Elon's X Machina + Crypto Orbs + A Visit to Google’s Robot Lab

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The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

On Sunday night, a crane arrived in downtown San Francisco to take down the Twitter sign from the company’s office building. The crane’s arrival marked the death of Twitter, the brand, and the start of X, Elon Musk’s everything app. Today, why Elon’s acquisition feels more and more like cultural vandalism and what, if anything, will replace the global town square. Then, is Sam Altman’s universal basic income cryptocurrency app Worldcoin an iris scanning tool to save humanity, or just another attempt to get rich on crypto? Plus: a trip to Google’s robotics lab, where artificial intelligence models are creating breakthroughs.

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0:00.0	Do you ever like when you were edited when you had an editor when you worked at a real
0:05.0	publication?
0:06.0	Yeah.
0:07.0	Did you ever put stuff in a story that you knew was bad just so your editor would cut
0:10.8	that and not the thing that you actually wanted to stay in?
0:13.8	No.
0:14.8	And thank God I never worked somewhere where I had to think like that because like trying
0:17.3	to play the nine dimensional test of like, how do I get something past my editor when
0:20.8	it's going to be out of this business?
0:21.8	I call this my green M&M strategy where I like I put something that's like horrible in
0:26.7	this story and I just like leave it there and then there's something like three paragraphs
0:30.7	below that that I know they're going to want to cut but that I really want them to leave
0:34.0	in.
0:35.0	So I just like admittedly some of us weather 9-11 actually happens in the editor says
0:40.4	you know what?
0:41.4	I know how we can save one paragraph worth of space.
0:49.9	I'm Kevin Russo I'm a tech columnist of the New York Times Casey new from platformer
0:53.4	and you're listening to Hartford this week on the show X marks the spot where Twitter
0:58.4	died.
0:59.4	Plus why iris scanning orbs may be coming to a city near you and we visit Google's
1:05.2	robotics lab where they are putting AI inside the machine's brain we'll tell you how
1:10.4	many of us get the lab.
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