Tech Week is in full bloom in San Francisco, packing the city’s restaurants this week with venture capitalists and AI founders ebullient about the White House’s stance on regulating artificial intelligence — namely, don’t do it.
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Garance Burke,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Oct. 2026
Thompson then warned that San Francisco venture capitalists like Jones want to sunset federal programs and privatize Social Security.
Not until early in the next century did Congress take on the depredations of Gilded Age plutocrats.
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Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Sep. 2026
Not to mention a conga line of billionaire tech, real-estate, and finance plutocrats paying feasance to a faux populist in exchange for contracts, pardons, and sundry favors.
Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP The Journal also reported this weekend that Guilfoyle boasted in audio recordings about Greek businessmen who paid for her travel, and reportedly encouraged foreign governments to do business with one of the tycoons.
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Kathryn Watson,
CBS News,
12 Oct. 2026
Lately, though, many mom-and-pop tycoons are turning to different kinds of funding.
French jewelry maison Boucheron was founded in 1858 and built a legacy of adorning royals, stars and magnates in jewelry that combines precious, rare gems with equally ingenious designs.
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Tanya Dukes,
Robb Report,
12 Oct. 2026
The verdict cleared a legal cloud hanging over OpenAI's restructuring right as both magnates were steering their companies toward the public market.
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