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Coffee Break: Stressed Oligarchs at Meta, OpenAI, and the Ellison Empire

By Nat Wilson Turner

Three particularly stressed oligarchs are getting a lot of negative attention this week as Mark Zuckerberg's Meta faces a $1.4 trillion lawsuit, Sam Altman's OpenAI is bleeding talent and their IPO seems an ever more remote possibility, and Larry and David Ellison are in a full-on media war with 12 attorneys general over their attempted purchase of Warner Bros Discovery.