Tim Cook, Steve Ballmer and Jamie Dimon are among the few US billionaires who didn't found a company or inherit a fortune

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Tim Cook, Steve Ballmer and Jamie Dimon
Tim Cook, Steve Ballmer and Jamie Dimon all became rich by climbing the corporate ladder.

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Stocks will drop, soaring US debt is worrying — and Elon Musk is overpaid, says elite investor Leon Cooperman

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Leon Cooperman.

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Joy Buolamwini's 'Unmasking AI' unearths the bias in AI technologies and aims to hold Big Tech to account

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"Unmasking AI" by Joy Buolamwini.

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Nvidia's value surges about $500 billion in 6 weeks — that's almost as much as Tesla is worth

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Nvidia cofounder and CEO Jensen Huang.

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Jeff Bezos is just $5 billion away from overtaking Elon Musk to become the world's wealthiest person once more

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Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

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Meta and Amazon add $270 billion in market cap — more than Netflix is worth

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Mark Zuckerberg presents at the Meta Connect event in September 2023.
Mark Zuckerberg presents at the Meta Connect event in September.

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Meta spent billions to close offices and lay people off. Now we know why.

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Mark Zuckerberg is smiling: Meta's profit margins are much improved — and that's partly because of a shrinking head count.

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Why dragging tech CEOs in front of Congress might mean something this time

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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, speaks directly to victims and their family members during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. This time, the hearing of tech execs might actually bring some change.

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Meta used copyright to protect its AI model, but argues against the law for everyone else

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A group of Llamas, after which Meta's AI model is named.

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Apple, Zuck, Elon, and the lesson of Microsoft Windows

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates poses in front of Microsoft products on the company's campus in Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates poses in front of Microsoft products on the company's campus in Redmond, Washington.

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