Twitter is changing the name of its social networking site. The company has given an official explanation for why it's doing this. Kevin Smith says he was shocked to see a black X in his browser bar when he first opened up Twitter on Tuesday. He said many people have been trying to pretend that Elon Musk doesn't want him there.
On Sunday night, a crane arrived in downtown San Francisco to take down the Twitter sign from the company’s office building. The crane’s arrival marked the death of Twitter, the brand, and the start of X, Elon Musk’s everything app. Today, why Elon’s acquisition feels more and more like cultural vandalism and what, if anything, will replace the global town square.
Then, is Sam Altman’s universal basic income cryptocurrency app Worldcoin an iris scanning tool to save humanity, or just another attempt to get rich on crypto?
Plus: a trip to Google’s robotics lab, where artificial intelligence models are creating breakthroughs.
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