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OpenAI backer Vinod Khosla on why all the executive departures may be a good thing, taking on Elon Musk, and fixing AI's image problem
Vinod Khosla is concerned there is too much doom and gloom about AI from "Luddites" and says we are…
Ben Bergman
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Mark Cuban says Trump's billionaire backers know they can manipulate him because he's 'so transactional, and so devoid of core values'
Billionaire Mark Cuban accused former President Donald Trump of lacking character, continuing his r…
Erin Snodgrass,Aditi Bharade,…
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Nearly half of RFK Jr. backers mostly just don't like Trump or Biden. The rest are actually into him.
New polling shows that many supporters of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aren't that into him, they just rea…
Bryan Metzger
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Biden's campaign manager told about 40 of his top financial backers that the cash in his war chest would largely go to Kamala Harris if he steps aside: report
Julie Chávez Rodriguez told about 40 of Biden's top backers that the president's war chest would ge…
Cheryl Teh
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A majority of Biden's 2020 backers now believe he's too old to effectively serve as president, poll says
In a Times/Siena survey, 72% of likely voters either strongly agreed or somewhat agreed that Biden …
John L. Dorman
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Elizabeth Warren tried to convince AOC not to endorse Bernie Sanders in 2020 by compiling top Sanders backers' mean tweets: book
Warren had her campaign team compile an extensive list of problematic tweets sent out by top Sander…
Brent D. Griffiths
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Trump's Senate backers are fine with him skipping 2024 primary debates: 'Most of it's for entertainment anyway'
Former President Donald Trump has argued he may skip the primary debates, given his high polling nu…
Bryan Metzger
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A leading backer of Tim Scott's White House campaign says the senator's team 'fundamentally miscalculated what it means to run for president' amid sagging polls and Nikki Haley's gains
Sen. John Cornyn told Politico he was "disappointed" that Scott has so far not broken through with …
John L. Dorman
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Elon Musk told investors he'd probably double or triple their money if they backed his Twitter buyout, report says
Musk also said a return of five to ten times their investment wasn't out of the question if all wen…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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'Everything is fine' at Credit Suisse - it's just a bit of panic, says its biggest backer Saudi National Bank
Everything is fine at Credit Suisse, and the volatility in its stock reflects a bit of market panic…
Zinya Salfiti
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FTX could relaunch - and one of its former VC backers may lead a $250 million funding round to revive the failed exchange, report says
FTX executives are still in the early stages of deciding whether reviving the failed crypto exchang…
George Glover
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ChatGPT rival Bard and looming event from OpenAI backer Microsoft swing Alphabet stock as artificial intelligence race heats up
Minutes after Google announced it is opening "Bard" to early testers, Microsoft teased an event tha…
Brian Evans
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At an election-eve rally for Brian Kemp, backers of the Georgia governor said Donald Trump is their 'top choice' for 2024
Trump has blasted Kemp for not helping him reject Biden's 2020 win in Georgia. Still, many Kemp sup…
John L. Dorman
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Tim Scott's biggest financial backer is Larry Ellison, a tech billionaire who owns the sixth-largest island in Hawaii and has poured $35 million into the senator's super PAC
Opportunity Matters Fund, a super PAC tied to Scott, could soon play a key role in boosting the Sou…
Bryan Metzger
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From Tom Brady to Kevin O'Leary, here are 11 famous backers of FTX set to be wiped out in the exchange's stunning collapse
As the company goes through the bankruptcy process, more details are starting to emerge about who e…
Matthew Fox
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Healthcare corporations Pfizer and UnitedHealthcare are among the biggest financial backers of lawmakers behind state abortion bans
Most healthcare corporations are silent on the issue of abortion, but their political contributions…
Kimberly Leonard,Andrea Miche…
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Healthcare corporations Pfizer and UnitedHealthcare are among the biggest financial backers of lawmakers behind state abortion bans
Most healthcare corporations are silent on the issue of abortion, but their political contributions…
Kimberly Leonard,Andrea Miche…
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Loyal Trump-backer Rep. Billy Long claims that Trump's endorsement of "ERIC" in Missouri's GOP Senate primary is actually for him
Long, an early Trump endorser, added to the odd confusion after Trump offered a vague show of suppo…
Brent D. Griffiths
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Trump backer Peter Thiel reportedly made $1.8 billion cashing out an 8-year bet on crypto – when he was still touting a massive bitcoin price surge
Thiel was predicting a 100-fold price surge for bitcoin around the same time Founders Fund cashed o…
George Glover
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Stablecoin issuer Circle nets $400 million in funding from backers including investment giants Fidelity and BlackRock
Wall Street giants BlackRock and Fidelity are backing Circle, issuer of the USDC stablecoin, in a $…