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Bluesky confirms Jack Dorsey's departure from its board and says it is searching for a new board member — It sounds like Bluesky's most prominent backer is no longer on its board. — On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches quote post controls for all Threads users, letting them allow quotes from everyone on Threads, only the people they follow, or disable quote posts — Threads users can now exert more control over who can quote their posts. — This builds on a feature that already allows Threads users …
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Threads: @mosseri, @nixxi.mohilchock, @nixxi.mohilchock, @dodgersfanpg, @danielthejew, @_davidking17_, @shaneblair8580, @codedrift.social, @ghostoflviv_, @darnell, @documentingmeta, and @nixxi.mohilchock. Mastodon: @stefan@stefanbohacek.online. Bluesky: @josh.uno
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Over 40K Audible books are marked as having been made with an AI “virtual voice”, saving authors hundreds or thousands of dollars per title on narration costs — While authors appreciate the new revenue stream, audiobook listeners are complaining about the influx of new material
X: @authorontheside and @rakeshlobster
| Tara Copp / Associated Press: |
US Air Force plans a fleet of 1,000+ AI-controlled jets, the first of them operating by 2028; some AI versions already beat human pilots in air-to-air combat — With the midday sun blazing, an experimental orange and white F-16 fighter jet launched with a familiar roar that is a hallmark of U.S. airpower.
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| Pieter Haeck / Politico: |
The EU's crackdown on Huawei shows an EU-wide TikTok ban will likely take years of diplomacy, as the bloc lacks a formal say over national security concerns — Of all the shots Europe is firing at China, the threat of a blanket TikTok ban is likely to only scuff Beijing.
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| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
DEX Screener: the value of decentralized social platform Friend.tech's native token, the Friend, fell ~98% to below $2 after making its trading debut on May 3 — - “No one can figure out the tokenomics,” Delphi's Rinko says — Friend.tech's growth has been driven in part by trading bots| Jessica Lucas / The Verge: |
Some teen users of Character.AI's chatbots say they find the AI companions helpful, entertaining, and supportive but worry they may be addicted to the chatbots — Teens are opening up to AI chatbots as a way to explore friendship. But sometimes, the AI's advice can go too far.
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| Politico: |
A look at the US and EU's dueling approaches to rein in Big Tech, splitting tech companies' attention by miring them in separate legal and enforcement battles — The West's key regulators are now fully on the offensive against Apple, Google and other giants they see as monopolies.| Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic: |
A profile of ElevenLabs, whose founders seem unprepared for how its impressive AI voice cloning tech can change the internet and unleash political chaos — My voice was ready. I'd been waiting, compulsively checking my inbox. I opened the email and scrolled until I saw a button that said, plainly, “Use voice.”
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X: @theatlantic, @iethics, @jadubin5, @iethics, @scottnover, @dlberes, @cwarzel, and @saahil_desai. LinkedIn: Guido Palazzo
| Rina Diane Caballar / IEEE Spectrum: |
As CS students experiment with AI coding tools, professors say courses need to focus less on syntax and more on problem solving, design, testing, and debugging — Professors are shifting away from syntax and emphasizing higher-level skills — Generative AI is transforming the software development industry.
More: Neowin and Hackread
Bluesky: @chickenpuppet.bsky.social. X: @ieeespectrum, @josecamoessilva, @infornomics, and @badlogicgames
| Wall Street Journal: |
How role-playing with an AI chatbot can help prepare for difficult conversations with family, friends, and colleagues, such as for terminating an employee — Role-playing with an AI conversationalist can prepare you to handle difficult subjects with family, friends and colleagues| Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: |
Tens of thousands of overworked employees have left their jobs at China's largest tech companies in recent years, as the industry lost its growth momentum — - As of the end of 2023, China's BAT - Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent - had a combined total of 364,477 employees, a drop of nearly 25,000 from a year before
X: @jeff4malaysia and @tomorrownook
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