SafeAI, which retrofits industrial vehicles like dump trucks and bulldozers with autonomous systems, raised a $38M Series B from Builders VC and others — A company that specializes in converting heavy construction and mining equipment from driver-operated to self-driving has landed millions …
Former product head of Twitter's developer platform details plans abandoned post-acquisition, like discovery tools and custom timelines, eroding developer trust — Twitter is where the world shares its opinions and aspirations; it's where brands, celebrities, and politicians interact with people, live and in the open.
Sources: TikTok's efforts to cut ties with Beijing-based ByteDance have stumbled over hiring and retaining talent, as some key staff remain based in China — The short-video app is making big efforts to separate from Beijing-based ByteDance, but is still hiring staff in China for key functions
Twitter disables Spaces, after Elon Musk abruptly left a group conversation with suspended journalists; Musk says Twitter is fixing a “legacy bug” — Twitter has apparently pulled its Spaces group audio feature, at least temporarily, after Elon Musk joined a group conversation …
Binance says Mazars, the auditing firm that worked on proof-of-reserves reports for Binance, Crypto.com, and others, has paused work for all crypto clients — Mazars has deleted Binance's proof-of-reserves assessment, which found its bitcoin reserves were overcollateralized.
The US Commerce Department puts 36 Chinese companies on its Entity List, including chipmaker Yangtze Memory Technologies and AI chip maker Cambricon — ‘Entity list’ changes are focused on limiting development of advanced chips in China — The US has placed three dozen Chinese companies …
Meta reports taking down 200 coordinated inauthentic behavior operations since 2016, spread across over 100 countries, most focused on domestic audiences — Six years on from the shock discovery of Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election — and in the face …
A look at The Managerial Revolution, a 1941 book that predicted the rise of the “managerial class” over capitalists and may help explain Elon Musk's Twitter — The long shadow of James Burnham's The Managerial Revolution. — Since the launch of the so-called “Twitter Files” …
Analysis of weekly realized gains and losses of all personal crypto wallets in 2022: UST's collapse caused $20.5B in losses, Celsius and 3AC $33B, and FTX $9B — Allow us to state the obvious: There's been a lot of doom and gloom in conversations around cryptocurrency over the last month.
Filing: Elon Musk sells 22M Tesla shares, worth ~$3.6B, the fourth sale since announcing his Twitter takeover and third since declaring “no further TSLA sales” — Billionaire has sold $23bn of stock in EV group since announcing Twitter takeover
Verizon partners with Netflix to give some customers who subscribe to another service using its +play marketplace a one year Netflix subscription for free — Amazon, Apple and YouTube woo customers with streaming marketplaces — Verizon Communications Inc. said it would give …
YouTube expands its tools to curtail toxic comments, sending users a notification when their comment is removed and temporarily banning them from commenting — Toxic and hateful comments on YouTube have been a constant headache for the company, creators and users.
Sources: some US banks that lent Elon Musk $13B to buy Twitter are preparing to book losses on the loans this quarter, as investors shy away from risky debt — Some of the banks that lent Elon Musk $13 billion to buy Twitter are preparing to book losses on the loans this quarter …
New York Times : Electricians are flocking to regions around the US to build data centers, as AI shapes up to be an economy-bending force...
