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Meet the pro-Trump billionaire buying up a Pennsylvania town
Jeff Yass, a right-wing megadonor and the 28th richest person in the world, is buying up large swaths of the town of Gladwyne, Pennsylvania.
 • Caleb Ecarma
Musk draws international backlash after Grok generates nude deepfakes of children
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, has drawn backlash and calls for investigations from governments around the world after it produced non-consensual…
 • Caleb Ecarma
Imported talent, local pollution: The grim reality of xAI's impact on Memphis
To power its sprawling Colossus supercomputer facility in Memphis, Tennessee, xAI, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, has polluted the air of…
 • Caleb Ecarma
A year of Oligarch Watching
How Musk associates gained access to federal employees’ private data. In February, Oligarch Watch was the first to reveal how a number of Elon Musk’s…
 • Caleb Ecarma and Judd Legum
TikTok’s new boss
TikTok has reached an agreement to spin off its US operations into a new company controlled mainly by American investors in accordance with a law passed…
 • Caleb Ecarma
Why Sam Altman is getting into the pornography business
Over the past year and a half, OpenAI has steadily gained legitimacy among legacy media companies, signing content deals with publishers to feed…
 • Caleb Ecarma
Ellisons woo Trump with promise of "sweeping changes" at CNN
Led by David Ellison and backed by his centibillionaire father, Larry Ellison, Paramount Skydance submitted a $77.9 billion hostile takeover bid for…
 • Caleb Ecarma
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