Journals

Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: DefiLlama: since its November 2023 agreement with US agencies, Binance has had $4.6B net inflows, including $3.5B in January, far outpacing rivals like OKX  —  – New CEO Richard Teng must still contend with lawsuit from… Read More »DefiLlama: since its November 2023 agreement with US agencies, Binance has had $4.6B net inflows, including $3.5B in January, far outpacing rivals like OKX (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: In the Samsung Galaxy S24, S24 Plus, and S24 Ultra online listings footnotes, Samsung says Galaxy AI features will be free only until the end of 2025  —  AI is the big selling point of Samsung’s… Read More »In the Samsung Galaxy S24, S24 Plus, and S24 Ultra online listings footnotes, Samsung says Galaxy AI features will be free only until the end of 2025 (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Google News surfaces sites that use AI to rip-off other outlets and churn out content; Google says News doesn’t focus on whether articles are by humans or AI  —  404 Media reviewed multiple examples of… Read More »Google News surfaces sites that use AI to rip-off other outlets and churn out content; Google says News doesn’t focus on whether articles are by humans or AI (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Bloomberg: BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF passes $1B in investor inflows, with $358M in inflows on January 17; Fidelity is close behind with about $880M in assets  —  – Fidelity is close behind with about $880 million in assets  — Grayscale fund… Read More »BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF passes $1B in investor inflows, with $358M in inflows on January 17; Fidelity is close behind with about $880M in assets (Bloomberg)

Hayden Field / CNBC: OpenAI announces a deal with Arizona State University, which will have full access to ChatGPT Enterprise and plans to build personalized AI tutors  —  – OpenAI on Thursday announced its first partnership with a higher education… Read More »OpenAI announces a deal with Arizona State University, which will have full access to ChatGPT Enterprise and plans to build personalized AI tutors (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Emma Roth / The Verge: Iowa sues TikTok for having an “inaccurate” 12+ age rating on the App Store and a “T” Play Store rating, claiming inappropriate content is “easily accessible”  —  TikTok is getting sued by the state of… Read More »Iowa sues TikTok for having an “inaccurate” 12+ age rating on the App Store and a “T” Play Store rating, claiming inappropriate content is “easily accessible” (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Karissa Bell / Engadget: TikTok details its plans for the 2024 US elections, including a ban on political ads, work with fact-checking organizations, and reports on influence campaigns  —  Its approach hasn’t changed much from 2022.  —  TikTok has shared… Read More »TikTok details its plans for the 2024 US elections, including a ban on political ads, work with fact-checking organizations, and reports on influence campaigns (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Google’s TAG says Russia-linked hacking group Cold River is ramping up its activity and using new tactics, like data-stealing malware, to cause more disruption  —  Google researchers say they have evidence that a notorious Russian-linked hacking… Read More »Google’s TAG says Russia-linked hacking group Cold River is ramping up its activity and using new tactics, like data-stealing malware, to cause more disruption (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

Chainalysis: Illicit crypto addresses received $24.2B in 2023, down from $39.6B in 2022, and stablecoins accounted for the majority of the transaction volume, replacing BTC  —  2023 was a year of recovery for cryptocurrency, as the industry rebounded from the… Read More »Illicit crypto addresses received $24.2B in 2023, down from $39.6B in 2022, and stablecoins accounted for the majority of the transaction volume, replacing BTC (Chainalysis)

Politico: A look at the US Data Protection Review Court, authorized in October 2022 to resume US-EU data transfers and which issues secret rulings, raising privacy fears  —  In a deal to let companies keep trading transatlantic data, the White… Read More »A look at the US Data Protection Review Court, authorized in October 2022 to resume US-EU data transfers and which issues secret rulings, raising privacy fears (Politico)