Source: Michael Lewis shadowed Sam Bankman-Fried for the past six months and CAA is pitching Lewis’ yet-to-be-written book on FTX’s collapse to Hollywood buyers (Richard Rushfield/The Ankler)

Anthony Breznican / Vanity Fair:
A look at Kyiv-based Respeecher, which uses performers’ archival voice recordings and AI to create new dialogue, including for Darth Vader in Obi-Wan Kenobi  —  As the conflict raged, Ukrainian tech workers at Respeecher hurried to bring back James Earl Jones’s legendary voice for Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Binance Blog:
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says Binance is not a Chinese company and rejects suggestions of it being secretly run by a Chinese national, Guangying Chen  —  One of the many strengths that our employees at Binance must possess is thick skin.  After all, this industry is the subject of a lot …

Andrew Rummer / The Block:
FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried insists the exchange is “fine” after Binance begins selling FTX’s FTT; a recently leaked Alameda balance sheet showed $8B in liabilities  —  – FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried insisted his crypto exchange is “fine” after rival Binance announced it would start selling its holdings of FTX’s FTT token.

Ian Allison / CoinDesk:
Source: after looking at FTX’s data and loan commitments, Binance is highly likely to scrap its acquisition; FTX was turned down by Coinbase, OKX, and others  —  Backing out would be one more stunning development in the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire.

Divya Balji / Bloomberg:
Coinbase’s stock closes down 10.78% and Robinhood Markets closes down 19.04% as the Binance-FTX deal spotlights the challenges facing the $1T crypto industry  —  Robinhood Markets Inc. tumbled by the most in more than a year after Binance Holdings Ltd. agreed to acquire Sam Bankman-Fried’s …

Alexandra Muller / Bloomberg:
A wave of foreign buyers are planning to acquire fast-growing British tech companies, including Micro Focus, Avast, and Darktrace, thanks to a weakened pound  —  A wave of foreign buyers is coming after British technology companies, threatening to rob the UK market of what little exposure it still has to high-growth assets.