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Lensa’s AI popularity has had a notable impact on the App Store’s Top Charts. The popular photo and video editing app recently went viral over its new “magic avatars” feature, powered by the open source Stable Diffusion model, allowing users to turn their selfies into styled portraits of themselves as sci-fi, anime, or fantasy characters, […]

AI art apps are cluttering the App Store’s Top Charts following Lensa AI’s success by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

The US House is investigating the events that led to FTX’s implosion, which resulted in the crypto exchange filing for bankruptcy.

SBF scheduled to testify tomorrow at US House hearing on FTX collapse by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

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Vinfast takes the IPO path, TuSimple and Navistar break up and Rad Power Bikes makes its most important product yet by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

The blockchain provides many ways to improve upon the current KYC process to make it more secure, cost-effective and easy to deploy and use.

Using the blockchain to enhance KYC processes for web3 businesses by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch

Nillion, a web3 startup aiming to build a non-blockchain decentralized network, closed an oversubscribed round of more than $20 million.

Nillion raises over $20 million to build new web3 infrastructure by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

Playtika, the Israeli tech company that made its name with through a series of wildly successful online gambling and gaming titles with hundreds of millions of players, is leveling the latest swing of the layoffs pendulum. The company today has confirmed that it is laying of 15% of its staff. Playtika currently employs 4,100, so […]

Playtika lays off 610 workers, shuts down three online gaming titles amid broader restructure by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft is to acquire a 4% stake in the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), the company that owns the London Stock Exchange as well as a several other businesses including financial market data company Refinitiv which LSEG acquired from a Blackstone/Thomson Reuters consortium last year for $27 billion. Microsoft’s stake, which it bought from the […]

Microsoft to acquire 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group as part of 10-year cloud partnership by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch