Elon Musk Laying Off More People at Twitter

Twitter has gone from over 7,000 employees to what's under 2000 now. The worst thing is in the world is like all tech companies are looking at this as a model. They're obviously pivoting more and more. We'll see how it goes if they actually release anything.

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Prompt engineers; the hopes of generative AI; Universal Basic AI, at least for the privileged; FTX consequences coming in; AI images not copyrightable in the US; deepfake & AI hacks; more Twitter layoffs & unpaid bills; Jack's beard roles out a Twitter competitor; Tesla pauses driver-assistance rollout; Waymo tries Los Angeles; the Mandalorian, Bad Batch & Picard; Marc Maron gets bleak; Dilbert dropped; more Lord of the Rings movies coming; Die Hart; History of the World, Part II; Bing Chat built into Windows 11 update; FAL detector; Tik Tok government device ban; let us take you into that meeting.

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