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Elon Musk tweets “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand” and “If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we'll make go live worldwide” on July 24 — Elon Musk said on Sunday he was looking to change Twitter's logo, tweeting: “And soon we shall bid adieu …
Source: @elonmusk and @elonmusk
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| Brian Merchant / Los Angeles Times: |
Studio executives embraced Silicon Valley's magical thinking of hypergrowth and disruption for the past 10 years, only to slash worker pay as the boom times end — In one respect, the actors and writers of Hollywood uniting on the picket lines in a historic, industry-shaking strike is a tale as old as time …
More: The Guardian. LinkedIn: Erika Hall and Alan Lasky
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Twitter: @warrenleighttv, @ambermac, @klingebeil, @chris_o_lukens, @parismarx, @russ1mitchell, @jomc, @bcmerchant, @annienavar, @jayhasrajani, and @somebadideas
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Why the Vision Pro app store may be more successful than the Apple Watch or Apple TV app stores, despite the headset's small user base for the first few years — Third-party apps will be crucial to the success of the Vision Pro, but the pricey and niche nature of the device means that developers may not quickly flock to it.
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Bluesky: @danilo.redeem-tomorrow.com. Mastodon: @stroughtonsmith …. Twitter: @markgurman, @daveleebbg, @markgurman, @stevemoser, @vadimyuryev, @appleinsider, and @scobleizer
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
An analysis of the potential impact of the eight AI commitments to the White House made by OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection — Seven leading A.I. companies made eight promises about what they'll do with their technology. Our columnist sizes up their potential impact.
More: Forbes, iTnews, Beyond Search, The White House, GfxSpeak, TechCrunch, Mercury News, Bloomberg, Business Today, NPR, Cointelegraph, MarketWatch, Axios, Digital Music News, The Information, AppleInsider, and The Verge
LinkedIn: Clemens Pirker. Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org. Twitter: @mmitchell_ai, @cannellelily, @timrudner, @jamesoliverinla, @justinhendrix, and @samgregory
| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Profiles of eight former Google research scientists who co-authored the pioneering AI paper “Attention Is All You Need” that paved the way for the rise of LLMs — Their paper paved the way for the rise of large language models. But all have since left the Silicon Valley giant
Twitter: @madhumita29, @jmateosgarcia, @jmateosgarcia, @madhumita29, @madhumita29, @madhumita29, @gavinsbaker, and @fttechnews. Forums: Hacker News
| Mike Orcutt / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at the Boston Fed's Project Hamilton, launched in 2020 to research how to design a US CBDC but ended in 2022 after opposition from anti-CBDC legislators — Prominent politicians want to make sure a central bank digital currency never happens in the US—just as we've learned the basics of how one might work.
More: Financial Times
| Financial Times: |
The Worldcoin Foundation rolls out its Worldcoin token, received after using an eye-scanning “orb”, in 35 cities; Worldcoin plans to retain 20% of its tokens — Start-up co-founded by OpenAI chief faces regulatory pushback in US — Sam Altman's cryptocurrency project …
More: Metaverse Post, TechCrunch, The Block, Reuters, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Fortune, Semafor, and Coinpedia Fintech News
Twitter: @worldcoin, @jack, @worldcoined, @zachxbt, @worldcoin, and @jack
| Ben Eisen / Wall Street Journal: |
Small-time US entrepreneurs are amassing vehicles to rent out through services such as Turo and Getaround or their own websites to take on Hertz and Avis Budget — Entrepreneurs rent out fleets of cars through services including Turo and Getaround or build their own websites
More: PYMNTS.com
| Wall Street Journal: |
Nearly 200 US school districts have joined lawsuits against Meta, ByteDance, Snap, and Alphabet, alleging their apps cause disciplinary and mental health issues — Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube seek to dismiss federal suits, citing internet liability shield
Twitter: @joshconstine, @zg4ever, and @nickgillespie
| Katherine Alejandra Cross / Wired: |
Reddit and Bluesky are contrasting examples on how not to moderate, one centralizing in the worst way possible and the other decentralizing catastrophically — Moderating a site isn't easy—just ask Elon. But Bluesky and Reddit are contrasting examples of how not to do it.
More: The Verge, Social Media Today, and ZDNet
Bluesky: @haskell.bsky.social, @bungdan.bsky.social, @lilithsaintcrow.bsky.social, @naptime.theolive.garden, @iluffhomer.bsky.social, @davidgerard.co.uk, and @arjun.bsky.social
Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to, @joeo10@mastodon.sdf.org, and @Quinnae_Moon@wandering.shop
| Morgan Meaker / Wired: |
A profile of Munich-based Helsing, whose battlefield AI distills data from weapons systems and sensors like infrared and sonar into a visualization in real time — Helsing AI is building an operating system for warfare and says it'll only ever sell to democracies. — On the screen in front of me is a mountain range.
Twitter: @morganmeaker, @ieet, @occamstazer, and @wired
| Ben Smith / Semafor: |
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