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Kurt Wagner

@kurtwagner8
491 posts
2024-10-05
Here's a demo vid Meta shared with the press [video]
2024-10-05 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta Movie Gen can create up to 16-second videos based on a text prompt, available to some staff and external partners; Meta plans to add it to its apps in 2025

But a Demo Shows It Isn't Perfect Hamsat Abdurasheed / News.ng : Meta Takes On Open AI, Launches Advanced Video-Creation AI Tool, Movie Gen Raw Story : Meta AI turns pictures into ...

Here's a demo vid Meta shared with the press [video]
2024-10-05 View on X
Wired

Meta announces Movie Gen, a suite of AI models for generating realistic video and audio clips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Movie Gen Audio has 13B

The next frontier in generative AI is video—and with Movie Gen, Meta has now staked its claim.

2024-10-04
Here's a demo vid Meta shared with the press [video]
2024-10-04 View on X
Wired

Meta announces Movie Gen, a suite of AI models for generating realistic video and audio clips; Movie Gen Video has 30B parameters and Movie Gen Audio has 13B

The next frontier in generative AI is video—and with Movie Gen, Meta has now staked its claim.

Here's a demo vid Meta shared with the press [video]
2024-10-04 View on X
Bloomberg

Meta Movie Gen can create up to 16-second videos based on a text prompt, available to some staff and external partners; Meta plans to add it to its apps in 2025

Movie Gen tool can create short videos from a text prompt  —  Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. debuted a new artificial intelligence tool …

2024-09-06
Head of Global Affairs at X is leaving. Nick was one of, if not *the* last, senior exec from Twitter 1.0 still there. Interesting timing given everything going on with Brazil right now too.
2024-09-06 View on X
Financial Times

X VP of Global Affairs Nick Pickles is leaving the company after a decade in which he fought multiple political battles and engaged with regulators worldwide

Chief executive Linda Yaccarino's right-hand man helped fight many of the group's political battles

2024-07-19
NEW: Mark Zuckerberg thinks Trump's reaction after getting shot was “badass” “Seeing Donald Trump get up after getting shot in the face and pump his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most badass things I've ever seen in my life,” he told @emilychangtv
2024-07-19 View on X
Bloomberg

In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg says Trump's immediate reaction after being shot was “badass” and inspiring, but declines to endorse either Trump or Biden

’ for fist pump reaction to assassination attempt Taylor Herzlich / New York Post : Mark Zuckerberg calls Trump ‘badass’ over reaction to assassination attempt, stops short of endo...

2024-06-19
New: @elonmusk wants to turn X into an “everything app,” and to do so they need payments. @aishacounts & I submitted public records requests for X's payments applications in all 50 states. We learned a lot! Here's a quick thread 🧵... https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-06-19 View on X
Bloomberg

Filings: X is still working on a Venmo-like payments feature, with a 2024 US launch target; X had $1.48B in revenue in first six months of 2023, down ~40% YoY

2024-06-05
Wow. Joe was not only Linda's right-hand but he was the only person at X (or any of Elon's companies?) who gave comments to the press and handled PR.
2024-06-05 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Joe Benarroch, X's head of business operations and one of Linda Yaccarino's closest advisers, is leaving; his style rubbed colleagues the wrong way

X Corp. Chief Executive Linda Yaccarino's right-hand man and head of business operations, Joe Benarroch, is leaving the company, according to people familiar with the matter.

2024-06-04
New: TikTok parent ByteDance has hired a new GC: Former Warner Bros. GC John Rogovin Remember that TikTok is currently suing the US government and fighting to avoid a ban. Big job! https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-06-04 View on X
Bloomberg

ByteDance hires a new global general counsel, John Rogovin, who spent 12 years as Warner Bros.' top lawyer and worked in the US FCC and DOJ

Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg :

2024-05-31
one possible result of this move: Facebook is having a mini resurgence of “young adult” users ages 18-29. That user group, which was declining for years, has been growing for five straight quarters. Facebook has more YA users today in the US and Canada than it has in 3 years. [image]
2024-05-31 View on X
Bloomberg

How Meta revamped Facebook's feed to show more posts from outside a person's network of friends and family, in a move to fight TikTok and win back younger users

- Feed now features a broader array of posts based on interest  — More young adults are back on Facebook after years of declines Threads: @simondowens , @davemolloy , @alexcartaz ,...

