<p>On this day in 1927, the president of the AT&T called the secretary of the General Post Office of Great Britain to test the first commercial telephone line across the Atlantic Ocean.</p><p>"Today is the result of many years of research and experimentation. [...] No one can foresee the ultimate significance of this latest achievement of science and organization."</p><p><a href="https://www.history.com/speeches/first-transatlantic-telephone-call" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.history.com/speeches/first-transatlantic-telephone-call"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.history.com/speeches/first</span><span class="invisible">-transatlantic-telephone-call</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telephone" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telephone"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_</span><span class="invisible">of_the_telephone</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/phone/" rel="tag">#phone</a></p>
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<p>"Chief information and technology officers surveyed for BI indicated that on average they expect a net 3% of their workforce to be cut, according to a report published Thursday.</p><p>[...]</p><p>Nearly a quarter of the 93 respondents predict a steeper decline of between 5% and 10% of total headcount."</p><p><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-job-losses-may-071500049.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-job-losses-may-071500049.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-st</span><span class="invisible">reet-job-losses-may-071500049.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
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<p>"Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light to the team behind the company’s Llama AI models to use a data set of pirated ebooks and articles for training."</p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/mark-zuckerberg-gave-metas-llama-team-the-ok-to-train-on-copyrighted-works-filing-claims/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/mark-zuckerberg-gave-metas-llama-team-the-ok-to-train-on-copyrighted-works-filing-claims/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/mark</span><span class="invisible">-zuckerberg-gave-metas-llama-team-the-ok-to-train-on-copyrighted-works-filing-claims/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#meta</a> <a href="/tags/zuckerberg/" rel="tag">#zuckerberg</a></p>
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<p>Apple is temporarily disabling its AI-generated news notifications, which were frequently error-filled, misleading or totally false <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@CNN" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CNN</span></a></span> reports. Alerts included fake stories that Luigi Mangione, who is charged with murdering the UnitedHealthcare CEO, had shot himself, and that Benjamin Netanyahu had been arrested.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/vd7-AI" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/vd7-AI</a></p><p><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/apple/" rel="tag">#Apple</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a></p>
<p>"I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student. That sure feels like bullshit."</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.404media.co/teachers-are-n</span><span class="invisible">ot-ok-ai-chatgpt/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/teachers/" rel="tag">#teachers</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
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<p>Enough with the sexy Asian lady robots! In my latest column for New Scientist, I talk about techno-Orientalism, and why it has inspired so much bad thinking about the future -- in fiction and public policy. <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/futurism/" rel="tag">#futurism</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a><br><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435110-100-why-we-need-to-fight-back-against-sexy-asian-lady-robots/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435110-100-why-we-need-to-fight-back-against-sexy-asian-lady-robots/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.newscientist.com/article/m</span><span class="invisible">g26435110-100-why-we-need-to-fight-back-against-sexy-asian-lady-robots/</span></a></p>
<p>The Soundtrack of Online Piracy by Patch<a href="/tags/piracy/" rel="tag">#piracy</a> <a href="/tags/music/" rel="tag">#music</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/chiptune/" rel="tag">#chiptune</a> <a href="/tags/keygen/" rel="tag">#keygen</a> <a href="/tags/edm/" rel="tag">#edm</a> <a href="/tags/electronic/" rel="tag">#electronic</a> <a href="/tags/loops/" rel="tag">#loops</a> <a href="/tags/invisiblehand/" rel="tag">#invisiblehand</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#economics</a> <a href="/tags/software/" rel="tag">#software</a> <a href="/tags/gaming/" rel="tag">#gaming</a> <a href="/tags/eattherich/" rel="tag">#eattherich</a> <a href="/tags/fyp/" rel="tag">#fyp</a> <a href="/tags/documentary/" rel="tag">#documentary</a></p>
<p>What Happened to the Android Applications of Simple Mobile Tools?</p><p>Uncover the truth behind the sale of Simple Mobile Tools’ Android Applications to ZipoApps and learn about what alternatives are available.</p><p><a href="https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/simple-mobile-tools-android-applications/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.adamsdesk.com/posts/simple-mobile-tools-android-applications/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.adamsdesk.com/posts/simple</span><span class="invisible">-mobile-tools-android-applications/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#android</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>
