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Category Pirates · Aug 29, 2026

The Lakers sold for $12.5 billion in 72 hours

The Lakers went from $10 billion to $12.5 billion without ever being for sale, one in five self-published ebooks on Amazon is written by AI, and a mother and daughter turned down $26 million.

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