Twitter Partners With eToro, Will Let Users Engage With Crypto, Trade Stocks Within Platform

Twitter Partners With eToro, Will Let Users Engage With Crypto, Trade Stocks Within Platform

Elon Musk, after briefly changing Twitter’s blue bird logo with the Dogecoin logo, has taken a step towards making the platform more ‘crypto friendly’. Twitter has finalised a partnership with eToro to enable over 450 million of its active users to access crypto trading from within the app. The announcement…

Elon Musk Says Unaware Why Twitter India Pulled Posts on BBC Documentary Critical of Modi

Elon Musk Says Unaware Why Twitter India Pulled Posts on BBC Documentary Critical of Modi

Elon Musk said on Wednesday that he did not know “what exactly happened” when Twitter took down content related to a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this year, adding that some rules related to social media content were “quite strict” in India. In January, India ordered the…

Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, Others to Sue Twitter Over Legal Bills

Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, Others to Sue Twitter Over Legal Bills

Three top Twitter executives who were sacked by Elon Musk last year when he took over the social media company filed suit on Monday, seeking to be reimbursed for costs of litigation, investigations and congressional inquiries related to their former jobs. Ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, along with the company’s former chief…

Wikipedia Owner Fined for Failing to Delete Alleged Extremist Content

Wikipedia Owner Fined for Failing to Delete Alleged Extremist Content

The Wikimedia Foundation, owner of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, was fined by a Russian court on Thursday for failing to delete content considered extremist as Moscow pursues a drive to crack down on independent sources of information. Wikipedia, which says it offers “the second draft of history”, is one of…

Bill Gates Says Pausing AI Development Will Not Solve Challenges Ahead

Bill Gates Says Pausing AI Development Will Not Solve Challenges Ahead

Calls to pause the development of artificial intelligence will not “solve the challenges” ahead, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told Reuters, his first public comments since an open letter sparked a debate about the future of the technology. The technologist-turned-philanthropist said it would be better to focus on how best to…

Elon Musk Defends Pay Model for Twitter Amid End to Free Verified Blue Ticks

Elon Musk Defends Pay Model for Twitter Amid End to Free Verified Blue Ticks

Elon Musk on Friday defended his controversial pay model for Twitter, claiming that any social media platform that didn’t follow suit would fail because they would be swarmed by bots. Musk made his prediction on the eve of Twitter’s April 1 ultimatum that verified accounts with the cherished blue tick…

AI Experts Express Concerns With Elon Musk-Backed Letter Citing Their Research

AI Experts Express Concerns With Elon Musk-Backed Letter Citing Their Research

Four artificial intelligence experts have expressed concern after their work was cited in an open letter – co-signed by Elon Musk – demanding an urgent pause in research. The letter, dated March 22 and with more than 1,800 signatures by Friday, called for a six-month circuit-breaker in the development of…

Elon Musk Requests US Judge to End $258 Billion Dogecoin Lawsuit Against Him

Elon Musk Requests US Judge to End $258 Billion Dogecoin Lawsuit Against Him

Elon Musk asked a US judge on Friday to throw out a $258 billion (roughly Rs. 21,20,200 crore) racketeering lawsuit accusing him of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency Dogecoin. In an evening filing in Manhattan federal court, lawyers for Musk and his electric car company Tesla called the…