(Black PR Wire) Washington, D.C. – The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) today announced Leon Smith, a Pennsylvania history teacher, as the 2026 National Teacher of the Year. Smith serves Haverford High School as an Advanced …
How Elon Musk Used SpaceX to Benefit Himself and His Businesses
The rocket maker has been a useful financial tool for Mr. Musk, providing the billionaire with loans and aiding his struggling companies, a Times examination found.
Sam Altman’s Next High-Wire Act: Getting OpenAI to Make More Money
Mr. Altman, who has faced criticism over OpenAI’s direction, has culled company projects and is trying to be more disciplined with strategy.
Google Commits to Invest Up to $40 Billion in Anthropic
The investment comes as the A.I. start-up looks to keep up with accelerating demand for its business and coding products.
5 Tall Tasks for John Ternus, Apple’s Next C.E.O.
John Ternus will face many of the same issues that Tim Cook has grappled with for years.
What Are Prediction Markets, and Why Are They Causing Controversy?
The indictment of a soldier who bet on the U.S. operation to capture President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela put renewed focus on a new way to gamble, and a new way to cheat.
Why are top university websites serving porn? It comes down to shoddy housekeeping.
Websites for some of the world’s most prestigious universities are serving explicit porn and malicious content after scammers exploited the shoddy record-keeping of the site administrators, a researcher found recently. The sites included berkeley.edu, columbia.edu, and washu.edu, the official domains for the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University, and Washington University in St. Louis. Subdomains...
Meta to Lay Off 10 Percent of Work Force in A.I. Push
The layoffs affect about 8,000 employees, with Meta also planning to close 6,000 open roles, as the company focuses on artificial intelligence.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s Epic Fight Heads to Court
A jury trial that is set to start on Monday could shift the course of the A.I. race, with Mr. Musk seeking billions of dollars in damages from Mr. Altman’s OpenAI.
OpenAI Unveils Its New, More Powerful GPT-5.5 Model
The maker of ChatGPT is taking a more open approach to cybersecurity than its chief rival, Anthropic.