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AI boom adds more than half a trillion dollars to wealth of US tech barons in 2025
AI boom adds more than half a trillion dollars to wealth of US tech barons in 2025
Elon Musk’s net worth increased by nearly 50% to $645bn with founders of Google and Amazon also seeing huge wealth gains
A stock market boom in artificial intelligence companies has added more than half a trillion dollars to the wealth of America’s tech barons in the past year, data shows.
The top 10 US founders and bosses of some of the world’s largest technology companies saw their finances swell to nearly $2.5tn, up from $1.9tn, in the year to Christmas Eve, according to figures from Bloomberg. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
AI boom adds more than half a trillion dollars to wealth of US tech barons in 2025
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this is why I can never log off
December 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
this is why I can never log off
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No offense to friends and family but my favorite part of Christmas was probably the nap I took with my best girl.
December 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
No offense to friends and family but my favorite part of Christmas was probably the nap I took with my best girl.
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The modern pecking order: relegated to a child’s mattress and 1990s sleeping bag IN YOUR OWN HOUSE. And I’m the one cooking tomorrow... #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The modern pecking order: relegated to a child’s mattress and 1990s sleeping bag IN YOUR OWN HOUSE. And I’m the one cooking tomorrow... #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
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Nosy researcher’s quest to map the world’s ‘smellscapes’
Nosy researcher’s quest to map the world’s ‘smellscapes’
We can share images and sounds, so why not smells? Dr Kate McLean-MacKenzie hopes her new atlas will make scents
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Nosy researcher’s quest to map the world’s ‘smellscapes’
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For those late to all this, Duncan's "Lemon Meringue Prison" from a few years back is the Bohemian Rhapsody of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
.@rhodri my theme this year is 'Lemon Meringue Prison'... https://t.co/CtorUo3Y76
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
For those late to all this, Duncan's "Lemon Meringue Prison" from a few years back is the Bohemian Rhapsody of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
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Just bumping the link for donations, if you can spare any moolah #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing.
What is it?
Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025
www.gofundme.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Just bumping the link for donations, if you can spare any moolah #DuvetKnowItsChristmas
www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
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Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
December 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?