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Trading firm Jane Street takes an additional $1B stake in CoreWeave and plans to spend ~$6B to access CoreWeave's Nvidia Vera Rubin chips to build and deploy AI (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Trading firm Jane Street takes an additional $1B stake in CoreWeave and plans to spend ~$6B to access CoreWeave's Nvidia Vera Rubin chips to build and deploy AI  —  Jane Street Group, a trading firm, has taken an additional $1 billion stake in AI cloud services provider CoreWeave Inc. and plans …

The EU unveils an open-source age verification app, which requires showing ID, to shield kids from harmful content, setting the standard for verification tech (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)

Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg:
The EU unveils an open-source age verification app, which requires showing ID, to shield kids from harmful content, setting the standard for verification tech  —  The European Union has unveiled an app to confirm users' age online, setting the standard for verification technology …

Analysis: nearly 90 schools and 600+ students globally have been impacted by AI-generated deepfake nudes; North America had nearly 30 reported cases since 2023 (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Matt Burgess / Wired:
Analysis: nearly 90 schools and 600+ students globally have been impacted by AI-generated deepfake nudes; North America had nearly 30 reported cases since 2023  —  An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images …

Tel Aviv-based eToro agrees to acquire crypto wallet provider Zengo, a source says for ~$70M, mostly in cash; Zengo lets traders swap between tokens and fiat (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Tel Aviv-based eToro agrees to acquire crypto wallet provider Zengo, a source says for ~$70M, mostly in cash; Zengo lets traders swap between tokens and fiat  —  EToro Group Ltd. has agreed to acquire Zengo, a crypto wallet provider, as the trading and investment platform expands its reach into decentralized finance.

Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match scanning tool to support 30+ languages (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match scanning tool to support 30+ languages  —  In February, Spotify made an exciting (and a bit unusual) move when it entered the world of physical book sales.