The U.S. TikTok saga could come to an end in the next two weeks. Maybe.
An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators.
Read more Looks like Meta isn’t done poaching talent from OpenAI.
Read more Welcome back to Week in Review! Lots of news for you this week, including Travis Kalanick’s possible return, CoreWeave’s CEO is now worth $10 billion, Apple users aren’t happy with how the company is promoting its new F1 movie, and much more.
Read more Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is arguing that the digital identification approach being promoted by Sam Altman’s World project has real privacy risks.
Read more Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs gave an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 an office vending machine to run. And hilarity ensued.
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Gemini says Strategy (MSTR) is its only tokenized stock for now, with more tokenized stocks and ETFs launching in “the coming days.”

XRP whale flows flipped bullish in May after months of outflows, hinting at a potential triple-digit price rally.

Bitcoin trades near key support at $104,000, but weak volume, fading onchain metrics, and sticky inflation point to more price consolidation.

Hackers and threat actors continue to infiltrate companies, blockchain projects and Web3 firms by exploiting remote work arrangements.
