Current and former Dapper Labs staff say bullying and lavish spending by CEO Roham Gharegozlou has hurt the NFT startup amid layoffs and a prolonged bear market (RT Watson/The Block) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Investor letter: Multicoin Capital's hedge fund lost 91.4% in 2022; in November it said 10% of assets were stuck on FTX and it had exposure to FTT, SOL, and SRM (Tracy Wang/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

Reports and sources: the US prepares a program that could ban US investment in some sectors in China, such as advanced semiconductors, quantum computing, and AI (Andrew Duehren/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Source: Russia is circumventing sanctions by importing advanced chips through countries such as Turkey and the UAE; shipments from China to Russia have surged (Alberto Nardelli/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5

Meta is good at making VR hardware but is ignoring its core gamer audience, as it's not clear the company realizes that games are driving its VR business (Alex Cranz/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

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