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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 …
More: Platformer, The Information, Game Rant, Electronic Frontier Foundation, SlashGear, Techdirt, IGN, iMore, Android Authority, Kotaku, Mashable, 9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, Insider, Neowin, Pixel Envy, AppleInsider, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Livemint
Mastodon: @williamgunn@mastodon.social, @Aaron@social.aaroncrocco.com, @ChanceHMiller@mastodon.social, @paul@tapbots.social, and @dcseifert@mastodon.social
Tweets: @nikitabier, @nikitabier, @rjonesy, @christianselig, @caseynewton, @nash076, @2ndartbook, @slazsandwich, @mootzilla, @tomwarren, and @karrisaarinen
| 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.
More: 9to5Google, Android Authority, Engadget, BGR, New York Post, and Windows Central
Tweets: @martinsfp, @alexeheath, and @pubgreddit
Forums: Hacker News and r/ModCoord
| The Verge: |
Q&A with Apollo developer Christian Selig on Reddit's API pricing changes, the company refusing to negotiate, why he can't simply charge users more, and more — 'Reddit has plugged its ears and refuses to listen to anybody but themselves. And I think there's some very minor concessions … | Casey Newton / Platformer: |
More: Financial Times, Stratechery, Mashable, NBC News, The Verge, The Verge, and CNN
Bluesky: @nohomers.bsky.social. Mastodon: @MikeRiverso@mastodon.social. Tweets: @caseynewton, @tiagodf, @alextcone, @yoda, @rayredacted, and @sarthakgh
| Nicole Carpenter / Polygon: |
Swedish gaming conglomerate Embracer Group says it will close multiple studios, cancel games, and cut staff, after a $2B deal unexpectedly fell through — Embracer Group has close to 17,000 employees over more than 100 studios, many of which were acquired over the past few years
More: Embracer Group, Embracer Group, Engadget, PC Gamer, Eurogamer.net, Press Start, IGN, GamingBolt, Axios, KitGuru, Neowin, Kotaku, Game Developer, TweakTown, GameSpot, Variety, and GamesIndustry.biz
Tweets: @drewlevin, @joshscherr, @futterish, and @lewis_gordon
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Q&A with Satya Nadella on his generative AI “eureka moment”, OpenAI, helping anyone with a phone become a developer, pausing AI work, Bing's relevancy, and more — The CEO can't imagine life without artificial intelligence—even if it's the last thing invented by humankind.
More: MobileSyrup, Engadget, Neowin, and OnMSFT.com
| 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 …
More: Financial Times, SiliconANGLE, The Information, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Reuters
LinkedIn: Alexander Schmitt. Tweets: @buccocapital, @tim, @anothercohen, @steipete, @financelancelot, @alexandergerko, @zerohedge, and @0xgodking
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases new GPT-3.5-turbo and GPT-4 versions that include a new “function calling” feature, and reduces the pricing of the original GPT-3.5-turbo by 25% — As the competition in the generative AI space grows fiercer, OpenAI is upgrading its text-generating models while reducing pricing.
More: OpenAI, Ars Technica, Voicebot.ai, and Search Engine Journal
Tweets: @sama, @openai, @daniellefong, and @miramurati
Forums: Hacker News and Ars OpenForum
| 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 …
More: The Keyword, New blog articles …, Legendary Scoop, MobileSyrup, PhoneArena, Gadgets & Wearables, Tech News Outlet, BigTechWire, Android Central, BGR, CNET, Tom's Guide, and SlashGear
Tweets: @legendaryscoop, @mishaalrahman, and @mishaalrahman
| James Cirrone / Blockworks: |
Nostr-based social media app Damus says it must remove a bitcoin tipping button on posts but can keep it on profiles, after Apple threatened App Store delisting — Damus creator William Casarin told his followers on the app that Apple would allow zaps, just with a slight tweak
More: The Block, CNBC, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, Inside Bitcoins, Reclaim The Net, Fortune, Cryptopolitan, Decrypt, CryptoSlate, and Bitcoinist.com
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
A US court issues a temporary restraining order preventing Microsoft's Activision Blizzard acquisition and sets an evidentiary hearing for June 22 and 23, 2023 — A federal court has issued a temporary restraining order that will prevent Microsoft from closing its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard — at least for now.
More: BBC, Financial Times, Bloomberg, PC Gamer, Neowin, MarketWatch, GamingBolt, Digital Trends, and Emerging Tech Brew
Tweets: @econliberties, @ethangach, @tomwarren, @daveleebbg, @joshua_sisco, @joshua_sisco, @jordannovet, @macton93, @tomwarren, and @macton93
| 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.
More: Cointelegraph, NewsBTC, DC Journal, Decrypt, CoinDesk, The Verge, Protos, crypto.news, Crypto Briefing, The Daily Hodl, The Crypto Basic, Blockworks, CryptoGlobe, CoinGape, nft now, Bitcoinist.com, Cryptopolitan, Inside Bitcoins, CryptoPotato, and CryptoSlate
Tweets: @s_alderoty, @bgarlinghouse, @s_alderoty, @iampaulgrewal, @fintechfrank, @iampaulgrewal, @lex_node, @belisarius2020, @eleanorterrett, @johnedeaton1, @eleanorterrett, @lex_node, @rachaelrad, @rewkang, @johnedeaton1, @belisarius2020, @prhillmann, @adamscochran, @hsakatrades, @iamdcinvestor, and @collins_belton
| 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”.
