- Elon Musk is turning X, the former Twitter, into a news source.
"Musk shared a deeper vision for the product, which he wants to build into a real-time synthesizer of news and reactions on social media. Effectively, he wants to use AI to combine breaking news and social commentary around big stories, present the compilation live and let you go deeper via chat.
"As more information becomes available, the news release will be updated to include that information. The goal is simple: to provide maximum accurate and timely information, citing the most significant sources."
Am very curious to see what news à la Musk will look like. It was not all hosanna for him this week, as Tesla's margin is now at 5% due to all the price cuts, much lower than is the norm in the auto industry. Furthermore, key employees were laid off, keeping things unsettled around the company.
- LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, also an investor in virtually every AI company that is successful, made a deepfake of himself, and the video is so lifelike it's scary. I was so mesmerized by the technology that I barely got what Hoffman's message was.
- Tim Cook (Apple) and Satya Nadella (Microsoft) visited Indonesia
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced during a visit to Indonesia that he will train as many as 840,000 people in the country to use AI and invest $1.7 billion in cloud services there. With both numbers, the question arises: how did they arrive at this figure?
Recently, Apple CEO Tim Cook was also in Indonesia, where President Joko Widodo tried to convince him to set up a factory, as yet without success. Indonesia could benefit from the difficult US-China relations with an Apple factory.
- Startup incubator Techstars in trouble
Layoffs, cutbacks and intrigue at incubator Techstars, according to this revealing report.
- America's most popular iPhone app: old games!
Long barred from the app store but now available for free download: Delta. Play Super Mario and other old Nintendo Gameboy games on the iPhone.
Dating app Bumble became famous because men had to wait for women to seek first contact. Fortunately, few men held their breath until they received a message once. That restriction on male initiative has now been removed with the introduction of a new feature called "opening moves." This allows female users, popularly known as women, to set a prompt to which male suitors can respond to start a conversation.
Donkey Kong on your iPhone or make your opening moves on Bumble, I hope I've given you something to do today.
Have a great Sunday and see you next week!