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Today marks the first of many upcoming moments of silence in Google’s years-long plan to kill cookies. As of this morning, the Chrome web browser disabled cookies for 1% of its users, about 30 million people.

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Elon Musk at the NYT's Dealbook summit.
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The new offering is a steep price cut from X's initial announcement last year that verification for businesses would cost $1,000 per month.
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A mutual fund that helped Elon Musk buy X now says the platform is worth 71.5% less than the $44 billion it was purchased for in 2022, according to

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Elon Musk (left) and X app (right).
Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October 2022. Musk later renamed the company to X in July 2023.
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Whatever else you can say about X, previously known as Twitter, it’s never really boring.

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Since Musk's $44 billion takeover of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, he declared himself a "free speech absolutist."
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A Falcon 9 first-stage booster broke apart after completing its 19th mission, tipping over on the floating droneship in the Atlantic Ocean due to high winds.

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Elon Musk speaking at a political convention organized by Italy's right-wing governing party on December 15, 2023.