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Update: Driver of the Uber stair car says he was using the Uber app, which he says directed him down the stairs.
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Google stock lost $100B a year ago just because its Bard demo gave a wrong answer about an exploanet image.
Now the AI is standard issue for all US search users and it's telling us to eat glue pizzas. and we're like haha whateves...
Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza theverge.com/2024/5/23/24162…
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This paragraph in the NYT story on Humane is the best use of 100 words I've ever seen to perfectly capture Silicon Valley:
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Footnote, for students of SF skate history, this parking lot also home to the famous "Safeway curb."
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The uproar over how 'Fortnite' is being released for Android shows how much we have acquiesced to Apple's way of doing business
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It's happening! Huge scoop from @kyliebytes
EXCLUSIVE: X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet
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More details from scene of #Uberstairs incident via @@KatieCanales1 - A tow truck was above the steps and used a wire to try to lower the car down the steps but the wire snapped and the car plowed into the green trash can.
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Here's how Apple's new iPhone 8 and iPhone X compare to the top Android smartphones businessinsider.com/comparin…
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Mark Zuckerberg warns that relaxing shelter-in-place rules too soon will cause the pandemic to worsen, saying it will 'guarantee' future outbreaks businessinsider.com/mark-zuc… via @businessinsider
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EXCLUSIVE: Google is trying to salvage its failing Stadia game service with a new focus on striking deals with Peloton, Bungie, and others under the brand 'Google Stream' businessinsider.com/google-s… via @businessinsider
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A bug in Google's new smart speaker let it secretly listen to some users, send data to Google businessinsider.com/google-h…
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Sounds like something out of a sci-fi horror movie...
Leaked screenshots show Amazon blaming the big AWS outage on sudden, surging traffic from an 'unknown source' that overwhelmed parts of its cloud network businessinsider.com/amazon-a…
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SPIN ALERT: Just to be clear, Facebook did not “discover a security flaw” as many news outlets are putting it (adopting the company’s euphimistic wording) — Facebook was hacked by attackers who stole the tokens that unlock access to 50 million user accounts.
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NSA CHIEF: A nation-state made a 'conscious effort' to sway the US presidential election read.bi/2eGz4Wp via @BI_Defense
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SpaceX makes history with the first orbital rocket landing in history read.bi/1QV9hEo via @BI_Science
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A helipad is way too pedestrian for someone like Jeff Bezos. If he really wanted to make a statement he should've put a rocket pad on the NYC HQ2 building...
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"You don't normally see someone who's still involved with the company hang a 'gone fishing' sign on the door and disappear."
Sources say Larry Page has been hiding out on Fijian islands that are cut off from most travelers during the pandemic.
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Super excited to reunite with @ajs and to be part of the incredible team at @FortuneMagazine
What better way to start Monday than welcoming incredible new edit leadership to @FortuneMagazine including @Fieldsish @lexnfx and @heoj?? 🎉🎉🎉
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.@nytimes op-ed quietly updated Peter Thiel's bio to note FB + Palantir connections.
For a pub that loves to beam about its punctilious corrections (he was drinking apple juice not mango juice, we regret the error) this is a rather furtive fix.
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Quick reminder: @FortuneMagazine is ramping up tech coverage + growing the tech team.
If you're looking for a place where your reporting can shine across platforms - digital, print, conferences - and where you can write the kind of stories you want to write, hit me up on DMs.
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We now invite members of the military, first-class passengers and employees of Big Tech to board the plane…
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The founder of litecoin, a cryptocurrency that has gained 650% in 7 months, told us he's worried about all the scams in the nascent market read.bi/2DuooXe via @sai
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Marc Benioff launched into a 20 minute sales pitch about AI to deflect attention from weak guidance --- and singlehandedly moved Salesforce's stock from being down 4.5% to being up 0.3%
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After 6 years at Reuters the time has come for next chapter: Excited to join the Business Insider team + add to their great tech coverage!
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Facebook is working on tech to read brain waves and could let people send thoughts to others read.bi/2jFwX7a via @sai tip @techmeme
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The Pentagon is close to awarding a $10 billion deal to Amazon despite Trump's tweets attacking the company
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Exclusive: Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don’t come with a requirement that drivers watch the road fortune.com/2024/04/18/merce…
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai: "It’s up to us as tech companies to make the case as to why immigration is good for the country, not just for tech companies. and i think we have to do that better."
