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The TechCrunch Top 3

• Surprised, but also not surprised: FTX co-founder Gary Wang and Alameda’s Caroline Ellison plead guilty to criminal charges, Darrell writes.
• $eeing i$ believing: Twitter is now sourcing stock and cryptocurrency prices from TradingView and automatically displaying them in search results. Ivan shows you how to get them to appear in your next tweet.
• Another Okta breach: Okta confirmed that it’s responding to another major security incident after a hacker accessed its source code following a breach of its GitHub repositories, Carly reports.

Startups and VC

Technical advances greatly improved the fidelity of art that artificial intelligence could create. As controversial as Stable Diffusion and OpenAI's DALL-E 2 are, platforms such as DeviantArt and Canva have adopted them to power creative tools, personalize branding and even ideate new products.

Unstable Diffusion, a group trying to monetize pornography using artificial intelligence, raised more than 56,000 dollars on the crowd funding website. Unstable Diffusion's campaign was shut down by the crowd funding platform as they changed their thinking about what kind of projects they would allow.

Only a small portion of the news is about artificial intelligence.

Avoid 3 common sales mistakes startups make during a downturn

According to analysts, IT spending will increase, but they don't tell the sales teams who are trying to close contracts with customers who have been told to cut spending.

An efficient sales is what every company needs right now.

Raising prices or increasing sales quota are wrongheaded moves that won't move the needle.

Real changes are needed to meet buyers' needs. The necessary sales productivity improvements can be made using the macroeconomic backdrop.

Avoid 3 common sales mistakes startups make during a downturn

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Big Tech Inc.

Even the FBI says you should use an ad blocker if you want to open a new website, but it's annoying having that ad blocker box pop up when you try. What's the reason? Cybercriminals are buying ads to impersonate legitimate brands and they are so good that it's hard to tell it's not the real thing Everyone, stay safe.

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