2025-06-03
Having to offer that much of a premium on your debt is not a good thing. [embedded post]
Bloomberg
Sources: Elon Musk is selling $5B in xAI debt at a double-digit interest rate via Morgan Stanley, with demand already over $3.5B and commitments due by June 17
Elon Musk is selling $5 billion in debt for his artificial intelligence startup, xAI Corp., the latest in a series …
2024-05-02
This is ridiculous pricing. — For comparison, Slack is ~ $15 /user/month. [embedded post]
CNBC
Anthropic launches a free iOS app and Team, its first enterprise plan, which offers access to its Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models for $30/user/month
2024-02-02
I'm surprised there's that many of them out in the wild. [embedded post]
The Verge
The US CPSC says Snap will recall all its Pixy selfie camera drones because their batteries pose a fire hazard; Snap sold fewer than 71K drones in four months
2023-11-14
One of the aspects of enshitification — every app MUST add new features to try to “kill” related apps. You can't just be good at one thing. [embedded post]
TechCrunch
WhatsApp launches a Discord-like voice chat feature for large groups that is designed to be less disruptive than a group call, which rings every group member
2023-09-03
BAHAHAHAHAHA. oh wait, they're serious? [embedded post]
New York Times
Sources: Meta is considering paid, ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for users in the EU, to fend off privacy concerns and scrutiny from EU regulators
#Meta is considering paid, ad-free versions of #Facebook and #Instagram for users in the EU, to fend off privacy concerns and scrutiny from EU regulators. — https://www.nytimes.c...
2023-09-02
BAHAHAHAHAHA. oh wait, they're serious? [embedded post]
New York Times
Sources: Meta is considering paid, ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram for users in the EU, to fend off privacy concerns and scrutiny from EU regulators
The subscription plan is a response to European Union policies and court rulings to restrict Meta's data-collection practices.
2023-08-25
this will go well.... [embedded post]
Bloomberg
Walmart partners with Alphabet's Wing to test drone deliveries of up to six miles at two stores in the Dallas area, dropping off food and household essentials
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2023-07-12
All that money wasted on the Metaverse, at least they got some use out of it? [embedded post]
TechCrunch