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<p>"What's worse, as Berlin historian Henrik Schönemann discovered while experimenting with the bot, is that it seems trained to avoid pinning blame for Frank's death on the actual Nazis responsible for her death, instead redirecting the conversation in a positive light."</p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-anne-frank-blame-holocaust" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="futurism.com/the-byte/ai-anne-frank-blame-holocaust"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/the-byte/ai-anne-</span><span class="invisible">frank-blame-holocaust</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
<p>Following a Series of Government Hacks, Biden Closes Out His Administration With New Cybersecurity Order<br>—</p><p>The executive order follows a ProPublica investigation that found Microsoft prioritized profit over security, leaving the federal government vulnerable to the largest hack in U.S. history. Vendors must now demonstrate that their products are secure.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-executive-order-cybersecurity-microsoft-solarwinds-hack?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/biden-executive-order-cybersecurity-microsoft-solarwinds-hack?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/bid</span><span class="invisible">en-executive-order-cybersecurity-microsoft-solarwinds-hack?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/biden/" rel="tag">#Biden</a> <a href="/tags/cybersecurity/" rel="tag">#Cybersecurity</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/hacking/" rel="tag">#Hacking</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a></p>
<p>📢 Big News! </p><p>Today, we’re announcing that Flipboard is beginning to federate our publisher partner accounts in Brazil and expanding federation in Canada, Germany and the U.K. </p><p>Now, people in the fediverse can follow 150 newly federated publisher accounts and 2,000 topically curated Magazines about everything from politics and world news to sports and travel. </p><p>Read more in our announcement here: </p><p><a href="https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-expands-federation-in-brazil-canada-germany-and-u-k/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-expands-federation-in-brazil-canada-germany-and-u-k/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">about.flipboard.com/fediverse/</span><span class="invisible">flipboard-expands-federation-in-brazil-canada-germany-and-u-k/</span></a></p><p>For a full list of federated accounts to follow, visit the Flipboard directory: </p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d</span><span class="invisible">/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU</span></a></p><p>Follow our Mastodon accounts in Brazil and Germany to discover Flipboard accounts to follow and keep up with the day's news: </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.social/@FlipboardBR" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>FlipboardBR</span></a></span><br> <br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.social/@FlipboardDE" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>FlipboardDE</span></a></span> </p><p>And as always, tell us in the comments what you think!</p><p><a href="/tags/flipboard/" rel="tag">#Flipboard</a> <a href="/tags/federation/" rel="tag">#Federation</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/germany/" rel="tag">#Germany</a> <a href="/tags/deutschland/" rel="tag">#Deutschland</a> <a href="/tags/brazil/" rel="tag">#Brazil</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#Canada</a> <a href="/tags/brasil/" rel="tag">#Brasil</a> <a href="/tags/unitedkingom/" rel="tag">#UnitedKingom</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/lifestyle/" rel="tag">#Lifestyle</a> <a href="/tags/sports/" rel="tag">#Sports</a></p>
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<p>How Tech Company Recruiters Sidestep Trump’s Immigration Crackdown<br>—</p><p>Every Sunday, newspapers are full of ads for tech jobs that aren't really looking for applicants. They reveal an aspect of U.S. immigration law that hurts both domestic and foreign workers — yet has endured for decades.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-h1b-visas-perm-tech-jobs-recruitment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-h1b-visas-perm-tech-jobs-recruitment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-immigration-h1b-visas-perm-tech-jobs-recruitment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/immigration/" rel="tag">#Immigration</a> <a href="/tags/visa/" rel="tag">#Visa</a></p>
<p>"The level of creativity and versatility on display on your average Geocities site is hard to understate. Most were a cross between amateur experiments and love letters to this or that piece of pop culture. They were plastered with recipes, vacation photos, esoteric images, and tidbits of slash fiction."</p><p><a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/exploring-the-web-in-1995/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="thehistoryoftheweb.com/exploring-the-web-in-1995/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehistoryoftheweb.com/explori</span><span class="invisible">ng-the-web-in-1995/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/geocities/" rel="tag">#geocities</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p>“I have a PhD in AI, worked to develop some of the algorithms used by generative AI,” one developer wrote. “I deeply regret how naively I offered up my contributions.”</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/video-game-industry-artificial-intelligence-developers/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.wired.com/story/video-game-industry-artificial-intelligence-developers/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.wired.com/story/video-game</span><span class="invisible">-industry-artificial-intelligence-developers/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/gamedev/" rel="tag">#gamedev</a> <a href="/tags/videogames/" rel="tag">#videogames</a></p>
