August 9, 20230CommentsA look at Def Con’s White House-backed Generative Red Team Challenge, where contestants try to make AI chatbots go rogue; the results will be sealed for months (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
August 9, 20230CommentsSources: ex-FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame is in talks with prosecutors to plead guilty to criminal charges and may enter a plea as soon as September (Ava Benny-Morrison/Bloomberg)
August 9, 20230CommentsUnity is releasing some of Wētā FX’s 2D and 3D tools, including Wig 1.0 for simulating hair and fur, into public beta under its new Unity Wētā Tools division (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
August 9, 20230CommentsSingapore-based Endowus, which operates a digital wealth management platform, raised $35M from Citi Ventures, MUFG, and others, taking its total funding to $95M (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)
August 9, 20230CommentsGoogle changes the name of one of its advertising video formats from “in-stream ads” to “skippable ads”, after a report accused YouTube of misleading buyers (Catherine Perloff/Adweek)
August 9, 20230CommentsEl Salvador grants Binance licenses to offer custodial services, process crypto payments, provide digital wallets, and operate a digital asset exchange (Nivesh Rustgi/Decrypt)
August 8, 20230CommentsLyft CEO says Lyft is trying to get rid of surge pricing because “riders hate it” and rides affected by surge pricing dropped 35% QoQ due to more driver supply (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)