Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:
Brian Armstrong's “Coin: A Founder's Story”, a documentary commissioned to show the “good, bad, and ugly”, feels like a hagiography to reset his narrative  —  Pass the popcorn.  Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong just announced a new film titled Coin …

Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:
In a first, Amazon plans to give $150M through 2023 to 10+ outside VC funds to invest in underrepresented startup founders at or before the seed stage  —  Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is investing in outside venture capital funds for the first time, saying on Wednesday it planned to hand $150 million …

Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg:
Experts say political ads on Meta's platforms no longer represent good ROI, thanks to a stagnating user base and policy changes that make targeting voters hard  —  Beth Becker had just finished teaching Democrats how to use Facebook's digital tools at the Netroots conference in Pittsburgh …

Jon Fingas / Engadget:
What to expect from Google's “Made by Google” event: Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel Watch, and potentially Pixel device previews and Nest hardware  —  - Wildcards: More Pixel device previews and Nest hardware  —  Google's fall hardware event promises to be special this year.

Tom Hals / Reuters:
Sources: Elon Musk and Twitter have not yet reached an agreement to end litigation; Musk is scheduled to be deposed on Thursday in Austin  —  Elon Musk and Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) have not yet reached an agreement to end the litigation and clear the way for the world's richest person to close …

Heather Murphy / New York Times:
A look at the CBP prioritizing facial recognition to verify ~85% of the 221K daily travelers entering the US, replacing passport lines and self-serve kiosks  —  More than 80 percent of all travelers entering the U.S. are now verified by facial recognition.  The loss of older, seemingly more convenient methods has many perplexed.

Dawn Chmielewski / Reuters:
Spotify buys Kinzen, which helps identify misinformation and hate speech; the Dublin-based company partnered with Spotify in 2020, initially on election content  —  Audio-streaming service Spotify Technology SA (SPOT.N) on Wednesday said it has acquired Kinzen, a firm that has helped it identify harmful content on the platform.

Tom Warren / The Verge:
A review of Intel's $329 Arc A770 and $289 Arc A750: ideal for 1080p gaming, slick design, and good performance, but weird driver bugs and few software controls  —  Intel's GPU effort is impressive but early … Intel's Arc graphics cards are finally here, and they're priced to take on Nvidia's popular RTX 3060 for budget PC gamers.

Steve Dent / Engadget:
Meta details updates to the Facebook Feed to let users increase or decrease posts from friends, Groups, and Pages, helping improve Meta's AI-based ranking  —  With profits shrinking of late, Facebook has been shutting down unpopular apps and focusing on its core services.

Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz:
An interview with Unity CEO John Riccitiello on its game engine's future, merging with ironSource, monetization vs. creation, falling stock price, and more  —  With an IronSource deal pending, CEO John Riccitiello talks about the future of Unity, its history of losses, and buying back stock in the wake of layoffs

Bloomberg:
Elon Musk's revived $44B Twitter acquisition could rely on $12.5B from banks at a time when offloading risky debt is difficult, potentially leading to losses  —  Elon Musk's shock proposal to proceed with his acquisition of Twitter Inc. for the original offer price poses a headache …

Ken Sweet / Associated Press:
A report by Senator Warren's office: fraud and scams are occurring more often on P2P payments app Zelle, with banks only reimbursing ~47% of defrauded customers  —  Incidents of fraud and scams are occurring more often on the popular peer-to-peer payment service Zelle, according …

Stuart A. Thompson / New York Times:
LA County arrests election software maker Konnech's CEO Eugene Yu over the alleged theft of data on poll workers and says some data was found stored in China  —  The executive, Eugene Yu, and his firm, Konnech, have been a focus of attention among election deniers.

Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
Tesla plans to remove ultrasonic sensors from some new Model 3 and Y cars this month and Model S and X cars in 2023 in favor of camera and software assistance  —  Tesla is removing ultrasonic sensors from Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, the next step in CEO Elon Musk's plan to only use cameras …

Ryan Weeks / The Block:
An interview with Sky Mavis co-founder Aleksander Larsen on staying play-to-earn after the hack, unfair criticisms, improving security, raising funds, and more  —  - Sky Mavis has endured a turbulent year even by crypto standards, suffering a massive hack and waning interest from gamers.