Microsoft Selling ChatGPT Access, Genesis Issues, Polygon Updates +more

New year more news in crypto, blockchain, and web3.

While there are headlines showing some more failed business models, the overall signal of adoption is going strong.

This and more in this week's recap of news.

Week 03, Year 2023, Episode 41.

News Mentioned In Episode

• Nearly Half of SEC Crypto Enforcement Actions in 2022 Were Against ICOs
  
• Microsoft Will Sell Access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT ‘Soon’
  
• With Mixed Reality Headset Coming, Apple Delays Lighter AR Glasses Over Technical Issues
  
• Genesis' Crypto Lending Businesses File for Bankruptcy Protection
  
• Coinbase Confirms It's Halting Operations in Japan
  
• Exclusive: Robinhood launching new media arm led by Joshua Topolsky
  
• Mastercard Picks Polygon (MATIC) for NFT-Based Artist Accelerator Program
  
• Coinbase, Circle Back Former FTX US President’s New Crypto Venture
  
• Nearly $700M Worth of Assets Linked to Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX Seized by US
  
• China Launches Smart-Contract Functionality on Digital Yuan Through E-Commerce App Meituan
  
• NatGeo Instagram Post about NFTs
  
• NFT Sales in 2022 Nearly Matched the 2021 Boom, Despite Market Crash
  
• With JP Morgan Suing a Startup Founder, Will 2023 Be the Year of Accountability?
  
• Sequoia Partner Alfred Lin Says FTX Misled Sequoia About Its Relationship with Alameda
  
• LG Doubles Down on Smart TV Metaverse Push at CES 2023
  
• Did a Bot Write This?: New Tools Are Already Taking Aim at AI-Generated Work
  
• SHIB Team Says Layer-2 Network Shibarium to Launch ‘Soon’
  
• Why there's nothing artificial about AI's future
  
• Crypto Twitter Reacts to Official 'Game of Thrones' NFTs: 'Worst Thing I've Ever Seen'
  
• From 'Bitcoin Billionaires' to SEC Charges: A Brief Crypto History of the Winklevoss Twins
  
• Jamie Dimon Says Bitcoin is 'Hyped-Up Fraud' — and Warns 21 Million Supply May Increase
  
• FTX International Could Reopen in the Future, New CEO Suggests
  
• MetaMask Partners With Lido, Rocket Pool To Enable ETH Staking
  
• New York Hit With Lawsuit After Crypto Mining Facility Approval
  
• Congress' FTX Problem: 1 in 3 Members Got Cash From Crypto Exchange's Bosses
  
• Ethereum Hits 500,000 Validators Ahead of Scheduled Shanghai Upgrade
  

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