Authors, archivists, historians and bibliophiles have launched an online war against tech giants and artificial intelligence developers after an increasing mountain of evidence shows they’re buying rare and antique books en masse and feeding them to large language models—only to slice off their spines and destroy the original print copies in the process.

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Better Home & Finance on Tuesday sued founder Vishal Garg, accusing him of a “scorched-earth campaign” to regain control of the company in a lawsuit that highlights his controversial tenure as chief executive, during which employees allege Garg called them “monkeys” and “dumb dolphins.”

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Walmart’s stock on Thursday slid after the retailer reported its slowest U.S. sales growth in years, despite beating Wall Street’s earnings expectations, as its pharmacy business took a hit amid federal negotiations that have cut drug prices.

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An advisor who served as a top aide to Dr. Anthony Fauci during the COVID-19 outbreak has pleaded guilty to plotting to conceal federal records related to the pandemic, amid a wave of Republican legislative scrutiny over the federal response to the pandemic.

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Moderna’s stock soared by more than 120% as trading opened Wednesday, more than doubling the biotech giant’s share price after the firm announced positive results from its first-ever late-stage trial of an experimental cancer vaccine.

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Elon Musk’s net worth once again crossed $900 billion on Monday, as shares in his SpaceX extended a weekslong rally after dozens of institutional investments in the rocket maker were revealed.

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A Georgia researcher's public records request has revealed that the police department in the small Chicago suburb of Schaumburg is sharing its automated license plate reader data with more than 400 Illinois law enforcement and government agencies—a finding that comes as public debate over the mass surveillance of Flock and other plate-reader networks intensifies across the country.

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President Donald Trump and Elon Musk speak about once a month after aides and allies worked to mend their feud following a very public falling out last year—but Trump acknowledges privately the relationship will never be the same, according to a new report.

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A recent investment into the media company owned by “Call Her Daddy” podcaster Alex Cooper has valued the company at $500 million as it looks to expand its video and lifestyle businesses.

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Investors in Selena Gomez’s struggling mental health startup, Wondermind, sued Gomez, her mother and the company’s co-founder in federal court Thursday, accusing them of securities fraud for promising initiatives that never materialized without properly communicating with the investors whose money was allegedly “funding the collapse.”

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