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| Washington Post: |
Sources detail Elon Musk's rapid dismantling of Twitter's safety work, narrowing its scope to whatever he deems violent, threatening “sticks and stones” talk — Amid the wider turmoil since his takeover last month, Musk has moved rapidly to undermine Twitter's deliberative content-moderation system.
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The Hill. Tweets: @gerritd, @mikebutcher, @nitashatiku, @nitashatiku, @jayrosen_nyu, @ronbrownstein, @ronbrownstein, @jsrailton, @esqueer_, @whstancil, @mattnavarra, @cat_zakrzewski, @poppy_haze, @shiraovide, and @harrymccracken
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk said Twitter is done with layoffs and actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales; Twitter has 2,700+ employees — After purging nearly two-thirds of Twitter's 7,500-person workforce in three weeks, Elon Musk is hiring again.
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Tweets: @caseynewton, @alexeheath, @elonmusk, @alexeheath, @alexeheath, @alexeheath, @reckless, @philmcduff, @martinsfp, @adamsessler, @growing_daniel, @zenofdesign, @growing_daniel, @genzforchange, @_alialkhatib, @jodiecongirl, @itguy1959, @alexeheath, @alexeheath, @mmasnick, @alexeheath, @pleasebegneiss, @notcapnamerica, @stevesi, @alexhern, @amydiehl, @eevee, @brianmfloyd, @thecriticaldri2, @film_girl, @gergelyorosz, @lilahsturges, @caseynewton, @gergelyorosz, @mgerrydoyle, @themaxburns, @tslafanmtl, @alexeheath, @alexeheath, @gergelyorosz, @dantley, @metareflexive, @carnage4life, @saradannerdukic, @siruihua, @elonmusk, @chronic, @pnjaban, @lib_crusher, and @vkostyukov
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Elon Musk holds Blue Verified's relaunch until “there is high confidence of stopping impersonations” and floats using different colors for orgs and individuals — Elon Musk told Twitter employees on Monday that the company won't relaunch its paid verification subscription …
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Ars Technica, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, The Red Tape Chronicles, The Economic Times, CNBC, Fortune, TechCircle, BGR, Firstpost Tech, PCMag, Financial Times, Android Headlines, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @bgurley, @zaleskiluke, @mmasnick, @wbm312, @vladsavov, @mattdpearce, @rileytestut, @baratunde, @xpangler, @mikeelgan, @alexeheath, @rakeshlobster, and @naterockquarry
| Liz Hoffman / Semafor: |
Despite Elon Musk publicly distancing himself from SBF, texts between them on May 5 show SBF rolled over $100M in Twitter stock during Musk's takeover — Elon Musk used Twitter, the platform he now owns, to gleefully mock the meltdown of the crypto exchange FTX.
Tweets: @semafor, @semaforben, @carlquintanilla, @gerritd, and @cwarzel
| New York Times: |
After taking over Twitter, Elon Musk repeats tactics from SpaceX and Tesla, including firing workers, talking of bankruptcy, and introducing a “hardcore” style — Firing people. Talking of bankruptcy. Telling workers to be “hard core.” Mr. Musk has repeatedly used those tactics at many of his companies.
