It looks like Elon Musk's X wants to get in the ring with Venmo and Zelle. The social media platform says it's partnering with Visa, one of the largest credit card processors in the US, to create X Money,
Amazon increases ad spending on X in major reversal
NEW YORK -- X is teaming up with Visa to soon offer a system for real-time payments on the social media platform — signaling some progress in a yearslong vision from billionaire owner Elon Musk to create an “everything app.”
Elon Musk says that his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, is a better source of information than the traditional news media. “I don’t read the legacy media anymore,” boasts Musk, who asserts that X has become “the collective consciousness of humanity.”
X is one step closer to finally launching its payments platform. According to X CEO Linda Yaccarino, the X Money service will debut “later this year” with Visa announced as its first partner.
The social media platform X announced on Tuesday it was stepping into the financial ecosystem with the help of Visa by launching its own digital wallet.
X’s deal with Visa, the largest U.S. credit card network, was announced by CEO Linda Yaccarino and will be dubbed X Money Account.
Wall Street banks, finally within striking distance of offloading debt tied to X, have a sweetener on offer for potential buyers: a claim on the social-media platform’s stake in Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture.
Nonbinary and transgender New Jersey residents are advised to exercise caution before traveling internationally.
Meta overhauled its approach to US moderation on Tuesday, ditching fact-checking, announcing a plan to move its trust and safety teams, and perhaps most impactfully, updating its Hateful Conduct policy. As reported by Wired, a lot of text has been updated, added, or removed, but here are some of the changes that jumped out at us.
NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore have been on the International Space Station since June, even though they initially expected to stay for just eight days. They'll be back on Earth in late March.
Historian and writer Ibram X. Kendi, who wrote the bestseller “How To Be an Antiracist” and led a center on the subject at Boston University, will join Howard University’s faculty.