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A24 rose from “small budget indie movie studio” to “one of the most respected brands in ci... more

The playlists of dozens of high-level government officials and tech executives were sudden... more

President Trump has proposed cutting $2.5 billion from the National Cancer Institute, whic... more

Two weeks ago, a gunman fired over 500 bullets at the Centers for Disease Control and Prev... more

The scam du jour arrives via a text message, offering you a job. What happens when you acc... more

Jensen Huang, cofounder of NVIDIA, finds himself president of a $4 trillion company, at th... more

It’s hard to make money in the music industry. But if you could flood every streamer with ... more

In January, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta was moving from employing professional fac... more

OpenAI’s Sam Altman, flanked by President Trump and Softbank’s Masayoshi Son, announced a ... more

A shadow app for the dating world had its data hacked and exposed, and it laid bare the pe... more

There’s an entire economy devoted to seeing what products are trending—clothing, skin care... more

Was the Late Show too unprofitable, or too political? Guest: [Eric Deggans] (https://www.n... more

It’s kind of strange that Grok, Elon Musk’s chatbot, went full Nazi a few weeks ago, and i... more

The MAGA world has been waiting for Jeffrey Epstein’s client list to be released since the... more

He started using ChatGPT to help with spreadsheets. But their relationship took a turn, an... more

It’s a record-breaking year for America: we’ve now had the most reported cases of measles ... more

As the One Big Beautiful Bill bounced around Congress, one provision—the 10-year moratoriu... more

This episode was originally published on April 27, 2025.  The Trump administration has alr... more

Under a normal administration, a merger between two large advertising firms might attract ... more