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James Vincent / The Verge:
While OpenAI has become more upfront about ChatGPT's limitations, the company should do more to make clear the bot can't reliably distinguish fact from fiction  —  “May occasionally generate incorrect information.”  —  This is the warning OpenAI pins to the homepage of its AI chatbot ChatGPT …
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”  —  Leaders from OpenAI, Google Deepmind, Anthropic and other A.I. labs warn that future systems could be as deadly as pandemics and nuclear weapons.
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Aidan Ryan / The Information:
Source: MoonPay insiders, including CEO Ivan Soto-Wright, cashed out $150M in shares as part of the crypto payment startup's $555M Series A in November 2021  —  In November 2021, just as crypto prices were hitting all-time highs, MoonPay—a crypto payments startup that celebrities including Jimmy Fallon …
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Analyst Ross Young says Apple's upcoming MR headset will have two 1.41" Micro OLED displays targeting 5,000+ nits of brightness and 4,000 pixels per inch  —  The tech community is collectively on the edge of our seats as we zoom toward the expected unveiling of Apple's mixed reality headset.
Bloomberg:
Fidelity estimated in a recent disclosure that Twitter is now worth about 33% of Elon Musk's $44B purchase price, based on a markdown of its own Twitter stake  —  Twitter is now worth just one-third of what Elon Musk paid for the social-media platform, according to Fidelity …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Sources: Google plans to launch the Pixel Watch 2 in fall 2023 with a Snapdragon W5 series chip and Fitbit Sense 2-like sensors, alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro  —  We revealed at the start of May that Google is planning to announce the Pixel Watch 2 alongside the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro …
Rohan Goswami / CNBC:
Nvidia opens at a $1T market cap, joining Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon, after raising its Q2 revenue forecast due to AI demand; NVDA is up 180%+ YTD  —  - Nvidia hit a $1 trillion market cap at the start of trading Tuesday, before slipping to $990 billion by close of trading.
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Block Party says its anti-harassment tool for Twitter is going on an indefinite hiatus starting May 31 due to Twitter API changes, and announces Privacy Party  —  Now that Twitter's API access is locked behind a tall paywall, long beloved third-party apps are shutting down.
Nadia Asparouhova / Wired:
As GitHub prepares to close its San Francisco HQ, a look back at the living testament to tech culture, with its conflicts presaging a decade of tech backlash  —  The code-hosting platform's headquarters was a living testament to tech values and one of its first disputed territories.
Nicole Carpenter / Polygon:
A viral Nintendo's Tears of the Kingdom clip that shows Link unfurling a bridge wows game developers; Nintendo reportedly spent a full year polishing the game  —  What looks simple is actually very hard to make  —  There's a bridge to cross the lava pit in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's Marakuguc Shrine, but it's broken.

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Reuters:
Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta plans to shut down after 30+ years, following pressure from Russian authorities and the persecution of its reporters

Bruce Gil / Gizmodo:
Fan fiction site AO3 says it will be offline for two to four weeks after a security incident; it hosts over 18M works and has 11M registered users

Selome Hailu / Variety:
Sources: Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine lays off about 30 employees, roughly 50% of its staff, as it focuses on film and TV projects and its book club brand

More News

Bloomberg:
Sources: Binance is discussing letting some of its institutional clients use bank deposits as collateral for margin trading, to help reduce counterparty risk
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Amazon discontinues Alexa's celebrity voices feature, offering Samuel L. Jackson's, Shaquille O'Neal's, and Melissa McCarthy's voices, even for those who paid
Alexandra S. Levine / Forbes:
Sources: TikTok has stored personal and financial data of its biggest stars, including those in its Creator Fund, on servers in China, accessible by staff there

Earlier Picks

Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: of 460+ companies that did SPAC deals, insiders at 232 sold ~$22B in well-timed stock trades; Chamath Palihapitiya made $310M selling Virgin Galactic
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft issues a temporary fix for Windows tablets like the Surface Pro X after their cameras stopped working on May 23 likely due to a faulty Qualcomm driver
Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:
Binance names Richard Teng to run all its regional markets outside the US, a swift ascension for the executive who joined in August 2021, as CZ comes under fire
Bloomberg:
CCData: Gemini trading fell ~50% YoY to ~$747M in April 2023; Kaiko: trading fell 46% in January to April vs. September to December, almost 6x Coinbase's drop
Politico:
France and Germany dominate the EU's tech regulation, rarely taking input from the bloc's smaller tech-oriented members, which worry about hampering innovation
Financial Times:
How the US is increasingly reshaping the spyware market to favor companies selling cyberweapons to the US and its allies, like Israeli startup Paragon Solutions
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