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Inside Elon Musk’s messy breakup with OpenAI

Emails in Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI expose the startup’s rocky origins.

Kylie Robison
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Mastodon is growing, too.

The platform may not be seeing Bluesky and Threads numbers, but the lines are also going up for Mastodon right now, according to Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Apple is deleting some very old iCloud device backups.

iCloud device backups will require iOS 9 as of December 18th, meaning that if you have one stored in iCloud from iOS 8 or earlier, you’ll need to save it locally if you don’t want to lose it.

Mia Sato
Mia Sato
The new MSM.

Pew Research Center released a report on news influencers who people are increasingly getting their information from.

The report couldn’t have come at a better time, following an election where the role of influencers and podcasters was especially notable. Of today’s news influencers:

- 77 percent have no background with news orgs

- 65 percent are men

- More identify as Republican or conservative than Democratic or liberal

- Far more have a presence on X than on any other platform

America’s News Influencers

[Pew Research Center]

Kylie Robison
Kylie Robison
Sam Altman joins forces with new San Francisco mayor-elect.

Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie has enlisted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and nine other San Francisco leaders to guide his administration’s efforts to revitalize the city (and win back the support of its disgruntled tech elite).

The move comes as prominent figures like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Elon Musk, and YCombinator president Gary Tan openly criticize San Francisco’s public safety failures, with some even threatening to relocate.