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Fortune's @kyliebytes on a 24-hour tech scoop rampage:
*Broke GitHub layoffs news today
*First w/ Elon's Twitter outage email yesterday
*Scooped Twitter plan to dump Salesforce software
You'd never know it from @Techmeme, which weirdly showcases reports that cite her work 🤷♂️
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What's wrong with Spotify's business? Subscribers pay $10/month and Spotify keeps less than $1 per user in cash — for the whole year! Nice analysis by @troywolv read.bi/2t7dHFc
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After Wednesday's antitrust hearings, the House subcommittee published a big cache of internal emails and docs it gathered during its 1-year investigation into Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon.
The emails are fascinating. Check out @businessinsider's coverage in this thread:
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Microsoft is weighing $10 billion investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, sources tell Fortune fortune.com/2023/01/10/micro…
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Wow - WSJ got confidential FTC report of Google antitrust case when it was mistakenly included in a FOIA response! wsj.com/articles/inside-the-…
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This is what repeated capitol hill hearings can do to you. Clockwise from top left:
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March 2021
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Attendee at FB shareholder meeting in a "Men are Trash" hoodie asks Sheryl Sandberg to stop labelling her clothing business hate speech and banning it.
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Sign o' the times: Yahoo sparks outrage by monitoring your emails at same moment Google unveils a gadget that listens to everything you say.
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The clip-on Humane Pin gadget looks cool. But I'm excited for V5: a small drone that hovers over your shoulders at all times and beams the laser display into the palm of your hand.
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Wow - WhatsApp accounts for 17% of Twilio's revenue! read.bi/1XA51gP
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A recent survey found that 22% of Millennials were not familiar with the Holocaust. So Facebook's search results on the topic are alarming. @BIPrime: Facebook is promoting Holocaust denial groups at the top of its search results read.bi/2JLdSt2
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Lol, Musk answer to lawyer cross-examining him on stand today in Tesla 'funding secured' trial:
"The interesting question to you sir, is why did you not subpoena him? Because if you did, it would destroy your case."
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America’s nukes are still controlled by 8-inch floppy disks read.bi/1XUKl3G
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And just like that… @kyliebytes’s scoop is confirmed by none other than Herr Musk himself.
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Now you can drink espresso from the same La Marzocco machine that once filled Twitter workers' cups (opening bid 25)
Elon Musk has put the espresso machines, Eames chairs, and sculptures at Twitter HQ on the auction block fortune.com/2022/12/09/elon-…
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Tim Cook on Qualcomm: It's somewhat like buying a sofa and you charge somebody a different price depending upon the house that it goes into.
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As @kyliebytes reports, Twitter held a Spaces event in November with 2.7 million people.
That's way above the 600K users that tried to tune in for DeSantis and crashed it. Clearly Twitter was able to handle larger loads in the past.
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Treasury Secretary Mnuchin's angry about an unflattering nickname he wholeheartedly deserves read.bi/2uk9KIq
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Mark Zuckerberg will testify in a $2 billion lawsuit that claims Oculus is stolen tech
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Tough day for us here at Fortune! Thank you @kyliebytes for taking the leap 2 years ago, and helping me rebuild and distinguish the tech team with scoops, tenacity, and a killer attitude!
(and thanks for tolerating the workplace ukulele!)
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If you've been to an Apple store, you've probably seen the "Isaac" -- the chunky handheld Apple device workers use to ring up sales.
It turns out the Isaac offered a perfect way for a couple of scammers to pull off a movie-worthy heist.
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Apple has the green light to test next-generation 5G wireless tech — here's what that means read.bi/2ubHrRx via @sai
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@Fortune has been where AI industry insiders go for smart AI coverage since well before ChatGPT became a household word, with the Eye on AI newsletter and Brainstorm AI conf.
With Sharon joining the team, we're building on that bedrock to deliver even more unique AI coverage.
Some personal news: After 2 years reporting on AI at @VentureBeat, I'm excited to report that I'm joining @FortuneMagazine this week and will continue covering AI! I'm thrilled to start working with @jeremyakahn, @lexnfx and the entire Fortune team. 🥳
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Love this quote from @kyliebytes' profile of new @Twitter CEO @lindayacc:
“Linda is the last card Elon has left to play. Because if she can’t fix advertising revenue on the platform, then there’s no hope for him ever.”
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The best part about today's Trump Media & Technology Group $DJT filing is the discussion of key operating metrics.
