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Okay, anybody who’s been closely watching the slow-speed financial crash of Twitter/X probably knew that Elon Musk was eventually going to find a way to funnel money from his xAI startup into the troubled app. I didn’t, however, think that…

RIP TikTok Notes. We hardly knew thee. Less than a year after the launch of its separate photo-sharing app, TikTok is discontinuing the experiment, and shutting down TikTok Notes for all users. Well, all users that could access it, that…

Meta may soon look to expand its ad-free subscription offering to the U.K., after settling with an individual user who objected to her data being used for ad targeting in the app. In the original case, brought against Meta back…

Elon Musk’s X continues to take an uneven approach to government removal requests, with the platform suspending several accounts belonging to opposition figures in Turkey, as the Turkish government looks to quell unrest. The recent arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem…

Credit where credit’s due, in the past, I’ve criticized Elon Musk’s X for its lack of willingness to push back on information requests in nations where Musk’s other businesses are also seeking government favor. But this week, it’s countered that,…

I’m not sure exactly what value investors see in X, nor why they believe in its future potential. But clearly, many are still willing to invest in Elon Musk, and his grand visions of what’s to come, with the platform…

Elon Musk’s AI startup has made its first acquisition, with video generation project Hotshot announcing that xAI has purchased its business. Hotshot, which has built a range of text-to-video and text-to-GIF AI models, has been gaining traction among AI enthusiasts…

So, this is something. Today, X has announced a March Madness “Bracket Challenge”, in partnership with Uber Eats, with the grand prize for a perfect March Madness bracket being a trip to Mars onboard one of Elon’s yet-to-be-built rocket ships.…

Mark Zuckerberg is high on AI, so high in fact that he’s invested billions into Meta’s own chip development process, so that his company will be able to build better AI data processing systems, without having to rely on external…

Honestly, I do resent Elon Musk’s increasing political ties, not because of who or what he may believe in, but because it inevitably makes everybody who writes about electric cars, space discovery, or indeed social media, a quasi-political commentator by…