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₿trust, a non-profit organization funded by Twitter (now X) co-founder and Bitcoin (BTC) advocate Jack Dorsey, is scaling up its programs in Africa with a new acquisition.

Elon Musk took over the social media platform X(formerly Twitter), Walter Isaacson who wrote the biography "ELon Musk" and will be published on 12 September has given a detailed account on why Elon Musk sacked Parag Agrawal, the then Twitter CEO.In an excerpt carried out by The Wall Street Journal , Musk who had a meeting with Parag Agrawal said he was a "really nice guy." "What Twitter needs is a fire-breathing dragon," Elon Musk said after that meeting, as per biographer Isaacson. "And Parag is not that." Elon Musk met Parag Agrawalover a dinner in March 2022, according to the biographer.

NEW DELHI : OpenAI, the US-based artificial-intelligence (AI) research firm, has fired its latest salvo towards seeking to monetize its widely popular chatbot, ChatGPT, by launching ChatGPT Enterprise. Through the latter, OpenAI seeks to address one key concern that enterprises and analysts have raised over time—that of ChatGPT using business data to train their large language models (LLMs).

Twitter) users can finally breathe a sigh of relief as a recent glitch that affected the visibility of images and links in tweets shared before December 2014 has finally been successfully fixed by the micro-blogging platform. Reports of the issue initially surfaced over the weekend, with concerns arising regarding posts made before 2014, especially those containing images or shortened links from the platform. The glitch, which came to light through a post by Tom Coates, caught attention for affecting even the iconic 2014 Oscars selfie by Ellen DeGeneres, which became the most retweeted ever post. It was a picture of her with famous people like Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. Later, the picture came back, but not everyone got their pictures back. In response, the @Support account of X released a statement confirming the resolution of the problem and gave assurance that no data or images were permanently lost.

ALSO READ: Elon Musk announces removal of block feature on X, says ‘it makes no sense’ After Musk took over Twitter, he laid off much of the company's workforce, scrapped the old verified programme in favour of the $8/month Twitter Blue subscription, changed its name from Twitter to X, and introduced live streaming. Meanwhile, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a post on X (formerly called Twitter) wrote that he has deleted his Instagram account after using it for 12 years.

Elon Musk, the mind behind X (formerly known as Twitter), has declared that the platform will no longer offer the option to block other users. Musk argues that the blocking feature «makes no sense» and will be removed, except for direct messages (DMs). This move has generated mixed reactions within the online community. «Block is going to be deleted as a „feature“, except for DMs,» he said in a tweet. In another tweet, he stated that «It makes no sense». The feature in question, commonly known as 'block', empowers users to regulate their interactions with other accounts by preventing specific users from contacting them, viewing their posts, or following them.

Jack Dorsey has quit his Instagram account after being inactive on the social media platform for years. Dorsey had also criticized the company's latest social media app, Threads for privacy concerns while calling it a ‘Twitter clone’. “Deleted my Instagram account after 12 years.

Major crypto companies reported strong earnings last quarter as swelling crypto asset prices drove up profits across the industry.

A number of crypto-centred public companies released their quarterly earnings report over the past couple of weeks, sharing increased revenue and a jump in profits across the board. The majority of these crypto firms benefited from the rise in prices of the crypto market and a constant decline in bearish momentum, moving away from the crypto winter.

The shares of Afterpay’s parent company, Block, tumbled by 10 per cent on Friday despite second quarter earnings beating forecasts and a stronger outlook, with the company calling out Australian spending as being more challenged than the United States.

Coinbase plans to file an order seeking dismissal of the lawsuit by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 4, with the crypto exchange’s legal chief saying it expects to win the case.

Shares in payment technology firm Block Inc. tumbled after hours despite its second-quarter results beating earnings expectations, including a 34% year-on-year increase in Bitcoin (BTC) revenue.

Crypto exchange Coinbase’s CEO Brian Armstrong and former head of Twitter – now X – Jack Dorsey, highlighted the potential and future of Bitcoin’s Layer 2 (L2) payment protocol, the Lightning Network.

Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, confirmed that the crypto exchange is “looking into” adding the Bitcoin (BTC) Lighting network in its quest to spread crypto payments adoption across the globe.

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is offering Bitcoin (BTC) bug bounties in a bid to improve Bitcoin and the Lightning Network.

Amid discussions around the falling interest in Worldcoin, a blockchain project dedicated to building a user identity network, Worldcoin co-founder Sam Altman shared a video that shows people in Japan lined up to give away their iris scans in exchange for ‘free’ Worldcoin (WLD) tokens.

I suppose you could say changing the Twitter bird logo to an ‘X’ makes complete sense. As the recognized icon for ‘make it go away,’ X just about sums up the achievements of Elon Musk’s social network so far. Gone are many of Twitter’s users, half of its advertisers, about 80% of its employees and its operational stability.

non-fungible token (NFT) was sold for a whopping $2.9 million in 2021, now has a paltry price of less than $2,000. Iranian-born crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi bought Twitter founder Dorsey's first-ever tweet that read «Just setting up my twttr» as an NFT for $2.9 million.

Chandrasekhar has said in the Parliament that government authorities had not shut down the services of American microblogging site Twitter and did not raid homes of executives of Twitter for hosting content of farmers' agitation during 2021. This allegation was first made by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a television interview, which was repeatedly denied by Chandrasekhar on his social media handle.

Digital currency investment product, Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), was one of the best performers at Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest in the second quarter of 2023.

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to progressively back the United States dollar with Bitcoin (BTC) if he is elected president.