If Trump’s ‘big beautiful ballroom’ goes to plan it will be capable of staging an Irish wedding
Welcome to the new White House events venue, where dignity is inversely proportional to the quantity of gold
Jeff Bezos
Amazon job cull shows the darker side of artificial intelligence
Having invested hugely in AI, companies are now looking for a dividend in terms of lower costs to keep shareholders happy
Ego or strategy? The motives behind Elon Musk’s $1bn Tesla buy
Sceptics note Tesla boss bought company shares after he had been briefly supplanted by Oracle’s Larry Ellison as world’s richest man
American media in all its forms is shifting perceptibly rightward
Charlie Kirk’s death sparked heated accusations and arguments across ideological divide
Trump administration doubles down on Big Tech antitrust cases despite Google setback
Tough enforcement continues even as tech bosses court the president
For years this neighbourhood was the dream. Then Mark Zuckerberg moved next door
‘Billionaires everywhere are used to just making their own rules – Zuckerberg and Chan are not unique, except that they’re our neighbours’
The Haves and Have-Yachts. Dispatches on the Ultrarich: How Trump exploited mass-manipulation to stoke culture wars
Evan Osnos shows how social media is at the core of Republicans’ drive to destroy human empathy with maximum misinformation and minimum civil discourse
Materialists director Celine Song: ‘How are we supposed to find love when dating is reduced to a numbers game?’
Materialists, Celine Song’s new romcom, is inspired by the film-maker’s time working for an elite New York matchmaking agency
Give me Helen Mirren’s refusal to ‘age gracefully’ over the tech bros who refuse to age at all
Whether it’s ‘age gracefully’ or ‘don’t die’, both frame time as a threat to be managed through purchasing power
It’s hard to resist the sense that, deep down, I’m a loser
Unthinkable: Toxic positivity may be exacerbating a sense that we’re losing in life
How Silicon Valley became the new Tír na nÓg
Venmo founder Bryan Johnson and other tech billionaires have set their sights on immortality. Is this as risible as it seems?
Forget quiet luxury. The wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez screamed ‘money’
We’re no longer shocked by wealth itself – only by the spectacle of loud luxury
The good bits of the brave new world promised by the digital revolution never happened in journalism
There was a time when we seemed to be on the cusp of something remarkable, but it never happened
‘Crocodile’ fears see Jeff Bezos alter his Venice wedding plans
Reception venue is moved after activists threatened to fill canals with inflatable crocodiles to prevent guests entering city centre building
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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