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Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s cage fight set to take place in ‘epic location’ | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has suggested his planned cage fight with Meta co-founder Mark Zuckerberg will take place in an “epic location”. In a series of posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, the company’s controversial owner said he has been in contact with the Italian prime minister and minister of culture about hosting the event. He…
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Mark Zuckerberg says he’s suggested a date for a fight with Elon Musk – but hasn’t heard back | Science & Tech News
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Mark Zuckerberg says he is “not holding his breath” over the proposed bout between himself and Elon Musk taking place. The Facebook founder says he suggested the date of 26 August to his fellow tech entrepreneur, but Musk has not responded. Posting on his new platform Threads, Zuckerberg also claimed he was “ready today” to…
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Elon Musk v Mark Zuckerberg: Tech leaders’ fight to be streamed on X | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has said his social media platform will live stream his fight with rival Mark Zuckerberg. The 52-year-old, who owns X (formerly known as Twitter), revealed earlier in the year that he and Zuckerberg, 39, who runs the Meta group of platforms including Facebook, will take part in a cage match for charity. Posting…
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Elon Musk launches long-awaited AI start-up in a bid to rival ChatGPT | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has launched his long-awaited artificial intelligence start-up xAI in a bid to build an alternative to ChatGPT. The Twitter owner has brought in a team of engineers from other tech firms he is hoping to challenge in the artificial intelligence sphere. Musk has warned for months about AI’s potential for “civilisational destruction”, arguing…
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Zuckerberg v Musk: Will Threads ‘kill’ Twitter? | Science & Tech News
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Meta launched its new microblogging app Threads on Thursday, with boss Mark Zuckerberg reporting 30 million sign-ups in the first day. But can the tech company, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, capitalise on recent changes at Twitter by owner Elon Musk which have alienated many of its users and advertisers? Not content with a battle on socials,…
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Who is Jack Dorsey? The billionaire tech founder and Bluesky boss who ran Twitter before Elon Musk | Science & Tech News
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As Elon Musk drags Twitter and its users through more and more turbulence, its founder Jack Dorsey has made a supportive observation from the sidelines. He posted that “Running Twitter is hard” and “it’s easy to critique the decisions from afar”. The 46-year-old billionaire left the platform he co-founded in 2006 to launch what he…
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Elon Musk jokes about Twitter’s new reading limits after users vent fury | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has joked about Twitter’s temporary daily reading limits after users vented their fury over the site’s new limitations. “Oh the irony of hitting view limits due to complaining about view limits,” the billionaire tweeted. Earlier Musk had said Twitter applied the limits to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation. He…
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Twitter applies temporary reading limits for all users, Elon Musk announces | Science & Tech News
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Twitter has applied temporary daily reading limits to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation, Elon Musk has said. In a tweet, the billionaire gave details for both verified, unverified and new unverified accounts – followed by another post about two hours later, saying the caps would be “increasing soon”. Verified Twitter users…
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Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk ‘dead serious’ about cage fight, says UFC boss | Science & Tech News
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Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are “absolutely dead serious” about fighting each other in a cage match, the boss of UFC has said. The tech billionaires used their respective social media platforms, Instagram and Twitter, this week to talk up their battle-readiness – and both have apparently since spoken to mixed martial arts supremo Dana…
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Twitter loses second trust and safety chief since Elon Musk takeover | Science & Tech News
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Twitter’s head of trust and safety has resigned from the social media company, according to a report. Ella Irwin told Reuters news agency she had resigned, not long after Fortune reported her internal Slack account appeared to have been deactivated. Ms Irwin oversaw content moderation – a controversial subject for a company that has been…