This oligarchy/plutocracy constitutes 0.1% of the American population. It owns 14% of the nation’s wealth, $22 trillion in ...

There’s no official ruling on the collective noun for a group of billionaires, but if ever we needed one it was this week, writes Ange Lavoipierre.

Elon Musk and a consortium of investors have made an unsolicited bid of $97.4 billion for a controlling interest in the ...

On his way out the door former President Joe Biden warned that his successor Donald Trump was building an oligarchy in the United States. Although Biden got a lot of things wrong over the past few ...

Governments need to recognise these platforms are not immutable forces of nature, but human-created systems that can be challenged, reformed or dismantled. The same digital connectivity that has ...

a global digital oligarchy dominated by a tiny tech elite. Companies like Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X Corp, and OpenAI (all based in the United States) now operate beyond the control of ...

DeepSeek, the Chinese startup that has managed to make a mockery of Silicon Valley’s capital-bloated AI oligarchy ... the company claimed—could best OpenAI’s DALL-E and Stability AI ...

Earlier this week, for instance, the long-running feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman—both once members of OpenAI’s board before Musk departed in 2018—veered into the realm of Trumpian ...

An oligarchy is government by the few ... Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and leaders of Google and OpenAI. TikTok, the oft-banned Chinese social media app, also lines up genuflect, despite the obvious ...

Does putting these elements together equate to oligarchy? The core content of the latter – identified ... then it is clear why the major firms are so invested in it. Although OpenAI and its ChatGPT ...