Blue Owl shopped debt for a CoreWeave data center. Lenders weren't sold.

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Blue Owl Data Center

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Is taste a 'new core skill'? Techies debate — and quickly get memed

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Discourse about "taste" is growing among techies on X.

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The robotaxi industry's New York dreams just got pushed further away

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A Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar electric vehicle wrapped with a football graphic is seen navigating a roadblock during NFL Super Bowl weekend in San Francisco, California on February 7, 2026. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)
Waymo's NY robotaxi plan falls through after Gov. Hochul drops proposal to legalize unsupervised robotaxis.

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Josh Kushner uses 'Lord of the Rings' to explain what being close to OpenAI taught him about perceived power

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Josh Kusner, a venture capitalist and founder of the $50 billion Thrive Capital, compared AI giants to Lord of the Rings characters.

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I quit my $192K Microsoft job and moved to Canada — then almost everything I owned was stolen. I'm learning to rebuild from scratch.

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David Chong

David Chong

Several Meta employees have started calling themselves 'AI builders'

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Zuckerberg's courthouse entourage showed up in Meta Ray-Bans

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Mark Zuckerberg and his entourage arrive Los Angeles Superior Court.

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Jake Paul says Sam Altman taught him the value of a 15-minute meeting

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Jake Paul said he bonded with Sam Altman over a love of "fast cars."

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Perplexity says it's moving away from ads and betting on subscriptions

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Perplexity CEO and cofounder Aravind Srinivas.

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Andrew Yang says mass white-collar layoffs are closer than people think

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Andrew Yang is the CEO of Noble Mobile and founded the Forward Party.

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