Sam Bankman-Fried sent to jail as judge revokes bail over witness tampering, VPN use
Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has been on house arrest in California since December while awaiting trial on fraud and money laundering charges over the crypto exchange’s collapse, but today he was sent to jail, as first reported by Inner City Press. Judge Lewis
Read moreFormer FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail revoked ahead of October trial
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, had his bail revoked ahead of his October trial, US District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan said on Friday. The decision came after allegations that Bankman-Fried leaked the diary of Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of FTX’s investment-arm Alameda Research,
Read moreWhen you gaze into the AI, the AI also gazes into you
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Fri-yay indeed. We sigh, as humans spool up to take a break, while the semi-sentient machines continue writing their poetry in their air-conditioned underground data-center homes. In my column this week, I spent a bit
Read moreYou don’t need hosted LLMs, do you?
A comparison of self-hosted LLMs and OpenAI: cost, text generation quality, development speed, and privacy.Image generated by Stable DiffusionDuring the LLM hype, you can find a lot of articles like “Fine-tune your Private LLaMA/Falcon/Another Popular LLM”, “Train Your Own Private ChatGPT”, “How to Create a Local LLM” and others.At the same time,
Read moreThe Art of LangSmithing
A guide to testing, evaluating, and monitoring LLM calls for production using LangSmith.Continue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreStartup founders should care more about Serve Robotics’ listing
We love mergers and acquisitions here at TechCrunch. We even kind of like reverse mergers. But this latest development in the robotics industry sure has us excited! Delivery robots maker Serve Robotics is going public via a reverse merger with a blank-check company, and it raised $30 million just before
Read moreThe Civil Rights Movement comes to venture capital
For the last year and a half, there is only one point I’ve sought to make with my venture coverage: that the industry is not separate from sociopolitical context. That the tech industry and its backers are not separate from the economic fabric of this nation and the mores of
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