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In our 'Asshole is selfish' headline of the week. Billionaire Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick admits strategically moving to Texas before California wealth tax***************

Kalanick was caught on camera in a heated argument with an Uber driver, who complained about falling fares and the company’s treatment of drivers: "Some people don't like to take responsibility for their own sh*t"

In our 'Top snarky podcast hosts plead with airline companies to stop the share buyback bullshit and pay airport workers. ‘Once again, air travel CEOs are bullshit artists’' headline of the week. Top airline CEOs plead with Congress to restore DHS funding and pay airport workers. ‘Once again, air travel is the political football’***************

Between June 1, 2025, and March 16, 2026:

Southwest repurchased $2.6B in 2005; $400M in 2026

United $1.5B

5 NEOs: $91 million in 2025

Scott Kirby $34M; $97M in shares

Delta focused on $4.8B debt reduction

Frontline Transportation Security Officers (TSOs, Airport Screeners): 50,000

$328M per month

In our 'Pervy owner does pervy stuff and everybody is fake shocked.' headline of the week. It Was Going to Be Magic City Night at the Atlanta Hawks. Then the Outrage Poured In.***************

Tony Ressler founded the private equity firm Apollo Global Management with Leon Black.

An independent review revealed that Leon Black paid Jeffrey Epstein $158M for financial and tax-planning services between 2012 and 2017. These payments occurred after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting an underage girl.

Ressler is the brother-in-law of Leon Black (Black is married to Ressler's sister, Debra)

In our 'College dropout techbro ignores actual experts, part 17 million ' headline of the week. OpenAI’s own mental health experts unanimously opposed “naughty” ChatGPT launch***************

The probably might be too many women and not enough Stanford? The council consists of the following eight independent experts:

David Bickham, Ph.D. – Research Director at the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School

Mathilde Cerioli, Ph.D. – Chief Scientific Officer at everyone.AI and researcher in cognitive neuroscience and psychology

Munmun De Choudhury, Ph.D. – Professor of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech, specializing in how technology shapes mental health

Tracy Dennis-Tiwary, Ph.D. – Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and co-founder/CSO of Arcade Therapeutics

Sara Johansen, M.D. – Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University and founder of Stanford’s Digital Mental Health Clinic

David Mohr, Ph.D. – Professor at Northwestern University and Director of the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies

Andrew K. Przybylski, Ph.D. – Professor of Human Behavior and Technology at the University of Oxford

Robert K. Ross, M.D. – Former President and CEO of The California Endowment and a national leader in public health.

In addition to the council's pushback, Ryan Beiermeister, OpenAI’s head of product policy, was reportedly fired in January 2026 after being an outspoken internal critic of the erotica rollout. OpenAI has denied her dismissal was related to her opposition, citing separate workplace allegations that Beiermeister has called "absolutely false."

In our 'Petulant manchild with no regulatory or societal guardrails screws up again and bails himself out with shareholder money from a different company' headline of the week. Elon Musk admits xAI ‘wasn’t built right’ as only 2 co-founders remain and its biggest AI bet stalls out***************

The people leaving xAI right now aren't "legacy" employees—they are the hand-picked superstars Musk himself recruited in 2023 to build his AI dream.

Out of the 12 original co-founders, 10 are gone. This isn't just "trimming the fat"; it’s the original architects of the company walking out the door.

In early 2026, Tesla (a public company) invested $2B into xAI.

Tesla shareholders are furious, arguing that Musk used their money to fund a "broken" startup, then tucked it away inside his private SpaceX empire where there is less public oversight.

Total Headcount Before Buyout: Approximately 7,500 to 8,000 employees.

In his first week, Musk fired roughly 50% of the staff (about 3,700 people) overnight.

Shortly after, he issued his famous "extremely hardcore" memo. When hundreds of employees refused to sign it and resigned instead, the headcount plummeted further.

By April 2023, Musk confirmed in a BBC interview that the workforce had been slashed by 80%, leaving only about 1,500 employees.

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In our 'The world's most stable billionaire announces a billionaire to all other billionaires ratio of 693:1' headline of the week. Elon Musk Is Now Worth More Than Bottom 693 Billionaires Combined

In our 'In news celebrated worldwide, older women announce a "please save us from tech bros" to asshole ratio of 64:1 Elon Musk' headline of the week. Older women set to inherit most of $54 trillion in ‘great wealth transfer’ to widowed spouses

In our 'Asshole wants you to know he is still here' headline of the week. ‘I never left': Travis Kalanick launches new robotics company Atoms with manifesto

"At Atoms we make gainfully employed robots — specialized robots with productive jobs that bring abundance to their owners and society at large,"

In our 'Company founder announces major "stealth mode" company perk is stealthy sexual harassment' headline of the week.

NUGGS: Travis Kalanick is back, Peter Thiel takes back, airlines buyback, Starbucks union fights back