Stripe debuts a customizable fiat-to-crypto payments widget for Web3 devs to directly embed into their apps; Stripe to handle KYC checks, fraud, and compliance (Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez/Fortune)

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune:
PayPal launches an integration with MetaMask that allows users to purchase and transfer ETH, rolling out to all US customers in the coming weeks  —  Users of the popular MetaMask Web3 wallet will soon be able to buy the second-most-popular cryptocurrency, Ether, via PayPal.

Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez / Fortune:
UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, launches a Stellar blockchain-based aid program to distribute USDC as aid to internally displaced Ukrainians via Vibrant wallets  —  For displaced people around the world, carrying cash is risky because it can be lost or stolen.

CNBC:
The Southern District of New York charges SBF with wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud, securities fraud conspiracy, money laundering, and more  —  – Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York unsealed eight seperate charges against disgraced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried …

Ina Fried / Axios:
Unlike Getty Images, Adobe plans to sell stock images made by artists using generative AI tools like DALL-E, but requires that the images be labeled as such  —  Adobe is opening its stock images service to creations made with the help of generative AI programs like Dall-E and Stable Diffusion, the company tells Axios.

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Drata, which uses automation to help companies adhere to compliance frameworks, raised a $200M Series C led by Iconiq Growth and GGV Capital at a $2B valuation  —  Drata, a security compliance and automation platform that helps companies adhere to frameworks such as SOC 2 and GDPR …

Adam Smith / Code Faster with Kite:
Kite, a startup that used AI to help devs code, shuts down, saying state-of-the-art ML models don’t understand the structure of code and too few devs would pay  —  From 2014 to 2021, Kite was a startup using AI to help developers write code.  We have stopped working on Kite, and are no longer supporting the Kite software.