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Cory Michael Smith as Venis, Steve Carell as Randall, Ramy Youssef as Jeff, and Jason Schwartzman as Hugo in Mountainhead.

Succession creator skewers Silicon Valley with dark tech satire

Succession creator Jesse Armstrong doesn’t have a crystal ball but in Mountainhead, the future looks painfully close.

  • Michael Idato

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What to stream this week: (from top left) Sarah Silverman; The Fountain of Youth; Shifting Gears; Quilters; Mountainhead and This City is Ours.

What to stream this week: Steve Carell’s tech bro satire and five more to add to your list

When four tech titans, led by Steve Carell’s Randall, go on a boys’ weekend it’s all fun and games until the world starts falling to bits.

  • Craig Mathieson

Mark Zuckerberg has a creepy new way to invade your privacy

The new Meta app promises to be a more “personalised” form of AI. It is really a more disturbing version of ChatGPT.

  • Geoffrey A. Fowler
Many are describing Musk’s assault on the federal bureaucracy as a coup, which isn’t quite right. Trump was, alas, elected, and delegated outsize power to Musk voluntarily.

Donald Trump is proving disastrous for big tech

Three months in and the bosses of America’s most valuable firms have little to show for all their toadying.

  • The Economist
Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg.

Billionaires cash out shares early before Trump’s tariff plunge

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle’s Safra Catz and banker Jamie Dimon cashed out billions of dollars before Trump’s tariff announcements roiled markets.

  • Biz Carson
Mark Zuckerberg described the creation of the Facebook news feed in 2006 to facilitate “real connections to actual friends.”

‘Killer acquisitions’: Zuckerberg first witness in landmark US antitrust case

The billionaire owner of Meta said in federal court that his company’s social networks weren’t just about friends.

  • Josh Sisco and Kurt Wagner
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Donald Trump’s radical plan got a reality check from bond markets.

Trump’s sharemarket bonanza and the billionaire bros club

There were many winners in the market frenzy that followed Donald Trump’s about-face, including the US president himself, but his capitulation revealed who is really in charge.

  • Colin Kruger
Billionaire hit: Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.

Billionaires poised to lose nearly a trillion dollars in two days

The world’s 500 richest people suffered the biggest two-day loss ever in the fallout from US President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements.

  • Dylan Sloan
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and  Careless People author Sarah Wynn-Williams.

How Meta tried to silence a tell-all book and failed

The social media giant has been growing increasingly intolerant of employee critics and leakers. But its attempts to stop the latest whistleblower are not working.

  • Naomi Nix
Elon Musk and Donald Trump in a Tesla at the White House.

Musk and big tech urge Trump to punish Australia

The companies have blamed Australia for “coercing” them into sacrificing their revenue to schemes such as the News Media Bargaining Incentive.

  • David Crowe and Paul Sakkal

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