Twitter launched a new feature this week that allows users to see posts just from the users they follow. The app has become far and away the most likely thing to replace Twitter in the popular imagination, says CNN's John Sutter. "It is worth reminding people of why Meta has the reputation that it had," he adds.
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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