Category: Consumer Assistance
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Sources: Cantor’s Brandon Lutnick, son of the US commerce secretary, seeks to form a $3B BTC acquisition vehicle with SoftBank, Tether, and Bitfinex as partners (Financial Times)
Financial Times: Sources: Cantor’s Brandon Lutnick, son of the US commerce secretary, seeks to form a $3B BTC acquisition vehicle with SoftBank, Tether, and Bitfinex as partners — Investment vehicle backed by son of commerce secretary comes as US adopts more favourable policy on digital currency
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Superpower, which uses AI for personalized health overviews and offers biannual lab testing that analyzes 100+ blood biomarkers, launches with a $30M Series A (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Superpower, which uses AI for personalized health overviews and offers biannual lab testing that analyzes 100+ blood biomarkers, launches with a $30M Series A — A startup called Superpower is publicly launching what it calls the world’s first super app that is designed to help people better understand and take care…
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US v. Google: OpenAI’s ChatGPT chief, Nick Turley, says the company would be interested in buying Chrome from Google if a federal court orders it to be spun off (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: US v. Google: OpenAI’s ChatGPT chief, Nick Turley, says the company would be interested in buying Chrome from Google if a federal court orders it to be spun off — OpenAI would be interested in buying Google’s Chrome browser if a federal court orders it to be spun off, the head of ChatGPT said…
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SAP reports Q1 cloud revenue up 26% YoY to €4.99B, vs. €5.05B est., and adjusted operating income up 58% to €2.5B, beating estimates; SAP jumps 9%+ after hours (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: SAP reports Q1 cloud revenue up 26% YoY to €4.99B, vs. €5.05B est., and adjusted operating income up 58% to €2.5B, beating estimates; SAP jumps 9%+ after hours — Adjusted operating income rose to €2.5 billion ($2.9 billion), up 58% when holding currencies constant …
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WBD rolls out a $7.99/month Extra Member Add-On for US Max subscribers, about two years after Netflix made a similar move to crack down on password sharing (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
Tony Maglio / The Hollywood Reporter: WBD rolls out a $7.99/month Extra Member Add-On for US Max subscribers, about two years after Netflix made a similar move to crack down on password sharing — U.S. users can also transfer their existing (adult) profile to the extra member account. — Max rolled out an “Extra Member…
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Researcher: the official SDK JS library for interacting with the XRP Ledger, with 140K+ weekly downloads, was compromised; XRP Ledger Foundation says it’s fixed (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
Daniel Kuhn / The Block: Researcher: the official SDK JS library for interacting with the XRP Ledger, with 140K+ weekly downloads, was compromised; XRP Ledger Foundation says it’s fixed — – The XRP Ledger Foundation said there is a potential vulnerability in recent versions of the XRPL JavaScript library used …
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SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom, says hackers accessed USIM-related customer info, potentially useful in SIM swap attacks and targeted surveillance (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest telecom, says hackers accessed USIM-related customer info, potentially useful in SIM swap attacks and targeted surveillance — South Korea’s largest mobile operator, SK Telecom, is warning that a malware infection allowed threat actors to access sensitive USIM-related information for customers.
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DOJ v. Google: an OpenAI exec says Google declined to let OpenAI access its search index; a DOJ remedy proposal would make Google share its index with rivals (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: DOJ v. Google: an OpenAI exec says Google declined to let OpenAI access its search index; a DOJ remedy proposal would make Google share its index with rivals — OpenAI’s Nick Turley said the company never intended to simply create a chatbot like its popular ChatGPT, and instead wanted to deliver a …
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Supabase, an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase that’s used by 2M+ developers, raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: Supabase, an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase that’s used by 2M+ developers, raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation — Supabase cofounders Ant Wilson and Paul Copplestone. — Supabase — Paul Copplestone didn’t think things like this actually happened.
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The Washington Post partners with OpenAI to make its content “more accessible” in ChatGPT; OpenAI says it now has similar deals with 20+ other publishers (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Todd Spangler / Variety: The Washington Post partners with OpenAI to make its content “more accessible” in ChatGPT; OpenAI says it now has similar deals with 20+ other publishers — The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has gone into business with artificial-intelligence powerhouse OpenAI.
