May 2026

The 2026 McLaren 750S Spider Is Thoroughly, Deliberately and Delightfully Impractical

McLaren 750S drives along a desert highway with mountains and dry brush blurred in the background.” width=”970″ height=”647″ data-caption=’At roughly 3,170 lbs, the 750S Spider achieves its blistering performance in part through an obsessive commitment to lightweight construction. <span class=”lazyload media-credit”>McLaren/Beadyeye</span>’> There are few automakers whose racing history and pedigree are as closely wed to […]

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Ilya Sutskever Sheds New Light on OpenAI’s Power Struggle in Musk-Altman Case

The relationship between Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever, an OpenAI co-founder and the company’s former chief scientist, has long been tumultuous. Once considered close collaborators, the pair split in 2023 when Sutskever orchestrated Altman’s brief ouster as CEO. He later reversed course and called for Altman’s reinstatement, a move he described as a “Hail Mary” during

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$15,000,000 for a Promenade View, Boarded Up and Abandoned for Decades

Weird and wild things are happening in the ever-coveted, certifiably untouchable Brooklyn Heights housing market, where some of the city’s oldest homes reliably go for an ungodly eight figures. Many are stunningly well-preserved or recalibrated entirely by presitigious architects and bleeding-edge designers, especially along that strip of Columbia Heights, where backyards open up to a

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The Legal and Ethical Minefield of A.I.-Driven Employee Surveillance

When we wrote about the legal and ethical implications of A.I. in hiring in 2019, we focused on the assessment of job candidates before they had been hired or consented to an ongoing relationship with an organization. What has become increasingly clear since then is that the far more consequential, and far less scrutinized, deployment

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16 Business Leaders to Join Trump on High-Stakes China Trip, With Notable Absences

President Donald Trump will travel to Beijing this week for a two-day summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, accompanied by a delegation of top U.S. CEOs from the technology, finance and manufacturing sectors. The meetings, which begin May 13, come at a particularly strained moment in U.S.-China relations, with tensions spanning trade, A.I., semiconductor exports,

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