Peter Thiel gives his kids 90 minutes of screens per week. Steve Jobs told a reporter his kids had never used an iPad. Bill Gates banned phones at the dinner table. These are the people who built the apps your kids can't put down.

The US spent $30 billion putting laptops in schools. Gen Z is now the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the one before them. Test scores are dropping globally. And the Newport Beach riots? Researchers say it's a loneliness epidemic — kids so starved for human connection they'll fly across the country to loot a grocery store together.

Also: Meta's data center allegedly poisoned a Wyoming town's water supply. Entry-level hiring fell 50% since 2019. And prediction markets are running on insider trading while calling it democratized finance.


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