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- Surprised, but additionally not shocked: FTX co-founder Gary Wang and Alameda’s Caroline Ellison plead responsible to felony costs, Darrell writes.
- $eeing i$ believing: Twitter is now sourcing inventory and cryptocurrency costs from TradingView and mechanically displaying them in search outcomes. Ivan reveals you the best way to get them to seem in your subsequent tweet.
- Another Okta breach: Okta confirmed that it’s responding to a different main safety incident after a hacker accessed its supply code following a breach of its GitHub repositories, Carly stories.
Startups and VC
Text-to-image AI exploded this yr as technical advances enormously enhanced the constancy of artwork that AI techniques might create. As controversial as techniques like Stable Diffusion and OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 are, platforms akin to DeviantArt and Canva have adopted them to energy inventive instruments, personalize branding and even ideate new merchandise, writes Kyle as he takes you on a tour via a quick historical past of diffusion, the tech on the coronary heart of contemporary image-generating AI.
Speaking of AI, Amanda stories that Unstable Diffusion, a bunch making an attempt to monetize AI porn era, raised greater than $56,000 on Kickstarter from 867 backers. Then, as Kickstarter modified its interested by what sort of AI-based initiatives it can enable, the crowdfunding platform shut down Unstable Diffusion’s marketing campaign.
And in solely partially AI information:
Avoid 3 widespread gross sales errors startups make throughout a downturn
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Analysts estimate that IT spending will improve in 2023, however inform that to SaaS gross sales groups who’re making an attempt to shut contracts with prospects who’ve been instructed to slash spending.
“What every company needs now is efficient sales,” says Anand Shah, CEO and co-founder of Databook.
In a TC+ visitor publish, he explains why reactive strikes like rising gross sales quotas or elevating costs are wrongheaded strikes that received’t transfer the needle.
“Make real changes to meet your buyers’ needs. Use the macroeconomic backdrop to make the necessary sales productivity improvements.”
Three extra from the TC+ staff:
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Big Tech Inc.
Having that advert blocker field pop up once you attempt to open a brand new web site is annoying, however Zack says we should always discover the great in it — heck, even the FBI says you must use an advert blocker, he writes. Why? Apparently, “cybercriminals are buying ads to impersonate legitimate brands, like cryptocurrency exchanges” and they’re so good that it’s laborious to inform it’s not the actual factor. Stay secure, everybody!
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