Parler’s New Owner Is Putting the Platform on Hiatus
Parler is apparently getting another lease on life, but first it has to die. The “free speech alternative” social network, popular among conservatives and the likes of Alex Jones, officially…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla Get Far More Government Money than NPR
This week’s Twitter kerfuffle is all about public funding. Elon Musk decided to label National Public Radio’s account first as “government-influenced media,” which it previously applied to state-operated media outlets…
Stability AI’s New ‘XL’ Is a Super Powered Deepfake Generator for Businesses
As more companies realize it costs quite a bit to create generative AI content, we may be coming to the end of free, open source AI models. One of the…
The Latest Push for Monetization at Twitter Is Here
Twitter CEO Elon Musk announced on Thursday that users will be able to offer subscriptions to their followers, piggybacking off the platform’s previous “Super Follow” function. The new money-making effort…
Insider’s Editor-in-Chief Announces Writers Will Begin Experimenting With AI
Insider’s global editor-in-chief Nicholas Carlson has announced to both the newsroom and the public that the outlet will begin experimenting with ways to leverage ChatGPT for journalism. It’s Magic: LG’s…
Former Twitter Executives Are Suing Elon’s Twitter Over Legal Fees
Parag Agrawal, the former CEO of Twitter, at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Idaho. Image: Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images) Twitter’s ex-CEO Parag Agrawal is suing Elon Musk’s…
Twitter Is Dead: It’s All ‘X Corp’ Now
Twitter has been subsumed by billionaire Elon Musk in more ways than one. Now, however, the company itself is officially no longer its own entity, having been officially gobbled up…
Apple Shipped 40% Fewer Macs in the Start of 2023
None of the big PC makers have managed to crawl out of the muck of 2022 declines, and new data shows that Apple’s been among the hardest hit. According to…
Walmart Just Showed How Mainstream EVs Are Now
This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here. This Summer’s Hottest Umbrella Off English In the latest sign that corporate behemoths are getting…
Monster Energy Tried to Make Pokémon Change Its Name Because of the Word ‘Monster’
Leer en español. The company behind Monster Energy drinks is infamous for claiming that others are infringing its trademarks. In fact, a new report states that company isn’t been above…