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Business Lessons From ‘Hacks’ for Beyond the Comedy World

Plus: The legal US workers set to vanish from the economy, and the expanding AI slop problem.

Hannah Einbinder and Jean Smart in Season 1 of Hacks.

Photographer: Anne Marie Fox/HBO Max

Tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern, a new episode of the TV show Hacks will be available to stream on Max. At the heart of the show is an employer-employee relationship, which got culture writer JP Mangalindan thinking: Are there lessons here that could apply to real-world business? (Minor spoilers ahead if you’re not caught up.) Plus: A key slice of the workforce is disappearing Trump’s immigration crackdown, and AI slop can make it seem like humans are losing ground on the internet.

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