Tue. 02/14 – Elon, If You Want It Or Not

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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People are saying Elon is showing you his tweets whether you asked to see them or not. More fodder for the charge that these chat bots are being rolled out quick and dirty. More fodder for the charge that US regulators are fencing in crypto. TikTok is trying to court the olds. And Amazon’s autonomous shuttle service his hit real world roads. Sponsors: RelationshipHero.com/techmeme Links: Twitter is just showing everyone all of Elon Musk’s tweets now (The Verge) Twitter delays new paid API launch by 'a few more days' (AppleInsider) Microsoft’s Bing AI, like Google’s, also made dumb mistakes during first demo (The Verge) US Crackdown Seeks to Push Crypto Back to the Fringes of Finance (Bloomberg) TikTok Turns to New Tactics to Spur Growth as Boom Times End (The Information) Amazon chief vows to ‘go big’ on physical stores (FT) TikTok’s Parent Takes On Meta in Battle for Virtual-Reality Market (WSJ) Amazon’s Self-Driving Car Shuttles People on Public Roads for the First Time (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, February 14th, 2023.
0:07.6	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.1	People are saying Elon is showing you his tweets, whether you ask to see them or not.
0:13.9	More fodder for the charge that these chatbots are being rolled out quick and dirty.
0:18.2	More fodder for the charge that U.S. regulators are fencing in crypto.
0:21.7	Tik-talk is trying to court the old's and Amazon's autonomous shuttle service hits real-world
0:26.4	roads.
0:27.4	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:30.0	Some Twitter users, even those who do not follow Elon Musk, are saying that
0:38.0	their for-you feed has been full of Elon's tweets and replies
0:43.6	after changes made to the algorithms over the weekend,
0:47.4	quoting the verge.
0:48.7	Several of us here at the verge
0:50.2	are seeing more Musk replies than usual,
0:52.3	and I personally counted five at the very
0:53.9	top of my feed with many more sprinkled in between tweets from other users.
0:58.2	The same is true for some accounts that don't even follow Elon Musk.
1:01.9	In an apparent acknowledgement Musk tweeted quote, please state accounts that don't even follow Elon Musk.
1:02.5	And in apparent acknowledgement,
1:03.6	Musk tweeted, quote, please stay tuned
1:05.4	while we make adjustments to the algorithm,
1:08.4	end quote, early Tuesday morning.
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