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Who would want a world remade by these failing tech titans? Moya Lothian-McLean

he new gods are running into a bit of trouble. From the soap opera playing out at Twitter HQ, the too-big-to-fail bankruptcies in the cryptocurrency space, to mass tech layoffs, the past month has seen headlines declaring a litany of woes facing the bullish tech boyos in Silicon Valley and beyond. Coverage of Elon Musk’s escapades and the interest in the FTX collapse go well beyond what you’d expect from a business story. This fixation has

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