Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk said Twitter is done with layoffs and actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales; Twitter has 2,700+ employees (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Washington Post:
Source: Elon Musk plans to lay off 25% of Twitter’s workforce in the coming days, focusing on sales, product, engineering, legal, and trust and safety  —  The first round of layoffs, led by his lawyer Alex Spiro, will target 25 percent of the workforce  —  SAN FRANCISCO …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple paused hiring last month for many jobs outside of R&D, including some corporate functions and hardware and software engineering roles  —  Apple Inc. has paused hiring for many jobs outside of research and development, an escalation of an existing plan to reduce budgets heading …

Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon pauses hiring for roles in its corporate workforce after announcing last month that it would freeze hiring for corporate roles in its retail business  —  KEY POINTS  — Amazon is pausing hiring for roles in its corporate workforce, the company announced in a memo to staff Thursday.

Bloomberg:
Sources: Elon Musk plans to cut ~3,700 jobs at Twitter, half of the company’s workforce, starting November 4, and reverse its existing work-from-anywhere policy  —  Elon Musk plans to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at Twitter Inc., or half of the social media company’s workforce …

The Verge:
Sources: Twitter teams hit hardest by the layoffs span product trust and safety, policy, and fighting election misinformation ahead of next week’s US midterms  —  About half of Twitter’s 7,500 employees are now gone, with teams focused on trust and safety issues hit the hardest.

Ana Paula Pereira / Cointelegraph:
IMF calls for more crypto regulation in Africa, says 25% of countries in sub-Saharan Africa have regulated crypto and two-thirds have imposed some restrictions  —  FTX’s collapse is one of the reasons why countries in the region should adopt regulation, noted the monetary fund.  —  120 Total views