The New York Times’ bizarre SBF profile presents the disgraced founder through a gauzy lens, fails to challenge him, and gives him the benefit of the doubt (Matt Novak/Gizmodo)

Tracy Alloway / Bloomberg:
The wildest parts from FTX’s bankruptcy filing: token holdings are worth $659K, Alameda loaned SBF over $1B, SBF auto-deleted important messages, and more  —  Lawyers for the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX filed today in Delaware, asking a federal judge to transfer a competing bankruptcy case filed …

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google adds Lens to the google.com homepage, letting users search by image, after rolling out the feature to the desktop in 2021  —  Google Lens will only become more important going forward, and one sign of that is its addition to the google.com homepage today.

CNBC:
FTX files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US; Sam Bankman-Fried resigns as CEO  —  Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX has filed for bankruptcy.

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg:
Emboldened by FTX’s collapse, the disgraced founders of Terra, Celsius, and Three Arrows Capital have reemerged, offering their thoughts on SBF, FTX, and more  —  Welcome to Bloomberg Crypto, our twice-weekly look at Bitcoin, blockchain and more.  If someone forwarded this to you, sign up here.

Kelsey Piper / Vox:
A chat via DM with SBF on why regulators “make everything worse”, FTX and Alameda’s “messy accounting”, why he regrets filing for bankruptcy, ethics, and more  —  The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way.

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
Internal FTX documents detail SBF’s desperate attempts to cling on to power, convinced he could save FTX; SBF claims “numerous parties” were willing to invest  —  Emails and text messages show how lawyers and executives struggled to persuade the 30-year-old entrepreneur to give up control of his collapsing crypto exchange.