New York Times: A look at Sullivan & Cromwell’s tangled FTX relationship, as SBF argues that the law firm set him up; the firm has made $100M+ in fees from FTX’s bankruptcy ... Read more »
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: The UK says it’s moving forward with the US data bridge deal, allowing UK citizens’ data to be exported to the US under protections in line with UK... Read more »
Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg: The UK CMA says Microsoft’s revised offer to acquire Activision, which includes selling some gaming rights to Ubisoft, appears to address regulator’s concerns — The Competition and Markets... Read more »
Josh Ye / Reuters: CLSA: China has at least 130 LLMs, accounting for 40% of the global total and behind the US’ 50% share; experts say most are yet to find viable... Read more »
Paresh Dave / Wired: Google veteran Luiz André Barroso, who overturned many data center design conventions and conceived “the data center as a computer”, died on September 16 at 59 — Brazilian... Read more »
Bloomberg: Source: Vietnamese internet company VNG postpones its US IPO, planned for September 2023, after mixed performances by Arm, Instacart, and Klaviyo — Vietnam-based internet startup VNG Ltd. has decided to postpone... Read more »
Iain Martin / Forbes: Tether spent ~$420M on 10K Nvidia H100 GPUs in a deal that will see it get a stake in bitcoin miner Northern Data, who plans to rent the... Read more »
Financial Times: GGV, which invested in Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese companies, splits its Asia and US units; in July, the US sought details about its holdings in China — Move follows... Read more »
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Binance, Binance.US, and Changpeng Zhao file to dismiss an SEC lawsuit, claiming the regulator hadn’t “plausibly alleged” various securities-related violations — The motions to dismiss leans on major... Read more »
Jay Peters / The Verge: X plans to deprecate Circles on October 31, 2023; users will not be able to create new posts nor add people to their Circle but will be... Read more »