I said Elon’s name five times in front of a mirror and the whole Elon/Twitter headlines came flooding back into our lives. Forbes alleges that they’ve caught TikTok doing the thing that everybody fears. What if I told you there was a third huge AI raise story to round out this week? And of course, the weekend longreads suggestions.Links:Documents detail plans to gut Twitter’s workforce (Washington Post)Twitter Tumbles as US Weighs Security Reviews for Musk Deals (Bloomberg)TikTok Parent ByteDance Planned To Use TikTok To Monitor The Physical Location Of Specific American Citizens (Forbes)OpenAI, Valued at Nearly $20 Billion, in Advanced Talks with Microsoft For More Funding (The Information)Snap plunges more than 25% on third-quarter revenue miss (CNBC)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:Technology that lets us “speak” to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready? (MIT Technology Review)How Gamers Beat NFTs (Bloomberg)The Hottest App Right Now? One Where Teens Have to Say Nice Things About Each Other (WSJ)I Turned My Home Into a Fortress of Surveillance (The Atlantic)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.