more real-money games on the Play Store, starting with India, Brazil, and Mexico in June 2024, in compliance with local laws — …
Notes on Meta's plans for Threads integration with the fediverse, which, at least superficially, the company is carrying out cautiously and in good faith (Tom Coates/plasticbag.org)
Tom Coates / plasticbag.org: Notes on Meta’s plans for Threads integration with the fediverse, which, at least superficially, the company is carrying out cautiously and in good faith — This…
As deepfakes warp elections overseas, US state legislators race to enact laws, with varying penalties, requiring disclosure of the use of AI in political ads (David W. Chen/New York Times)
David W. Chen / New York Times: As deepfakes warp elections overseas, US state legislators race to enact laws, with varying penalties, requiring disclosure of the use of AI in…
Sources: the UK plans to publish "key tests" that need to be met to pass new AI laws, including if its new AI Safety Institute fails to identify risks (Financial Times)
Financial Times: Sources: the UK plans to publish “key tests” that need to be met to pass new AI laws, including if its new AI Safety Institute fails to identify…
How Menlo Ventures is using a special purpose vehicle to lead Anthropic's unusual $750M fundraise, helping, in part, to price bets by Amazon and Google (Forbes)
Forbes: How Menlo Ventures is using a special purpose vehicle to lead Anthropic’s unusual $750M fundraise, helping, in part, to price bets by Amazon and Google — The startup’s new…
Microsoft now lets EU customers store and process data within the bloc on Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Dynamics 365, following AWS and Oracle (Aggi Cantrill/Bloomberg)
Aggi Cantrill / Bloomberg: Microsoft now lets EU customers store and process data within the bloc on Azure, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Dynamics 365, following AWS and Oracle — …
OpenAI has signed up 260 enterprise customers with 150K+ employees combined for the corporate version of ChatGPT, barely four months after launching the product (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: OpenAI has signed up 260 enterprise customers with 150K+ employees combined for the corporate version of ChatGPT, barely four months after launching the product — –…
Platformer is leaving Substack and migrating to Ghost, saying it doesn't believe Substack will publicly commit to proactively removing pro-Nazi material (Casey Newton/Platformer)
Casey Newton / Platformer: Platformer is leaving Substack and migrating to Ghost, saying it doesn’t believe Substack will publicly commit to proactively removing pro-Nazi material — We’ve seen this movie…
Microsoft briefly unseated Apple as the world's most valuable publicly traded company in early trading on Thursday but closed out the day under Apple (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft briefly unseated Apple as the world’s most valuable publicly traded company in early trading on Thursday but closed out the day under Apple — –…
LSEG: US bitcoin ETFs saw $4.6B worth of shares traded on January 11, their first day of trading; Grayscale, BlackRock, and Fidelity dominated trading volumes (Reuters)
Reuters: LSEG: US bitcoin ETFs saw $4.6B worth of shares traded on January 11, their first day of trading; Grayscale, BlackRock, and Fidelity dominated trading volumes — U.S.-listed bitcoin exchange-traded…
The FCC sends letters to nine of the largest automakers, raising concerns about abusive partners using connected car apps to harass and track their victims (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
Kashmir Hill / New York Times: The FCC sends letters to nine of the largest automakers, raising concerns about abusive partners using connected car apps to harass and track their…
Apple says Al Gore and James Bell will retire from its board this year, and Wanda Austin, ex-president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, will join the board (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple says Al Gore and James Bell will retire from its board this year, and Wanda Austin, ex-president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, will join…
Alphabet Union says Wednesday's layoffs at Google impacted more than 1,000 people, making it the largest round of cuts since January 2023 (Jon Victor/The Information)
Jon Victor / The Information: Alphabet Union says Wednesday’s layoffs at Google impacted more than 1,000 people, making it the largest round of cuts since January 2023 — A spokesman…
eBay will pay $3M to resolve charges over a harassment campaign by staffers who sent spiders and other disturbing items to those behind the EcommerceBytes blog (Alanna Durkin Richer/Associated Press)
Alanna Durkin Richer / Associated Press: eBay will pay $3M to resolve charges over a harassment campaign by staffers who sent spiders and other disturbing items to those behind the…
Internal memo: Discord CEO Jason Citron says the company is laying off 17% of its staff, or 170 people, after growing its workforce "by 5x since 2020" (Alex Heath/The Verge)
Alex Heath / The Verge: Internal memo: Discord CEO Jason Citron says the company is laying off 17% of its staff, or 170 people, after growing its workforce “by 5x…
Canada partners with SecurityScorecard to assess the cyber resilience of companies critical to the country's infrastructure and assign them letter grades (Andrew Martin/Bloomberg)
Andrew Martin / Bloomberg: Canada partners with SecurityScorecard to assess the cyber resilience of companies critical to the country’s infrastructure and assign them letter grades — – Country partnering with…