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Billionaire Ken Griffin is one of the biggest donors to the Republican Party.
  • Last week, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani named billionaire Ken Griffin as someone who should pay more taxes.
  • Mamdani has proposed a pied-à-terre tax on non-primary homes worth over $5 million.
  • Griffin's deputy defended his boss's record in NY and hinted at a possible pullback from the Big

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Mark Zuckerberg presenting at Meta Connect on September 17th, 2025. | Bloomberg via Getty Images

Meta is planning to layoff around 10 percent of employees in May, according to a memo from the company's chief people officer, Janelle Gale, published by Bloomberg. That means approximately 8,000 people will see their jobs cut. Meta will also be closing around 6,000 open roles, according to


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Recruits graduate from Air Force basic training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, January 8, 2026.
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  • Services hit recruiting goals early, and now there is a push to expand force size.
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Meta is making another steep cut to its staff, this time to the tune of a 10 percent reduction in its workforce. About 8,000 people will be laid off and about 6,000 open jobs will also be eliminated, according to Bloomberg.

In an internal memo from Janelle Gale, Meta's head of human resources, the latest cuts are "part of our continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to



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Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson in "Michael."
  • Lionsgate film head Adam Fogelson said it's important to tell Michael Jackson's story authentically.
  • He said he would support a "Michael" sequel that examines Jackson's child sexual-abuse allegations.
  • "Michael" originally dramatized allegations from 13-year-old Jordan Chandler, but the storyline was cut.

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Microsoft's new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has laid out a new strategy for what she describes as a "return of Xbox." In a joint memo with Xbox Chief Content Officer Matt Booty, Sharma and Booty lay out their vision for the future of Xbox that will be judged on daily active players and the priorities of hardware, content, experience, and services.

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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma held an all-hands meeting this morning and laid out her strategy for a "return of Xbox" with employees. While rebranding Microsoft Gaming back to Xbox was part of the agenda, Sharma also revealed that Xbox is looking into "reevaluating" Xbox exclusive games and windowed releases of titles.

It's a hot topic for Xbox fans, who were shocked when Microsoft decided to star



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I would love to tell you everything about my favorite game of the year so far. But that would be doing a great disservice to Titanium Court. I'm not even sure I could explain it all, anyway.

Titanium Court is a run-based game with elements of permanent progression, so it's technically a roguelite. However, you cannot really break Titanium Court like you can with Balatro. There are multiple ways to


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Ben Horwitz, creator of Sinceerly, an AI tool that adds mistakes into your emails.
  • "Sinceerly" is a Chrome plugin that rewrites your perfectly worded emails to add typos.
  • You can select "Subtle," "Human," or "CEO" modes for maximum brevity and typos.
  • In a time when AI writing is common, typos are a status symbol showing you hand-wrote an email (or not).

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