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Reddark: thousands of subreddits are going dark in protest after Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's remarks on API changes in an AMA on June 9 — The version of Reddit we'll see over the next few days may be a shell of itself. More than 100 subreddits have already gone dark … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
a16z to open a crypto-focused London office and is leading a $43M investment in UK-based Gensyn, which offers a decentralized compute network for training AI — America's largest investor in crypto startups believes that the industry's future may be across the pond, and is opening … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will bring select games on PC Game Pass to Nvidia's GeForce Now in the coming months, letting subs stream games with RTX 4080 levels of performance — Microsoft is planning to bring PC Game Pass titles to Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming service. Sarah Bond, head of Xbox creator experience … | Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
Trying to shape AI tech to protect jobs is a bad idea since no one can predict which technologies will augment humans and which will simply replace their labor — Instead, we should empower workers and create mechanisms for redistribution. — I've been to a number of meetings and panels recently … | Sarah Kessler / New York Times: |
Researchers of tech change and employment disagree on how many jobs AI will affect; one tricky factor is primarily tasks, not occupations, are being automated — The tally of how many jobs will be “affected by” world-changing technology is different depending on who you ask.| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Meta launches MusicGen, an open-source AI model that can generate short pieces of music using text prompts that can optionally be aligned to an existing melody — Meta's MusicGen can generate short new pieces of music based on text prompts, which can optionally be aligned to an existing melody.| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
A tech reporter on why he bought a 2023 World Book Encyclopedia printed set: nostalgia, permanence, and no AI or human tampering, link rot, or stealth edits — The still-updated World Book Encyclopedia is my antidote to the information apocalypse. — These days, many of us live online … | 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| Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: |
Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft haven't rolled out their AI chatbots in Hong Kong, adding to a slow creep of tech companies treating the city like mainland China — Google and OpenAI haven't rolled out AI chatbots to city, putting it alongside mainland China and North Korea| Simon Parkin / The Guardian: |
An interview with Philip Rosedale, who launched the online world Second Life in 2003 and says his vision predates Neal Stephenson's 1992 coinage of “metaverse” — Mark Zuckerberg's grand vision for an online existence has been laughed off as a corporate folly.| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
How science fiction and fantasy publishers are dealing with AI tools' role in the industry and with the trust crisis due to AI-generated content becoming common — Science fiction and fantasy authors are struggling with AI-generated media — and formulating strategies to deal with it.| Amber Ferguson / Washington Post: |
A look at LUUM, a California eyelash studio using robots with computer vision to apply eyelash extensions and planning to sell its $60K robots to other studios — Is this technology a safe alternative for busy people who dream of semi-permanent wispy lashes?
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