There are various Youtubers who make weekly videos attacking SpaceX, Tesla and Elon Musk. They are able to make a few thousand dollars a month making these attack videos. One of these people is someone who calls himself the “Common Sense Skeptic”. He claims that SpaceX Starlink will not live up to its promises. Incorrect …
Joe Rogan says Zuckerberg went undercover with a covid mask and fake name and won a Blue belt competition. Others are not as impressed. Mark Zuckerberg could soon fight Elon Musk. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked …
Mark Zuckerberg is creating a Twitter competitor at Instagram. The internal codename for the app is “Project 92” and it could be called Thread. They are talking to creators and public figures who are interested in having a platform that is sanely run. Oprah Winfrey could join. Meta chief product officer Chris Cox talked about …
Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (Meta IE) was issued a 1.2 billion euro fine by the Irish Data Protection Authority (IE DPA). This fine, which is the largest GDPR fine ever, was imposed for Meta’s transfers of personal data to the U.S. The EDPB found that Meta IE’s infringement is very serious since it concerns transfers …
NBCUniversal’s head of advertising sales, Linda Yaccarino, is in talks to be the CEO of Twitter. I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!@LindaYacc will focus primarily on business operations, while I focus on product design & new technology. Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into …
Elon Musk has stabilized Twitter enough to mostly handover to a newly hired CEO. Excited to announce that I’ve hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks! My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 11, 2023 Twitter …
As my regular readers know, the Nextbigfuture site was out for a day. Hopefully, it is all fixed now. If you see any problems, then post them to the comments or send me an email: blwang at gmail dot com. This should not have taken over a day to recover but the technical support at …
EMERGENCY POD: Jason Calcanis on SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) implosion and what impacted founders should do. FDIC has taken control of SVB. Uninsured depositors will only get IOU which gets money after liquidation. Insured depositors only get covered up to $250,000. A funded startup would usually have over $1 million of funding. It is generally …
Microsoft Germany employees said that GPT-4 is coming next week: at an approximately one-hour hybrid information event entitled ” AI in Focus – Digital Kickoff ” on 9 March 2023. Four Microsoft Germany employees presented Large Language Models (LLM) like GPT series as a disruptive force for companies and their Azure-OpenAI offering in detail. “We …
ChatGPT technology has helped Microsoft Bing to cross 100 million Daily Active Users. They remain a small, low, single digit share player versus Google. However, this about double where Bing was at before using OpenAI chat technology. After 30 days, a few stats on new Bing engagement: – 45M total chats – 1/3 of daily …
Elon Musk is live at the Morgan Stanley conference providing an update on Twitter. He describing how Twitter has been made better for advertisers and its users. Elon Musk says he will make Twitter into the biggest Financial institution in the world using payments and other financial services by becoming an Everything App. Twitter is …