Month: January 2023

Inbenta, which provides chatbots and other AI-powered tools to 250+ brands across various industries, raised $40M, bringing its total funding to $60M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Inbenta, which provides chatbots and other AI-powered tools to 250+ brands across various industries, raised $40M, bringing its total funding to $60M  —  In 2011, Jordi Torras, a former Oracle VP, had a realization: companies weren’t optimizing their search technologies as well as they could be.

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Intel announces its Core i9-13900KS CPU, clocked at 6GHz out of the box, with eight performance and 16 efficiency cores, available now for $699 (Gavin Bonshor/AnandTech)

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: Intel announces its Core i9-13900KS CPU, clocked at 6GHz out of the box, with eight performance and 16 efficiency cores, available now for $699  —  Initially mentioned during their Innovation 2022 opening keynote by Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, Intel has unveiled its highly anticipated 6 GHz out-of-the-box processor, the Core i9-13900KS.

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Sources: crypto broker Genesis owes creditors more than $3B, leading DCG to explore selling venture assets, estimated to be worth ~$500M, to raise cash (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)

Nikou Asgari / Financial Times: Sources: crypto broker Genesis owes creditors more than $3B, leading DCG to explore selling venture assets, estimated to be worth ~$500M, to raise cash  —  Barry Silbert’s conglomerate weighs offloading venture assets to help wholly owned digital asset lender

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Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence, even as ex-executives plead guilty (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Lucinda Shen / Axios: Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence, even as ex-executives plead guilty  —  Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on Thursday published his account of how the crypto company collapsed.

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A filing details Adobe’s $20B Figma acquisition: multiple attempts in 2020 and 2021 before co-founder Dylan Field accepted, interest from Microsoft, and more (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: A filing details Adobe’s $20B Figma acquisition: multiple attempts in 2020 and 2021 before co-founder Dylan Field accepted, interest from Microsoft, and more  —  Adobe Inc. tried to acquire design firm Figma Inc. for years before co-founder Dylan Field and the startup finally accepted …

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Sources: Coinbase’s internal “sentiment” tracker for media coverage showed Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX was consistently viewed more favorably until its collapse (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Reed Albergotti / Semafor: Sources: Coinbase’s internal “sentiment” tracker for media coverage showed Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX was consistently viewed more favorably until its collapse  —  Crypto exchange Coinbase has for years tracked how the company is portrayed in the press and online, and that “sentiment” …

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