TNB Tech Minute: X Restructures Ahead of SpaceX IPO

0:00OutSystems is an outstanding way to quickly deploy apps and AI agents in the River Results, a top USV, deployed apps for customers to open new accounts, while a global brewer developed an app to automate tasks worldwide. OutSystems build your agentic future. Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Thursday, March 26. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. We exclusively report that Elon Musk's social media company X has let go of its chief marketing officer and laid off some non-technical staff over the last several weeks. People familiar with the matters say the company is looking to write size as its parent company SpaceX seeks a potential IPO valued at at least $1 trillion. The moves at X echo what's happening elsewhere inside the company since the XAI and SpaceX merger X merged with XAI last year and XAI and SpaceX combined an early February several co-founders at XAI have since announced they were leaving the company

1:00and several teams were restructured. The mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae will soon accept so-called crypto backed mortgages a new mortgage product unveiled today from Better Home and Finance and crypto exchange Coinbase Global allows home buyers to pledge their crypto holdings when getting a Fannie backed mortgage instead of selling the crypto to make a cash down payment. This isn't the first crypto mortgage offering, but Fannie's involvement could make these products more mainstream, according to Gallup about 14 percent of American adults owned cryptocurrencies last year. And the Federal Communications Commission advanced a plan to bring outsourced call center jobs back to the US. The new rules would require phone, internet and cable companies to disclose a customer service agent's location, cap the share of calls handled by overseas agents, hold agents to English language proficiency requirements, and give consumers the option to be served by a US-based agent. Industry analysts warn the rules may motivate companies to lean more

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