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Rani Molla

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Senior Tech Correspondent at Sherwood News

Senior tech correspondent at @Sherwood_news. I write stuff and make charts. @voxdotcom @business @WSJ alumna. Signal: ranimolla.01

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  • A third of Tesla’s top executives onstage with Musk two years ago have left

    1 week ago | sherwood.news | Rani Molla

    Two years ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk defended against criticism that he was spending too much time running Twitter by saying Tesla had a world-class team in charge. “We’ve obviously got significant bench strength here,” he said at its 2023 Investor Day, standing onstage with more than a dozen of the company’s top executives, former Jalopnik Editor-in-Chief Patrick George wrote in the Atlantic.

  • Morgan Stanley: Meta’s WhatsApp ads could be worth $3 billion to $5 billion in revenue

    1 week ago | sherwood.news | Rani Molla

    Yesterday Meta announced it would be introducing ads to messaging platform WhatsApp for the first time. Today, Morgan Stanley says that move, which will let companies advertise within the Updates tab, could be worth $3 billion to $5 billion a year in revenue — and $6 billion in a bull case — by 2027. Morgan Stanley is estimating the 1.5 billion daily users of the Updates tab are spending two to four minutes in that part of the app and are mostly outside the US, where monetization rates are lower.

  • Google’s Waymo expands coverage in California to include 250 square miles

    1 week ago | sherwood.news | Rani Molla

    Google’s Waymo has expanded its coverage area by 80 miles in California, for a total of 250 square miles, The Verge reports. Waymo recently surpassed a quarter of a million paid autonomous rides per week across its markets in San Francisco, LA, Austin, and Phoenix. Teslahasn’t yet disclosed how big its geofenced area of operation will be when it serves its first paid robotaxi ride in Austin next week.

  • Tesla will pause production for the second time in two months

    1 week ago | sherwood.news | Rani Molla

    Tesla is telling employees that it’s pausing production at its Texas Gigafactory for the week of July 4, Business Insider reports. The factory is where Tesla produces its best-selling Model Y and its struggling Cybertruck.

  • Meta to join Amazon and TikTok with advertising tools that convert images into video

    1 week ago | sherwood.news | Rani Molla

    Meta announced it’s expanding its AI-powered ad tools to include one that automatically converts images into multi-scene video advertisements with music and text. The feature, which is still being tested, is similar to ones that TikTok and Amazon are already rolling out. Amazon Ads’ Video Generator, for example, already lets US sellers convert an image of their product into a video of that product in use.

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Rani Molla
Rani Molla @ranimolla
30 May 25

At least he’s not in charge of anything important https://t.co/ILjkl33tke

Rani Molla
Rani Molla @ranimolla
29 May 25

Amazing: Musk’s SpaceX town in Texas warns residents they may lose right to ‘continue using’ their property https://t.co/KclP0GznAc

Rani Molla
Rani Molla @ranimolla
29 May 25

RT @WaltHickey: Just because Silicon Valley is pumped to make this this junk, doesn't mean people will buy it https://t.co/2zCGiLlYKs barn…