Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is trying to launch a payments app. The company has been in trouble for some time, but it's not clear if he'll be able to turn things around. This week on the podcast, we talk about Twitter alternatives and how they're faring.
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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