- A look at FTX 2.0 Coalition, a group of creditors led by FTX CEO John Ray III that has almost 3,000 members and is looking to relaunch the exchange without SBF (Joel Khalili/Wired)
- Researchers report critical vulnerabilities in the Exim mail transfer agent allowing remote code execution; Exim is used by as many as 253K servers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
- Meta quietly unveils Llama 2 Long, which has been trained with longer sequences, outperforming GPT-3.5 Turbo and Claude 2 when responding to long user prompts (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
- Letter: the US SEC told Bolt the startup likely won't face enforcement action after a 15-month probe into whether Bolt violated securities laws when fundraising (Forbes)
- Sources: Jasper, which offers AI writing tools for marketers, slashed its internal valuation by 20% from $1.5B and cut its $140M 2023 ARR projections by 30%+ (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
- MakerDAO has passed a proposal that will allow it to invest up to $6B in short-term US Treasuries, double the current limit; MKR token is up almost 3x in 2023 (Bloomberg)
- BeReal says its app has 25M+ DAUs, up from 20M in October 2022, disputing a Similarweb report estimating that BeReal's MAUs declined to 16.06M in August 2023 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Letterboxd's founders sell a majority stake to Victoria-based Tiny; a source says the deal values the film-focused social network with ~10M users at $50M+ (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
- X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that the company has paid out nearly $20M to creators; Elon Musk said in July 2023 that the first payments totaled $5M (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
- Report: Apple uses two microscopic QR codes on iPhone displays to track defects, which has helped cut its suppliers' faulty screen report rates from 30% to 10% (William Gallagher/AppleInsider)
- Liquidators say Singapore arrested 3AC co-founder Su Zhu when he tried to leave the country and sentenced him to four months for not complying with court orders (Jacquelyn Melinek/TechCrunch)
- The Supreme Court agrees to hear two cases concerning whether Florida and Texas can restrict social media companies from removing political posts or accounts (Washington Post)
- Intel begins chip production using extreme ultraviolet lithography machines at its $18.5B Ireland plant, its first high-volume location for its 7nm process (Reuters)
- The UK CMA says it is examining whether Qualcomm's purchase of Israeli auto-chip maker Autotalks would lessen competition in the UK market (Reuters)
- French authorities say they have approved Apple's iPhone 12 software update to address radiation concerns; Apple submitted the update on September 26 (Elizabeth Pineau/Reuters)