The long, brutal reign of Wall Street's private-equity kings is over

Tech Insider : Economy
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Private equity saw a decade-long boom, but in recent years both the market and American society have turned on Wall Street's buyout kings.

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Exclusive: Hunter Biden's tax returns

Tech Insider : Politics
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Hunter Biden's tax returns reveal the details of his effort to settle up with the IRS, using millions of dollars borrowed from a friend.

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Check out the NDA Jeff Bezos' housekeeper was forced to sign before she could clean his toilets

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Jeff Bezos

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Women were promised thousands of dollars to cancel their abortions. The group they trusted didn't always pay up.

Tech Insider : Politics
An illustration of a clock, pregnant women, hands, money, and ultrasounds

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Tara couldn't afford to keep the baby.

It was fall 2021, and she and her husband were "totally broke and really struggling," she said.

Elon Musk's biggest fans on X love Community Notes — until it comes for them

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Forget Sam Altman. America's greatest AI visionary is... an English professor in Illinois

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Ted Underwood
Our greatest AI visionary isn't Sam Altman or Bill Gates. It's Ted Underwood, an English professor at the University of Illinois.

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With Jeff Bezos' move to Miami, he leaves a $190M Seattle real estate empire behind — including 5 previously unreported properties

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Jeff Bezos

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Staff at Pure Barre and other boutique gyms say a major franchisee stiffed them on pay, sent bizarre emails, and talked about drinking his own urine

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The creepy AI-driven surveillance that may be infiltrating your workplace

Tech Insider : Economy
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Can a machine tell that you're mad just by looking at your face? Do your emails give away how stressed you are? Could a computer understand your emotions better than you?

Billionaire FBI informant Peter Thiel dished about two Kremlin invites to private Putin meetings

Tech Insider : Politics
Vladamir Putin and Peter Theil
According to Peter Thiel, the Kremlin reached out to him through Daniil Bisslinger, a Russian diplomat. The German investor Christian Angermayer is the one who introduced them, Thiel said.

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