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Happy Saturday, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch's newsletter that covers the major stories in tech over the past several days. In other news, the trial of disgraced crypto startup founder Sam Bankman-Fried continued, Atlassian acquired Loom, OpenAI reportedly explored developing its own AI chips, and Google made passkeys the default sign-in method for all users. Elsewhere, Adobe upgraded its generative AI tech, signs of a Spotify "Superpremium" service eme...

In this edition of Week in Review (WiR), we cover the ongoing SBF trial Atlassian acquiring Loom and OpenAI exploring making its own AI chips.

It’s week two of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial and I’m writing this live from outside the Southern District of New York courthouse where the case is taking place. Tuesday was a slower day filled with technical details, but that changed on Wednesday and Thursday when Caroline Ellison, ex-CEO of Alameda Research, took the stand to testify. Alameda is a big player in the trial as it’s the crypto hedge fund sister company of FTX.

This week I’ve been in San Francisco for TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. It's been a three-day journey jam-packed with panels, booths and conversations around tech, AI, space, security and, of course, crypto. During the event, 20 startups pitched their companies live as part of TechCrunch Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2023.

The Fintech Stage agenda is 100% complete! Check it out, and get ready to cash in on all the fintech riches at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023.

Building a fintech startup isn't an easy task, as you have to deal with complex regulation and make sure that your service is extremely reliable because you're handling money. With a dedicated Fintech Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt, we'll have plenty of time to talk about the most interesting fintech topics at length.