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How Donald Trump’s Financial Future Became Tied to Trump Media
At Mar-a-Lago on a Wednesday evening last month, Donald J. Trump mingled with partygoers, greeting his supporters and making small talk. The country star Lee Greenwood sang “God Bless...
Scarlett Johansson Said No, but OpenAI’s Virtual Assistant Sounds Just Like Her
Days before OpenAI demonstrated its new, flirty voice assistant last week, the actress Scarlett Johansson said, Sam Altman, the company’s chief executive, called her agent and asked that she...
Rent Is Harder to Handle and Inflation Is a Burden, a Fed Financial Survey Finds
American households struggled to cover some day-to-day expenses in 2023, including rent, and many remained glum about inflation even as price increases slowed.That’s one of several takeaways from a...
David Redden, Who Brought Ingenuity to the Auction Block, Dies at 75
One hundred seventy-five cookie jars that belonged to Andy Warhol. The bat that Babe Ruth carried in his last appearance at Yankee Stadium. A piano plinked by Dooley Wilson,...
Pixar Lays Off 175 Workers as It Returns Its Focus to Films
Pixar will stop making original shows for Disney+ as part of a broader retrenchment, resulting in layoffs that will reduce its work force by 14 percent.Jim Morris, the president...
How Media Outlets Are Covering Justice Merchan in Trump’s Criminal Trial
Conservative media has been preoccupied for weeks with Justice Juan M. Merchan, the New York judge presiding over the Manhattan criminal trial against former President Donald J. Trump.Mr. Trump...
Trump Calls Cannes Biopic ‘Garbage’ and Says He Plans to Sue
The day after the Cannes Film Festival premiered “The Apprentice,” a biopic of Donald J. Trump, the former president hit back at the movie, calling it “malicious defamation” and...
What We Lose When ChatGPT Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson
According to the OpenAI presenters, ChatGPT-4o brings “a bit more emotion, more drama” to the program. Users can even ask it to moderate its tone to match their mood...
The Siblings Who Changed How We Party
On an afternoon this spring, James Hirschfeld, a founder of Paperless Post, was at the company’s Lower Manhattan office surveying moodboards for digital invitation designs. They included materials for...
Macy’s Reports Another Drop in Sales but Sees ‘Traction’ in Turnaround
The Numbers: Macy’s lags while Bloomingdale’s and Bluemercury grow. Macy’s said its comparable-store sales in the United States fell 1.2 percent from the same quarter a year earlier. The...
