James Greenfield, Globe-Trotting Reporter and Times Editor, Dies at 99
James Greenfield, Globe-Trotting Reporter and Times Editor,
U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticHe wrote about world affairs for Time magazine and worked at the State Department before becoming a senior editor at The New York Times in 1967.James Greenfield, right, and his fellow New York Times editor A.M. Rosenthal read proofs for the publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Mr. Greenfield managed the project, which…
Renting or Buying Is Often Personal, but
U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticImageCredit...The New York TimesThe Upshot last week updated one of its earliest and most popular projects: the Rent or Buy calculator. Its lasting popularity is no mystery: All of us make this decision at some point. But it may be even more relevant today, with a changed environment of higher interest rates, than it…
Ex-Employees Raise Concerns About Safety at OpenAI
U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticDealBook NewsletterFormer employees of the ChatGPT maker raised concerns that it isn’t doing enough to make sure its products don’t pose a threat to humanity.May 20, 2024, 8:15 a.m. ETImageSafety concerns are swirling at OpenAI, putting its co-founder, Sam Altman, in the spotlight.Credit...Carlos Barria/ReutersOpenAI’s fear factorThe tech world’s collective eyebrows rose last week when…
Trial to Begin for Ozy Founder Carlos
U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticMr. Watson’s lawyer has argued that many other media leaders lured investors with “puffing and bluffing,” and that Mr. Watson is being singled out because he is Black.Carlos Watson, the founder of Ozy Media, leaving federal court in Brooklyn last year after his arrest on fraud charges.Credit...Jefferson Siegel for The New York TimesMay 20,…
Scarlett Johansson Says OpenAI Asked to Use
When A.I. Takes Your VoiceGoogle’s A.I. EvolutionA.I.’s ‘Her’ Era ArrivesOpenAI’s Old-Fashioned LibraryFaces QuizLast week, the company released a chatbot with an option that sounded like the actress, who provided the voice of an A.I. system in the movie “Her.”Scarlett Johansson said in a statement on Monday that an OpenAI chatbot’s voice sounded “eerily similar to…
Trump Media Reports $770,000 in Revenue for
Business|Trump Media Reports Lackluster Revenues and Large Losseshttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/business/trump-media-quarterly-results.htmlU.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticThe former president’s social media company reported taking in $770,000 in advertising revenue in the first quarter, sharply down from the year-earlier period.Trump Media & Technology Group completed a long-awaited merger in March with Digital World Acquisition Corp., a cash-rich shell company that served as a vehicle…
FDIC Chief Gruenberg to Resign and Biden
Business|Biden Will Choose a New Leader for Bank Regulator With ‘Toxic’ Culturehttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/business/fdic-gruenberg-replace.htmlU.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticMartin Gruenberg, the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, said he would step down once the Senate confirmed a successor.Martin Gruenberg, chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, testified before the Senate last week.Credit...Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesMay 20, 2024Updated 6:01 p.m. ETPresident Biden…
Russia’s War Machine Revs Up as the
The LatestPhotosMapsReliving Childhood HorrorsA Stunning Russian IncursionPutin’s New Defense MinisterRussia has largely evaded attempts by the U.S. and Europe to keep it from profiting from its energy exports.The Lukoil Neftohim oil refinery near Burgas. Russia’s war effort in Ukraine is intensifying, making it increasingly clear that efforts by Western allies to squeeze Moscow’s oil revenues…
Ivan F. Boesky, Rogue Trader in 1980s
U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe AthleticAn inspiration for the Gordon Gekko character in the movie “Wall Street,” he made a fortune from insider trading before his downfall brought a crashing end to a decade of greed.Ivan Boesky outside Manhattan’s federal courthouse in 1987 after being sentenced to prison on insider trading charges. A $100 million penalty against him was…
Chinese Firms Face Authoritarianism at Home and
U.S.WorldBusinessArtsLifestyleOpinionAudioGamesCookingWirecutterThe Athleticthe new new worldThe experience of TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, in Beijing and Washington shows how much the ground has shifted for China’s entrepreneurs.Credit...Lisk FengMay 20, 2024, 12:01 a.m. ETOne April afternoon in 2018, Zhang Yiming, the founder of the Beijing-based online media company ByteDance, got a notice from Chinese regulators to shut down an…
