February 1, 20230CommentsSources: Microsoft plans to update Bing with a faster version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, known as GPT-4, in the coming weeks; OpenAI plans to launch a ChatGPT app (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
February 1, 20230CommentsSources: a US judge rejects the FTC’s bid for a preliminary injunction to block Meta’s Within acquisition, giving the FTC one week to decide whether to appeal (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
February 1, 20230CommentsWhy confidential computing will be critical to (not so distant) future data security efforts
February 1, 20230CommentsNetflix adds spatial audio to its $20 per month Premium plan, available for over 700 of its most popular titles; Standard and Basic will get limited support (Todd Spangler/Variety)
February 1, 20230CommentsSources: UMG is in talks with Tidal and others to overhaul streaming economics to pay artists more; ideas include a “bonus pool” and “superfan” subscriptions (Anna Nicolaou/Financial Times)
February 1, 20230CommentsCape Town-based Lulalend, which uses its proprietary credit scoring algorithm to offer short-term loans to SMBs, raised a $35M Series B and launches a neobank (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
February 1, 20230CommentsAnalysis: 2022 was the biggest year ever for crypto hacking, with $3.8B stolen, primarily from DeFi protocols and by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group (Chainalysis)
