Brian Armstrong strongly hints that US regulators believe only Bitcoin is legal. A deep dive into what we can expect from this year’s iPhones. Is the US crackdown on tech to China having a real impact? And the artist that tried to take his art out of Stable Diffusion, only to have the community pull him back in.

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Links:

• SEC asked Coinbase to halt trading in everything except bitcoin, CEO says (FT)
• The iPhone 15 Pro Will Have Thinner Bezels in Step Toward Apple’s Dream (Bloomberg)
• U.S. Hunts Chinese Malware That Could Disrupt American Military Operations (NYTimes)
• China’s Tech Distress Grows as U.S. Chip Sanctions Bite (WSJ)
• An Internet Veteran’s Guide to Not Being Scared of Technology (NYTimes)
• Greg Rutkowski Was Removed From Stable Diffusion, But AI Artists Brought Him Back (Decrypt)

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