More: BBC, The Guardian, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, Australian Financial Review, NPR, Quartz, CNBC, Livemint, CNET, Dexerto, TechSpot, Decrypt, ZDNet, iPhone in Canada Blog, Metaverse Post, Deadline, BGR, Global News, Forbes, WRAL TechWire, SlashGear, Rolling Stone, and Hollywood Reporter
Tweets: @brianrumao, @bbcr4today, @mikeelgan, @kottke, and @paulmccartney
Forums: r/entertainment and Ars OpenForum
| 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, Social Media Today, Meta AI, GitHub, and Meta AI
Tweets: @supbagholder, @theseamouse, @maharshiguin, @la1895, @maharshiguin, @maharshiguin, @maharshiguin, @maharshiguin, @maharshiguin, @ferdousbhai, @teknium1, @metaai, and @christopherife. Forums: Slashdot
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
London-based AI video generation startup Synthesia raised a $90M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Accel; Nvidia, Kleiner Perkins, GV, and others also invested — - Artificial intelligence-based video generation platform Synthesia has raised $90 million from investors, the company told CNBC exclusively.| Bloomberg: |
Databricks says its annual revenue jumped 60%+ to $1B in the fiscal year ended in January and announces the acquisition of Rubicon, an AI storage system startup — Databricks Inc. said it generated $1 billion in annual revenue and has diversified its business with new products and tools for artificial intelligence.
More: SiliconANGLE and Databricks
| Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: |
AMD unveils its EPYC Bergamo CPUs, offering up to 128 Zen 4C cores for cloud-native servers and data center platforms — AMD's EPYC Bergamo CPUs break official ground today, offering up to 128 Zen 4C cores to cloud and data center servers. The Bergamo chips are designed to offer higher density in an efficient chip package.
More: Forbes, HotHardware, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Reuters, Phoronix, XDA Developers, TechRadar, Tom's Hardware, AnandTech, DatacenterDynamics, Club386, ServeTheHome, and AnandTech
Tweets: @amd, @iancutress, @bobodtech, and @dylanonchips
| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
More: SiliconANGLE, HPCwire, Forbes, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., CNBC, PCMag, CRN, KitGuru, Phoronix, Constellation Research, DatacenterDynamics, ZDNet, Bloomberg, ServeTheHome, Wccftech, and Tom's Hardware
Tweets: @sasamarinkovic, @dylanonchips, @dylanonchips, @phatal187, @anandtech, and @ryansmithat
Forums: Hacker News and r/LocalLLaMA
| 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).
More: YouTube Official Blog, The Verge, Social Media Today, Google Help Center, MobileSyrup, WeRSM, Neowin, PCMag, SlashGear, Android Headlines, TechRadar, Search Engine Journal, Tubefilter, Tech News Outlet, TweakTown, ICYMI, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @youtubeliaison, @reneritchie, @mws, @nealmohan, @mws, and @timfullerton
| New York Times: |
A US federal judge asks the SEC and Binance to strike a compromise over the Binance.US asset freeze, while criticizing the SEC's use of its enforcement powers — A judge urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to reach a compromise with Binance that would allow the world's largest …
More: Bloomberg, CoinDesk, The Block, Bitcoin News, Cointelegraph, The Daily Hodl, and CryptoSlate
| 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 — The unconventional arrangement between Microsoft and OpenAI sometimes causes conflict. — 166 min read — ◆ WSJ NEWS EXCLUSIVE
More: OnMSFT.com, The Decoder, Thurrott, The Information, Digital Trends, and BigTechWire
| Wall Street Journal: |
More: Observer, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, Thurrott, and Engadget
Bluesky: @mick.bsky.social and @edbott.com
Tweets: @loudmouthjulia, @alexisohanian, @mahemoff, @norock, @jtoonkel, and @katebennett_dc
| Biz Carson / Bloomberg: |
In a first, Larry Ellison passes Bill Gates to become the world's fourth-richest person, with a $129.8B net worth; ORCL is up 40%+ in 2023 on the AI boom — The optimism around artificial intelligence boosted both Oracle Corp.'s stock — and founder Larry Ellison's net worth — to record highs on Monday.| 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
More: The Verge, Social Media Today, BBC, Mashable, iMore, Gizmodo, The Information, Neowin, BGR, CoinGape, Insider, CNBC, Variety, Insider, and Deadline
LinkedIn: Rob Chesnut. Bluesky: @djcentos7.bsky.social. Tweets: @lindayacc, @lindayacc, @lindayacc, @lindayacc, @lindayacc, @rmac18, @kennethdavid, @pt, @lindayacc, @kremlintrolls, @patricklenton, @juansaaa, @jamespmanley, @zaleskiluke, @mehdirhasan, @scottbudman, @joserosado, @keithedwards, @tylerhower, and @sarahfrier
| Reuters: |
More: Breaking Points on YouTube, Gizmodo, TIME, International Business Times, BBC, BloombergQuint, Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, Newslaundry, Times of India, The Wire, The Hindu, The News Minute, and Livemint
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