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World
Should A.I. Accelerate? Decelerate? The Answer Is Both.
The near-implosion of OpenAI, a world leader in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, surfaced a conflict within the organization and the broader community about the speed with which the technology should continue, and also if slowing it ...
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World
Want to Tax the Rich for Real? Pay Attention to This Supreme Court Case.
Last week, the wealthiest Americans had their day in court. The case before the Supreme Court, Moorev. United States, is a challenge to an obscure and narrow provision of the tax code, in former President Donald Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, that ...
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Arts
24 Things That Stuck With Us in 2023
Films, TV shows, albums, books, art and A.I.-generated SpongeBob performances that reporters, editors and visual journalists in Culture couldn’t stop thinking about this year.
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Arts
Best TV Shows of 2023
Series like “The Bear,” “Beef,” “Happy Valley,” “Reservation Dogs” and “Succession” dazzled in a year when much of the TV business was in disarray.
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Magazine
We Spied on Our Teenage Daughter With a Hidden Camera. Now What Do We Do?
Parents who installed a camera in the eye of their daughter’s stuffed bear ask how — and whether — to come clean about their surveillance now that she has left for college.
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Magazine
The Chicken Tycoons vs. the Antitrust Hawks
At Kentucky Fried Chicken, sales tend to peak at the same time every year: Mother’s Day. This has been the case since the 1960s, when the chain began to experiment with TV advertising. In a spot from that era, a man in an office answers a phone call ...
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World
Bidenomics and the Guys in the Bar
Ten finance guys are drinking in a bar. Nine of them are Masters of the Universe — wheeler-dealers who make many millions of dollars every year. The tenth is what Gordon Gekko, in the movie “Wall Street,” called a “$400,000-a-year working Wall Street ...
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Arts
Dolly Parton (Really) Rocks
“Rockstar,” the country icon’s new double album of rock songs, is now the highest charting LP of her career. But her history with the genre runs deep.
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World
The 10 Best California Books of 2023
These new works of fiction and nonfiction vividly render the state’s past and present.
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Magazine
Kids’ Books That Don’t Ignore the Dark Side of Life
It would be tempting to allow my son to believe in a world that will never betray him, but I want him to know better.