Intro

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but Google is abandoning a major project, maybe it’s biggest cancellation ever. More cutbacks at Meta. Though one tech company is gonna test the IPO waters soon. Be a fly on the wall as Elon talks to everyone in Silicon Valley about maybe buying Twitter. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

Links:

• Google is shutting down Stadia (The Verge)
• Meta to Cut Headcount for First Time, Slash Budgets Across Teams (Bloomberg)
• TripActions reportedly files to go public at $12 billion valuation (TechCrunch)
• Jack Dorsey tried to get Elon Musk on Twitter’s board but directors were too ‘risk averse,’ texts reveal (CNBC)
• Elon Musk’s Text Exchanges Show Twitter Deal Going Off The Rails (Big Technology)
• How Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey, and Parag Agrawal cratered the Twitter deal, in texts (The Verge)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Google is trying to reinvent search — by being more than a search engine (The Verge)
• Twitter Is in This Mess Because Jack Dorsey Was Too Busy Being a Bitcoin Influencer (Bloomberg)
• Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It) (SlashFilm)
• Someone is pretending to be me. (Connor Tumbleson)

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