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Sandali Handagama / CoinDesk:
Nigeria's SEC orders that Binance halt operations in the country, deeming them illegal as the local unit is “neither registered nor regulated by the Commission”  —  The order against Binance Nigeria Limited follows U.S. SEC allegations that the exchange had violated federal securities laws.
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
In a test, researchers find that 90%+ of 1,008 jokes generated by GPT-3.5 were not new but rather the same 25 jokes likely learned during the model's training  —  When tested, “Over 90% of 1,008 generated jokes were the same 25 jokes.”  —  On Wednesday, two German researchers …
Platformer:
Sources: Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract ends on June 30, and is now planning to move off the platform altogether  —  Musk won't pay his Google Cloud bill — and the company's trust and safety systems are hanging in the balance
Bloomberg:
A comparison between US data and 5,100 Stable Diffusion-generated images related to job title and crime finds the tool amplifies gender and racial stereotypes  —  Stable Diffusion's text-to-image model amplifies stereotypes about race and gender — here's why that matters …
Washington Post:
NHTSA data shows Tesla's FSD and Autopilot were involved in 736 US crashes since 2019, far more than reported; the most recent data includes 17+ fatal incidents  —  Tesla's driver-assistance system, known as Autopilot, has been involved in far more crashes than previously reported
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
Three Arrows Capital's co-founders spent the past year surfing, meditating, and traveling, both unwilling to apologize for their crypto hedge fund's collapse  —  The implosion of Three Arrows Capital, a cryptocurrency hedge fund, devastated the industry.  Its two founders spent the next year surfing …
Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg:
In a video at a Beijing conference, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for global cooperation on AI systems and said China should help shape the safety guidelines  —  China should play a key role in shaping the artificial intelligence guardrails needed to ensure the safety of transformative new systems …
Dietrich Knauth / Reuters:
A US bankruptcy judge rules that FTX can remove its customers' names from all its bankruptcy filings so that they don't fall victim to scams and identity theft  —  Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX received court permission on Friday to remove customer names from all filings in its bankruptcy case …
Wall Street Journal:
An interview with Gary Gensler after the SEC sued Binance and Coinbase, a fight that has existential stakes for the companies and could define Gensler's legacy  —  Agency chair focuses enforcement power on exchanges after earlier failures to subdue industry  —  WASHINGTON—Gary Gensler had seen enough.
MK Manoylov / The Block:
Robinhood plans to end support for Solana, Polygon, and Cardano on June 27, following a company review in light of the SEC lawsuits against Coinbase and Binance  —  - Robinhood will no longer support Solana, Polygon or Cardano after June 27, 2023 at 6:59 p.m. ET.

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Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Fortune editor Nick Lichtenberg, who uses AI to research and write articles; AI-assisted stories made up ~20% of Fortune's web traffic in H2 2025

New York Times:
Sources: Versant is one of multiple suitors in talks to buy Vox Media's podcast network as it seeks to diversify its revenue; NBCU invested $200M in Vox in 2015

Oliver Darcy / Status:
Internal figures show Business Insider's paid subscribers have consistently declined, from about 185K at the end of 2022 to 135K at the end of 2025, a 27% drop

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Morgan Sung / TechCrunch:
A Bluesky moderation policy change strains its relationship with Black users who expect a crackdown on bigotry even if it conflicts with its decentralized goals
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
The Summer Games Fest, organized by video game personality Geoff Keighley in place of E3, features Xbox, Ubisoft, and Capcom shows, but the vibe is different

Earlier Picks

Karissa Bell / Engadget:
In an AMA on Reddit's API changes, CEO Steve Huffman says the company can no longer “subsidize commercial entities”, criticizes the Apollo developer, and more
Rosie Perper / CoinDesk:
Kraken launches Kraken NFT, a marketplace with 250+ NFT collections on the Ethereum, Solana, and Polygon blockchains, after a public beta debut in November 2022
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
The US DOJ unseals a 2019 indictment charging two Russians with stealing ~647K BTC in the Mt. Gox hack and a 2016 filing charging one of them with running BTC-e
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Antenna: Netflix gained more US subscribers from May 25 to May 28, after its password-sharing crackdown began, than in any other four days since at least 2019
Jon Porter / The Verge:
Spotify is testing Your Offline Mix, a new playlist feature that automatically saves a mix of users' recently played songs for offline listening
Rahat Sandhu / Reuters:
Binance.US suspends USD deposits and tells customers to withdraw their USD funds as its banking partners could stop fiat withdrawal channels as early as June 13
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