<p>"As technologists, we are workers first. We cannot individually stop the machine of capitalism from exploiting our labor, and, while this tide will shift, many of us are too romanced by the technofuturist dream of [Large Language Models] — despite widespread, multidisciplinary criticism of the technology and disastrous consequences in its application so far — to easily reconsider our adoption of it."</p><p><a href="https://henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">henry.codes/writing/economics-</span><span class="invisible">and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/</span></a></p><p>via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://front-end.social/@henry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>henry</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>
<p>Remember those "best experienced with [browser name]" badges?</p><p>"MTV's revamped World Wide Web site for MTV contains a heavy amount of original music content and a unique Web browser design. [...] Some of the site's best content, including a grossly appealing game with Beavis & Butt-head, is designed exclusively for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser."</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/browser-war-1990s/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/browser-war-1990s/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/browser-wa</span><span class="invisible">r-1990s/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/internethistory/" rel="tag">#InternetHistory</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>
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<p>As someone who is totally blind, the Fediverse is the only place where I have ever been able to follow people such as photographers, artists, or even those who post pictures of their cats or the food they ate. The reason is that most of them use alt text. They take the time to describe the images that my screen reader can't recognise. Some write the descriptions themselves, and others use tools such as altbot. Some worry that their descriptions aren't good enough, especially when they are new at this. Let me assure you, not only are they good enough, they are extremely appreciated! If the rest of the world thought as you did, it would be a much better place. Don't hesitate to ask if you're unsure of something, but never think that we don't notice your effort.</p><p><a href="/tags/appreciation/" rel="tag">#appreciation</a> <a href="/tags/accessibility/" rel="tag">#accessibility</a> <a href="/tags/altbot/" rel="tag">#altbot</a> <a href="/tags/alttext/" rel="tag">#alttext</a> <a href="/tags/blind/" rel="tag">#blind</a> <a href="/tags/blindness/" rel="tag">#blindness</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/gratitude/" rel="tag">#gratitude</a> <a href="/tags/images/" rel="tag">#images</a> <a href="/tags/inclusivity/" rel="tag">#inclusivity</a> <a href="/tags/peoplewhocare/" rel="tag">#peoplewhocare</a> <a href="/tags/pictures/" rel="tag">#pictures</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>
<p>Virgin Money's AI-powered chatbot will scold you if you use the word "virgin".</p><p><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/670f5896-1fe5-4a31-b41f-ad4f5b91202f" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.ft.com/content/670f5896-1fe5-4a31-b41f-ad4f5b91202f"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.ft.com/content/670f5896-1f</span><span class="invisible">e5-4a31-b41f-ad4f5b91202f</span></a></p><p>Archived link: <a href="https://archive.is/gGVgt" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>archive.is/gGVgt</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/chatbots/" rel="tag">#ChatBots</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/virginmoney/" rel="tag">#VirginMoney</a></p>
<p>"But to [Aaron, the creator of the anti-AI software Nepenthes], the fight is not about winning. Instead, it's about resisting the AI industry further decaying the Internet [...]."</p><p>Or to paraphrase Jean-Paul Sartre:</p><p>"You don’t fight enshittification because you are going to win, you fight enshittification because it is enshittification."</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20</span><span class="invisible">25/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/nepenthes/" rel="tag">#nepenthes</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a></p>
<p>"I'm in the process of setting up a WWW server that will blow the socks off your Mosaic viewer!"</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-internet/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-internet/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-i</span><span class="invisible">nternet/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#ElonMusk</a>’s business <a href="/tags/conflicts/" rel="tag">#conflicts</a> draw scrutiny amid WH role [apparently no one noticed till now 🙄]</p><p>Musk had sharp words for a the $500B partnership touted by the <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> admin to hasten development of <a href="/tags/artificialintelligence/" rel="tag">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="/tags/infrastructure/" rel="tag">#infrastructure</a>. “They don’t actually have the money,” he said of <a href="/tags/openai/" rel="tag">#OpenAI</a> & <a href="/tags/softbank/" rel="tag">#SoftBank</a>….<br>
Left unsaid by the <a href="/tags/technocrat/" rel="tag">#technocrat</a>, he has skin in the game: <a href="/tags/xai/" rel="tag">#xAI</a>, is directly challenging OpenAI for the lead in the race to transform society w/the <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a>.</p><p>🧵<br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/24/elon-musk-conflicts-doge-trump-openai/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/24/elon-musk-conflicts-doge-trump-openai/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.washingtonpost.com/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/2025/01/24/elon-musk-conflicts-doge-trump-openai/</span></a></p>
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