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Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ‘betrayal’ of non-profit AI mission tcrn.ch/48BDYtF

Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. The suit alleges they breached their original contractual agreements by pursuing profits instead of the non-profit’s mission to develop AI that benefits humanity. Read more: tcrn.ch/48BDYtF

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Nala set out to offer remittance services, it’s building a B2B payment platform too tcrn.ch/3v83IjX

Moove making all the right moves? The ecosystem was thirsty for such a deal.

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NEW: Facebook snooped on Snapchat users' encrypted network traffic to study how they behaved, unsealed court documents reveal. This was part of a secret program called "Project Ghostbusters," and even inside the company, it was very controversial. techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/fac…

🚨: VNV Global, one of Wasoko’s major investors, slashed the startup’s valuation by 48% to $260M as of Dec 2023, the same month Wasoko announced its planned merger with MaxAB. Wasoko was valued at $625M in a Tiger Global-led Series B round in 2022. tcrn.ch/3ITbmSb

BREAKING: Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Read more: tcrn.ch/3vlytC5

Pan-African VC Verod-Kepple closes its first fund at $60M tcrn.ch/3PUZSBC

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