Insider Business8 hours agoElon Musk keeps publicly begging celebrities to post on X and gets pouty if they choose other platformsverified_publisherInsider Business - Katie BalevicElon Musk, the embattled CEO of X, formerly Twitter, is starting to look a little bit desperate. While Musk has touted X's views and engagement numbers — as if to prove to the haters that everything is fine, just fine — it's actually been a rough year for the company. Twitter, now X, has lost half …
Insider Business12 hours agoTinder thinks some people will pay almost $500 a month for more 'efficient ways to find connections' with its 'VIP' planverified_publisherInsider Business - Nathan RennoldsTinder has introduced a new subscription option that costs nearly $500 a month. Tinder Select is a "VIP" service that's only on offer to about 1% of the dating app's most active users, the company says on its website. Select will enable users to access exclusive features including "Skip The Line," …
Insider Business15 hours agoGoogle is quietly handing out early demos of its GPT-4 rival called Gemini. Here's what we know so far about the upcoming AI model.verified_publisherInsider Business - Beatrice NolanGoogle is getting ready to launch Gemini, its answer to OpenAI's GPT-4. The tech is a next-gen, multimodal AI model being worked on by a team of researchers pulled from Google's now-merged AI divisions DeepMind and Google Brain. The model is being promoted as a significant advancement in natural …
Insider Business15 hours agoApple exec Eddy Cue is such a big sports fan that he has a grid of 9 TVs at home for watching gamesverified_publisherInsider Business - Haley TenoreOne of the Golden State Warriors' biggest fans just happens to be Eddy Cue, a top Apple executive. And one of the perks of a cushy Apple compensation package is that you can afford to splurge on things — like a fancy at-home setup for watching sports. Cue, who is Apple's senior vice president of …
Insider Business16 hours agoApple customers are starting to receive their new $60 'FineWoven' iPhone cases — and the early reviews are roughverified_publisherInsider Business - Sarah JacksonApple's first FineWoven iPhone cases have started shipping out, and customers aren't impressed, to say the least. Negative reviews have already started pouring in for the new cases, which were announced at Apple's annual fall keynote last week as a more eco-friendly replacement of Apple's leather …
Insider Business18 hours agoElon Musk's grandfather belonged to a political party that believed the world should be governed by technology. Newspapers at the time described it as having 'the tone of an incipient Fascist movement.'verified_publisherInsider Business - Hannah GetahunElon Musk's grandfather, the late Joshua Haldeman, spent his time ranting about minority groups he didn't like, speculating about a global conspiracy led by shadowy figures (read: Jewish people), and joining the cause of technocracy. According to a deep dive from the Atlantic on the life of …
