Friday, October 11, 2024

CoreWeave says it has a new $650M credit line and has raised $12.7B from equity and debt investors in the past 18 months (Hayden Field/CNBC)

Hayden Field / CNBC:
CoreWeave says it has a new $650M credit line and has raised $12.7B from equity and debt investors in the past 18 months  —  CoreWeave, an Nvidia-backed artificial intelligence startup that rents out chips to other companies, announced Friday that it has a new $650 million credit line to expand its business and data center portfolio.



Some developers say OpenAI's GPT Store is a mixed bag, with revenue sharing reserved for a tiny number of GPT creators in an invite-only pilot program in the US (Lauren Goode/Wired)

Lauren Goode / Wired:
Some developers say OpenAI's GPT Store is a mixed bag, with revenue sharing reserved for a tiny number of GPT creators in an invite-only pilot program in the US  —  OpenAI promised payouts to custom GPT creators.  Now most are turning to outside sources for revenue.



Report: 47% of traditional hedge funds have crypto investments, up from 29% in 2023; among who already invested in crypto, 33% plan for more by the end of 2024 (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Report: 47% of traditional hedge funds have crypto investments, up from 29% in 2023; among who already invested in crypto, 33% plan for more by the end of 2024  —  - That's up from 29% last year, per new AIMA and PwC report  — Many traditional hedge funds are active in crypto derivatives



ByteDance confirms laying off hundreds of TikTok content moderators in Malaysia and plans to invest $2B in 2024 on trust and safety; sources: 700 were laid off (Norman Goh/Nikkei Asia)

Norman Goh / Nikkei Asia:
ByteDance confirms laying off hundreds of TikTok content moderators in Malaysia and plans to invest $2B in 2024 on trust and safety; sources: 700 were laid off  —  KUALA LUMPUR — ByteDance, the parent company of social media platform TikTok, confirmed on Friday that it will be laying off hundreds …



Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid weste...