Month: November 2023
How to have an affordable divorce
If there’s one easily agreed upon point in the emotional turmoil of divorce, it’s that endless legal battles can break the bank. Hourly attorney fees…
X may lose up to $75 million in revenue as more advertisers pull out
Social media company of anti-Semitic conspiracy this month. . Internal documents seen by The New York Times this week show that the company is in…
Black Friday is not what it used to be
Black Friday was once a signature celebration of American consumerism. Lately it has lost some of its strength. It’s true that shoppers looking for deep…
Charles Peters, neoliberal founder of Washington Monthly, dies at 96
Charles Peters, founding editor of The Washington Monthly, a small political magazine that challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies and for decades was avidly read in…
How an LA Rams training complex could help transform urban sprawl
The San Fernando Valley, once an endless stretch of orange groves in Southern California, evolved into the porn capital of the world in the 1970s…
Explaining OpenAI’s Board Restructuring – The New York Times
For much of the past year, OpenAI’s board has been criticized for being too small and too divided to effectively govern one of the fastest-growing…
Sam Altman reinstated as CEO of OpenAI
Sam Altman was reinstated Tuesday night as CEO of OpenAI, the company said, successfully reversing his ouster by OpenAI’s board of directors last week after…
Susan Sarandon fired from talent agency after comments on Gaza war
Two actresses, one a veteran Academy Award winner and the other a relative newcomer, have been fired by Hollywood companies after comments they made separately…
OpenAI shows that AI may have an inherent governance problem
The structural disorder of OpenAI The future of OpenAI, whose ChatGPT started an arms race in artificial intelligence, has become even murkier. Most of its…
X sues media outlets for investigation into ads alongside anti-Semitic publications
X, the social media service formerly known as Twitter, sued Media Matters in federal court on Monday after the advocacy organization published research showing that…