Elon Musk

Twitter employees to soon receive stock awards: Musk
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"This past week, we completed a difficult organisational overhaul focused on improving future execution, using as much feedback as we could gather from the entire company," Musk wrote in an internal memo on Monday obtained by The Verge. "Those who remain are highly regarded by those around them," he added. The memo, titled "Performance Awards", was Musk's first message.
Musk feels AI existential anxiety
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In a tweet on Sunday, Musk said: "Having a bit of AI existential angst today." "But, all things considered with regard to AGI existential angst, I would prefer to be alive now to witness AGI than be alive in the past and not." He later posted: "AI+human vs AI+human is the next phase, but the human part will decrease in relevance over time, except perhaps as will.
Twitter lays off product manager who led Blue subscription project
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Crawford led various projects at Twitter, including the company's Blue with verification subscription and its forthcoming payments platform. More than 50 employees were impacted by the layoffs, which were spread across several departments. Martijn de Kuijper, the creator of the now-shuttered Revue newsletter platform that Twitter acquired in 2021, was also among them.
Twitter removes captions from Spaces on iOS
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The company still advertises that users can enable captions in a Space by clicking the three-dot menu, but that option is currently unavailable on iOS, reports The Verge. Moreover, captions do not appear when listening to a Spaces on the web, and while the "CC" closed captions button is present, clicking it on or off has no effect.
Musk continues to sack Twitter employees despite promise not to do so
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It means that the new Twitter CEO has done at least three rounds of layoffs, according to The Verge. This is happening despite his promise not to sack more employees after his brutal layoff exercise in November that affected two-thirds of the micro-blogging platform's 7,500 employees. At a meeting with employees, Musk had claimed that Twitter is now actively hiring.
Twitter to open source its algorithm next week: Musk
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When Musk tweeted, "Say what you want about me, but I acquired the world's largest non-profit for $44B lol." One user commented, "Right. Now open source it, then we'll be truly impressed.""Prepare to be disappointed at first when our algorithm is made open source next week, but it will improve rapidly!" Twitter CEO replied. Last week, Musk had said that the micro-blogging platform.
Users can soon earn money from Twitter, says Musk
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When one user posted a long tweet with the new Blue feature that allows subscribers to create tweets of up to 4,000 characters. Musk replied, "Good use of long tweet! Next update will allow much longer tweets with basic formatting, so you can post any content on Twitter." "We're also spinning up subscriptions, so you can charge people for some content and they can easily pay with one click."
ChatGPT lists Musk, Trump as 'controversial' noted personalities
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Twitter user Issac Latterell on Sunday shared a possible table of public figures and whether they are considered controversial listed by ChatGPT. "ChatGPT lists Trump, Elon Musk as controversial and worthy of special treatment, Biden and Bezos as not. I've got more examples. @elonmusk," he tweeted. To which Musk wrote, "!!"
Meta Verified: This is what you get in return after shelling out money
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With Meta Verified, you'll get a verified badge, confirming you're the real you and that your account has been authenticated with a government ID. According to the social network, it will offer more protection from impersonation with proactive account monitoring for impersonators who might target people with growing online audiences.
Musk says 'inevitable' as Meta unveils paid verification on FB, Insta
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The news website Disclose.tv tweeted, "JUST IN - Zuckerberg copies Twitter: $12 bucks per month to get verified and receive a blue badge." Musk replied: "Inevitable." Meta on Sunday announced it is testing paid verification for Instagram and Facebook for $11.99 per month for the web and $14.99 per month for mobile. In a tweet, Sriram Krishnan, a former Twitter executive.
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