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X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film

Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit … Continue reading

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Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven counts

Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, has been found guilty on all seven counts related to fraud and money laundering. The defendant is “charged with a wide-ranging scheme to misappropriate billions … Continue reading

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Coinbase’s Q3 revenue beat expectations, but its shares fell as growth prospects underwhelmed

The most bearish thing we can summon is that Coinbase is skating atop a wave of rising interest-based incomes. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Charting the last 10 years of the unicorn era

We’ve witnessed an incredible unicorn stampede over the last 10 years. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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PagerDuty scoops up incident management startup Jeli.io

PagerDuty announced this afternoon that it intends to acquire Jeli.io, an early stage incident management startup. The companies did not share the price. Jeli was founded in 2019 by Nora Jones, a chaos engineering veteran, who had previously worked at … Continue reading

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SBF’s trial is coming to a close – here’s what you missed

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. It’s week five of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial and a lot has happened for the former CEO of FTX. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Musk: SpaceX’s Starlink “has achieved breakeven cash flow”

SpaceX’s Starlink has “achieved breakeven cash flow,” CEO Elon Musk said Thursday, a milestone achievement for the rocket company’s four-year-old satellite internet business unit. He announced the news in a post on X, the social media platform that he also … Continue reading

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Comment on Writely Confirms Google Acquisition by Growing Multiple SaaS Products in Parallel w/ Ryan Buckley – Productize

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Comment on When It Comes To URL Shorteners, bit.ly Is Now The Biggest by The Entire History of URL Shorteners: From TinyURL to Twitter’s t.co

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At Bletchley, Rishi Sunak confirms AI Safety Institute but delays regulations for another day

A Frontier AI taskforce established by the U.K. back in June to prepare for the AI Safety Summit held this week is on course to be a permanent fixture, as the U.K. bids to take a leadership role on AI … Continue reading

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