Fintech CEO Gökçe Güven Faces Fraud Charges as New Tech Ventures Emerge
Gökçe Güven, the 26-year-old Turkish national and CEO of fintech startup Kalder, was charged last week with alleged securities fraud, wire fraud, visa fraud, and aggravated identity theft, according to TechCrunch. Güven is also an alum of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, a list that has become "more than a little notorious for the amount of entrants who go on to be charged with fraud," TechCrunch noted.
Kalder, a New York-based fintech startup, claimed to help companies create and monetize individual rewards programs, using the tagline "Turn Your Rewards into a Revenue Engine," according to TechCrunch. The charges against Güven add her name to a growing list of Forbes 30 Under 30 alumni facing legal troubles, including FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, Frank CEO Charlie Javice, Joanna Smith-Griffin, founder of AI startup AllHere Education, and Martin Shkreli, TechCrunch reported.
In other tech news, Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman, who left Google two years ago, announced their new venture, Luffu, The Verge reported. Luffu is described as an intelligent family care system that collects and logs health and medical information such as medications, diets, and sleep, and provides AI-powered alerts for potential health issues, according to The Verge.
Meanwhile, the social network for AI bots, Moltbook, experienced unusual activity as humans began infiltrating the platform, The Verge reported. Hayden Field, The Verge's senior AI reporter, noted that "things got even weirder on Moltbook, the viral Reddit-style platform, over the weekend." Ars Technica reported that the rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat.
In the gaming world, Activision is attempting to crack down on third-party hardware cheating devices in Call of Duty again, The Verge reported. Tom Warren, senior editor at The Verge, reported that both Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 have been plagued by players using devices like XIM, Cronus Zen, and ReaSnow S1 to enable unfair advantages that exploit aim assist. Activision is introducing new detections to ban these devices, according to The Verge. Activision is now detecting player inputs instead of the third-party devices.
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