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In an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg published today, one of Meta Platforms Inc.’s biggest investors had a lot to say about the future of the company. The letter, which was published on Medium and signed by Altimeter Capital Chair and Chief …
Report: Elon Musk has plans to show 75% of Twitter’s staff the door
Twitter Inc. might soon see much of its workforce depleted, according to a report by the Washington Post today. The report, which was based on interviews and internal documents, suggests Musk told prospective investors that his plan was to cull much of …
SpaceX rolls out Starlink Aviation for private jets
SpaceX announced today that its satellite internet service will soon come to private jets, offering for a princely sum as much as 350 megabits per second per plane. Elon Musk’s company wants to disrupt the inflight WiFi market, a market that has …
Kanye West buys social media app Parler, claiming big tech censors free speech
Kanye West, the controversial U.S. rap star, will buy the conservative social media platform Parler, it was reported today. The app is pretty much a clone of Twitter, although with moderation being lax, it has attracted a certain amount of criticism for …
FCC is prepared to ban Huawei and ZTE equipment
Amidst the ongoing trade war, the Federal Communications Commission is ready to ban all future telecom equipment made by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd and electronics giant ZTE Corp. The reason for the ban is an alleged national security risk from China, although …
After months of waiting, Trump’s Truth Social makes it into the Play Store
Google LLC today added former President Donald Trump’s Truth Social app to the Play Store, following months of delays stemming from the app’s content moderation policies. After Trump was kicked off Twitter in 2021, he warned that he’d take his 88 million …
Report: As PC market slows down, Intel could lay off thousands of employees
Chip giant Intel Corp. may soon experience a significant reduction in staff, maybe in the thousands, to cope with the fallout of lower demand for personal computers, it was first reported by Bloomberg today. According to the International Data Corp., it has …
After backlash, PayPal reverses its policy to fine people for promoting alleged misinformation
PayPal Holdings Inc. today said it won’t fine people $2,500 for promoting misinformation, just days after it said it would. Last Friday, it was reported that the company would hit people with a fine if they were found to have promoted some …
Leading robotics companies say they don’t want their technologies to be weaponized
Six well-known robotics companies today signed a letter stating they’re against any of their products being turned into weapons. The companies were Robotics, Agility, ANYbotics, Boston Dynamics, Clearpath Robotics, Open Robotics and Unitree Robotics. They each said that general-purpose robots should be …
Google follows Meta in introducing text-to-video AI
Researchers at Google LLC’s AI lab, Google Brain, today unveiled Imagen Video, a program that can create high-quality videos from text, similar to what Meta Platforms Inc. introduced last week. Google calls Imagen Video a “text-conditional video generation system based on a cascade …