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All times are ET.
1. Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all 7 counts of fraud
<5 hours necessary for jury to convict.
Feb. 1: government must inform the court on whether the 2nd SBF trial (scheduled to start in Mar.) will proceed.
Mar. 28, 2024: sentencing. After which, SBF can appeal. - Axios
SBF is expected to get a 20-30 year sentence, although it could go up to 105 years
2. Top AI companies agree to give global governments right to test AI models before release
Companies: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Google DeepMind, AWS, Inflection AI, Meta, Microsoft, and Mistral AI.
Governments: U.S., UK, Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, and Singapore.
Non-binding agreement. - POLITICO
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4. Apple's revenue -1% to $89.5B in Q3, led by decline in Mac sales, stagnation in all regions
Services was +16% to $22.3B, making up for Mac's -34% to $7.6B:
