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The xAIX merger is a good deal if youre betting on Musks empire

When Elon Musk announced that his AI startup, xAI, had acquired his social media company, X (formerly known as Twitter), in an all-stock...

Meta adds Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and Dina Powell McCormick to its board

Banking executive and former presidential advisor Dina Powell McCormick and Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison are joining the board of Meta, according...

Rebooted Digg launches early-access community with $5 fee

The reboot of early-internet social news site Digg is underway. Original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian have launched an early-access...

Meta introduces restricted Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger

Meta is introducing Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger. The feature, which automatically enrolls young users into an app experience with built-in protections,...

Week in Review: Nintendo unveils the Switch 2

Welcome back to Week in Review! Tons of stuff for you today, including Nintendo’s Switch 2; capacity issues at OpenAI; a story that...

An accounting startup has turned tax preparations into a Pokmon Showdown game

Accounting software company Open Ledger has launched a new product in time for tax day.  Meet PokéTax, a game that helps make...

Elon Musks xAI buys X

Welcome back to Week in Review! Elon Musk says that xAI bought X in an all-stock deal; a16z-backed 11x faked some customers; the...

The TikTok ban is losing support among Americans, study says

Americans’ support for a TikTok ban is declining, according to a study from the Pew Research Center. This survey of over 5,000...

Once a target of Musks ire, Gen Z creator Kat Abughazaleh is running for Congress

When Kat Abughazaleh got laid off from her job as an extremism researcher and video producer at Media Matters last year, Elon Musk...

Barack Obama joins Bluesky

Social network Bluesky, an alternative to X built on open source technologies, has scored a big win in terms of attracting notable users...

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