Ahead of the 2024 US election, Anthropic is testing Prompt Shield, which will redirect users asking political topics to "authoritative" sources of voting info (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Ahead of the 2024 US election, Anthropic is testing Prompt Shield, which will redirect users asking political topics to “authoritative” sources of voting info  —  Ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Anthropic, the well-funded AI startup, is testing a technology to detect …

An interview with Kurt Wagner on his new book Battle for the Bird, a Jack Dorsey biography morphed into a deep dive on Twitter's tumultuous transition to X (Zoë Schiffer/Platformer)

Zoë Schiffer / Platformer:
An interview with Kurt Wagner on his new book Battle for the Bird, a Jack Dorsey biography morphed into a deep dive on Twitter's tumultuous transition to X  —  Was it Jack Dorsey or Elon Musk?  Kurt Wagner and Zoë Schiffer, authors of two new books on the subject, interview each other about what they learned

PitchBook: Q4 2023 saw only 12 crypto exits, the lowest number since Q4 2020 and consistent with the "low-level activity seen throughout 2023" (TechCrunch)

TechCrunch:
PitchBook: Q4 2023 saw only 12 crypto exits, the lowest number since Q4 2020 and consistent with the “low-level activity seen throughout 2023”  —  The global venture capital market is enduring a long period of limited exits.  Startups are staying private longer …

TSMC rises ~8% in its first post-Lunar New Year trading session, reaching a record $575B market cap and passing Visa as the world's 12th most valuable company (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
TSMC rises ~8% in its first post-Lunar New Year trading session, reaching a record $575B market cap and passing Visa as the world's 12th most valuable company  —  - Global AI activity should benefit Taiwan's largest company  — TSMC is the main contract chipmaker to Nvidia and Apple

A US judge approves Genesis' plan to sell ~$1.6B in Grayscale crypto trust shares to repay creditors, including 35M GBTC shares, worth ~$1.38B (Dietrich Knauth/Reuters)

Dietrich Knauth / Reuters:
A US judge approves Genesis' plan to sell ~$1.6B in Grayscale crypto trust shares to repay creditors, including 35M GBTC shares, worth ~$1.38B  —  Bankrupt crypto lender Genesis Global on Wednesday received permission from a U.S. court to sell about $1.6 billion in Grayscale cryptocurrency trust shares …

Sources: Italian app developer Bending Spoons raised $155M from Baillie Gifford and more at a $2.6B valuation, after raising $100M in 2023, and seeks M&A deals (Daniele Lepido/Bloomberg)

Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg:
Sources: Italian app developer Bending Spoons raised $155M from Baillie Gifford and more at a $2.6B valuation, after raising $100M in 2023, and seeks M&A deals  —  - Italian app developer has raised $155 million in new funding  — Company on track to generate $500 million in sales this year