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Elon Musk says that advertisers fleeing X after his endorsement of an antisemitic post could “kill” the platform formerly known as Twitter. And he has a simple message for those companies, which include Disney, Apple, and IBM: “Go fuck yourself.”Musk, speaking Wednesday night at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit, said that advertisers with concerns about his conduct should stop spending on the platform, which has historically been dependent on ad revenue. “Don’t advertise,” Musk said in response to a question about X’s…

“Go fuck yourself.” Thus spake Elon Musk during a conversation with Dealbook’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on Wednesday. Amidst a wide-ranging conversation with the New York Times sponsored event, the increasingly unhinged Tesla CEO said that he wouldn’t be “blackmailed” by advertisers who—in response to his recent, controversial comments—might want to pull their money from his flailing social media platform, X. Instead, Musk said that advertisers who were concerned about his more colorful ideations (including, specifically,…

As the founder of the International House of Prayer Kansas City, or IHOPKC — not to be confused with the International House of Pancakes – Mike Bickle led a successful campaign against the professional porn industry. His idealogues formed the anti-porn evangelical group Exodus Cry in 2008, and over a decade later, in 2020, Exodus Cry’s then-“Director of Abolition,” Laila Mickelwait, birthed the hashtag #TraffickingHub, accusing the platform of being a sex trafficking hellscape that must be killed (even though Facebook…

Many electric utilities are putting up lots of new power lines as they rely more on renewable energy and try to make grids more resilient in bad weather. But a Vermont utility is proposing a different approach: It wants to install batteries at most homes to make sure its customers never go without electricity. The company, Green Mountain Power, proposed buying batteries, burying power lines and strengthening overhead cables in a filing with state regulators on Monday. It said its plan would be cheaper than building a lot…

SAN FRANCISCO — When San Francisco startup OpenAI unveiled its ChatGPT online chatbot late last year, millions were wowed by the humanlike way it answered questions, wrote poetry and discussed almost any topic. But most people were slow to realize that this new kind of chatbot often makes things up. When Google introduced a similar chatbot several weeks later, it spewed nonsense about the James Webb telescope. The next day, Microsoft’s new Bing chatbot offered up all sorts of bogus information about the Gap, Mexican…

SAN FRANCISCO — Two months ago, Kyle Vogt, the CEO of Cruise, choked up as he recounted how a driver killed a 4-year-old girl in a stroller at a San Francisco intersection. “It barely made the news,” he said, pausing to collect himself. “Sorry. I get emotional.” To make streets safer, he said in an interview, cities should embrace self-driving cars like those designed by Cruise, a subsidiary of General Motors. They do not get distracted, drowsy or drunk, he said, and being programmed to put safety first meant they could…

Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal defense tried to convince a judge “nothing improper or impermissible occurred” last week when the disgraced crypto founder leaked former Alameda Research CEO and on-again-off-again girlfriend Caroline Ellison’s personal diary to The New York Times. The former FTX CEO’s defense says the leaked documents weren’t intended to “discredit a witness,” as the DOJ alleges, but was instead an attempt to respond to a “toxic media environment” he complains constantly casts him as a villain.Sam Bankman-Fried…

Photo: Tada Images / Shutterstock.com (Shutterstock)The once-sacrosanct halls of Wordle are adding new ads. When you hit “Play” on the Wordle mobile app, you’ll now be treated to what advertising boys call an “interstitial” ad, meaning the video or the image takes up your entire screen.NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter | Future TechThe first company to take advantage of the ad spots is DoorDash, which will reportedly run a campaign offering a 75% discount code for first-time orders through mid-August.“Advertising is an…

What would you give to see two of the world’s richest men throwing poorly aimed haymakers at each other? Better give that one some serious thought because The Verge is now reporting that Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk may get into a fight.NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter | Future TechIf you’re wondering what I mean by a “fight,” I mean like a fight-fight. A physical fight. A punching-and-kicking type of a fight. A fight where one guy eventually falls down on the mat and another guy stands over him sweating and bleeding and…

Twitter owner Elon Musk’s quest to turn his platform into a media powerhouse failed miserably on Wednesday after a planned talk with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Twitter Spaces to announce his presidential run was overcome by embarrassing technical glitches.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetBefore the event, Musk hyped up DeSantis’ unusual choice of venue, stating: “Any candidate who announces on this platform will get the highest possible audience. It’s a smart move.” However, the tech billionaire quickly ate his words…