CoinDesk: France’s public prosecutor investigates Binance over the “illegal” provision of digital asset services and “acts of aggravated money laundering” — Binance is suspected of illegally providing digital asset services to local customers, and implementing poor money laundering checks … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk: France’s public prosecutor investigates Binance over the “illegal” provision of digital asset services and “acts of aggravated money laundering” — Binance illegally provided digital asset services to local customers, and implemented poor money laundering checks, the Paris public prosecutor told CoinDesk. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Joshua Franklin / Financial Times: Court filing: JPMorgan says Frank founder Charlie Javice allegedly told her team to inflate public user numbers to 4.25M, treating website visitors as users — Latest allegation comes in lawsuit filed by bank over acquisition of student finance site — The founder of a student finance … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Manya Saini / Reuters: BlackRock files an SEC application to register its iShares Bitcoin Trust as a spot bitcoin ETF, using Coinbase Custody as its custodian — BlackRock (BLK.N), the world’s biggest asset manager, on Thursday filed for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) that would allow investors to get exposure … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Adobe have met News Corp, the NYT, and others to discuss copyright issues over LLMs and a possible subscription fee — Google and OpenAI are discussing agreements to pay publishers over using content to train generative AI models Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: NY AG documents: Tether once counted securities from Chinese companies among its reserves; Tether said in July 2022 that it held no Chinese commercial paper — Tether Holdings Ltd. once counted securities issued by Chinese companies among the reserves backing its USDT stablecoin … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: In a meeting with Bill Gates, Xi Jinping says China is willing to engage in tech cooperation with the US; Xi is expected to meet Antony Blinken later this week — President Xi Jinping said China is willing to work with the world on technology innovation and global challenges including … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Reuters: Southeast Asian officials say the bloc is drafting AI governance and ethics guidelines to impose “guardrails”, expected to be completed by the end of 2023 — Southeast Asian countries are drawing up governance and ethics guidelines for artificial intelligence (AI) that will impose … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: The UK CMA clears Amazon’s proposed $1.7B iRobot deal, saying acquiring the robot vacuum maker would have “no impact on competition in the UK” — Amazon.com Inc.’s proposed $1.7 billion deal to buy robot vacuum firm iRobot Corp. was given the all-clear by the UK’s antitrust agency. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Twitter suspends the accounts of public records database PlainSite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, who has tracked litigation against Tesla and Twitter — – Elon Musk-led Twitter on Tuesday suspended the Twitter accounts of PlainSite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, a prominent critic of Tesla and Musk. Lees verder op Tech Meme