Thu. 07/21 – Did Tesla Trigger The Crypto Crash?

Amazon is acquiring actual doctors offices. Facebook splits the newsfeed to make it more TikTok-y. Minecraft foreswears NFTs. The big tech platforms are pausing hiring now too. Did Tesla cause the crypto crash? And DALL-E 2 is now more widely available.

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Links:

• Amazon is buying primary care tech provider One Medical for $3.9B (TechCrunch)
• Facebook doubles down on algorithms in the main feed (The Verge)
• Minecraft team says NFTs and blockchain are, well, blocked (Polygon)
• Microsoft Cuts Many Open Job Listings in Weakening Economy (Bloomberg)
• Google Announces Hiring Pause (The Information)
• Elon Musk’s Tesla Has Sold 75% of Its Bitcoin Holdings (Decrypt)
• @CryptoKaleo Tweet
• TextExpander, which lets users build shortcuts to speed up business communications, raises $41.4M, its first-ever funding (TechCrunch)
• OpenAI expands access to DALL-E 2, its powerful image-generating AI system (TechCrunch)

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