Why your favorite subreddit might be going dark. Why a16z opened an office in the UK. Why AI seems to be recycling the same few dozen jokes when you ask it to be funny. A new AI music generation tool. And the first reviews of the 15-inch Macbook Air.

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Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddit CEO’s recent remarks (The Verge)
Andreessen Horowitz believes that crypto's future may be in the U.K. (Axios)
Meta's open source AI MusicGen turns text and melody into new songs (The Decoder)
Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and over (ArsTechnica)
How AI art killed an indie book cover contest (The Verge)
Apple MacBook Air 15-inch review: exactly what was asked for (The Verge)

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