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Jay Peters / The Verge:
Q&A: Steve Huffman says Reddit's API was “never designed to support third-party apps” and he didn't know how much the apps were “profiting off of our API”  —  Reddit is fighting for its soul. … Huffman has argued the changes are a business decision …
Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg:
Reddit says 80% of its top subreddits are currently open; Reddark estimates that 5K+ subreddits are limiting access, down from almost 9K on June 12  —  Reddit Inc. said that most of the company's communities were operating as normal — four days after a protest that shut down thousands …
The Verge:
Reddit messages some moderators of the communities participating in the API pricing change protest, looking for defectors “willing to work towards reopening”  —  Some moderators of Reddit communities participating in the protest against API changes today got messages from the company: work to reopen your subreddits or else.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
A “Reddit API Fact Sheet” says the company does not plan to “unilaterally” reopen subreddits; Reddit's rules may let the platform remove protesting moderators
Bloomberg:
NY AG documents: Tether once counted securities from Chinese companies among its reserves; Tether said in July 2022 that it held no Chinese commercial paper  —  Tether Holdings Ltd. once counted securities issued by Chinese companies among the reserves backing its USDT stablecoin …
CoinDesk:
France probes Binance for illegally providing digital asset services and poor money laundering checks; Binance quits Netherlands after failing to get a license  —  Binance is suspected of illegally providing digital asset services to local customers, and implementing poor money laundering checks …
Manya Saini / Reuters:
BlackRock files an SEC application to register its iShares Bitcoin Trust as a spot bitcoin ETF, using Coinbase Custody as its custodian  —  BlackRock (BLK.N), the world's biggest asset manager, on Thursday filed for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) that would allow investors to get exposure …
Katie Roof / Bloomberg:
Alphabet plans to wind down Google Domains and sell its assets, including ~10M domains, to Squarespace in Q3 2023, a source says for ~$180M; SQSP jumps 9%+  —  Alphabet Inc. is winding down its Google Domains business and selling its assets to Squarespace Inc., according to a statement Thursday.
Andrew Tarantola / Engadget:
Meta unveils Voicebox, a generative text-to-speech model the company hopes could be the ChatGPT of the spoken word, but won't release an app citing misuse risks  —  But the company won't be sharing the app or its source code for the time being.  —  Today, we are one step closer …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
How the “arms race” of SEO experts has left Google Search and the web drowning in garbage text, resulting in customers and businesses failing to find each other  —  The SEO arms race has left Google and the web drowning in garbage text, with customers and businesses flailing to find each other.
Bloomberg:
In a meeting with Bill Gates, Xi Jinping says China is willing to engage in tech cooperation with the US; Xi is expected to meet Antony Blinken later this week  —  President Xi Jinping said China is willing to work with the world on technology innovation and global challenges including …
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
In a cease-and-desist order, Texas' securities regulator says crypto lender Abra has been insolvent for months and accuses the company of securities fraud  —  State regulators say Abra held tens of millions of dollars' worth of assets on now bankrupt platforms.
Leo Schwartz / Fortune:
Digital assets platform Bakkt delists Solana, Polygon, and Cardano, taking proactive action until there is regulatory clarity on offering coins compliantly  —  Just over two months after completing a $155 million acquisition for the trading infrastructure provider Apex Crypto …
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Hanan Elatr, Jamal Khashoggi's widow, sues the NSO Group in Virginia, claiming Saudi Arabia used the Israeli company's Pegasus phone spyware to track them both  —  In the lawsuit, Hanan Elatr says Saudi Arabia used NSO's Pegasus spyware to track her and her husband's whereabouts before he was murdered

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From Mediagazer

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
More than 250 ex-broadcast journalists urge WHCA dinner organizers “to forcefully demonstrate opposition” to Trump's “efforts to trample freedom of the press”

New York Times:
Filing: The Onion proposes a new deal for Infowars, licensing Infowars.com for $81,000 per month for six months initially; the deal requires a judge's approval

Matthew Gault / 404 Media:
A Forbes story about a Louisiana man killing 8 children contained a ForbesPredict box asking readers to predict whether Congress would pass new gun safety laws

More News

Venkatesh Gorantla / MySmartPrice:
Alleged official renders of Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 show the clamshell-style foldable phone may get a 3.4-inch outer screen
Benedict Evans:
Apple Vision Pro shows that current AR/VR devices, like Meta's Quests, aren't good enough to break out of the gaming market and need a step change in capability
Financial Times:
Sources: media companies like News Corp and The Guardian have discussed LLM copyright issues and a subscription fee with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, or Adobe
Katharine Gemmell / Bloomberg:
The UK CMA clears Amazon's $1.7B iRobot deal announced in August 2022, saying acquiring the robot vacuum maker would have “no impact on competition in the UK”

Earlier Picks

Reuters:
Micron plans to invest $603M in its chip packaging facility in Xian, China; in May 2023, China blocked key infrastructure operators from buying Micron products
Stephen Shankland / CNET:
Intel announces Tunnel Falls, its first quantum chip, featuring 12 qubits that use electrons to store data, available to select academic and research partners
Teo Armus / Washington Post:
Amazon formally opens Metropolitan Park in Arlington, Virginia, marking the first phase of HQ2, where the company plans to bring 25K highly paid workers by 2030
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information:
Sources: Meta is working on ways to make the next version of LLaMA available for commercial use; the open-source LLM is currently only licensed for research use
Bloomberg:
How Microsoft's bet on OpenAI due to transfer learning, an approach that wasn't yet commercialized, may help Microsoft leapfrog Google and corner the AI market
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Twitch launches a Partner Plus tier, offering a 70/30 revenue sharing split to creators who have 350+ recurring paid subscriptions for three consecutive months
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