Elon Musk completes Twitter buy, Meta’s in hassle and it is time to admit self-driving automobiles ain’t gonna occur • TechCrunch

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most learn (Elon version, considerably)

Elon did it: He purchased Twitter. The $44 billion acquisition closed this week and on day 1, the platform’s new proprietor “cleaned home,” Taylor and Amanda write, firing CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and head of authorized, coverage and belief Vijaya Gadde. The acquisition capped off months of ups and downs, and this week was no completely different. Darrell rounded up some highlights.

Elon’s layoff about-face: Whereas Elon Musk instantly fired some people on the high, earlier this week in a reversal from his layoff declaration final week, he stated he gained’t really lay off 75% of Twitter’s employees — or 5,600 individuals — writes Rebecca, citing a Bloomberg report.

Apple’s Elon downside: Darrell’s headline says all of it, actually: “Twitter’s Elon downside may quickly turn into Apple’s Elon downside, too.” At challenge is that Apple up to date its developer pointers this week, one in every of which “seeks lease on income made by social networks round promoted posts.”

Argo AI shutdown: Autonomous automobile startup Argo AI, flush at launch in 2017 with $1 billion, has shut down. Its components, writes Kirsten Korosec, are “being absorbed into its two primary backers: Ford and VW.”

Talking of autonomous autos: After the Argo AI information hit, Darrell took to the location to discover the truth that, no, autonomous autos simply aren’t going to occur.

MrBeast’s price: Amanda asks if MrBeast, or 24-year-old YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, is definitely worth the $1.5 billion he’s valuing his enterprise at.

Meta is in hassle: That’s the headline. Meta reported its third-quarter outcomes this week they usually weren’t nice. As Taylor writes: “With the Instagram portion of the enterprise not wanting so scorching recently, Meta has quintupled down on the metaverse with out inspecting if it even is aware of what customers need in any respect as of late. And after altering the title of the corporate whereas ruining a wonderfully fantastic phrase within the course of, there are not any straightforward take-backs.” Meta actually was a wonderfully fantastic phrase.

Google Pixel 7’s “dumb” flaw: Haje took an image by way of an airplane window and seen a mirrored image attributable to the reflective chrome surrounding the cellphone’s digital camera lens. “It’s a fairly widespread use case for many images functions, which makes it all of the more durable to grok why Google went out of its option to make that have worse.”

audio roundup

• On Fairness this week, we share with you one in every of Natasha Mascarenhas’s Disrupt panels. She talked to Chief co-founders Lindsay Kaplan and Carolyn Childers about the way forward for their non-public membership membership for ladies in management positions.
• This week on Discovered, Darrell and Jordan sat down with Shanthi Rajan from building administration software program firm Linarc to debate breaking right into a slow-changing trade, constructing a crew with expertise throughout the globe and dealing with clients to construct essentially the most helpful product potential.
• And on Chain Response, Anita and Jacquelyn chat about Apple’s new App Retailer pointers, Reddit’s foray into the NFT house and whether or not the U.Okay.’s new prime minister will stay as much as the hype he’s acquired from the crypto group.

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5 suggestions for launching in a crowded web3 gaming market. Contributor Corey Wilton explains the steps that may set you aside when on the lookout for capital.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Palau Venture. Haje often passes on tearing down pre-seed rounds, however he went for it this week with the Palau Venture, which was based by skilled kite-surfer Jerome Cloetens, who’s taking up local weather change.