NYU Prof. Aswath Damodaran, the world's leading valuation expert and AI skeptic: "I just don't trust Sam Altman as a person ... He is very Machiavellian in terms of how he operates." DAMODARAN NAILS IT.

NYT: Alina Habba Mildon Loses $50 Million Contract That Enraged Trump The former Trump lawyer had signed the contract with a family company weeks before the president gave the family’s patriarch a pardon.

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