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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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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