Egon

TEXT-TO-IMAGEA playful review of this text-to-image model now in open betaImage by author via MidjourneyIntroductionOn July the 13th the company that developed the generative AI art tool Midjourney opened its closed beta. To access it, you just need to enter the discord channel.Playing with this model immediately gives the feeling of something very powerful with a wide comprehension of text prompts. It works especially well with environments and characters, and from what I have seen, by default it has a bias towards…

Twitter Inc said in a filing on Friday it will not accept Egon Durban's resignation from the board, two days after shareholders blocked his re-election at an annual meeting. Durban is an ally of Elon Musk, who has offered to take Twitter private in a $44 billion deal. Twitter said Durban failed to receive the support of a majority of the votes in the re-election held earlier this week due to "voting policies of certain institutional investors regarding board service limitations". Durban, who serves on the boards of six…

Musk would have been appointed to Twitter's board on Saturday, but the world's richest man informed the company on the day that he would not, in fact, be taking the board seat.Andrew Burton | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesTwitter director Egon Durban won't leave the board, even though he offered to resign after shareholders voted to boot him from the position, the company said in a regulatory filing Friday.Twitter said its board believes Durban failed to receive shareholder support because of his director role on…

Egon Durban, seen at a 2019 football match in Manchester, U.K., agrees to serve on no more than five public company boards. Photo: Andrew Yates/REUTERS…

The Twitter logo is displayed on a smartphone screen on April 14, 2021.NurPhoto | NurPhoto | Getty ImagesTwitter shareholders on Wednesday voted to boot Egon Durban, the co-CEO and managing director of private equity firm Silver Lake, from its board of directors as the company navigates through testy negotiations with would-be buyer Elon Musk.Durban's firm has worked on deals with Musk in the past. But the private equity businessman didn't receive enough votes from Twitter investors at the company's shareholder meeting to…