Elon Musk's Twitter Rebranding

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Twitter doesn't exist anymore, Kevin. We have to stop using that word. That's no longer an active concern. So let's just do some chronology up top because I think it's useful for people to understand how quickly and kind of erratically all of this happened. On Sunday night, they projected a giant X onto Twitter's headquarters on Market Street. And then Monday, a crane showed up and started to take down the Twitter sign.

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.

Additional reading:

Casey breaks down Twitter’s rebrand.
The launch of Worldcoin — and the story of how it recruited the first half a million users.
Kevin’s column is a deep dive into Google’s new robotics model, which melds A.I. with robots.