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| Koh Gui Qing / Reuters: |
Records: FTX, its executives, and SBF's parents bought 19+ properties in the Bahamas worth ~$121M over the past two years as “residence for key personnel” — Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX, his parents and senior executives of the failed cryptocurrency exchange bought …
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Tweets: @tier10k, @watcherguru, @pelositracker_, @eliotwb, @niubi, @wallstreetsilv, @jeffhauser, @rwpusa, @coryklippsten, @tombevanrcp, @zerohedge, @ericliptonnyt, @teddyschleifer, @neontaster, @lilmoonlambo, @niubi, @raph_bloch, @silvermanjacob, @johnedeaton1, @ghostofwhitman, @plebcapital, @buccocapital, @ledgerstatus, @priapusiq, @baldingsworld, @smtuffy, @aaronwall, @spencerjakab, @smtuffy, @packym, @tombevanrcp, @biohazard3737, @scottmelker, @hsakatrades, and @carnage4life
| Eliza Gkritsi / CoinDesk: |
Filings: FTX, Alameda, and other affiliates have $1.2B in cash reserves, below the $3.1B owed to the top 50 creditors; Alameda's reserves are largest at ~$393M — The bankrupt crypto exchange FTX owes around $3.1 billion to its top 50 creditors. — The various divisions …
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| Sunil Jagtiani / Bloomberg: |
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Tweets: @paulg, @vitalikbuterin, @lawmaster, @lookonchain, @cryptohayes, @twobitidiot, @arkhamintel, @adamscochran, @crypto_bobby, and @twobitidiot
| Samuel Stolton / Politico: |
The UK's CMA launches an investigation into Apple's and Google's dominance in mobile browsers and cloud gaming, following a survey that found a “stranglehold” — Apple and Google could be forced to loosen their grip on mobile systems after the United Kingdom's competition watchdog launched …
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @s8mb, @profschrepel, @dstallibrass, @megangra, and @cmagovuk
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao met with investors in Abu Dhabi last week to raise money for a crypto industry recovery fund — Binance Chief Executive Officer Changpeng “CZ” Zhao and several deputies met with investors in Abu Dhabi last week in an effort to raise cash … | Mack DeGeurin / Gizmodo: |
Meta's researchers detail Cicero, an AI trained to “human level performance” in negotiation-based strategy game Diplomacy, ranking in the top 10% over 40 games — Ever since IBM's Deep Blue artificial intelligence system defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov at his own game in 1997 …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr plans to support ActivityPub, the open and decentralized social networking protocol powering Mastodon, Instagram-like Pixelfed, PeerTube, and others — Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that's today powering social networking software …
Tweets: @photomatt, @migueldeicaza, @jbenton, @harrymccracken, @donmacaskill, @stefangreybeard, @elamhut, @kelseyhightower, and @joelghill
| David Enrich / New York Times: |
An investigation reveals how online US sports betting grew so big, so fast and what the consequences are likely to be for public health, taxpayers, and others — The New York Times examined thousands of pages of documents and interviewed lobbyists, executives, lawmakers …
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New York Times, New York Times, New York Times, and Why is this interesting?
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Genesis struggles to raise $1B+ funding for its lending unit and warns potential investors that it may need to file for bankruptcy if its efforts fail — Digital-asset brokerage Genesis is struggling to raise fresh cash for its lending unit, and it's warning potential investors …
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Tweets: @gemini, @fintechfrank, @tier10k, @tier10k, @fintechfrank, @tier10k, @cryptocred, @tier10k, @adamscochran, @chahalvermaa, @bleeding_crypto, @petergleick, @hsakatrades, @mikealfred, @kadhim, @doombergt, @ogdfarmer, @monkeycharts, @ellebeyoud, @silvermanjacob, @billcorbett, @ercwl, @kylesgibson, @hodlkryptonite, @northrocklp, @wublockchain, @asvanevik, @0xfoobar, @0xfoobar, @marionawfal, @adamscochran, @jnicholsonindc, @tier10k, @coffeebreak_yt, @_tolks, @whalecointalk, @arkloster, @ap_archpublic, @tradermayne, @concodanomics, @ramahluwalia, @cmsholdings, @biancoresearch, @canteringclark, @lisaabramowicz1, @jasoneburack, @adamscochran, @mdudas, @julianhosp, @marionawfal, @andy8052, @silvermanjacob, @sonalibasak, @napgener, and @dogetoshi
| Stephanie Murray / The Block: |
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Report: Amazon's hardware group is on track to lose $10B in 2022, as many Echo devices are sold at cost and plans to monetize Alexa have failed — Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company's biggest money loser. — Amazon is going through the biggest layoffs … | Julie Zhu / Reuters: |
Sources: the People's Bank of China plans to fine Jack Ma's Ant Group more than $1B as soon as Q2 2023, potentially ending the company's two-year overhaul — Chinese authorities are poised to impose a fine of more than $1 billion on Jack Ma's Ant Group, said six sources with direct knowledge of the matter …
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