© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday urged...
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Ads watchdog files FTC complaint against X, formerly Twitter, over unlabeled ads | TechCrunch
X, formerly Twitter, was caught running unlabeled ads on its platform in September. Now that issue, which has been ongoing, has been brought to the FTC’s attention. An independent non-profit Check My Ads has filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission urging an investigation over the advertising practices at X, including the...
Pebble, a startup that tried and failed to take on Twitter, finds new life on Mastodon | TechCrunch
Pebble, a startup that took on Twitter and failed, has returned from the dead — as a Mastodon instance, it seems. The company announced last month that it was shutting down its Twitter/X alternative citing the increasingly competitive landscape, X’s ability to retain users and its own failure to gain traction with a wider audience....
Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson return to X – years after their Twitter accounts were banned
Katie Hopkins and Tommy Robinson have had their accounts reinstated on X, formerly known as Twitter. Source: Sky News
Musk says Twitter subscribers will get early access to xAI’s chatbot, Grok | TechCrunch
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is creating its own version of ChatGPT. That appears to be the case, at least, from Musk’s tweets on X late Friday evening teasing the AI model xAI has been quietly developing. Called Grok — a name xAI trademarked recently — the model answers questions conversationally, possibly drawing on a...
Elon Musk asks court to reject SEC’s bid to force him to testify in Twitter probe By Reuters
© Reuters. Tesla, X (formerly known as Twitter) and SpaceX’s CEO Elon Musk attends the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in Bletchley, Britain on November 1, 2023. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS NEW YORK (Reuters) – Elon Musk asked a federal judge on Thursday not to force him to testify in the U.S. Securities and...
HBO head Casey Bloys says he’s sorry for harassing critics on Twitter
Photo by Jerod Harris / Getty Images for Vox Media During today’s presentation about HBO’s slate of upcoming projects, CEO / chair Casey Bloys could have tried denying recent reports that he and fellow executive Kathleen McCaffrey concocted a scheme to target and harass critics who wrote negative things about some of the network’s recently...
So long, Twitter Circles | TechCrunch
If tic-tac-toe has taught us anything, it’s that Xs and circles cannot peacefully coexist. The app formerly known as Twitter, X, has shut down the Circles feature, which allowed users to post to a small, exclusive audience. Like an Instagram Close Friends story, Circles — née Twitter Circles — offered a more intimate social media...
Why did Twitter (X)’s valuation tank 56% in one year? | TechCrunch
The company formerly known as Twitter, X is valuing itself at $19 billion, per internal documents obtained by Fortune. When Elon Musk bought the company one year ago this week, he paid about $44 billion for the microblogging platform, or $54.20 per share. This internal valuation marks about a 56% decrease in X’s value over...
Elon Musk’s Twitter, one year later
Photo illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos by Getty Images It’s been a year of personal grudges, harebrained rebrands, and jolting policy shifts. And those aren’t even the worst parts. Continue reading… Source: The Verge