Inside the life of Nicole Shanahan, 'Silicon Valley princess:' drugs (cocaine and ketamine), affairs (Sergey Brin + Elon Musk), and a $1 billion divorce settlement powering RFK Jr.'s campaign. All the details she's kept from the public here: nytimes.com/2024/05/22/tec…

Budding Journalists: We're currently recruiting for: 1. The New York Times Corps, a first-of-its-kind talent pipeline program. nytco.com/careers/newsro… 2. The New York Times Editing Residency, a two-year training program. nytco.com/careers/newsro… Deadlines are approaching!

amid the jockeying for artificial intelligence supremacy in Silicon Valley over the past 18 months, developers have found a new (if somewhat unlikely) hero: Zuck. he is the highest profile tech leader to espouse open source AI, something that has earned him enormous goodwill

The front page of The New York Times for Friday, May 31, 2024. nyti.ms/3x4dCDS

NEW: The Washington Post’s executive editor Sally Buzbee will step down, to be replaced by Matt Murray, the former Wall Street Journal EIC, according to a source. Story w/ Ben Mullin nytimes.com/2023/01/24/bus…

Breaking: a group of current and former OpenAI employees is speaking out about what they say is a culture of recklessness and secrecy at the company. They are asking for a “right to warn” for employees of frontier AI labs.

Scoop: Antitrust regulators have reached a deal that clears the way for federal investigations into the conduct of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI in the AI industry. It is expected to be finalized in the coming days. nytimes.com/2024/06/05/tec…

THREAD: When Elon Musk/SpaceX first eyed Texas as location for a launch site, they promised a small, eco-friendly footprint & that the surrounding area would be “left untouched.” A New York Times investigation published today examines what happened next. nytimes.com/2024/07/07/us/…

NEW: Saudi Arabia has invested billions of dollars in the video game industry, and now owns 40% of the esports market share. Critics have called it “games washing,” but as Saudi money becomes ubiquitous, avoiding it has become increasingly difficult.

The End of The Affair… Silicon Valley-style nytimes.com/2024/07/12/tec…

Monday’s The New York Times front page

Why today’s AI often struggles with math. nytimes.com/2024/07/23/tec…

SCOOP: Rupert Murdoch in fierce and secret court battle with three of his eldest children over the future of his media empire -- a story right out of Succession w/Jonathan Mahler nytimes.com/2024/07/24/bus…

Finally we've been able to definitively track the impact U.S. sanctions have had on the flows of American technology to Russia. The answer? It hasn't done much. Russia receives as much in now blocked microchips as it did before the invasion in Ukraine. nytimes.com/2024/07/25/tec…

It's been remarkable to see how some tech billionaires are torching decades-long friendships and discarding with the general positive vibe of the Valley. All because of politics. Here's Ryan Mac 🙃 / erin griffith / @mikeisaac on why Elon, Reid, Sacks, Andreessen and everyone else

NEWS: WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich and others have been released as part of a prisoner swap involving 24 adults imprisoned in 7 countries, according to the Turkish government. Live updates here: nytimes.com/live/2024/08/0…

The Microsoft echoes in the Google antitrust case. As they say, history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes. nytimes.com/2024/08/14/pod…

I wrote about local news in San Francisco, and the ways outlets are making money as ad revenue dries up: subscriptions, donations, nonprofit grants, to name a few nytimes.com/2024/08/16/tec…

A fly-on-the-wall account of Twitter’s transformation by kate conger Ryan Mac 🙃 from their upcoming book Character Limit nytimes.com/2024/08/24/tec…

Our profile of Telegram founder Pavel Durov: prolific sperm donor, practiced troll, and possessor of an impressive six pack. His rebellious streak and commitment to a code that privacy trumps moderation made Telegram huge, and put a target on his back. nytimes.com/2024/08/26/tec…