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Interviews with 30+ of Elon Musk's colleagues and dozens of others detail his growing power, childhood, career, politics, role in Russia's Ukraine war, and more — How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
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| Craig Trudell / Bloomberg: |
Report: before tweeting a pro-Russia Ukraine peace plan, Elon Musk said he had Kremlin consultations; he also told the US of a Putin call but publicly denied it — - Magazine reports on October conversation with top official — The SpaceX CEO later denied speaking with Russian president
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| Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube and Universal Music Group partner to explore new products, using music in AI tools, and paying artists whose work is used to make AI-generated content — YouTube has recruited Frank Sinatra's estate and other Universal Music Group UMG .39%increase; green up pointing triangle acts …
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| Dana Hull / Bloomberg: |
Maine's attorney general says Tesla's May 2023 data breach impacted 75,735 people, included employee-related records, and was a result of “insider wrongdoing” — - Data breach included employee-related records, Maine AG says — Tesla says two former employees shared info with Handelsblatt| CNBC: |
Filing: SoftBank's Arm files to list on Nasdaq and reports $524M in net income on $2.68B in revenue in its fiscal 2023, with sales slightly down from 2022 — - Arm, which is owned by SoftBank, filed on Monday to list on the Nasdaq. — The U.K.-based chipmaker is looking to go public during … | Reuters: |
Sources: cybersecurity company SentinelOne, whose shares dropped ~80% in the last two years, has been exploring options including a sale; stock jumps 15%+ — SentinelOne Inc (S.N), a cybersecurity company with a market value of $4.2 billion, has been exploring options that could include a sale …
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| Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: |
Friend.tech, which lets people use crypto to buy “shares” of X accounts, hits 100K users, per a database of wallet addresses that has raised privacy concerns — The growth correlates with the more than $25 million in revenue generated by the platform since its Aug. 10 launch.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple adds Subscription Analytics to Podcasts, adds more hosts to Delegated Delivery, and integrates its podcast analytics into Linkfire's marketing platform — Apple announced today several new updates to its podcast creator tools, including, most notably, the addition …
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| Leo Schwartz / Fortune: |
Coinbase takes a “small” equity stake in Circle as the companies shutter the Centre Consortium, which previously governed the USDC stablecoin — On Monday, Coinbase and Circle, the two companies behind USD Coin, settled on new terms that would change the governance and funding of USDC … | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Interviews with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, CTO Kevin Scott, and other Microsoft executives on AI, a decade of AI investments, Office Copilots, Bing, and more — “In general, I get excited by new things,” says the CEO. The story of a transformative moment that's been a decade in the making.
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| Christine Hall / TechCrunch: |
Los Angeles-based Ghost, a B2B surplus inventory marketplace with 1,000+ members, raised a $30M Series B led by Cathay Innovation and aims for Europe and Asia — Ghost, providing a B2B marketplace for surplus inventory, is back with fresh funds in the way of a $30 million Series B round.| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Triller's S-1 filing claims the short-form video app has had 550M signups, but Apptopia estimates it has been downloaded just 73.2M times since its 2015 launch — TikTok competitor Triller is preparing to go public, but estimates from Apptopia call its self-reported user numbers into question.Sponsor Posts
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