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June 13, 2023, 4:40 PM
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The Verge:
Staff memo: Reddit's CEO says “like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass”, new moderation tools are vital, wearing Reddit gear in public is risky, and more  —  In an internal memo sent Monday afternoon to Reddit staff, CEO Steve Huffman addressed the recent blowback directed at the company …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Over 300 subreddits, including r/aww, r/music, and r/videos, plan to extend their protests indefinitely; 8,400+ have now gone private or into a restricted mode  —  / ‘More is needed for Reddit to act.’  —  Moderators of many Reddit communities are pledging to keep their subreddits private or restricted indefinitely.
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Reddit's API pricing changes stem from LLMs driving up the value of the site's data, an upcoming IPO, and third-party apps generating no revenue for the company  —  As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site's self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it  —  I.
Mark Savage / BBC:
Paul McCartney says a sound editor used AI to “extricate” John Lennon's voice from an old demo to create “the final Beatles record”, slated for release in 2023  —  Sir Paul McCartney says he has employed artificial intelligence to help create what he calls “the final Beatles record”.
Vishal Chawla / The Block:
The SDNY releases documents showing a former SEC director suggested ether and bitcoin were not securities in 2018, which crypto advocates say undermines the SEC  —  - Certain documents related to former SEC director William Hinman have been released in the SEC's lawsuit against Ripple Labs.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Paris-based Mistral AI raised a €105M seed led by Lightspeed, sources say at a €240M valuation, to rival OpenAI and plans to release its first AI models in 2024  —  AI is well and truly off to the races: a startup that is only four weeks old has picked up a $113 million round …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YouTube lowers its Partner Program monetization requirements, including creators needing 500 subscribers, not 1,000, and just 3K watch hours or 3M Shorts views  —  YouTube is lowering the requirements for creators to get access to monetization tools under the YouTube Partner Program (YPP).
Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
Internal memo: Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino tells employees that the platform is “on a mission to become the world's most accurate real-time information source”  —  Linda Yaccarino, who joined company last week, describes her mission to employees
Reuters:
Jack Dorsey says India threatened to shut down Twitter unless the company complied with orders during the farmer protests, a claim India calls an “outright lie”
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI's unusual deal created conflict and confusion, including over transparency, sales pitches, and Microsoft's spending on in-house AI  —  As the companies lead the AI boom, their unconventional arrangement sometimes causes conflict
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out its June 2023 Pixel update, adding new safety features, a hands-free photo capture gesture, Pixel Watch oxygen saturation monitoring, and more  —  Google announced the June Pixel Drop today with features like the ability to schedule a safety check with Google Assistant …
Sam Kessler / CoinDesk:
Uniswap Labs details Uniswap v4, the next version of the decentralized exchange, and asks for feedback; Uniswap v3 launched in 2021 and has processed over $1T  —  The biggest decentralized crypto exchange is opening its development process to the public for the first time as the SEC cracks down on its centralized competitors.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Meta details I-JEPA, a computer vision model that uses common sense world knowledge to create more accurate images, avoiding errors like hands with extra digits  —  Artificial intelligence researchers from Meta Platforms Inc. say they're making progress on the vision of its Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun …
More: Reuters, Meta AI, GitHub, and Meta AI
Tweets: @teknium1, @metaai, and @christopherife.  Forums: Slashdot
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Netflix is in talks to livestream its first sporting event, a golf tournament with Full Swing professional golfers and Formula One drivers, this fall  —  Tournament to include celebrities from Formula One series ‘Drive to Survive’ and golf program ‘Full Swing’
Financial Times:
A look at the global network of subsea internet cables, dominated by companies from France, the US, and Japan, as China circumvents US curbs on laying cables  —  Nearly 1.4mn kilometres of metal-encased fibre criss-crosses the world's oceans, speeding internet traffic seamlessly around the globe.
Tiyashi Datta / Reuters:
Accenture plans to invest $3B over three years into its data and AI practice, aiming to have 80,000 staff working on AI, after laying off ~19,000 in March 2023  —  Accenture said on Tuesday it will invest $3 billion over three years into its data and AI practice, doubling the number of employees …

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Yun Li / CNBC:
Warren Buffett says Berkshire sold its entire Paramount stake and “lost quite a bit of money”; Berkshire owned 63.3M shares of Paramount as of the end of 2023

Tom McArthur / BBC:
RSF publishes its World Press Freedom Index and places Norway, Denmark, and Sweden in the top three, the US down 10 spots at 55, and Eritrea in last place

Reuters:
Al Jazeera source and Israeli official: police raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its de facto office, following a government shutdown order

More News

Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech:
AMD announces the Ryzen Pro 7000 for desktop and Ryzen Pro 7040HS and 7040U for mobile, adding an integrated Ryzen AI block on select models and Zen 4 cores
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Nothing plans to release the Nothing Phone 2 on July 11, offering a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chip and bigger battery, widely available in the US, unlike the Phone 1

Earlier Picks

Financial Times:
The EU reaches a long-awaited deal on rules that could offer 28M gig workers social security and more; EU members plan to discuss the proposals with parliament
Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware:
Google's Search Generative Experience seems like an “AI plagiarism engine” that cobbles together snippets of text from a variety of sites, often word-for-word
Molly White:
Unpacking Coinbase's flawed arguments against the SEC, including “securities laws written in the 1930s can't apply to crypto” and “but the SEC let us go public”
Dell Cameron / Wired:
A declassified ODNI report from 2022: the US has amassed troves of “sensitive and intimate information” about Americans purchased from commercial data brokers
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