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Good morning, it’s Thursday November 3rd. I am Jose Montes de Oca and you are listening to Newslit daily, expertly curated news bits on what is happening around us to supercharge your mornings

In today's edition:

Musk Plans to Eliminate Half of Twitter Jobs in Cost-Cut Drive. Elon Musk plans to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at Twitter Inc., or half of the social media company's workforce, in a bid to drive down costs following his $44 billion acquisition, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Twitter's new… (Edward Ludlow & Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg)

OpenAI will give roughly 10 AI startups $1M each and early access to its systems. OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind AI systems like GPT-3 and DALL-E 2, today launched a new program to provide early-stage AI startups with capital and access to OpenAI tech and resources. Called Converge, the cohort will be financed by the… (Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch)

The 'Viral' Secure Programming Language That's Taking Over Tech. Whether you run IT for a massive organization or simply own a smartphone, you're intimately familiar with the unending stream of software updates that constantly need to be installed because of bugs and security vulnerabilities. People make… (Lily Hay Newman / WIRED)

Jony Ive on Life After Apple. I can always write an awful lot that I can't draw,” Jony Ive, the mastermind behind Apple's most revolutionary products, says as he holds up a Space Age–style coffee cup. “If I draw this, it only captures certain… (Elisa Lipsky-Karasz / Wall Street Journal)

TikTok tells European users its staff in China get access to their data. TikTok is telling its European users of the platform that their data can be accessed by employees outside the continent, including in China, amid political and regulatory concerns about Chinese access to user information on the site. The… (Dan Milmo / The Guardian)

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— Jose Montes de Oca



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