Jay Peters

Senior Reporter

Jay PetersJun 16, 2023

We weren’t the only ones to talk to Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on Thursday.

In a conversation with NPR, Huffman spoke more about his concerns with big tech companies building AI models using Reddit data. “If they take our content and build businesses on it, that’s an issue,” Huffman said.

To NBC News, Huffman “said he plans to pursue changes to Reddit’s moderator removal policy to allow ordinary users to vote moderators out more easily if their decisions aren’t popular.” My colleague Sean Hollister wrote more about the company’s mod policies earlier on Thursday.

Here’s my full interview with Huffman.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: 'It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company'

[NPR]

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview

Jay PetersJun 16, 2023

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Reddit ‘was never designed to support third-party apps’

Jay PetersJun 15, 2023

Mario movie exec has no idea why people think a Zelda film is next

Jay PetersJun 15, 2023

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Jay PetersJun 15, 2023

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Jay PetersJun 14, 2023

“To subreddit mods: Please stay dark indefinitely!”

That’s the message from the reddark_247 Twitch stream, which shows a live count of which subreddits have gone dark to protest Reddit’s new API rules. Many communities are planning to extend their blackouts past the original Wednesday end date.

A screenshot of the reddark_247 Twitch stream.

Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge

Jay PetersJun 14, 2023

Celebrate Grimace’s birthday with a new Game Boy Color game from McDonald’s.

Match made in heaven, if you ask me, especially since the best Game Boy Color came in purple.

McDonald's Released a Brand-New Game Boy Color Game for Grimace's Birthday - IGN

[IGN]

Jay PetersJun 14, 2023

Flipboard made a custom feed in Bluesky.

If you have a Bluesky account, you can now follow Flipboard’s custom feed that curates posts about technology. According to the company’s blog post about the feed:

For our Tech feed, our AI topic extraction algorithms don’t just look at the raw text being posted to Bluesky. Instead, they dig into shared articles, categorize the content inside them, and confirm that the article meets Flipboard’s quality standards. This delivers streams of stories that are both topical and high quality.

You can also see Bluesky feeds within Flipboard, if you want.

Flipboard Launches First Bluesky Custom Feed Using Its Topic AI - Flipboard

[Flipboard]