Fri. 10/21 – What If Uncle Sam Let’s Elon Off The Hook?
I said Elon’s name five times in front of a mirror and the whole Elon/Twitter headlines came flooding back into our lives. Forbes alleges that they’ve caught TikTok doing the thing that everybody fears. What if I told you there was a third huge AI raise story to round out this week? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
Tech Brew Ride Home · Morning Brew
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Show Notes
I said Elon’s name five times in front of a mirror and the whole Elon/Twitter headlines came flooding back into our lives. Forbes alleges that they’ve caught TikTok doing the thing that everybody fears. What if I told you there was a third huge AI raise story to round out this week? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.
Links:
- Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce (Washington Post)
- Twitter Tumbles as US Weighs Security Reviews for Musk Deals (Bloomberg)
- TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens (Forbes)
- OpenAI, Valued at Nearly $20 Billion, in Advanced Talks with Microsoft For More Funding (The Information)
- Snap plunges more than 25% on third-quarter revenue miss (CNBC)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready? (MIT Technology Review)
- How Gamers Beat NFTs (Bloomberg)
- The Hottest App Right Now? One Where Teens Have to Say Nice Things About Each Other (WSJ)
- I Turned My Home Into a Fortress of Surveillance (The Atlantic)
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