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| Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal: |
In a memo to Twitter employees, CEO Linda Yaccarino said the platform is “on a mission to become the world's most accurate real-time information source” — Linda Yaccarino, who joined company last week, describes her mission to employees — Twitter's new chief executive told employees …
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| Reuters: |
Jack Dorsey says India threatened to shut Twitter down unless the company complied with orders during farmer protests, a claim India calls an “outright lie” — Twitter was threatened with shut down in India, Nigeria and Turkey unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts …
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| CNBC: |
The US FTC files for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard — - The FTC on Monday filed a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction seeking to block Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Reddit's API changes stem from LLMs driving up the value of its data, a long-planned IPO, and profitable third-party clients generating no revenue for Reddit — As it moves to shut down third-party apps, the site's self-governing ethos comes back to haunt it — I.
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Bluesky: @nohomers.bsky.social. Mastodon: @MikeRiverso@mastodon.social. Tweets: @caseynewton, @yoda, @alextcone, @sarthakgh, @tiagodf, @sarthakgh, and @rayredacted
| Mark Savage / BBC: |
Paul McCartney says AI helped “extricate” John Lennon's voice from an old demo to complete what he calls “the final Beatles record”, set for release in 2023 — Sir Paul McCartney says he has employed artificial intelligence to help create what he calls “the final Beatles record”.
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| Vishal Chawla / The Block: |
SDNY releases documents in which an ex-SEC director suggested ether and bitcoin were not securities in 2018, which crypto advocates say undermines the SEC — - Certain documents related to former SEC director William Hinman have been released in the SEC's lawsuit against Ripple Labs.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI's unusual deal created internal conflict, including over transparency, sales pitches, and Microsoft's spending on in-house AI — As the companies lead the AI boom, their unconventional arrangement sometimes causes conflict — Microsoft and OpenAI's partnership … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
YouTube lowers requirements to monetize under the Partner Program, including creators only needing 500 subscribers, down from 1,000, and fewer watch hours — YouTube is lowering the requirements for creators to get access to monetization tools under the YouTube Partner Program (YPP).
More: YouTube Official Blog, 9to5Google, Fortune, The Verge, Google Help Center, and ICYMI
| Dell Cameron / Wired: |
A declassified ODNI report from 2022: the US has amassed troves of “sensitive and intimate information” about Americans purchased from commercial data brokers — A newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reveals the federal government is buying troves of data about Americans.| Molly White: |
Unpacking Coinbase's flawed talking points in its battle with the SEC, including the argument that “securities laws written in the 1930s can't apply to crypto” — Coinbase is trotting out its usual flawed arguments now that it's facing a lawsuit from the SEC, and more pushback is needed.
More: Congressman Tom Emmer, Decrypt, Bloomberg, CCN.com, Coinspeaker, Forkast, and Protos
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| Max Read / New York Times: |
How Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, became a viral sensation for his absurd acts of altruism and pitching subscribing as an act of charity, sometimes literally — Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, has become a viral sensation for his absurd acts of altruism. Why do so many people think he's evil?
More: Game Rant, The Information, and Dexerto
Tweets: @deftlyinane, @readmaxread, @kvanvalkenburg, @georebekah, and @alexnpress. Forums: Hacker News
| Biz Carson / Bloomberg: |
In a first, Larry Ellison passes Bill Gates to become the world's fourth-richest person with a $129.8B net worth; ORCL has risen 42% in 2023 on the AI boom — The optimism around artificial intelligence boosted both Oracle Corp.'s stock — and founder Larry Ellison's net worth — to record highs on Monday.| Financial Times: |
A look at the global network of subsea internet cables, dominated by companies from France, the US, and Japan, as China circumvents US curbs to build its own — Nearly 1.4mn kilometres of metal-encased fibre criss-crosses the world's oceans, speeding internet traffic seamlessly around the globe.
