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Who are the teens debugging in the bathroom? This week in tech news, there’s a Gen Z-led revolution in Nepal and Discord made it possible. Early 2000s hustle culture is so back in Silicon Valley — at least for teen tech founders. Then, there’s a new AI-generated political satire show airing on Russian state TV. And Albania gets an AI-avatar to seek out corruption. Finally, on Chat and Me, how ChatGPT is helping one user through a new diagnosis.

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Additional Reading: 

• Nepal Currently Being Run Via Discord After Gen Z Uprising
• AI Startup Founders Tout a Winning Formula—No Booze, No Sleep, No Fun
• The Trump Admin Is Suing Amazon for Tricking People Into Prime Subscriptions. Here’s How That Might Affect You
• Albania’s AI-generated chatbot, called Diella, was named to the country’s cabinet
• Russian State TV Launches AI-Generated News Satire Show

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