Amazon’s massive (surprise) network, Twitter’s feed debacle, and AI’s dominance

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In this episode: 

• Amazon has just opened up its Sidewalk network and it’s gigantic
• Twitter to Revoke ‘Legacy’ Verified Badges in April, Leaving Only Paying Subscribers With Blue Check-Marks
• Elon Musk: Only paid subscribers will get recommended in Twitter ‘For You’ feed
• Elon Musk Offers Employees Stock Grants Valuing Twitter at About $20 Billion
• Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online
• The FTC wants to ban those tough-to-cancel gym and cable subscriptions
• Judge Rules Against Internet Archive on Controlled Digital Lending | Authors Alliance 
• TikTok ban backup plan? ByteDance-owned Instagram rival Lemon8 hits the US App Store’s Top 10

Ad Break

• Microsoft Now Claims GPT-4 Shows 'Sparks' of General Intelligence
• Levi's Will Use AI Models Alongside Human Ones
• The swagged-out pope is an AI fake — and an early glimpse of a new reality
• IFTTT now has AI-powered automations for paying subscribers
• Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter - Future of Life Institute
• Here's why Apple released a new iPhone app for classical music only
• Disney Eliminates Its Metaverse Division as Part of Company’s Layoffs Plan
• 4G internet is set to arrive on the moon later this year

Weird and Wacky: 

• Cultured meat firm resurrects woolly mammoth in lab-grown meatball
• Wikipedia’s new sound logo: Winner of The Sound of All Human Knowledge contest announced

Tech Rec:

• Sanjay - Bitwarden
• Adam - PromptPal

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