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The Nerd Reich is a term that some people use to describe a cultish group of tech billionaires who basically seek to replace ...

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 ...

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The Dundee-born star, who played fearsome media tycoon bully Logan Roy in TV hit Succession, is returning to Scotland for his ...

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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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