Jeff Bezos makes his most ghoulish deal yet

Watching the behaviour of our tech overlords has answered questions I'd ne'er thought to ask. How bash you NDA an service of babe mamas? Is determination thing much embarrassing than impersonating Benson Boone? (Also, who is Benson Boone?) And now, the latest: however agelong aft a sovereign ruler of a repressive authorities murders 1 of your columnists should you marque a woody with him? The answer, it turns out, is simply a small implicit six years.

In October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a writer for the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post, was killed and dismembered with the support of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (better known arsenic MBS) aft Khashoggi entered a Saudi consulate successful Istanbul to get paperwork for his upcoming marriage. His assemblage has ne'er been found. On May 13th, Bezos' Amazon announced it would enactment with Humain, MBS' AI company, to physique an "AI Zone" successful Saudi Arabia - and the 2 companies volition walk much than $5 cardinal successful the process.

Saudi wealth is old quality successful the tech industry - the Public Investment Fund has sloshed into tons of startups, either straight oregon via intermediaries specified arsenic SoftBank. Morally bankrupt …

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