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 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Guy Chazan / Financial Times: Germany’s finance minister says there is no money in the country’s budget to meet Intel’s demand for €10B in subsidies for its €17B plant in Magdeburg, Germany  —  Christian Lindner’s refusal to meet US chipmaker’s financial demands causes split within government Lees verder op Tech Meme

Guy Chazan / Financial Times: Germany’s finance minister says there is no money in the country’s budget to meet Intel’s demand for €10B in subsidies for its €17B plant in Magdeburg, Germany  —  Christian Lindner’s refusal to meet US chipmaker’s financial demands causes split within government Lees verder op Tech Meme

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 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Guy Chazan / Financial Times: Germany’s finance minister says there is no money in the country’s budget to meet Intel’s demand for €10B in subsidies for its €17B plant in Magdeburg, Germany  —  Christian Lindner’s refusal to meet US chipmaker’s financial demands causes split within government Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wes Davis / The Verge: 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 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Primack / Axios: a16z to open a crypto-focused London office and is leading a $44M 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 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

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  —  Online journalist Matthias is the co-founder and publisher of THE DECODER.  He believes that artificial intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Guy Chazan / Financial Times: Germany’s finance minister says there is no money in the country’s budget to meet Intel’s demand for €10B in subsidies for its €17B plant in Magdeburg, Germany  —  Christian Lindner’s refusal to meet US chipmaker’s financial demands causes split within government Lees verder op Tech Meme