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Elon Almost Did a Good Thing
Last week, it almost seemed like Elon Musk was going to do a good thing. The eccentric, loud-mouthed billionaire announced he would be suing OpenAI, the influential tech company he co-founded back in 2015. The reason? Musk said that OpenAI had betrayed its original mandate of “helping humanity.” The company, which notably began as an…
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40 Most Memorable Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Movie Moments of 2023
A moment can make a movie. You’re sitting there, you’re watching something, it’s fine, and then boom: a scene or shot happens, and instantly something you thought was just okay becomes amazing. That’s the level we were aiming for in the annual rundown of our favorite moments from sci-fi, fantasy, and horror films this year.…
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Elon Musk, King of Censorship: 10 Times the ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Silenced Twitter Users
Elon Musk talks a big game about freedom of expression. The billionaire refers to himself as a “free speech absolutist,” and spent the last year making bold promises about undoing Twitter’s perceived history of suppressing distasteful ideas. But the old saying goes, you should judge a man by his actions, not his words. By that…
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Lawmakers in the U.S. Prep for Battle With Amazon. It’s the Big One.
The Federal Trade Commission is set to launch an antitrust case against Amazon, the fourth against the retail king this year and the biggest one yet, according to a report in Bloomberg.