Fri. 05/12 – Twitter Has A New CEO

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🗓️ 12 May 2023

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Elon says he’s hired a new CEO for Twitter, and folks think they know who this person will be. The Claude chatbot has expanded so much you can now write entire novels with it. Seeing what Meta is doing with AI in ads makes me wonder about the future of all media. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Grammarly.com/go GetSunday.com/ride Links: Elon Musk says he has found a new CEO for Twitter (TechCrunch) Linda Yaccarino Leaves NBCUniversal Amid Talks to Become Twitter CEO (WSJ) Anthropic’s latest model can take ‘The Great Gatsby’ as input (TechCrunch) Meta announces generative AI features for advertisers (TechCrunch) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: End of the Billable Hour? Law Firms Get On Board With Artificial Intelligence (WSJ) “We Were Always Playing An Entirely Different Game”: The Ultimate Oral History Of BuzzFeed News (BuzzFeed News) Taiwan Is Running Low on a Strategic Asset: Engineers (NYTimes) The Plot to Steal the Other Secret Inside a Can of Coca-Cola (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, May 12th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.7	Elon says he's hired a new CEO for Twitter and folks think they know who this person will be. The
0:14.4	Claude Chatbot has expanded so much you can now write entire novels with it.
0:18.4	Seeing what Meta is doing with AI and ads makes me wonder about the future of all media and of course
0:24.9	the weekend long read suggestions here's what you miss today in the world of
0:28.1	tech.
0:32.3	Elon Musk tweeted last night that he has hired a CEO for Twitter, really for X, as that's
0:39.2	the legal name of the company now.
0:41.1	But anyway, quote, she will be starting in around six weeks.
0:45.0	Musk said he will become quote, exec chair and CEO overseeing product, software, and
0:50.8	CISOPs.
0:51.8	Quoting Tech Crunch.
0:53.6	Musk previously said he planned to step down as CEO and appoint a new chief executive before
0:57.8	the end of 2023, noting that he would honor the results of a poll asking whether he
1:02.0	should remain in charge of the
1:03.2	company however he has previously not named any prospective candidates
1:06.9	Musk's decision to appoint a new Twitter CEO will likely appease Tesla
1:11.0	investors who have been concerned that Musk's time spent on Twitter is taking
1:15.0	him away from his position as CEO of Tesla.
1:18.5	Following the news that he found a replacement for the role, Tesla shares surged. Although Musk will soon no longer be CEO of
1:25.3	Twitter he still owns the company. Musk recently renamed Twitter Inc. to X Corp.
1:31.0	he has long aspired to build what he calls X the Everything App."
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