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November 8, 2022, 7:55 AM

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Casey Newton / Platformer:
Sources: Elon Musk pitched charging most or all Twitter users for a subscription; internal estimates show Blue could lose the company ~$6/user/month in the US  —  Will he go through with it?  PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Source: Twitter tells advertisers the service added 15M+ mDAUs since the end of Q2, “crossing the quarter billion mark”; Musk also tweeted user numbers are up  —  Twitter's daily user growth hit “all-time highs” during the first full week of Elon Musk owning the platform …
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:
FTX's FTT drops 19%+ to ~$18 as investors fear possible contagion from the collapse of FTX-linked Alameda; Nansen shows FTX outflows reached $450M+  —  FTT has declined nearly 20% over the course of an hour, with Solana's SOL down 17% and Serum's SRM off 10%.
Andrew Rummer / The Block:
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says “FTX is fine” as Binance begins selling FTX's FTT token; an Alameda balance sheet leaked on November 2 showed $8B in liabilities  —  - FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried insisted his crypto exchange is “fine” after rival Binance announced it would start selling its holdings of FTX's FTT token.
Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters:
Nvidia offers Chinese customers the A800 GPU, which the company says meets US export control rules, as an alternative to the A100 that the US banned for export  —  U.S. chip maker Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) said on Monday it is offering a new advanced chip in China that meets recent export control rules aimed …
Financial Times:
Apple is now more profitable than Chinese tech giants as its bargain with Beijing lets the company evade the tech crackdown while gaining from US chip sanctions  —  The most profitable tech company operating in China is not a homegrown internet giant such as Alibaba or Tencent, but California-based Apple.
Ryan Mac / New York Times:
As Twitter's problems mount, Elon Musk is on pace to tweet over 750 times in November, or more than 25 times a day, up from around 13 per day in April  —  The new owner of Twitter has embarked on a tweeting spree to push back, spar and justify his actions.  —  Ryan Mac, who is based in Los Angeles …
Andrew Hayward / Decrypt:
Some NFT marketplaces stop honoring NFT royalties, usually a 5%-10% fee set by the creator and paid by sellers on secondary market sales, rocking the community  —  Creators sound the alarm after the marketplace reveals its plans, which include blacklisting rivals and potentially optional royalties.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Signal launches its Stories feature out of beta on Android and iOS, letting users share Stories that expire after 24 hours  —  End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a new Stories feature to all users on Android and iOS, the company announced on Monday.
David Pierce / The Verge:
An interview with YouTube Shorts Director of Product Management Todd Sherman on UI challenges as YouTube rolls out the TikTok competitor to its TV apps  —  YouTube Shorts is working.  That much Todd Sherman knows for sure.  Sherman, the product manager behind YouTube's endless-scrolling …

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