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Monarch Tractor wants to become “the Android of agriculture.”
Hear CEO Praveen Penmetsa talk about it in this clip from Code 2023. (It’s more interesting than it seems!) And read more from the event in our storystream.
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Yoel Roth and Linda Yaccarino made the end of Code... interesting, to say the least.
Roth, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety, was a late add to the agenda, and that meant two of the last sessions of the event were a kind of meta conversation about Twitter’s past and X’s future.
Catch clips of both interviews and some of my thoughts in our video recapping the interviews, and you can read more real-time thoughts in our storystream. If you want to watch the interviews yourself, virtual passes are available here right now.
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Google is opening up its generative AI-powered search to teens.
Beginning “this week,” Google says that teens in the US that are using a Google account will be able to access the company’s Search Generative Experience through Search Labs. It’s also adding an “about this result” tool for SGE and making improvements to help its AI models detect and deal with searches with a “false or offensive premise.”
Since the product’s launch in May, Google has been steadily adding features and improvements.
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Linda Yaccarino says she hasn’t seen Elon Musk’s “demon mode” described in Walter Isaacson’s book.
She mostly talked about the value of spirited debate, but did say this: “All I’m saying is that the the idea of the inability to have a debate or feedback, I haven’t experienced or I’ll say I haven’t experienced it yet.”
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“Who wouldn’t want Elon Musk sitting by their side running product?”
An actual question Linda Yaccarino has posed to the audience. Not me!
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Linda Yaccarino is not confirming if the company plans to go to an all-subscription model.
She’s completely dodged Julia Boorstin’s question about if everyone will be charged to use X.
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Some metrics about X, according to Linda Yaccarino.
From an “operating cash flow perspective,” the company is “just about break even.” In early 2024, “we’ll be turning a profit.”
90 percent of the top 100 advertisers have returned to the platform. In the last 12 weeks, about 1,500 have returned.
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Linda Yaccarino, unsurprisingly, thinks things are going great at X.
“There is no analog for the book that is being written right now,” she said onstage at Code. That sounds like a ridiculously lofty claim to me! She says that there have been over 100 products shipped since the acquisition.