Some personal news: I’ve joined the @Messenger team at Meta as a Director of Product.

Messaging has transformed how we connect with friends, family, creators, businesses, and now even AI.

Thrilled to work with an incredible team focused on 0-1 initiatives within the app!

Many of us would like rates to come down. But many of us would also like inflation to come down, further, while wages go up. We’d also like to see economic growth.

When you put it that way..?

Tesla is now up more than 16%, on track for its biggest jump since May 2021 $TSLA

Talking to/about Campus.EDU today: online alternative to community college. Founders Fund just led a $23 million extension round. Partner on that Trae Stephens joins too Bloomberg Technology

Interesting story here about the jobs market for talented professors.…

$SOFI CEO Anthony Noto on the show today! Bloomberg Technology

Reminder: this is supposed to happen today! Musk deposition by lawyers representing fmr Twitter staff who were fired after he bought the company.

Apple; what are folks expectations/thoughts for earnings? $AAPL

Tesla’s pre market gain has extended beyond 12% $TSLA

Completed the main storyline of #GhostofTsushima over the weekend. Was brilliant. The richness of side quests and the expansion is wild too. It’s just a huge game

Apple's iPad has been added to a list of Big Tech products and services hit by strict new European Union rules aimed at stopping potential competition abuses before they take hold. The move means Apple has six months to make sure its tablet ecosystem complies with a raft of…

Top story this Monday:

Elon Musk’s quick visit to China paid immediate dividends, with Tesla receiving in-principle approval from government officials to deploy its driver-assistance system in the world’s biggest auto market.

Elon Musk $TSLA

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FSD Supervised: Full commute (~25 miles), 3 disengagements but 90% of the drive was under FSD and all smooth.

FSD/MY made it all the way to GG Bridge on the SF side with no issues at all, but disengaged in picking a lane for the toll booth. Initially, it picked a course and…

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Hang Seng heading for a bull market. What does that tell you?

FSD Supervised from Novato > Napa (~ 30 miles). Handled 37 > 121 well! Only disengagement was a protected/lighted left hand turn where it was fine but we hit a pothole and that appeared to cause disengagement. My wife did make a good observation that amid steady traffic (50mph)…

Wishing all, around the world of Bloomberg Technology, restful/happy weekend. I'm gunna play some video games, build garden furniture (low-tech) and torture myself watching beloved Chelsea FC in the late kick off vs Villa.

Ed out.

(ps. Trae Stephens is on the show Monday. Tune in).

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger joins us on Bloomberg Technology at 8amPT, 11amET.

What questions do you have for Pat?

$INTC

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Do we need MORE electric scooters and e-Bikes in cities? Lime is planning to add 30,000 net-new bikes across North America, Europe and Australia. CEO Wayne Ting is on Bloomberg Technology today.

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Ed Ludlow Bloomberg Technology Anything that can reduce congestion and the need for cars in major metros is a blessing. Especially in the US where public transportation is broken in many major cities.

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