- Elon rues the breakup with Twitter’s advertisers. Two years after telling advertisers to get lost, Elon Musk is courting them again in the face of X’s plummeting revenue. But advertisers seem to think they’re better apart, with many turned off by his chaotic tweeting habits.
- Sorry, it’s for close friends only. After years of favoring influencers, Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat are all leaning into features for close friends. They’re intended to foster connections between users and the small subset of followers who get access to exclusive content.
- A16z-backed Knownwell is buying Alfie Health. Alfie Health, a Y Combinator startup, uses AI to treat obesity. With Ozempic sparking a boom in the weight-loss business, obesity-care startup Knownwell plans to integrate Alfie’s AI tech into its obesity and primary-care services.
In other news
- AI could become a lawyer’s greatest help in the courtroom.
- How to live happily past 100, according to 7 of the world’s oldest people.
- College donors are tired of the pressure to pay more and more money to attract top athletes. It could lead to big changes.
- Fahim Saleh murder jury must decide if Tyrese Haspil believed stabbing and dismembering tech CEO was ‘reasonable’.
- Ted Cruz’s leaked donor docs show how money in politics really works.
- Looks like Elon Musk just added Melinda French Gates to his list of billionaires’ ex-wives who ‘might be the downfall of Western civilization’.
- Millennials and Gen Zers are ‘quiet quitting’ friendships, and it could backfire.
- This new technology for nuclear power could help fuel the AI revolution.
- ‘The Hunger Games’ star Donald Sutherland dead at 88.
- New Tesla video shows an early glimpse at how Elon Musk’s Robotaxi service could look.
What’s happening today
- Donald Trump appears at a court hearing on charges of mishandling classified documents.
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