On Sunday, President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, who said she intends to “earn and win” the Democratic nomination. Three hours later, Colorado Governor Jared Polis posted three emojis to social media, a coconut, a palm tree, and an American flag, as symbols of support...
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Jack Dorsey Says ‘Shift Your Mindset’ Amid Deepfakes
Jack Dorsey, the billionaire co-founder of Twitter, now X, predicts that within the next decade, it’ll be harder than ever to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s fake — and he has a key tip for how to deal with a reality that feels like a simulation. On Sunday, Dorsey spoke about tech...
Elon Musk Is Feuding With Meta AI Chief Yann LeCun
A leading AI researcher has publicly called out Elon Musk for his “blatantly false” AI predictions as the clash between the two continues after a week of back-and-forth. In a Sunday post on Musk-owned X, Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun said that he disagreed with Elon Musk’s treatment of scientists and approach to the...
Jack Dorsey Says Corporate AI Has Surpassed Twitter, X
Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, now X, no longer thinks the platform he helped build is the “closest form of global consciousness.” Weeks after leaving the board of Bluesky, an X rival he helped found and fund, and publicly praising X as “freedom technology,” Dorsey shared a new post on X...
Elon Musk Sunsets Twitter Domain, Completes Rebrand to X.com
X, formerly Twitter, is officially dropping “Twitter” from its URL. Less than a year after revealing a new logo, and nearly seven years after buying the X.com domain from PayPal, Musk has moved the social media platform’s core systems to X.com. As of Friday, twitter.com will automatically redirect to x.com. All core systems are now...
Jack Dorsey Reveals Why He Left Bluesky, Deleted Account
After publicly exiting the board of Twitter/X rival Bluesky on Saturday, and taking to X to announce it, Jack Dorsey explained his thinking in a Thursday interview with Founders Fund’s Mike Solana. Dorsey stated that Bluesky was “supposed to be an open source protocol that Twitter could eventually utilize” — not become its own platform...
Jack Dorsey Exits Bluesky Confirms on ‘Freedom Technology’ X
Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of X/Twitter until he resigned in 2021, has left the board of X rival Bluesky, a decentralized social media network he helped create, fund, and promote. Bluesky started as a small research project within then-Twitter in 2019 and became its own platform in 2022. The company’s goal is to...