Journals

Will Canny / CoinDesk: Oobit, which lets consumers pay using crypto while merchants receive fiat currency, raised a $25M Series A led by the investment arm of Tether and others  —  The round also included participation from Anatoly Yakovenko, the… Read More »Oobit, which lets consumers pay using crypto while merchants receive fiat currency, raised a $25M Series A led by the investment arm of Tether and others (Will Canny/CoinDesk)

Margi Murphy / Bloomberg: Graphika: the viral pornographic deepfakes of Taylor Swift originated from a 4chan challenge to bypass anti-porn filters on Microsoft Designer and DALL-E  —  – Users on 4chan forum competed to bypass anti-porn filters  — Deepfakes also… Read More »Graphika: the viral pornographic deepfakes of Taylor Swift originated from a 4chan challenge to bypass anti-porn filters on Microsoft Designer and DALL-E (Margi Murphy/Bloomberg)

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: Snap plans to lay off 10% of its global workforce, or around 529 employees  —  Social media company Snap said on Monday that it would lay off 10% of its global workforce, or around 529 employees. … Read More »Snap plans to lay off 10% of its global workforce, or around 529 employees (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Thoma Bravo takes critical event management software company Everbridge private in a $1.5B all-cash deal; Everbridge had a market cap of $6.4B in 2021  —  Everbridge, a critical event management (CEM) software company, is going private… Read More »Thoma Bravo takes critical event management software company Everbridge private in a $1.5B all-cash deal; Everbridge had a market cap of $6.4B in 2021 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Kim Bhasin / Bloomberg: StatusPro, which makes a first-person simulation NFL game for VR headsets, raised a $20M Series A led by GV  —  – The $20 million funding round is set to be announced Monday  — Google has poked… Read More »StatusPro, which makes a first-person simulation NFL game for VR headsets, raised a $20M Series A led by GV (Kim Bhasin/Bloomberg)

Financial Times: Sources: the UK shelved plans to publish rules on the training of AI models using copyrighted material, after artists and tech groups failed to agree terms  —  Government-led talks stall as artists and tech groups fail to agree… Read More »Sources: the UK shelved plans to publish rules on the training of AI models using copyrighted material, after artists and tech groups failed to agree terms (Financial Times)

Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: Montenegro’s government says it has extradited Han Chang-joon, the former CFO of Terraform Labs, to South Korea  —  Han Chang-joon was charged with carrying falsified travel documents alongside Terra co-founder Do Kwon last year.  —  Register… Read More »Montenegro’s government says it has extradited Han Chang-joon, the former CFO of Terraform Labs, to South Korea (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Source: Microsoft’s Bethesda considers bringing the new Indiana Jones game to PS5, months after Xbox and PC release, as part of a new multi-platform approach  —  Bethesda’s upcoming Indiana Jones game is also tentatively set… Read More »Source: Microsoft’s Bethesda considers bringing the new Indiana Jones game to PS5, months after Xbox and PC release, as part of a new multi-platform approach (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: UK’s Reach strikes a deal with Amazon for “contextual” first-party data to target online ads, as the media industry responds to end of third party cookies  —  Media sector scrambles to deal with fallout from… Read More »UK’s Reach strikes a deal with Amazon for “contextual” first-party data to target online ads, as the media industry responds to end of third party cookies (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)

Reuters: Sources: soaring appetite for its AI chips and manufacturing constraints have forced Huawei to prioritise AI and slow production for its premium Mate 60 phones  —  Soaring appetite for Huawei’s (HWT.UL) artificial intelligence (AI) chips coupled with manufacturing constraints… Read More »Sources: soaring appetite for its AI chips and manufacturing constraints have forced Huawei to prioritise AI and slow production for its premium Mate 60 phones (Reuters)