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Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Current and former OpenAI and Google DeepMind staff sign an open letter warning of a culture of recklessness and secrecy at “frontier AI companies”  —  Daniel Kokotajlo, a former researcher in OpenAI's governance division, is an organizer of a group of former and current employees …
Shakeel Hashim / Transformer:
Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner says he was fired in April 2024 for sharing a memo with the board over concerns about OpenAI's security practices  —  Leopold Aschenbrenner also said he was interrogated about his team's “loyalty to the company”
Will Shanklin / Engadget:
Twitch says its Twitch Tier 1 subscriptions in the US will increase from $4.99 to $5.99 per month on July 11, the first price rise for US subscribers  —  Monthly Tier 1 memberships will go up by $1 in July.  —  Twitch is joining Spotify, Max, Peacock, Crunchyroll, EA and other content services …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Joe Benarroch, X's head of business operations and one of Linda Yaccarino's closest advisers, is leaving; his style rubbed colleagues the wrong way  —  X Corp. Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino's right-hand man and head of business operations, Joe Benarroch, is leaving the company, according to people familiar with the matter.
Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Australia's eSafety commissioner ends the legal action asking X to remove a video of a clergyman's stabbing; Musk labelled the action an assault on free speech  —  Australia's eSafety commissioner has ended legal action that aimed to compel social network X to take down a video depicting …
Joseph Cox / Wired:
An excerpt from the book Dark Wire, which details how the biggest FBI sting operation ran the Anøm encrypted phone network to catch criminals like “Microsoft”  —  When a drug kingpin named Microsoft tried to seize control of an encrypted phone company for criminals, he was playing right into its real owners' hands.
Samantha Murphy Kelly / CNN:
AT&T resolves an outage that preventing many customers from completing calls between carriers, but 911 calls still worked; Verizon users also reported issues  —  A nationwide AT&T outage is once again leaving some customers in the dark on Tuesday.  —  In a statement sent to CNN …
Cagan Koc / Bloomberg:
ASML CFO Roger Dassen says TSMC, Intel, and Samsung will all get its €350M high-NA EUV machines by the end of 2024; the machines can print 8nm lines on chips  —  Two of ASML's biggest customers, TSMC and Intel Corp., will get the so-called high-NA extreme ultraviolet machine by the end of this year …
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
Pika, which offers AI tools to generate and edit videos, raised $80M from Spark, Lightspeed, and others at a $470M valuation, taking its total funding to $135M  —  Pika, a video-generation start-up that raised $80 million in its latest funding round, already has a publicly available product, as OpenAI and Google keep theirs under wraps
Alex Konrad / Forbes:
How billionaire investors of the internet era are fighting to determine whether AI's future will be one of concentrated safety or unfettered advancement  —  Billionaire investors of the internet era are now locked in a war of words and influence to determine whether AI's future …
Olivia Solon / Bloomberg:
How Uganda's government under President Yoweri Museveni has increasingly used the country's biometric identity system to target opponents and consolidate power  —  The East African country's identity card system has become integral to banking, voting — and targeting critics
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Cisco introduces new AI products and services, including its Nexus HyperFabric AI clusters in partnership with Nvidia, and announces a $1B AI investment fund  —  Cisco Systems Inc. is doubling down on its artificial intelligence push with a host of new AI-powered products and services, plus various other initiatives focused on AI.

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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
A profile of Wired's top editor, Katie Drummond, who created a politics team that landed major scoops and says Wired added 200K+ new paid subs in the past year

Sara Fischer / Axios:
NBC News partners with Joanna Stern to add tech coverage from her venture, New Things, across NBC platforms, and names her chief tech analyst

Financial Times:
Canadian billionaire Stephen Smith agrees to buy the entire 26.9% stake in The Economist Group held by Lynn Forester de Rothschild, sources say for ~£300M

More News

Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Twelve Labs, which provides foundational models to help users search and analyze troves of video, raised a $50M Series A co-led by NEA and Nvidia's NVentures
Emilia Terzon / ABC:
Australia's privacy regulator sues Medibank over an October 2022 data breach, accusing the health insurer of failing to protect the data of 9.7M customers
MK Manoylov / The Block:
Filing: FTX argues it should pay the IRS a $200M priority tax claim and a $685M subordinated claim; the IRS said FTX owed $44B in taxes then revised it to $24B
Emily Bary / MarketWatch:
CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $921M, vs. $905M est., forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, lifts its FY 2025 outlook; CRWD jumps 6%
Sourasis Bose / Reuters:
Apollo Global agrees to buy 49% equity interest in a joint venture related to Intel's Fab 34, under construction in Leixlip, Ireland, for $11B

Earlier Picks

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Elon Musk says Tesla will likely spend $3B to $4B on Nvidia hardware in 2024 and that half of its formerly noted $10B AI-related capex will be on internal spend
David Heaney / UploadVR:
Meta rolls out an update to “significantly” reduce the Quest 3's passthrough distortion and warping, an experimental wrist-mounted menu button option, and more
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Databricks plans to acquire Tabular, a data management startup that helps companies optimize data stored in the Apache Iceberg format and others, for $1B+
Emily Baker-White / Forbes:
Sources: TikTok accounts, including brands and celebs like CNN, Sony, and Paris Hilton, are being hacked via a zero-day exploit that only requires opening a DM
Wayne Ma / The Information:
Sources: Apple was in talks in 2023 to debut Apple TV+ in China via a deal with China Mobile, which would make TV+ the only US video streaming service in China
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