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  —  David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images  — Certain documents related to former SEC director William Hinman have been released in the SEC’s lawsuit against Ripple Labs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Austin-based Striveworks, which is building MLOps tools for training models and data cleaning, raised $33M from Centana Growth, its first outside funding  —  MLOps, or DevOps for those working with machine learning models, has seen a boom of interest in the last year, and that should come as no surprise … Lees verder op Tech Meme

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. Lees verder op Tech Meme

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). Lees verder op Tech Meme