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A two-month-old startup from the former head of artificial intelligence at Databricks Inc. has raised a seed round of funding from investors at a valuation of $4.5 billion for its effort to build a ...

On March 15, 2019, Brenton Tarrant opened a livestream with a knowing reference to an internet joke — “Subscribe to PewDiePie” — before proceeding to massacre 51 people in two New Zealand mosques. His ...

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