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Sam Altman, OpenAI’s boss, has already warned investors to expect years of heavy losses.

A smackdown for the ages at the Oscars after-party, and AI was the spark

A successful playwright chose the Vanity Fair Oscars after-party to accuse OpenAI chief Sam Altman of wilfully allowing his technology to be an agent in global violences.

  • Maureen Dowd

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Stack of books at the library.

The million-plus students cut off from computers in this age of billionaire excess

Once, mothers’ clubs quietly helped students do their homework. Today, companies are being asked to donate disused computers for the same purpose.

  • Tony Wright
Mark Zuckerberg’s island mansion.

‘Billionaire bunker’ blooms as Zuckerberg moves house

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has joined the exodus of the ultrarich out of California seeking to avoid a new “wealth tax” by moving to a luxury private island.

  • Lily Shanagher
Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon, bought the Washington Post for $US250 million in 2013.

What’s really behind the gutting of the Washington Post?

The “catastrophic” cuts to the newspaper that broke the Watergate scandal come at a time when scrutiny of those in power has never been more important.

  • Michael Koziol
The newspaper is owned by Jeff Bezos.

‘Bloodbath’: Washington Post axes a third of its staff

After a company-wide online meeting, staff members began receiving emails with one of two subject lines.

  • David Bauder

Melania, panned by some film critics, opens with strongest documentary debut in a decade

There was little to compare it to, given that presidential families typically eschew in-office memoir releases to avoid the appearance of capitalising on the White House.

  • Jake Coyle
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive for the premiere of her movie in Washington.

Melania’s $107m infomercial leaves no doubts about the real motivations of the first lady

Many have fantasised that Melania Trump was Rapunzel in the tower, pining to be saved from the ogre. This movie, which earns her at least $US28 million, tells us what we need to know about her.

  • Maureen Dowd
Lauren Sanchez Bezos and Jeff Bezos arrive at the Schiaparelli and Dior haute couture shows during paris Fashion Week.

Goodbye puffer vests: The haute couture glow-up of Jeff Bezos

The Amazon billionaire and his wife Lauren Sanchez Bezos are becoming front-row fixtures at Paris Fashion Week.

  • Damien Woolnough
Lost in a book and timelessly lost.

Do you forget what day it is? Lucky you

The seven-day week is a Roman construct. It has no natural reason for being – especially in the week after Christmas.

  • Malcolm Knox
Residential buildings in Seoul. Some 120,000 cameras were hacked.

Hacking scheme targeted 120,000 home cameras for sexually exploitative footage

South Korean police say four suspects breached internet-connected surveillance cameras and sold sexually explicit material via an overseas-based website.

  • Frances Vinall and Elise Youn