Sources: US federal prosecutors are digging into internal practices at Block, discussing with an ex-employee alleged widespread and yearslong compliance lapses (Gretchen Morgenson/NBC News)

Gretchen Morgenson / NBC News:
Sources: US federal prosecutors are digging into internal practices at Block, discussing with an ex-employee alleged widespread and yearslong compliance lapses  —  Internal documents indicate Block processed crypto transactions for terrorist groups and Square processed transactions involving nations subject to economic sanctions.

Anthropic launches Team, a new enterprise plan that offers access to its Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models for $30/user/month and a free iOS app (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Hayden Field / CNBC:
Anthropic launches Team, a new enterprise plan that offers access to its Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models for $30/user/month and a free iOS app  —  Anthropic on Wednesday announced its first-ever enterprise offering and a free iPhone app.  —  The generative artificial intelligence startup …

New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which rents out chips to help create AI systems, raised $1.1B led by Coatue at a $19B valuation, five months after raising $642M (Asa Fitch/Wall Street Journal)

Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal:
New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which rents out chips to help create AI systems, raised $1.1B led by Coatue at a $19B valuation, five months after raising $642M  —  Company raises $1.1 billion from investors including Fidelity, Magnetar Capital  —  CoreWeave, a cloud-computing company backed by Nvidia …

Elliptic, MIT, and IBM release an experimental new AI detection model and its 200M-transaction training dataset to help identify Bitcoin money laundering (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Elliptic, MIT, and IBM release an experimental new AI detection model and its 200M-transaction training dataset to help identify Bitcoin money laundering  —  Blockchain analysis firm Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have released a new AI model—and the 200-million-transaction dataset it’s trained on …

LinkedIn launches three Wordle-style puzzle games: theme-based guessing game Pinpoint, Sudoku and Minesweeper-style crossover Queens, and trivia game Crossclimb (Karissa Bell/Engadget)

Karissa Bell / Engadget:
LinkedIn launches three Wordle-style puzzle games: theme-based guessing game Pinpoint, Sudoku and Minesweeper-style crossover Queens, and trivia game Crossclimb  —  How long until “What I learned about B2B sales from playing Crossclimb”?  —  LinkedIn, the professional network known …

In a letter to the US Labor Department, Google says the US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized (Emilia David/The Verge)

Emilia David / The Verge:
In a letter to the US Labor Department, Google says the US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized  —  The US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized, Google says in a letter sent to the Department of Labor.

Changpeng Zhao’s short sentence suggests he had some leverage, and the hearing had references to sealed documents and “cooperation”, perhaps over user details (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge)

Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge:
Changpeng Zhao’s short sentence suggests he had some leverage, and the hearing had references to sealed documents and “cooperation”, perhaps over user details  —  There are a lot of differences between Changpeng Zhao and Sam Bankman-Fried, and now we can add one more to the list …