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Earlier this week, after years of financial struggles, BuzzFeed got a lifeline. Byron Allen, a media entrepreneur known for making sometimes unsolicited bids on massive companies such as Paramount Global and Tegna, has agreed to pay $120 million for a 52 percent stake in the digital-media company… More »

Last winter, as her anxiety reached a new zenith, 7-year-old Hayley would often stop on Eighth Avenue in Park Slope and lie down on the sidewalk, staging a full-body protest against attending second grade at her zoned More »

While you were sleeping, it was Day One of President Donald Trump’s historic second high-stakes China summit. There were waving children (again) and bilateral talks, an American-i… More »

During the last month, a very sleepy California gubernatorial contest has come alive — and gone sideways. Before More »

Last month’s preannouncement of Anthropic’s Mythos, an unreleased AI model that the company warns is extraordinarily good at finding and exploiting security vulnerabilities in everything from operating systems and web browsers to industrial software and health-care platforms, sent More »

There was a time, not very long ago, when Ben Shapiro could reasonably call himself the king of all conservative media. More »

New York University’s Jonathan Haidt checks a number of boxes for an in-house commencement speaker: best-selling author, public intellectual, and high-profile campus figure. A social psychologist teaching “ethic… More »

After OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recalled on the witness stand Tuesday how Elon Musk enjoyed showing him memes on his phone during an important meeting, the closely watched (and More »

Two weeks have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, pouring rocket fuel on More »

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration officially authorized the sale of two new fruit-flavored vapes to adult consumers, prompting criticism from health advocates who fear the move will More »