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Top stories today:
- HubSpot stock +5% after report of Alphabet acquisition bid
- Sora against YouTubeās policy if it used videos for training: CEO
- Q1 startup valuations: early stage little changed, growth rises
- Crypto trading volume +93% MoM to $9.1T in Mar.
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1. HubSpot stock +5% after report of Alphabet acquisition bid
Alphabet met with Morgan Stanley investment bankers about a potential offer.
Would be Alphabetās largest acquisition ever.
Could be hard to get approval from the Biden administration, which has tried to block major tech mergers.
2. Sora would be against YouTubeās policy if it used videos for training: CEO
YouTubeās ToS allows for the scraping of title and description, but not video bits or its transcript, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan argued.
Google follows the same ToS to train Gemini.
āSome corpusā of YouTube being used for Gemini.
Our view: Google could be using all of YouTube to train Gemini, as the terms of service gives YouTube (and therefore Google) broad rights
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4. Q1 startup valuations: early stage little changed, growth rises, late-stage falls sharply
The median series seed valuation inched up to $15M, as Series A inched down to $44M:
