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Parler sold, pulled offline as new owner retools site |
Starboard, a Virginia-based digital media company, announced Friday it had acquired the app that was once hailed by conservatives as a Twitter alternative. |
Parler, which quickly gained prominence among conservatives after launching in 2018, had been floundering after it was briefly pulled from mainstream app stores and Amazon's web hosting service. Starboard, a company based in Arlington, Va., announced Friday that the app as it is "currently constituted will be pulled down from operation to undergo a strategic assessment." "No reasonable person believes that a Twitter clone just for conservatives is a viable business any more," Starboard said in the announcement. Ryan Coyne, CEO of Starboard, said the team at Parler "has built an exceptional audience and we look forward to integrating that audience across all of our existing platforms." The acquisition, and the next chapter for Parler, comes after Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, made a push to buy the app in October. By November, however, Parler said the company and Ye "mutually agreed" to terminate the intent of sale. Read more in the full report at TheHill.com. |
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Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth responded to the uproar over transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney's sponsorship of Bud Light, saying that the company is "in the business of bringing people together." Whitworth said in release on Friday that he is responsible for making sure that "every consumer feels proud of the beer we brew" in his role as CEO. "We have thousands of partners, millions of fans … |
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| Twitter will let users who subscribe to its Twitter Blue service publish posts up to 10,000 characters long, the platform said Thursday. The update will also let the paid users publish posts with bolded and italicized text. It's the latest change at Twitter under CEO Elon Musk, who bought the company for $44 billion in October, to character limits for Twitter Blue subscribers. In February, the limit was raised from the … |
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E. Jean Carroll's rape case against former President Donald Trump has been funded by LinkedIn founder and noted Trump critic Reid Hoffman, according to newly-released court documents. Carroll has alleged that Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s and sued under New York's Adult Survivors Act, a new law which allows victims to sue for civil damages beyond the statute of limitations. Trump has denied the allegations. Trump's … |
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OpenAI CEO says company isn't training GPT-5 |
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman said the company is not currently training GPT-5, the language model that could follow the technology powering ChatGPT, The Verge reported. |
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Musk developing plans for AI company |
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and Twitter, is developing plans to launch an artificial intelligence (AI) company to compete with ChatGPT founder OpenAI, The Financial Times reported. |
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Online gaming chats have long been spy risk for US military |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Step into a U.S. military recreation hall at a base almost anywhere in the world and you're bound to see it: young troops immersed in the world of online games, using government-funded gaming machines or their own consoles. The enthusiasm military personnel have for gaming — and … |
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Two key stories on The Hill right now: |
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President Biden on Friday said the military and intelligence community will take steps to secure sensitive information in the wake of the arrest of … Read more |
| Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is seeking a delicate balance in the new Congress where she's ceded her official leadership duties but still … Read more |
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