Elon Musk

The family of Walter Huang, an Apple engineer who died after his Tesla Model X with Autopilot engaged crashed after hitting a highway barrier, had sued Tesla in California Superior Court, County of Santa Clara. Now, a California judge has ordered Musk to "be interviewed under oath" in the case, reports TechCrunch.

Vera Jourova, Vice-President for Values and Transparency at EU, said in a tweet that this is yet another "negative sign from Twitter on not making digital information space any safer and free from the Kremlin disinformation and malicious influence". Twitter has been confirmed as one of 19 major tech platforms subject to a centralised oversight.

Angel investor Alex Cohen did the maths and tweeted that with each subscriber paying him $4 a month, the Twitter CEO is generating around $1.2 million a year "in passive income". "It's literally this simple to achieve financial independence and retire early," Cohen tweeted. It means Musk, who has 136.5 million followers is making.

"Many influencers are expressing hope that Musk will create a human-centric AI model that prioritises ethical considerations and advocates for the betterment of humanity, ultimately shaping a more responsible and sustainable future," Smitarani Tripathy added. Some of the popular influencers also shared their opinions.

Recently, Musk announced that the legacy ticks would begin disappearing from April 20 onwards. However, now numerous influential and well-known Twitter users globally have had their blue verification badges reinstated next to their usernames. American journalist Matt Binder has tweeted that he got.

Twitter has also deleted its web page explaining the "government-funded media" labels, report The Verge. The micro-blogging platform earlier placed the 'publicly-funded' label to the BBC account and applied the 'government-funded' label to US-based NPR. Twitter later placed more 'government-funded media' labels on the accounts of global news outlets like the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC Australia), Australia's Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), and New Zealand's public broadcaster RNZ.

Social media consultant Matt Navarra shared the letter sent by Twitter to advertisers, which read that starting April 21, "your account must have a verified checkmark or subscribe to either Twitter Blue or Verified Organisations to continue running ads on Twitter." Business accounts spending in excess of $1,000 per month.

In India, one has to shell out Rs 900 a month (or Rs 9,400 a year) to get Blue Verified status. As more than 4 lakh legacy verified users bid goodbye to the Blue check marks, some celebrities have been offered a complimentary Twitter Blue subscription "on behalf of Musk". I am paying for a few personally," said Musk. "Just William Shatner.

According to its CEO Elon Musk, it is "shaping up to be quite the day!" Twitter announced that on April 20, "we are removing legacy verified checkmarks". "To remain verified on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue. Organisations can sign up for Verified Organisations," the company said. Twitter Blue in India will cost Rs 9,400 a year (or Rs 900 a month) for individual users.

Musk reacted after Microsoft dropped Twitter from its advertising platform as it allegedly refused to pay Twitter's application programming interface (API) fees."They trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time," said Musk in a tweet. His statement is likely over Microsoft-owned OpenAI allegedly using Twitter data to train the large language model for the AI chatbot called ChatGPT.