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Collapsed crypto exchange FTX said Tuesday it has identified $5.5 billion of liquid assets, but said based on current estimates both the international and U.S. based exchange still face a “substantial shortfall” from what the trading venues owe customers. A court document with the restructuring team’s most recent findings shows this $5.5 billion includes $1.7 billion of cash, $3.5 billion of crypto assets, and $0.3 billion of securities. Some $1.7 billion of the company’s assets are being held… Source link

Microsoft put $1 billion in OpenAI, which built ChatGPT, and plans to integrate ChatGPT into Bing. Bing has not come close to touching Google’s search dominance since it was launched in 2009. Many have said Google Search has stagnated, and competition from Bing and ChatGPT might change that. … Source link

Microsoft put $1 billion in OpenAI, which built ChatGPT, and plans to integrate ChatGPT into Bing. Bing has not come close to touching Google’s search dominance since it was launched in 2009. Many have said Google Search has stagnated, and competition from Bing and ChatGPT might change that. … Source link

Elon Musk’s Twitter is facing a litany of challenges ranging from winning back advertisers who ditched the service to ensuring it can abide by a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) agreement to protect users’ privacy. And according to at least one expert, the negative attention is helping spur growth at competing platforms. “We see an unprecedented rise in competitors to Twitter,” MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Sinan Aral told Yahoo Finance Live. “We have seen an unprecedented… Source link

Netflix (NFLX) shares have been on a tear over the last six months of the year. But investors will have plenty to worry for the company in 2023, according to one Wall Street analyst. Needham’s Laura Martin argued in a new client note on Thursday the stock will battle several headwinds in the new year including slowing subscriber growth and increased pressure on its key financial metric, average revenue per user, or ARPU. Shares of Netflix, down about 50% since the start of the year, have… Source link

Comment on this story Comment A new chatbot from OpenAI took the internet by storm this week, dashing off poems, screenplays and essay answers that were plastered as screenshots all over Twitter by the breathless technoratti. Though the underlying technology has been around for a few years, this was the first time OpenAI has brought its powerful language-generating system known as GPT3 to the masses, prompting a race by humans to give it the most inventive commands. (My favorite is, “Write a… Source link

Wall Street analysts are busy publishing their 2023 lookahead pieces, and Cowen analyst Jeff Osborne is out with the big one — the firm’s Future of Mobility report. Osborne has partnered with 16 other analysts at the firm to map out what’s next in the nearly 500-page report, from electrification, to government regulation, to infrastructure, and even 5G and edge computing to give investors the lay of the land. Cowen has also listed 50 stocks to target for exposure. Key among the… Source link

LONDON, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Google was sued on Wednesday by a group of British website publishers who allege the U.S. company and its parent Alphabet abused their dominant position in online advertising, depriving them of revenue. The class action claim was filed at the Competition Appeal tribunal on behalf of 130,000 businesses publishing around 1.75 million website and apps in Britain, law firms Humphries Kerstetter and Geradin Partners said in a statement. Google dismissed the lawsuit in an… Source link

Analysts at Bank of America downgraded shares of Coinbase (COIN) on Friday as the fallout from FTX’s stunning implosion continues to ripple through crypto markets. Shares of Coinbase were down as much as 5.5% in early trading on Friday. “We think Coinbase (COIN) likely faces a number of new headwinds over the near/medium-term due to the recent collapse of rival crypto exchange FTX,” analysts led by Jason Kupferberg wrote in a note to clients. They added: “As a result, we downgrade COIN to… Source link

Elizabeth Holmes, one of Silicon Valley’s most celebrated and vilified startup founders, is scheduled to appear in court in San Jose on Friday for a sentencing hearing where she’s expected to learn whether she’ll go to prison for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Holmes, who was found guilty in January of three counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy related to her now-defunct blood-testing venture Theranos, faces up to 20 years in prison, up to $1… Source link