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In Silicon Valley, AI is fueling the rise of the star individual contributor.

Just take a look at what happened after The Browser Company was acquired by Anthropic. Josh Miller, CEO of this browser startup, recently described how

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Meta’s Threads is pulling further ahead of Elon Musk’s X on mobile, based on recent estimates from analytics firm Similarweb, Forbes reports. In the first stretch of January, Threads averaged roughly 143 million daily active users worldwide on mobile devices, compared with about 126 million for X.

Similarweb’s year-over-year snapshot shows Threads growing sharply, up 37.8 percent year-over-year

• Michael Burry has found a fellow skeptic of the AI boom: Ben Affleck.
• Burry called Affleck a "smart guy" after he jabbed at AI chatbots and Big Tech's capital spending.
• Affleck said a lot of grand claims about AI stem from companies trying to justify their investments.

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• Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil-rights activist who helped end segregation in the US.
• Martin wasn't his given name: He was born Michael King Jr., after his father.
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