TechCoreVoice

Sources: Huawei plans to partner with Chinese foundry Wuhan Xinxin to develop high-bandwidth memory chips, marking its latest effort to defy US sanctions (Che Pan/South China Morning Post)

Sources: BlackRock has agreed to buy Preqin, a UK-based provider of private markets data, for £2.55B in cash (Financial Times)

NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Monday, July 1 (game #386)

Interviews with the creator and maintainers of FreeDOS, the only MS-DOS-compatible OS still under active development, about its continued relevance and more (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)

NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Sunday, June 30 (game #385)

How Avery Johnson and Warren Brodey, early members of the American Society for Cybernetics, created a lab in 1967 with a utopian vision to personalize computing (Evgeny Morozov/Financial Times)

Alphabet's Verily closes its R&D centers in Israel after launching them in August 2021, as part of Alphabet's decision to concentrate all R&D activity in the US (CTech)

An interview with Illia Polosukhin, a co-author of Google's Attention Is All You Need paper, on open-source AI, his Web3 company Near, "user-owned AI", and more (Steven Levy/Wired)

Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe is providing users with downloadable HTML files of paywalled articles from outlets including NYT, Forbes, and The Atlantic (Tim Marchman/Wired)

Microsoft's AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says content on the open web is "freeware" that anyone can copy or use to reproduce, due to the fair use "social contract" (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)

The White House will host the first-ever White House Creator Economy Conference in August to "emphasize the Administration's commitment to creators" (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)

Meta releases LLM Compiler, a family of models built on Code Llama specifically designed for code optimization tasks, available with 7B and 13B parameters (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg says there will not be "just one AI", disparages closed-source AI competitors as trying to "create God", and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Amazon folds its Amazon Clinic telehealth service into One Medical, with more affordable per-visit pricing: $49 for a video call or $29 to text a doctor (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

A look at YouTube's growing dominance as Nielsen says it had ~10% of all viewership on connected and traditional TVs in the US in May, ahead of Netflix's 7.6% (Alex Sherman/CNBC)

Slides shown to Chinese sellers: Amazon plans to launch a Temu-like section featuring cheap items that ship directly from China to overseas consumers (The Information)

Users of the popular AI chatbot platform Character.AI are reporting that their bots' personalities changed a few days ago and aren't as fun as they once were (Samantha Cole/404 Media)

ElevenLabs debuts its first iOS app, which turns any English-language text, including from PDFs and ePubs, into narrations by one of its "human-like voices" (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Emergence, which is building "agent-based" systems that orchestrate tasks by routing them to first- and third-party AI systems, emerges from stealth with $97.2M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Uber has begun locking NYC drivers out of its app during low demand periods to fight a local rule that requires drivers be paid for idle time between rides (Evan Gorelick/Bloomberg)

Meta launches its Meta AI chatbot in India with support for English only, a week after Google's Gemini app on Android debuted with support for 9 local languages (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Food delivery apps are contending with plunging orders and frustrated drivers, after raising fees in NYC and Seattle due to wage-increase laws for gig workers (Preetika Rana/Wall Street Journal)

NYT Connections today — hints and answers for Monday, June 24 (game #379)

Interviews with ~12 media executives, including Brian Roberts, John Malone, Barry Diller, and Ted Sarandos, about the future of streaming, bundling, ads, more (New York Times)

Interviews with several journalists who helped saturate the web with Game of Thrones coverage, leveraging fans' obsessions for traffic via SEO and social media (Kevin Nguyen/The Verge)