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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”  —  Twitter was threatened with shut down in India, Nigeria and Turkey unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts …
Vishal Chawla / The Block:
SDNY releases documents in which an ex-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.
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”.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI's unusual deal created internal conflict, 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  —  Microsoft and OpenAI's partnership …
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CNBC:
The US FTC files for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard  —  - The FTC on Monday filed a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction seeking to block Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
YouTube lowers requirements to monetize under the Partner Program, including creators only needing 500 subscribers, down from 1,000, and fewer watch hours  —  YouTube is lowering the requirements for creators to get access to monetization tools under the YouTube Partner Program (YPP).
Molly White:
Unpacking Coinbase's flawed talking points in its battle with the SEC, including the argument that “securities laws written in the 1930s can't apply to crypto”  —  Coinbase is trotting out its usual flawed arguments now that it's facing a lawsuit from the SEC, and more pushback is needed.
Sam Kessler / CoinDesk:
Uniswap Labs details Uniswap v4, the next version of the decentralized exchange, and invites 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.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Netflix is in talks to livestream its first sporting event this fall, a celebrity golf tournament with professional golfers and Formula One drivers  —  Tournament to include celebrities from Formula One series ‘Drive to Survive’ and golf program ‘Full Swing’
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  —  A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans.
Max Read / New York Times:
How Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, became a viral sensation for his absurd acts of altruism and pitching subscribing as an act of charity, sometimes literally  —  Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, has become a viral sensation for his absurd acts of altruism.  Why do so many people think he's evil?
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  —  The Search Generative Experience seems more like a text-copying experience.  —  Search has always been the Internet's most important utility.
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 to build its own  —  Nearly 1.4mn kilometres of metal-encased fibre criss-crosses the world's oceans, speeding internet traffic seamlessly around the globe.
Allison Johnson / The Verge:
Nothing plans to release the Nothing Phone 2 on July 11, offering a Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 chip and bigger battery, widely available in the US  —  We knew that the Nothing Phone 2 would arrive next month, and now we have a precise date: July 11th, a day shy of the Phone 1's first birthday.
Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech:
AMD announces the Ryzen Pro 7000 for desktop and Ryzen Pro 7040 HS and 7040 U for mobile, adding an integrated Ryzen AI block on select models and Zen 4 cores  —  As is a constant whenever AMD launches their latest desktop and mobile processors, they typically deploy and release a professional …
Washington Post:
Google proposes a “hub-and-spoke model” to regulate AI, splitting responsibility across existing government agencies, a contrast to OpenAI's new agency approach  —  Happy Tuesday!  When it comes to newsletter puns, game recognizes game.  Send news tips and dad jokes to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sources: the expectation at Paramount Global is that neither of the two offers in play, Skydance-RedBird and Sony Pictures-Apollo, will come to fruition

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

Matt Cooper / University of Oregon:
A group of researchers say Twitch is increasingly becoming a news source, and traditional news outlets could use it for added income and audience engagement

More News

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

Earlier Picks

Larry Dignan / Constellation Research:
Oracle reports Q4 revenue up 17% YoY to $13.84B, vs. $13.73B est., cloud services and license support revenues up 23% YoY to $9.37B, and net income up 4% YoY
Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
M2 Ultra Mac Studio review: a small, fast, efficient, and quiet desktop that has a good port selection and is a better deal than the new Mac Pro for most users
Dhruv Mehrotra / Wired:
Documents show some US courts are using Covenant Eyes, an anti-porn app sold to churches to monitor all online activity, to surveil parolees and their families
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer says he does not “feel an imperative” from users to release a new Xbox console, and the team is “pretty set on the hardware”
Dan Primack / Axios:
a16z plans to open a crypto-focused office in London and leads a $43M round in London-based Gensyn, which offers a decentralized compute network for training AI
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