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Archives for March 2023

David Pierce
David Pierce
Part of Twitter’s source code was reportedly posted on GitHub.

Elon Musk’s team is investigating to find out who was behind the FreeSpeechEnthusiast account, the New York Times reported, which was apparently publicly available for some time.

There are plenty of reasons companies don’t want this to happen, starting with security risks, but this is also just another bad look for the Musk-led Twitter. Musk did say he planned to open-source Twitter’s algorithm, but I don’t think this is what he meant.

Jon Porter
Jon Porter
Don’t you go announcing any free insulin now!

Twitter has reduced the amount of time your account needs to have existed before paying for Twitter Blue from 90 days to 30 days, according to a recently-updated support page highlighted by TechCrunch.

As a reminder, Twitter introduced the cooling-off period after people took advantage of its newly-launched paid verification feature to impersonate some of the biggest brands on the platform (like Eli Lilly).

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Neuralink’s Shivon Zilis has reportedly stepped down from the board of OpenAI.

Shivon Zilis, a director of operations at Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink who also has twin children with Musk, has said she met him through her work with OpenAI, which makes ChatGPT. Now The Information reports Zilis has stepped down from its board of directors.

Musk left OpenAI’s board severely years ago and has recently claimed it is training AI to be too “woke.” The Information reported previously that he is now recruiting a team to build a rival chatbot.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Elon Musk wants to make the Vegas Loop even bigger.

While the Musk-owned Boring Company originally planned on creating a 29-mile underground transportation system in Las Vegas, a new proposal spotted by TechCrunch indicates that the company wants to more than double it in size. The proposed plan maps out a 65-mile-long system with 69 stations located near more retailers, casinos, and even residential areas.

David Pierce
David Pierce
Why Tesla’s Full Self Driving… isn’t.

This story starts with Elon Musk’s decision to take radar sensors off Tesla cars, but is ultimately about what happens when an inconsistent, hard-driving management style runs into unexpectedly hard problems. And then what happens when a bunch of your best people disappear to try and fix a flailing social network. It’s a good read!

Jacob Kastrenakes
Jacob Kastrenakes
Elon found another bill to cut.

The New York Times says Twitter has more-or-less ended negotiations with the big music labels for licensing deals that would have covered any music that was uploaded by users. Most social networks have agreements like this, but Twitter doesn’t.

An agreement could have cost “well over $100 million a year,” the Times reports. So it’s no wonder Musk bailed on negotiations — he isn’t even fond of paying rent right now.

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