hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. twitter s new owner elon musk has defended his decision to sack about half the firm s workforce without warning. mr musk said the social media platform was losing large sums of money every day. he s insisted twitter s commitment to content moderation remains unchanged, despite the loss of key staff and anxiety among advertisers. in an interview, elon musk revealed that twitter was losing around $4 million a day, meaning costs had to be cut. he promised twitter wouldn t degenerate into what he called a free for all hellscape when content moderation is loosened. but advertisers including general motors have withdrawn their business, which is likely to lead to a drop in revenues. and now twitter faces lawsuits from the hundreds of employees over the way they were fired. out technology editor, zoe kleinman, reports. elon musk did not speak to any of the twitter employees laid off today. he was a surprise guest
live, work and play. this week, metaverse marc tells real marc how it is. you had help from the likes of me, the trimmer, younger looking virtual version of you that has helped with all of these stories on the telly. it s true. seven decades on, facial recognition renos one holocaust survivor with a photo from her past. yeah, that is me, for sure. and spencer meets the robot doing improvised comedy. i can learn from my mistakes. ha ha ha. don t laugh, this is serious stuff. whether we know it or not, whether we feel it or not, we are all connected. we are all made from the same stuff. and the testing ground here in london is a brief reminder of that. this collaboration between artists and scientists at kings college london is an illustration of how our physical and digital environments come together in today s society sometimes in seemingly unconnected ways. and the sim project makes art out of the small chips that have for some years, been central to our communications, in
Oliver we are with megan murphy to talk about the special theme this week, which is sooner than you think. In terms of things you may not be thinking of now, but are than you more quickly might think. We talk about ai, we talk about tech, that would want to talk about lesserknown trends in other parts of the world. We talk about china, and the. Esearch of Live Streaming we talk about some of the challenges facing our urban centers. How you go about mapping, different places where tech is excelling and you are not hearing much about it. So, taking those trends that are known about, and taking them to the next level. Reading through the content this week, i was constantly going back and forth between, this is exciting and great, and this is terrifying. Megan i have a two and a half year old, so think of it as a baby being developed, younger than that. An artificial baby, we should say. Grafting, motion, learned response, and how quickly that develop that is developing is frightening. But
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