Bing Chat appears to have a hidden Celebrity mode, in which the chatbot answers questions while impersonating Biden, Trump, Tom Cruise, and other famous people (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Singapore-based e-commerce aggregator Una Brands raised a $30M pre-Series C, following a $30M Series B in September 2022, bringing its total funding to $100M+ (Kate Park/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Silvergate says it's discontinuing the Silvergate Exchange Network, an instant settlement service that its clients could use to move money to crypto exchanges (CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI seeks to raise money at around a $4B valuation after raising a $101M seed at a ~$1B valuation in October 2022 (Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Character.AI, which uses LLMs to let users chat with famous people like Shakespeare, raised between $200M and $250M led by a16z at a ~$1B valuation (Financial Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Amazon plans to close eight Go convenience stores in Seattle, New York City, and San Francisco, as it reevaluates its brick-and-mortar strategy and cuts costs (Annie Palmer/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

TikTok told Ofcom the company blocked ~180K underage UK accounts a month from April 2021 to April 2022; Snap removed ~60 and stopped thousands of new accounts (Martin Coulter/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Internal documents detail efforts by Tether Holdings and Bitfinex to maintain access to the banking system by using shadowy intermediaries and shell companies (Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Memo: CNET EIC Connie Guglielmo, who defended CNET's use of AI tools, plans to step down to become Red Ventures' SVP of AI content strategy and editor-at-large (Mia Sato/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Tel Aviv-based Hexa, which helps companies create and manage 3D models for AR/VR shopping experiences and other applications, raised a $20.5M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5