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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said Tuesday that prosecutors are wrong to seek his detention prior to trial because their arguments are built on «innuendo, speculation, and scant facts.» The written submission in Manhattan federal court was a response to the prosecution's claim last week that no bail conditions can stop the onetime cryptocurrency power broker from trying to improperly influence the potential jury pool for his October 2 trial. Bankman-Fried, 31, has been free on a $250 million personal recognizance bond since his December extradition from the Bahamas to face charges in New York that he defrauded investors in his businesses by diverting millions of dollars from their intended purpose.

Prosecutors have withdrawn a campaign finance charge from eight counts among charges FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried will face at an October trial

A judge is weighing whether to revoke Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail

Reuters. While hearing in Manhattan federal court, prosecutors asked US District Judge Lewis Kaplan to detail Bankam-Fried now. They said that he had crossed a line by sharing his former romantic partner Caroline Ellison's personal writings with a reporter.

By Luc Cohen and Jonathan Stempel

Investing.com -- Sam Bankman-Fried is set to appear in a federal court on Wednesday as a judge considers whether to bar the founder of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX from making public statements ahead of his upcoming fraud trial.

Elon Musk recently announced his latest startup, xAI, will be focused on artificial intelligence. According to the company’s website, the goal of xAI is to “understand the true nature of the universe.” The xAI team will be led by Musk and others who have previously worked with OpenAI, DeepMind, Google Research, Microsoft Research, and Tesla. 

HSBC has hired the former Asia team Silicon Valley Bank as it continues to bolster its new innovation banking business with the remnants of the collapsed lender’s people operations.

Tata Group-backed Air India is exploring opportunities with tech giant Apple, with the airline's chief executive officer Campbell Wilson visiting Apple headquarters in Palo Alto, US. "Dr Satya Ramaswamy and I, together with some of our colleagues, also spent time at Apple's head office in Palo Alto to explore opportunities for even deeper collaboration," Wilson told the airline's employees in an internal email.

New Delhi: Like most, Abhinav Srivastava, the co-founder and chief executive of Palo Alto-based unicorn Mashgin, also detests long queues at stores during checkouts. Determined to tackle the issue head-on, he and his team developed an intuitive solution—a touch-less checkout system powered by cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) and computer vision.

Silicon valley thumping their chest with pride and looking at what lies ahead for India. Some of the top representatives of the Silicon Valley companies echoed the sentiment that the successful launch of the lunar mission signalled the emergence of India as global leader in key areas of the technology sector.

Sapphire Venture plans to invest over $1 billion in AI enterprise startups, doubling down on the technology's adoption by companies across the world, its president Jai Das said at the Reuters Momentum conference in Austin on Tuesday. The $1 billion capital will come from Sapphire's exiting funds, which have $10 billion capital under management and about $3 billion capital waiting to the deployed.

Hut 8 Mining is seeing new demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing as it looks to reenergize some 6,400 rigs being moved from its inactive North Bay site in Ontario, Canada.

On June 29, Palo Alto-based Inflection AI announced the completion of a $1.3 billion raise led by Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt and Nvidia. The new capital will be partly allocated to building a 22,000-unit Nvidia H100 Tensor GPU cluster, which the company claims is the largest in the world. The GPUs will be used to develop large-scale artificial intelligence models. Developers wrote: 

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Sam Bankman Fried, the founder of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, urged a U.S. district court in Manhattan to dismiss charges against him, alleging his former company painted him as «the villain.»

Cohen told a Manhattan federal court judge that his 31-year-old client, a founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was pleading not guilty to new charges lodged against him in recent weeks in what a prosecutor has labelled as one of the biggest frauds in American history. But Cohen quickly added that although he was pleading not guilty to the new charges, Bankman-Fried was not acknowledging that he can be tried on them. He didn't elaborate and left the courthouse quickly just before his client was ushered to a waiting vehicle. Earlier this week, a rewritten indictment charged Bankman-Fried with a new conspiracy count, alleging that he violated the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by directing the payment of $40 million in bribes to a Chinese official or officials to free up $1 billion in cryptocurrency that was frozen in early 2021. FTX filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11, when the global exchange ran out of money after the equivalent of a bank run. He has remained free on a $250 million personal recognizance bond that requires him to stay with his parents in Palo Alto, California. His trial is tentatively set to begin in the fall.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense team and the prosecutors assigned to his case have agreed over the terms of the disgraced crypto tycoon’s bail conditions. The modified bail terms will apply to the former FTX CEO while he awaits trial in the criminal case filed against him by the United States Department of Justice.