The formative years of Donald Trump will be the focus of a biographical film set to compete at the 77th Cannes Film Festival next month. Iranian Danish director Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice – with Marvel Cinematic Universe actor Sebastian Stan starring as the young property tycoon, before reality television fame and politics – was announced … Read more
A released Israeli hostage recounted sexual assault at gunpoint by one of the Palestinian militants who held her captive in Gaza, in a first such personal account published on Tuesday in an interview with The New York Times newspaper. Amit Soussana, 40, was taken hostage on October 7 from Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Security camera footage … Read more
US and Chinese officials will hold talks on economic issues in Beijing this week, in the latest round of re-engagement between the world’s two largest economies. A five-person delegation from the US Treasury will meet Chinese counterparts, according to a Treasury official who asked not to be named. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen plans another … Read more
Former President Donald Trump was ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees and other costs to The New York Times and three reporters he had sued after they published a piece on his tax schemes. New York Supreme Court judge Robert R. Reed ordered the former president to pay $392,638.69 to the Times and … Read more
Photo: Theodore Parisienne for NY Daily News (Getty Images) Since 2020, the number of road deaths in the United States has been rising at a truly staggering rate. There isn’t a singular cause behind this drastic shift. Instances of drunk driving and speeding are both up. Seatbelt use is down. But why? The New York … Read more
OpenAI claims The New York Times “intentionally manipulated prompts” to provide examples of where ChatGPT mimicked Gray Lady content. OpenAI’s comments came in a blog post response to the Times’ copyright infringement lawsuit against the company. Times claims that OpenAI seeks “to free-ride on The Times’s massive investment in its journalism by using it to … Read more
In what may be a landmark case, the New York Times has sued Open AI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, saying the publication’s content is being lifted by the platform to feed automated chatbots, constituting “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.” “Defendants seek to free-ride on The Times’s massive investment in … Read more
Elon Musk says that advertisers fleeing X after his endorsement of an antisemitic post could “kill” the platform formerly known as Twitter. And he has a simple message for those companies, which include Disney, Apple, and IBM: “Go fuck yourself.” Musk, speaking Wednesday night at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit, said that advertisers with … Read more
