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FTX Says SBF, Other Founders Received $3.2 Billion from Alameda and Other Entities

Mar 16, 2023 · 7:23am PDT
Nishad Singh, Gary Wang and Caroline Ellison have all pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges related to the FTX collapse, and Bankman-Fried is awaiting trial.
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U.S. Officials Demand ByteDance Sell TikTok

Mar 16, 2023 · 1:25am PDT
More pressure from the White House puts ByteDance in a tough spot as China's government could oppose the idea of selling TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer.
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First Republic Explores Strategic Options Including a Sale

Mar 15, 2023 · 5:10pm PDT
The regional bank's stock has been volatile since the run on Silicon Valley Bank started.
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Adobe Shares Jump 5%, CEO Says Figma Deal Still on Track

Mar 15, 2023 · 4:22pm PDT
Adobe seems to be coping with the slowdown in software spending, as sales exceeded expectations in its recent quarter.
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Stripe Makes $6.5 Billion Fundraising Official

Mar 15, 2023 · 2:06pm PDT
The fundraising crystallized a drop of nearly half in Stripe's valuation from two years ago.
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Crypto Bank Anchorage Digital Lays Off 20% of Staff

Mar 14, 2023 · 4:20pm PDT
Crypto startups have been scrambling for new banking relationships after two crypto-focused banks have fallen into the past week.
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Amazon Plans to Offer First Satellite Internet Service Next Year

Mar 14, 2023 · 2:14pm PDT
Amazon has a long way to go to catch up with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which says it has already launched about 4,000 satellites and has “well over” 1 million Starlink users.
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AI Startup Adept Raises $350 Million at $1 Billion Valuation

Mar 14, 2023 · 12:36pm PDT
Adept, founded last year by former OpenAI and Google employees, gets new funding that illustrates an investor feeding frenzy in AI startups.
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Google Unveils New AI Tools for Cloud, Workspace

Mar 14, 2023 · 11:49am PDT
Developers will be able to access Google's PaLM model through Google Cloud, as the company introduces new features in Gmail and Google Docs.
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OpenAI Sells GPT-4 Access to Developers

Mar 14, 2023 · 11:00am PDT
OpenAI is selling access to GPT-4 through an API that lets developers use it in their own software.
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Meta Platforms to Cut 10,000 Jobs, Zuckerberg Says

Mar 14, 2023 · 6:52am PDT · 1 comment
The cuts are the second in five months, part of what Zuckerberg calls Meta's Year of Efficiency.
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Qualtrics Accepts Silver Lake’s $12.5 Billion Buyout Bid

Mar 13, 2023 · 3:29pm PDT
Shares of Qualtrics, which sells software for analyzing customer and employee sentiment, have been hit hard by concerns over profitability.
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Most of BuzzFeed’s Cash Was at SVB

Mar 13, 2023 · 2:11pm PDT
BuzzFeed's disclosure shows how vulnerable the digital media firm was to SVB's failure.
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Amazon and Rivian Consider Ending Exclusivity Agreement

Mar 13, 2023 · 10:50am PDT
Rivian initiated the talks after Amazon said it plans to buy around 10,000 electric vans this year.
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Tesla Relaunches Powerwall Sales

Mar 13, 2023 · 7:59am PDT
Tesla stopped selling the Powerwall outside of bundles in 2021
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FDIC Taps Former Fannie Mae CEO as Chief of SVB ‘Bridge Bank’

Mar 13, 2023 · 5:04am PDT
FDIC will open the bank on Monday with normal operations while it continues to run a sale process.
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HSBC to Buy Silicon Valley Bank’s U.K. Subsidiary

Mar 13, 2023 · 2:33am PDT
The bank is buying the unit for 1 pound, the Bank of England said in a statement, as it sought to assure continuity for local startups.
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U.K. Plans to Ban TikTok From Government Devices

Mar 13, 2023 · 12:29am PDT
The U.K.'s decision would follow similar moves earlier by the U.S., Canada and the European Union’s executive branch. 
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First Republic Secures Additional Liquidity From Fed, JPMorgan

Mar 12, 2023 · 6:01pm PDT
Bank says it now has more than $70 billion of unused liquidity to fund operations.
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U.S. Moves to Fully Backstop SVB, Signature Depositors

Mar 12, 2023 · 4:28pm PDT
Regulators aim their moves at stemming panic in the financial system.