Kurt Wagner (@kurtwagner8) 's Twitter Profile
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

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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/…

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NEW: More details on Meta's new "superintelligence" team Meta has hired top Google DeepMind researcher Jack Rae and Johan Schalkwyk, ML lead of popular voice assistant app, Sesame. Plans to hire up to 50 ppl, including a chief scientist, per sources. w/ Kurt Wagner

NEW: More details on Meta's new "superintelligence" team

Meta has hired top Google DeepMind researcher <a href="/jack_w_rae/">Jack Rae</a> and Johan Schalkwyk, ML lead of popular voice assistant app, Sesame.

Plans to hire up to 50 ppl, including a chief scientist, per sources.  w/ <a href="/KurtWagner8/">Kurt Wagner</a>
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NEW: Meta's Scale AI investment is done. * $14.3B invested * $29B valuation * Scale CEO Alexandr Wang is joining Meta in an senior AI role

NEW: Meta's Scale AI investment is done.   

* $14.3B invested 
* $29B valuation  
* Scale CEO Alexandr Wang is joining Meta in an senior AI role
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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/…

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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

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Zuckerberg’s “superintelligence” group is growing. I count seven known hires from OpenAI so far, including these four

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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/…

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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/…