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Emma Roth

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    FTX’s plan to repay customers $16 billion gets court approval.

    Following a lengthy bankruptcy process, FTX says 98 percent of customers who lost assets in the collapsed crypto exchange will receive their money back within 60 days. Delaware Judge John Dorsey called the outcome a “model case for how to deal with a very complex Chapter 11 proceeding.”

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    Emma Roth
    Google wants to block Epic’s requested changes while it appeals antitrust verdict.

    Following a final ruling that says Google will have to open up the Play Store to third-party marketplaces, Google reaffirmed its plans to appeal the decision.

    At the same time, Google is also asking the court to pause Epic Games’ requests to distribute rival app stores and adjust its payment system. Apple was granted a reprieve during its Epic legal battle last year.

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    Emma Roth
    Fewer websites are blocking OpenAI’s web crawler now.

    With several media companies striking AI training deals with OpenAI, the number of websites blocking GPTBot has taken a big dip, according to data seen by Wired:

    At its peak, the high was just over a third of the websites; it has now dropped down closer to a quarter. Within a smaller pool of the most prominent news outlets, the block rate is still above 50 percent, but it’s down from heights earlier this year of almost 90 percent.

    Matt Mullenweg: ‘WordPress.org just belongs to me’

    The lines between the WordPress open-source project, the nonprofit backing it, and the commercial arm owned by Automattic are blurring.

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