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Reddark: thousands of subreddits are going dark in protest after Reddit CEO Steve Huffman's remarks on API changes in an AMA on June 9 — The version of Reddit we'll see over the next few days may be a shell of itself. More than 100 subreddits have already gone dark …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
a16z to open a crypto-focused London office and is leading a $43M investment in UK-based Gensyn, which offers a decentralized compute network for training AI — America's largest investor in crypto startups believes that the industry's future may be across the pond, and is opening …
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| Platformer: |
Sources: Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract ends on June 30, and is now planning to move off the platform altogether — Musk won't pay his Google Cloud bill — and the company's trust and safety systems are hanging in the balance
More: The Information, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Engadget, Cryptopolitan, Neowin, Techlusive, International Business Times, Fortune, and The Verge
Bluesky: @nevillehobson.xyz. Tweets: @zoeschiffer, @jewishworker, @elizableu, @caseynewton, @leanmediaorg, @hackinggavin, @malwarejake, @andrewnebus, @vboykis, @zoeschiffer, @danprimack, @aniceburrito, @ericafails, @deaneckles, @fredwalton216, @martinsfp, @kimmasters, @davidclinchnews, and @platformer. Forums: r/Twitter
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will bring select games on PC Game Pass to Nvidia's GeForce Now in the coming months, letting subs stream games with RTX 4080 levels of performance — Microsoft is planning to bring PC Game Pass titles to Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming service. Sarah Bond, head of Xbox creator experience …
More: Xbox Wire, Neowin, 9to5Google, TweakTown, PC Gamer, IGN, Digital Trends, and VideoCardz.com
Forums: r/Games and r/XboxSeriesX
| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Meta launches MusicGen, an open-source AI model that can generate short pieces of music using text prompts that can optionally be aligned to an existing melody — Meta's MusicGen can generate short new pieces of music based on text prompts, which can optionally be aligned to an existing melody.
More: Github, Hugging Face, and arXiv.org
LinkedIn: Yann LeCun and Phillip Rather
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ArtificialInteligence, and r/singularity
| Noah Smith / Noahpinion: |
Trying to shape AI tech to protect jobs is a bad idea since no one can predict which technologies will augment humans and which will simply replace their labor — Instead, we should empower workers and create mechanisms for redistribution. — I've been to a number of meetings and panels recently … | Sarah Kessler / New York Times: |
Researchers of tech change and employment disagree on how many jobs AI will affect; one tricky factor is primarily tasks, not occupations, are being automated — The tally of how many jobs will be “affected by” world-changing technology is different depending on who you ask.
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @stevelohr, @evankirstel, @mrsethharris, @clevy_law, and @nytimesbusiness
Forums: r/singularity and r/Futurology
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
How science fiction and fantasy publishers are dealing with AI tools' role in the industry and with the trust crisis due to AI-generated content becoming common — Science fiction and fantasy authors are struggling with AI-generated media — and formulating strategies to deal with it.| Simon Parkin / The Guardian: |
An interview with Philip Rosedale, who launched the online world Second Life in 2003 and says his vision predates Neal Stephenson's 1992 coinage of “metaverse” — Mark Zuckerberg's grand vision for an online existence has been laughed off as a corporate folly.
Tweets: @fleming77
| Kirsten Grieshaber / Associated Press: |
A University of Vienna philosopher used ChatGPT to create a 40-minute church service, including the sermon, prayers, and music, led by four AI-generated avatars — The artificial intelligence chatbot asked the believers in the fully packed St. Paul's church in the Bavarian town of Fuerth to rise from the pews and praise the Lord.
More: Tech News Outlet, Newser, and Techaeris
| Amber Ferguson / Washington Post: |
A look at LUUM, a California eyelash studio using robots with computer vision to apply eyelash extensions and planning to sell its $60K robots to other studios — Is this technology a safe alternative for busy people who dream of semi-permanent wispy lashes?
Tweets: @anumitakaur
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
The Apple Vision Pro's biggest potential advantage will be developers being able to easily plug their iOS and iPadOS apps into visionOS using familiar tools — Apple's developers already have the tools they need to create apps for the system. … It has dual 4K displays …
Tweets: @thrilluwu, @skarredghost, @drasticactions, @drasticactions, @fgraillot, and @firt. Forums: r/apple
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