New: I wrote about Facebook's years-long pivot toward “recommendations” — showing people more posts about their interests, and fewer posts about their friends and family. It's been a slow but deliberate move to fight TikTok and win back younger users https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2024-05-31 View on X
Bloomberg

How Meta revamped Facebook's feed to show more posts from outside a person's network of friends and family, in a move to fight TikTok and win back younger users

- Feed now features a broader array of posts based on interest  — More young adults are back on Facebook after years of declines Threads: @simondowens , @davemolloy , @alexcartaz ,...

2024-05-23
New: Mark Zuckerberg created a product advisory council to help Meta's management team with its AI plans & strategic roadmap The four man council: Patrick Collison, Stripe CEO Tobi Lütke, Shopify CEO Nat Friedman, Former GitHub CEO Charlie Songhurst, Investor/Former MSFT
2024-05-23 View on X
Bloomberg

Zuckerberg creates the Meta Advisory Group with Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman, Tobi Lütke, and Charlie Songhurst, to advise on tech and growth opportunities

How is this different from a Board of Directors? This group is unpaid, not elected by shareholders, no fiduciary responsibility More details here: https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-05-23 View on X
Bloomberg

Zuckerberg creates the Meta Advisory Group with Patrick Collison, Nat Friedman, Tobi Lütke, and Charlie Songhurst, to advise on tech and growth opportunities

2024-05-04
FWIW this sounds a lot like Moments, a product Twitter used to have, but compiled via AI instead of human curators
2024-05-04 View on X
TechCrunch

X launches Stories on X, with news curated and summarized by Grok AI, available for Premium subscribers in the Explore tab on iOS and on the web

X, formerly Twitter, is now using Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok to power a feature that summarizes the personalized trending stories in the app's Explore section.

FWIW this sounds a lot like Moments, a product Twitter used to have, but compiled via AI instead of human curators
2024-05-04 View on X
Big Technology

Elon Musk says he wants Grok to create news summaries by relying solely on X posts, without looking at article text, and improved story citations are coming

That is how you get widespread bias and disinformation.  —  #gigo Bluesky: @nzpom.com : These were some early examples of Grok testing that were accidentally released into producti...

2024-03-14
WOW. So Don Lemon will no not have a show on X after all...
2024-03-14 View on X
The Hollywood Reporter

Don Lemon says Elon Musk canceled The Don Lemon Show's partnership with X, hours after taping an interview with Musk on March 8 for the show's debut episode

2024-03-06
I know as soon as I tweet this things will come back online but Facebook, Instagram, Threads are down for some people (including me!)
2024-03-06 View on X
The Verge

Meta confirms a technical issue caused an outage affecting Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Meta Quest logins, and more, for over two hours

2024-03-05
New: When Elon Musk took over Twitter he fired CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, top lawyer Vijaya Gadde and GC Sean Edgett immediately “for cause,” which meant withholding their golden parachutes. Now they're suing him for $128 million https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-03-05 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Twitter's former CEO, CFO, legal chief, and general counsel sue Elon Musk over allegedly $128M+ in unpaid severance and Musk's claim he had cause to fire them

with program advice from Cisco and Salesforce Ryan Dinsdale / IGN : Elon Musk and X/Twitter Sued for $128 Million Over Alleged Unpaid Severance Amanda Yeo / Mashable : Former Twitt...

2024-02-08
NEW: @BW published the first excerpt from my upcoming book, “Battle for the Bird”! This story is about two people - Twitter's old boss Jack Dorsey & its new boss Elon Musk - and a handoff that was fumbled from the get-go. A few interesting details... https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2024-02-08 View on X
Bloomberg

Battle for the Bird book excerpt: how Jack Dorsey's plan to get Elon Musk to save Twitter failed, as Musk dismantled the company after taking over, and more

An excerpt from Battle for the Bird shows how Twitter's two most prominent leaders contributed to its current dilemma.

2024-02-02
Meta announced a new quarterly dividend of 50 cents/share today. One person who will benefit tremendously? CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who should make around $700m (pre-tax) in dividend payments per year! via @alexbarinka https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-02-02 View on X
Meta

Meta reports Q4 revenue up 25% YoY to $40.1B, net income up 201% YoY to $14B, and family daily active people up 8% YoY to 3.19B for December 2023

Meta Platforms (META Quick Quote META - Free Report) … Salvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal : Facebook Parent Meta Initiates Dividend as Growth Continues Jonathan Vanian / CNBC...