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June 14, 2023, 6:25 AM
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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
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.
Nicole Carpenter / Polygon:
Swedish gaming conglomerate Embracer Group plans to 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
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.
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 …
James Cirrone / Blockworks:
After Apple threatened App Store delisting, Nostr-based social media app Damus must remove bitcoin tipping on posts but can keep the button on profiles  —  Damus creator William Casarin told his followers on the app that Apple would allow zaps, just with a slight tweak
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Ryan Smith / AnandTech:
AMD previews its Instinct MI300 accelerator family, including the MI300X, a high-performance GPU with 192GB of HBM3 memory aimed squarely at the LLM market
Anissa Gardizy / The Information:
Source: Rob Bearden, CEO of Cloudera, told employees he is stepping down, two years after KKR and CD&R acquired the data management software company for ~$5.3B  —  Rob Bearden, the CEO of Cloudera, told employees in a virtual town hall meeting on Tuesday that he is stepping down, according to someone with direct knowledge.
Clothilde Goujard / Politico:
The Irish DPC says Google must delay Bard's EU launch because the agency has insufficient information on how the company will respect EU data privacy rules  —  The Irish privacy watchdog said the tech giant has given insufficient information about how it will respect the EU's data privacy rules.

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David Bauder / Associated Press:
A look at the work of photographer Ann Hermes, who has documented 50 newsrooms across the US, many in smaller towns and cities, and hopes to photograph 100

Deadline:
SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP have “reached a tentative agreement” on terms for a successor contract to their 2023 contracts; the deal is now headed for a board review

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
BBC News staff are told they face 15% cost cuts, steeper than the 10% shared previously for the corporation as a whole, in the biggest downsizing in 15 years

More News

Ellen Huet / Bloomberg:
Comprehensive.io: salaries for senior engineers who specialize in AI and ML are 12% higher than for those who do not; AI-related salaries rose 4% in a year
Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Amazon resolved an AWS outage that impacted the US-EAST-1 region for nearly four hours and affected multiple services, including fast-food apps

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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
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