More: MIT Technology Review. Tweets: @elinanoor, @alex_callinicos, @thedragonfeeder, @lukolejnik, @byron_wan, @ian_bott_artist, @jimpethokoukis, and @digitalcampbell
| Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
Google's Search Generative Experience seems like an “AI plagiarism engine” that cobbles together snippets of text from a variety of sites, often word-for-word — The Search Generative Experience seems more like a text-copying experience. — Search has always been the Internet's most important utility.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Netflix is in talks to livestream its first sporting event this fall, a celebrity golf tournament with professional golfers and Formula One drivers — Tournament to include celebrities from Formula One series ‘Drive to Survive’ and golf program ‘Full Swing’
More: The Streamable, The Verge, Neowin, TechRadar, Broadband TV News, Engadget, and MarketWatch
Bluesky: @mick.bsky.social and @edbott.com
Tweets: @mahemoff, @katebennett_dc, @jtoonkel, and @norock
| Tiyashi Datta / Reuters: |
Accenture plans to invest $3B over three years into its data and AI practice, aiming to have 80,000 staff working on AI, after laying off ~19,000 in March 2023 — Accenture said on Tuesday it will invest $3 billion over three years into its data and AI practice, doubling the number of employees …
More: VentureBeat, TechCircle, Livemint, New York Times, and Help Net Security
| Financial Times: |
Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games Group has spent ~$8B of its $38B war chest acquiring and building stakes in gaming companies globally in the past 18 months — Savvy shells out $8bn on deals in 18 months in rapid push to diversify revenues and acquire soft power| Financial Times: |
Investor letter: Insight Partners slashes the $20B target for its latest fund to $15B, after raising just $2B since June 2022, citing a “great reset in tech” — New York-based venture capital firm said it will scale back the pace of its dealmaking as valuations have slumped| Krystal Hu / Reuters: |
Sources: SoftBank plans a new round of Vision Fund layoffs, impacting up to 30% of the staff at the unit; Vision Fund had 349 staff at the end of March 2023 — SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is planning a fresh round of layoffs at its Vision Fund investment arm, two people familiar with the matter said … | Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Nothing plans to release the Nothing Phone 2 on July 11, offering a Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 chip and bigger battery, widely available in the US — We knew that the Nothing Phone 2 would arrive next month, and now we have a precise date: July 11th, a day shy of the Phone 1's first birthday.
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| Financial Times: |
The EU reaches a long-awaited deal on rules that could let 28M gig workers get social security and more, and plans to discuss the proposals with its parliament — Member states agree to rules that could give employment benefits to Uber drivers and food delivery riders
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Tweets: @beerg, @ian_c_johnston, and @carlpackman
| Gavin Bonshor / AnandTech: |
AMD announces the Ryzen Pro 7000 for desktop and Ryzen Pro 7040 HS and 7040 U for mobile, adding an integrated Ryzen AI block on select models and Zen 4 cores — As is a constant whenever AMD launches their latest desktop and mobile processors, they typically deploy and release a professional …
More: Thurrott, Club386, XDA Developers, Tom's Hardware, HotHardware, Windows Central, VideoCardz.com, ExtremeTech, KitGuru, Wccftech, and Notebookcheck.net. Thanks:@gavbon86
| Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
Uniswap Labs details Uniswap v4, the next version of the decentralized exchange, and invites feedback; Uniswap v3 launched in 2021 and has processed over $1T — The biggest decentralized crypto exchange is opening its development process to the public for the first time as the SEC cracks down on its centralized competitors.
More: The Block, Decrypt, Cointelegraph, CoinJournal, and GitHub
Tweets: @mayazi, @timccopeland, @uniswap, @uniswap, and @matthuang
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Austin-based Striveworks, which builds MLOps tools for training AI models and cleaning data, raised $33M from Centana Growth Partners, its first outside funding — MLOps, or DevOps for those working with machine learning models, has seen a boom of interest in the last year … Sponsor Posts
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