Taylor Lorenz on the dark money buying your social feed

Big Tech by The Globe and Mail

Sep 15, 202600:45:06Technology

In early August, OpenAI hosted dozens of lifestyle creators at an upstate New York resort for a weekend they called Summer Club. There was beekeeping. There were farm-to-table dinners. And in between, there were sessions...

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