HA won't start after updating to 2023.5.1

After updating to 2023.5.1, my ha instance won’t start anymore. To be specific, HA core fails during startup but I can still ssh to it. I found this in ha core logs: dpaste/v3hqy (Python) (Could not parse JSON content: /config/.storage/homeassistant.exposed_entities). I checked exposed_entities and can confirm that it’s empty. I’ve tried restoring to an older version but I’m still getting the same error. Can someone help me figure this out?

I was able to work around the error by saving an empty JSON ("{}") in exposed_entities. Everything seems to work now except that it’s forcing me to setup an assist pipeline.