Tag: Twitter

All of Elon Musk’s original co‑founders at his artificial‑intelligence startup xAI have now left the company. Business Insider reports that the final two members of the founding team, Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen, have each announced their departures. Musk has said the venture was “not built right the first time around” and is being rebuilt from the ground up. The exits come shortly after xAI was absorbed into Musk’s SpaceX corporate umbrella, which also includes X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, as SpaceX prepares for a possible public offering. Leggi di più

Elon Musk has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by four former Twitter executives—Parag Agrawal, Ned Segal, Vijaya Gadde, and Sean Edgett—over more than $128 million in unpaid severance. The settlement, filed in the U.S. Northern District Court of California, is contingent on Musk meeting unspecified conditions. The dispute originated after Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter, which the executives allege was closed early to deny them stock option vesting. The agreement postpones existing deadlines and may be rescinded if conditions are not satisfied. Leggi di più

Former Periscope founders Kayvon Beykpour, Joe Bernstein, and Rob Bishop have introduced Macroscope, an AI-driven platform that helps developers and product leaders understand code changes, spot bugs, and get real‑time product insights. The tool integrates with GitHub, Slack, JIRA and Linear, leveraging large language models to generate summaries and answer natural‑language queries. Priced at $30 per active developer per month, Macroscope is already being used by a range of startups and larger firms. Backed by a Series A round led by Lightspeed, the San Francisco startup aims to reduce engineering overhead and improve productivity. Leggi di più