Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare Industry News & Policy:
Atropos Health, whose AI chatbot helps clinicians generate observational studies on real world data rapidly and at scale, raised a $33M Series B led by Valtruis — Atropos Health real-world data funding round venture capital (VC) — Atropos Health, maker of a real-world data platform …
Sources: Alibaba raised $4.5B from a convertible bond sale in one of the largest such offerings in recent years, after rival JD.com’s recent $1.75B offering (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Sources: Alibaba raised $4.5B from a convertible bond sale in one of the largest such offerings in recent years, after rival JD.com’s recent $1.75B offering — – Company to immediately repurchase 14.8 million of its ADRs — Move is to obtain cash offshore on favorable terms: Choi
The White House issues a call to action seeking companies’ voluntary commitment to curb the creation, spread, and monetization of nonconsensual sexual AI images (Associated Press)
Associated Press:
The White House issues a call to action seeking companies’ voluntary commitment to curb the creation, spread, and monetization of nonconsensual sexual AI images — President Joe Biden’s administration is pushing the tech industry and financial institutions to shut down a growing market …
Sources: Samsung’s HBM3 chips have yet to pass Nvidia’s tests for use in the US company’s AI processors due to heat and power consumption problems (Reuters)
Reuters:
Sources: Samsung’s HBM3 chips have yet to pass Nvidia’s tests for use in the US company’s AI processors due to heat and power consumption problems — Samsung Electronics’ (005930.KS) latest high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips have yet to pass Nvidia’s (NVDA.O) tests for use …
OpenAI releases a majority of past employees from nondisparagement agreements tied to their exit contracts and would not seek to cancel staffers’ vested equity (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
OpenAI releases a majority of past employees from nondisparagement agreements tied to their exit contracts and would not seek to cancel staffers’ vested equity — – AI startup is changing policies for outgoing employees — OpenAI apologized for restrictions in exit contracts
Sources: Meta is considering charging users for a more advanced version of Meta AI and is developing AI agents that can complete tasks without human supervision (Kalley Huang/The Information)
Kalley Huang / The Information:
Sources: Meta is considering charging users for a more advanced version of Meta AI and is developing AI agents that can complete tasks without human supervision — Meta Platforms is considering charging users for a more advanced version of its artificial intelligence-powered assistant …
The US SEC approves applications from Nasdaq, Cboe, and NYSE to list spot ether ETFs, potentially paving the way for them to begin trading later this year (Reuters)
Reuters:
The US SEC approves applications from Nasdaq, Cboe, and NYSE to list spot ether ETFs, potentially paving the way for them to begin trading later this year — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday approved applications from Nasdaq, CBOE and NYSE to list exchange-traded funds …
Google increases the Play Store’s app price limit to $999.99 or the local equivalent, a 150% jump from the previous price limit of $400 set in October 2015 (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Google increases the Play Store’s app price limit to $999.99 or the local equivalent, a 150% jump from the previous price limit of $400 set in October 2015 — – Developers can now price their products on Google Play as high as $999.99. — The previous app price limit was $400, set back in late 2015.
The US SEC approves spot Ethereum ETFs from BlackRock, Fidelity, Grayscale, Bitwise, VanEck, Ark, Invesco Galaxy, and Franklin Templeton (The Block)
The Block:
The US SEC approves spot Ethereum ETFs from BlackRock, Fidelity, Grayscale, Bitwise, VanEck, Ark, Invesco Galaxy, and Franklin Templeton — – The SEC has approved eight spot Ethereum ETFs in an omnibus order. — This comes just four months after the agency approved spot Bitcoin ETFs for the first time.
Spotify tells customers that its Car Thing dashboard accessory will stop working on December 9, less than a year after it went on sale, without offering refunds (Chris Welch/The Verge)
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Spotify tells customers that its Car Thing dashboard accessory will stop working on December 9, less than a year after it went on sale, without offering refunds — Spotify’s brief attempt at being a hardware company wasn’t all that successful: the company stopped producing …
