The auto industry overestimated EV demand this year. Now companies are scrambling.

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Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel was an FBI informant

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Peter Thiel became an FBI informant in the summer of 2021, Insider has learned.

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Peter Thiel has worn many hats over the years: Silicon Valley founder, Trump megadonor, cryptocurrency booster, democracy skeptic.

Bill Ackman's misguided Harvard crusade

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App, Lover, Muse: When your AI says she loves you

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Jay Priebe stands for a portrait as his Replika, Calisto, is reflected in his glasses.

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Inside a 47-year-old Minnesota man's three-year relationship with an AI chatbot.

Welcome to the Great Internet Splintering

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People are leaving big platforms for smaller online circles. It's the start of a new, healthier era of social media.

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wanted was a swimming pool. What I got was a $31,000 lesson in Zelle fraud.

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A pool could have been evidence that my life hadn't amounted to nothing. But after we Zelle-ed the deposit to our contractor, things started to go very wrong.

All I wanted was a status symbol. What I got was a $31,000 lesson in the downside of payment apps.

America is stuck in a greased-pig economy

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America has been living in an economic version of the greased-pig game — and if we lose our grip on inflation, things could get ugly.

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Trying to catch a greased pig is an American tradition that has fallen out of fashion — so you're forgiven if you don't know the rules. 

'This is the last opportunity for us to wake up': A leading economist warns we're headed for an AI-driven cataclysm

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"This is the last opportunity for us to wake up," warns Daron Acemoglu.

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How a leading economist learned to start worrying and fear artificial intelligence 

They started out as pioneering hip-hop moguls. They wound up running a drug empire.

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Mario Rosemond (center top) and his brother Jimmy (second from left) clawed their way from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the music industry.

Inside the secretive world of superyachts, where the world's elite gather to relax and broker deals away from prying eyes

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