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The study by Katz and Allcott models the economic effects of separating Facebook and Instagram, finding that such a breakup would mostly shift benefits from users and Meta to advertisers without ...

A prototype of the upcoming Lexus supercar—possibly called LFR—made a camouflaged appearance alongside its GT3 race car twin.

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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok, designed to be ‘unfiltered’, has sparked global backlash over some of its responses.

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