Tag: Elon Musk

AI Will Take All Our Jobs, Elon Musk Says

Ganiyu Amodu

“Probably none of us will have a job,” Full speech of what Musk said at VivaTech 2024 in Paris   Elon Musk says artificial intelligence will take all our jobs and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. “Probably none of us will have a job,” Musk said about AI at a tech conference on Thursday. While speaking remotely via webcam at VivaTech 2024 in Paris, Musk described a future where jobs would be “optional.” “If you want to do a job that’s kinda like a hobby, you can do a…

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Twitter Has Fully Migrated To X.com, Elon Musk Confirms

Ganiyu Amodu

Elon Musk’s online platform X has removed another remnant from its Twitter past nearly 10 months after the tech mogul changed the social media service’s name. The multi-billionaire has removed twitter.com from profiles on the site. “From now on, users who type in twitter.com will be directed to “x.com,” Musk wrote on Friday. Musk bought Twitter in October 2022 for $44 billion. He renamed it saying that was necessary to show that his platform is much more than just a short messaging service. In addition to a new function for…

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Elon Musk Loses $24 Billion As Tesla Stocks Drop By 9%

Ganiyu Amodu

Elon Musk’s net worth took a hit of $24 billion as Tesla’s stocks plummeted by 9%. Despite this, he remains the world’s richest individual, with a net worth of $231 billion. The drop in Tesla’s share price can be attributed to the company’s disappointing Q3 performance, as per data from the Forbes billionaire index. Tesla’s shares dropped 9.3% from $245 on Wednesday to $220 by Thursday evening. In this quarter, Tesla’s net income was reported at $1.85 billion, marking a 44% decline compared to the same period in the previous…

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Twitter Rival, Threads, Hits 10 Million Users Within Hours of Launch

ADEOLA YUSUF

How Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg exchanged words over Threads threat to Twitter   More than 10 million people have signed up for Threads, Meta’s rival to Twitter, within the first few hours of its launch, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday. The app went live on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries at 2300 GMT on Wednesday and will run with no ads for now, but its release in Europe has been delayed over data privacy concerns. This was followed by an exchange of words…

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Meet Linda Yaccarino, Twitter’s New CEO

Ganiyu Amodu

The Woman Linda: What to know about the 60 year-old veteran advertising executive   Elon Musk on Friday unveiled Linda Yaccarino as the new head of Twitter, the social media app he purchased from the founders in April 2022. After a series of live trials and errors on the app, Elon Musk on Thursday hinted that he had hired a Chief Executive Officer while he becomes the “exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops.” The Woman Linda Yaccarino serves as chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Taskforce on…

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Twitter Introduces 10K Character Long Tweets Amid Fight With Substack

Abibat Babalola

Twitter now supports tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, “with bold and italic text formatting”       Before deleting all legacy Blue tick marks on April 20, Twitter on Friday introduced a feature that allows posts with 10,000 characters for paid Blue subscribers. Twitter now supports tweets up to 10,000 characters in length, “with bold and italic text formatting,” the company informed. READ ALSO: Tinubu makes TIME magazine’s 2023 ‘100 most influential people’ CBN To Mop Up Dormant Account Balances, Unclaimed Funds Real Estate Expert, Adenike Adewunmi-Adebisi, Dies…

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Tinubu makes TIME magazine’s 2023 ‘100 most influential people’

Ganiyu Amodu

“His campaign slogan, ‘It’s my turn’, was a nod to his role as a longtime political power broker. – TIME           President-elect Bola Tinubu has been named in TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2023. Others on the list included the King of the United Kingdom, King Charles III; US President Joe Biden; US Senator Mitch McConnell; Argentine footballer, Lionel Messi and Twitter CEO, Elon Musk, amongst others. Some entertainers on the list included US actor, Michael B. Jordan; US singer, Beyonce; US actress, Angela…

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Kanye West Trolls Shirtless Elon Musk In Last Tweet, Gets Suspended

Abibat Babalola

“Let’s break one last window before we get outa here. I caught this guy with Kim. Good night.”   American rapper, Kanye West, has been suspended on Twitter after launching a two way Twitter tirade on his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, as well as the new owner of the social media platform, Elon Musk. In tweets posted in the early hours of Friday, Kanye claimed that he caught basketballer, Chris Paul, with his ex-wife. Although he shared Paul’s image, he didn’t indicate when the incident happened. READ ALSO His Excellency Can…

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Elon Musk To Launch Gold, Grey, Blue Verification Badges On Twitter

Ganiyu Amodu

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Twitter, Elon Musk announced on Friday that there would be a launch of different coloured verification badges to distinguish between accounts. Musk also said that all verified individual accounts would have the same blue check, but some would be able to show secondary colours, AFP reports. “Sorry for the delay, we’re tentatively launching Verified on Friday next week,” Musk tweeted. “Gold check for companies, grey check for government, blue for individuals (celebrity or not) and all verified accounts will be manually authenticated before check…

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Former CEO Of Twitter, Jack Dorsey Launches New Social Media Platform

Abibat Babalola

Months after his exit from Twitter, the founder and former CEO of the microblogging website, Jack Dorsey, has launched a new social media platform named, “Bluesky,” according to pulse.ng. This comes barely a week after the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter was completed by a United States business tycoon and owner of Tesla vehicles, Elon Musk. Musk brought some changes to Twitter since he came on board including the infamous $8 per month charges for verification badge and the sacking of the former CTO, Parag Agrawal. A recent email sent…

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