Sources: some internal estimates show 1,200+ full-time Twitter employees resigned on November 17; Twitter previously laid off ~3,700 of 7,500 staff
Mr. Musk sent emails on Friday asking to learn about Twitter's underlying technology as key infrastructure teams have been decimated.
Hundreds of Twitter employees post farewell messages and salute emojis in Slack and tweets, announcing their resignations after Elon Musk's “hardcore” ultimatum
Plus: The GOP releases the moral idiocy … Happy Friday. Oliver Darcy / CNN : Inside Twitter as ‘mass exodus’ of staffers throws platform's future into uncertainty Stephen Warwick / iMore : Is Twitter ...
[Thread] Elon Musk says a “new Twitter policy” will deboost and demonetize “negative/hate tweets” and reinstates Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and Babylon Bee
This week has been a week. Okay, let's just get into it. — Twitter needs to die Derek Saul / Forbes : ‘Freedom Of Speech, But Not Freedom Of Reach’: Musk Reinstates Kathy Griffin And Jordan Peterso...
Twitter's ex-head of Trust & Safety on why he resigned: a Twitter whose policies are defined by unilateral edict has little need for a trust and safety function
Earlier this month, I chose to leave my position leading trust and safety at Elon Musk's Twitter.
Musk is running a Twitter poll on reinstating Donald Trump, after saying in October that Twitter will form a “content moderation council” to make such decisions
Elon Musk dropped a 24-hour poll on his own Twitter feed Friday night asking whether or not to reinstate former President Trump to the social media platform.
India's new draft data protection bill proposes allowing cross-border data transfer with certain countries, unlike an earlier version which imposed restrictions
India has proposed a new comprehensive data privacy law that will mandate how companies handle data of its citizens …
Sources: Twitter disables badge access and shuts down offices until at least November 21; a report points to fears of “sabotage” after numerous resignations
AJ McDougall / The Daily Beast :
Sources: $300M of FTX's $420M raise in October 2021 went to Sam Bankman-Fried in a share sale he said was partial reimbursement for buying out Binance's stake
Cryptocurrency-exchange founder told investors last year that the share sale was partial reimbursement of money he'd spent to buy out rival Binance's stake
Robin Wheeler, Twitter's head of ad sales, seems to have left the company, a week after Elon Musk reportedly convinced her to stay; sources say she was fired
Robin Wheeler, Twitter's head of ad sales, seems to have left the company yet again, just over a week after Elon Musk reportedly had to convince her not to resign.
A court filing from Epic's lawsuit shows Google allegedly agreed to pay ~$360M over three years to keep Activision Blizzard from launching its own app store
Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google has struck at least 24 deals with big app developers to stop them from competing with its Play Store …
Ripple says it is effectively “operating outside of the US” due to its legal fight with the SEC and is seeking a license in Ireland to drive EU expansion
- Ripple is expanding its presence in the EU, where it plans to “passport” its services through an entity in Ireland, General Counsel Stuart Alderoty told CNBC.
Meta AI and Papers with Code pull Galactica three days after launch, amid criticism the large language model for generating scientific text asserts falsehoods
and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
A New York judge issues a default ruling against two Russians Google accused of running a botnet infecting 1M+ devices, ordering them to pay Google's legal fees
Judge tells tale of two men, their lawyer, and a ‘willful campaign... to mislead the court’ — A New York judge has issued …
New FTX CEO says it will attempt to sell or reorganize its businesses after a review found that many of its subsidiaries have “solvent balance sheets”
Many of collapsed crypto group's subsidiaries have ‘solvent balance sheets’, John Ray III says
LGBTQ dating app Grindr closed up 213.84% at $36.50 per share in its NYSE debut under the new ticker GRND following its SPAC merger
Alex Harring / CNBC :
A look at South Korean conglomerate Naver's experiments with a fleet of ~100 office robots, including efforts to make employees comfortable with their presence
Naver, a South Korean internet firm, is trying to introduce robots into the world of cubicles and conference rooms without making employees uncomfortable. Tweets: @daiwaka , @stanhoraczek , @tanzinave...
ISEE, which develops tech to turn the most common logistics yard trucks into autonomous vehicles, has raised a $40M Series B led by Founders Fund
Brianna Wessling / The Robot Report :
Analysis: FTX Ventures, which launched a $2B fund in January 2022, participated in 47 venture rounds that raised ~$3B, with the firm leading or co-leading 19
While everyone is still sifting through the immediate FTX wreckage, there is a good chance more decimated debris is on the way. Tweets: @crunchbasenews Tweets: @crunchbasenews : Now as FTX and more th...
Interviews with lawyers, analysts, and employees at AI startups on unresolved questions concerning copyright and fair use shaping the future of generative AI
the scary truth is there are no clear answers https://www.theverge.com/...
Parallel Domain, which is building a data-generation platform for autonomous vehicle companies, raised a $30M Series B led by March Capital
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :
Internal emails: Google sets rules for hosting HQ guest speakers, like making a business case and considering company goals, after row over an Indian historian
Paresh Dave / Reuters : Tweets: @alphabetworkers , @anuradhasays , and @profdilipmandal Tweets: @alphabetworkers : WORKER WIN! We've been organizing to end caste-based discrimination at Alphabet. Las...
Apple's plan to use TSMC plants in the US and possibly Europe, a PR victory, buries the truth: capacity will be tiny and the chips will use an older 5nm process
Tim Culpan / Bloomberg : Tweets: @pstasiatech Tweets: Paul Triolo / @pstasiatech : Some commentators correctly point out that the new onshoring effort in the US under the CHIPS Act that has driven TS...
Carvana plans to lay off about 1,500 people, or ~8% of its workforce, on top of the ~2,500 workers the company laid off in May 2022
Pickle Robot Company, which makes robots for unloading trucks at warehouses, has raised a $26M Series A led by Ranpak, JS Capital, Soros Capital, and others
Brian Heater / TechCrunch :
Internal email: autonomous vehicle delivery startup Nuro is laying off ~300 people, or 20% of its staff, to preserve cash, and claims $1B on its balance sheet
Closed-loop product lifecycle management software maker PTC plans to acquire ServiceMax, which offers cloud-based field service apps on Salesforce, for ~$1.46B
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