
Kurt Wagner
@kurtwagner8
Covering social media, Facebook + X/Twitter for Bloomberg @Business. Author of “Battle for the Bird.” DMs are open. Go Seahawks. Go M’s. Signal: kurtwagner.08
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BREAKING ON TIKTOK: The Supreme Court has ruled to UPHOLD the TikTok divest-or-ban law, clearing the way for a potential nationwide shutdown on Sunday. Several moving parts that could change how this shakes out. News coming from Greg Stohr Kurt Wagner Bloomberg and me

Elon Musk struck a deal with Visa, naming the payments company the first major partner on his mission to turn X into an “everything app” -- great story by Paige Smith and Kurt Wagner bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A scoop big enough to post on a Saturday night! $meta in talks to invest more than $10b in scale ai! bloomberg.com/news/articles/… w/ David Carnevali Shirin Ghaffary Kurt Wagner

Some great new details on Zuckerberg's efforts to create a new "superintelligence group" at Meta from Riley Ray Griffin & Kurt Wagner bloomberg.com/news/articles/…



New: Meta's ScaleAI investment is finalized. Full Meta-Scale AI investment story is here (gift link)... w/ Shirin Ghaffary Rachel Metz bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Scoop: Meta had acquisition conversations with Perplexity last month. Talks fell through and Perplexity raised at a $14B valuation. Meta invested that amount in Scale.AI instead bloomberg.com/news/articles/… w/ Mark Gurman Riley Ray Griffin



X will start to publish Community Notes written by artificial intelligence agents, a move to increase the speed of the social network’s fact-checking product and expand it to reach more people. Kurt Wagner bloomberg.com/news/articles/…


NEW: Daniel Gross, who co-founded SSI with Ilya Sutskever and was formerly CEO, is leaving to join Meta's new superintelligence lab where he will work on AI products. w/ Kurt Wagner bloomberg.com/news/articles/…