Sources: the US FTC is investigating Instacart's AI pricing tool, after a study showed different prices for the same items at the same stores; CART drops 8%+
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is probing Instacart (CART.O), two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters …
Source: Microsoft plans to lay off ~9,000 employees, or less than 4% of its workforce, across teams and role types, after cutting ~6,000 in May and 300+ in June
read Phil Spencer's note to staff Bloomberg : Microsoft Cuts 9,000 Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs IGN : Microsoft Makes Significant Layoffs Across Gaming Division, Xbox Bo...
Sources: Microsoft cut hundreds of Xbox jobs across studios, including King, ZeniMax, and Halo Studios, and cancels games like the new Perfect Dark and Everwild
Hundreds of people were laid off as the company canceled upcoming games such as Perfect Dark and Everwild
Bluesky, which has 55K+ users, feels absolutely wild, with the CEO asking users to stop calling posts “skeets”, a struggle to establish norms, and lots of nudes
and hundreds—of thousands for invites to Bluesky is that a comprehensive report about it from someone who has spent time there has not yet been issued. That changes right now. @sam...
Bluesky, which has ~55,000 users, feels absolutely wild, highlighted by the CEO pleading to stop “skeets” and increasingly weird struggles over norms and vibes
Early last week, barely anyone had heard of Bluesky. On Wednesday, it was just one of many alternatives vying …
Twitter suspends ~30 accounts sharing private jets' locations via public data, including @ElonJet, which Elon Musk had said he wouldn't ban for tracking his jet
Twitter Inc. has suspended multiple accounts that track the locations of private jets using publicly available flight data …
Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including suspending accounts “dedicated to sharing someone else's live location”
The suspended accounts include one that followed the private plane of Elon Musk, Twitter's owner.