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05 Aug

Elon Musk’s X to Close San Francisco Office, Relocate Workers

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Elon Musk’s X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, will close its San Francisco office, ending the company’s presence in the city where it was founded in 2006. Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino sent an email to employees saying X will move out of its Market Street space in San Francisco, according to a person familiar with the company. Employees will be relocated to an existing office in San Jose and an engineering office in Palo Alto, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the email wasn’t shared publicly. Source link lol

11 Jun

The Tech World’s Greatest Living Novelist, Robin Sloan, Goes Meta

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So, inevitably, we talk a lot more, and meta-ly, about language, words, meaning—though Sloan doesn’t think it was inevitable that language would be the breakthrough AI technology. Could’ve been vision, he says; could’ve been something else. But now that it is language, and now that it can write, he’s excited to be the kind of writer the machines are not. Just take a look at Moonbound, which comes out today and is Sloan’s first proper work of science fiction. He thinks it’s his best-written, most human-sounding book so far—by far. It’s certainly his most ambitious: thematically, characterologically, even punctuationally. I…