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• Italy gives ChatGPT the boot: Italy’s authorities has been on a blocking kick these days. A couple of days in the past, we wrote a couple of possible ban on cultivated meat, and at the moment Italy needs to dam ChatGPT, citing information safety considerations. Natasha L writes that the nation’s information safety authority is opening an investigation into whether or not OpenAI is breaching the European Union’s Normal Knowledge Safety Regulation.
• Groupon gets its Czech book: Ingrid experiences that Groupon has misplaced 99.4% of its worth since its IPO and now has a brand new CEO who will run the enterprise from the Czech Republic.
• Jio gets its game on: Manish writes that Mukesh Ambani, CEO of India’s streaming big Jio, sees the Indian Premier League cricket event as “the right alternative to revamp Jio’s service adoption technique even because the agency acknowledges that cricket streaming won’t flip a revenue for a number of years.”

Startups and VC

What do you do when you may have a really profitable and in style product (marijuana) that’s authorized in some locations, however federally has been a Schedule 1 drug since 1970? Nicely, you’ll be able to’t depend on any nationwide establishments as what you are promoting companions, Haje experiences. One of many main locations that reveals up is in funds and cost processing; even after leisure hashish grew to become authorized in 21 states and decriminalized in one other dozen or so, hashish has develop into largely a money enterprise. In a world that’s more and more cashless, that’s an issue for each customers and companies. Smoakland is currently beta-testing a loophole that lets its customers pay by credit card. The key, it seems, is crypto.

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