TLDR: What we're doing is so innovative that any traditional metric -- ARPU, DAUs, user signups, ad impressions, ad pricing -- would be a dangerous distraction.
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The MoviePass flameout has been amazing to watch. But the story of its rise and fall of is even better -- great read by @JasonGuerrasio
The definitive story of how a Florida businessman blew up MoviePass and burned hundreds of millions
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Amazon says the laughing Echo devices that terrified some users happened because Alexa 'mistakenly' thought it heard instructions to laugh
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Steve Jobs famously said Apple makes products that consumers don't know they want.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a slightly different challenge: He's creating products that people are explicitly telling Facebook they absolutely do not want.
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IPO flops and CEO firings have made it clear that Silicon Valley's magic startup formula is about to change: Welcome to the age of Founder Frenemies
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You only get to write one or two of these headlines in a lifetime...
A Trump appointee who drank vodka and had sex on the General Services Administration building's roof is back with a new political committee, documents show businessinsider.com/trump-ap… via @businessinsider
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Turn on your bedside lamp + read @IndraniNY's brilliant tale of the Sriracha business feud:
One man with thousands of acres of pepper fields, but nobody to buy his peppers. Another with a massive pepper factory, and not enough peppers to keep it running
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Bitcoin just soared to a new $1,600 high — and the first Snapchat investor thinks it could hit $500,000 by 2030 read.bi/2nmTN5J
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Goldman Sachs quietly unloaded some of its WeWork shares while its investment bankers were pitching the company a $60+ billion IPO
Apologies to @eliotwb for today's WeWork scoops...
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Google is basically"putting its house in order" with investors ahead of a pricey AI investment cycle:
1. First-ever dividend
2. $70B buyback
3. Shifting LLM costs out of Google Services line item and into "Alphabet-level activities" -- easing the burden on core margins
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Pretty cool demo of Microsoft AI smart glasses that tell blind people what's happening around them read.bi/1q2E2xW via @sai
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says important to be careful to not make immigration a "tech versus the rest of the country" issue.
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Ex-Twitter execs suing for more than $1 million tell court that Elon Musk’s ‘X Corp’ name change doesn’t let company off the hook fortune.com/2023/04/21/ex-tw…
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This 21-year-old is turning down $100,000 because of Peter Thiel's support of Donald Trump read.bi/2eWUgDo via @sai
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Reddit bans a major alt-right community — and there might be a very good reason why
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Apple’s Shazam deal is a sneak attack to hit Spotify where it hurts read.bi/2BYl0hZ via @sai @BIPrime
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And here's the letter from team Musk, declaring his intention to go through with the Twitter deal -- "provided that the Delaware Chancery Court enter an immediate stay of the action, Twitter vs. Musk...and adjourn the trial and all other proceedings"
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai says the company isn't backing down from the challenge that 'Fortnite' poses to the Android app store business businessinsider.com/google-p… via @businessinsider
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Super proud to have a played a small part in this visually stunning and edifying package about Mark Zuckerberg's land in Hawaii.
@TylerSonnemaker and a cast of @BusinessInsider designers, multimedia producers + editors spent months putting it together.
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Video shows a self-driving Uber running a red light on its first day in San Francisco read.bi/2h1WuCF via @sai
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Apple won't include a free headphone dongle with newly-purchased iPhones anymore businessinsider.com/no-headp… via @businessinsider
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Evan Spiegel on Facebook: 'Just because Yahoo has a search box doesn’t mean they’re Google' read.bi/2q4nDf4 via @sai
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Netflix's 18% price hike shows it got too comfortable being the only game in town, and it could be a costly mistake
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wow wow wow
Sam Altman is out as OpenAI CEO — board says he was ‘not consistently candid’. CTO Mira Murati to be interim CEO
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Great scoop. But the failure to use this photo is nothing less than journalistic malpractice.
Scoop: Endeavor, the talent agency and live events company led by Ari Emanuel, invested in Twitter in mid-January, two sources tell Axios.
It's the first outside investor known to have bought into Twitter 2.0.
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Tim Cook says Apple told users it was slowing their iPhones, but adds, 'I don't think a lot of people were paying attention'
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Travis Kalanick finally gave us a timeline for the Uber IPO: at some point in the next one to 10 years! businessinsider.com/ubers-ce… via @sai
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Mark Zuckerberg is rumored to have a secret escape passageway beneath his conference room for emergencies
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