Review: Vampire Weekend’s fifth album, “Only God Was Above Us,” is its most ambitious yet, overflowing with memorable melodies, fresh lyrics and beautiful ornamentations on.wsj.com/3vPf7Ft on.wsj.com/3vPf7Ft

'President Biden called Thursday for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza during a phone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House said' wsj.com/world/middle-e…

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Friday’s front page.

🚨check out this NEW story about Stability AI from me and Mark Bergen🚨, in which we dive into the startup's journey from AI darling to cautionary tale, drawing on our entire year's worth of deep reporting on the company.
here's a free link to read it! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Scoop:

Stability AI's Emad Mostaque is planning to step down as CEO, according to three people who he told directly.

It comes after the research team behind AI image generator Stable Diffusion resigned last week.

From Iain Martin and me:

forbes.com/sites/kenrickc…

Microsoft is hiring Google DeepMind Co-Founder Mustafa Suleyman to oversee its consumer AI products. I talked to Satya Nadella and Suleyman about his new role bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Self-driving cars are removing their human safety drivers on freeways this year.

It’s a crucial step for the industry as they try to scale operations without causing any accidents that put them at risk.

New from me and Miles Kruppa for The Wall Street Journal:

wsj.com/business/autos…

“Advancing women into our most senior ranks is an area where we have not accomplished our goals,” Solomon said in a written statement to the Journal. wsj.com/finance/invest…

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Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch says recombining with News Corp. is 'off the table.'

'Never mind the layoffs: Some of the biggest U.S. tech companies have swelled their ranks much more than they have trimmed them' wsj.com/economy/jobs/t…

I am retracting my statements about the gemini art disaster. It is in fact a masterpiece of performance art, even if unintentional. True gain-of-function art. Art as a virus: unthinking, unintentional and contagious.

offensive to all, comforting to none. so totally…

they went for the king and missed theinformation.com/articles/sequo…

The WSJ laid off many of my friends, colleagues and editors in the DC bureau today. These are some outstanding, seasoned, expert journalists who helped us do great work. If you’re hiring, there are some excellent folks now on the journalism job market in Washington.

NEWS: It's official: The Messenger is shutting down
nytimes.com/2024/01/31/bus…

From its founding, OpenAI said its governing documents were available to the public. When WIRED requested copies after the company’s boardroom drama, it declined to provide them.
wired.com/story/openai-s…

Peterson’s neighbor, Mary Tesluk, also testified, describing a “frequent popping sound and the yelling and the shouting and the screaming that goes along with this very passionate sport.” wsj.com/real-estate/sa…

“There’s an autocratic advantage to attacking the idea that there’s such a thing as objective truth”

My Financial Times big read on the coming year of elections, deepfakes and the disinformation doomsday scenario

ft.com/content/16f23c…