November 2022

The Download: how Twitter is breaking, and YouTube’s TV experiment

November 8, 2022
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks On November 4, just hours after Elon Musk fired half of the 7,500 employees previously working at Twitter, some people…

Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks

November 8, 2022
On November 4, just hours after Elon Musk fired half of the 7,500 employees previously working at Twitter, some people began to see small signs that something was wrong with everyone’s favorite hellsite. And they saw it through retweets. Twitter introduced retweets in 2009, turning an organic thing people were already doing—pasting someone else’s username…

Where will AI go next?

November 8, 2022
To receive The Algorithm newsletter in your inbox every Monday, sign up here. Welcome to the Algorithm!  This year we’ve seen a dizzying number of breakthroughs in generative AI, from AIs that can produce videos from just a few words to models that can generate audio based on snippets of a song.  Last week, Google held an AI event in its swanky,…