Articles about New York Times

Steamboats to software: Microsoft’s Brad Smith mines America’s founding for tech insights

Microsoft is releasing a six-part video series, hosted by President Brad Smith, that uses moments in American history — beginning with patents in Philadelphia and privacy in Boston — to reflect on technology and innovation questions facing the country as it turns 250. Read More

Amazon and the media: Inside the disconnect on AI, robots and jobs

Amazon’s big robotics showcase highlighted the company’s vision for “AI at work,” but the event also revealed a widening gap between its public messaging and media coverage about automation’s impact on jobs. Read More

Microsoft tries to keep its consumer Copilot out of New York Times AI copyright case

Microsoft is fighting to keep its consumer AI division, led by its AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, from getting dragged into… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft, Remitly, and the new shape of work — plus, Amazon’s NYT AI deal

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Amazon’s new licensing agreement with The New York Times to train its… Read More

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OpenAI wants NYT’s notes; AI meets email; Startup vets power up an EV charging marketplace

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we catch up on the latest twist in the New York Times’ lawsuit against… Read More

New York Times Co. fights OpenAI’s request for reporters’ source materials in copyright dispute

The New York Times Co. is asking a federal judge to deny OpenAI’s request to turn over reporters’ notes, interview… Read More

NYT v. GPT: Microsoft finds itself on the other side of an industry-defining copyright dispute

“Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?” Bill Gates wrote those words in a landmark open letter in… Read More

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Amazon’s ‘turnover machine’: Inside the NYT’s investigation into the tech giant’s HR practices

Amazon’s direct workforce rose by 500,000 people in 2020 — that’s half a million people — to nearly 1.3 million… Read More

Tech Moves: Former Rover CTO joins moving startup Dolly; Egencia’s CFO to depart; and more

— Former Rover CTO Scott Porad joined peer-to-peer moving service Dolly as its first-ever chief technology officer. The Seattle startup… Read More

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Inside Amazon’s ‘Labor Awakening’: Journalist Erika Hayasaki on her New York Times Magazine story

What happens when Amazon becomes an integral part of the economy and culture of a community? And what does the… Read More

Why The New York Times is testing controversial tech including facial recognition and deepfakes

The New York Times of 2019 is a different animal than the daily print newspaper that defined the publication for… Read More

Amazon reportedly wants news publishers to expand internationally — and it’s willing to pay

Amazon wants to pay some of the biggest names in American publishing to expand internationally. That’s according to Vox’s Peter… Read More

NYT editor on the state of journalism: Technology is ‘leaving us with the stuff that pisses people off’

It may feel like animosity toward the media is at an all-time high, but the head of The New York… Read More

Silicon Valley VC on Amazon: ‘I can’t recruit anybody out of there’

When it comes to company culture, it’s a tale of two Amazons. There is the innovative, passionate Amazon where employees… Read More

New York Times editor explains how Donald Trump made journalism great again

AUSTIN, TX. — Dean Baquet is gearing up for what he believes will be a historic few years for the… Read More

Report: Uber intentionally eluded law enforcement using dedicated software and in-app data

Uber’s reputation is getting totaled in a full-scale pileup. In the latest damning report, the New York Times claims Uber… Read More

New York Times inks deal with Spotify, gives readers free access to streaming music service

The New York Times is partnering with music streaming giant Spotify to attract more readers. The two companies today announced a… Read More

GeekWire Summit panel to feature New York Times, Wall Street Journal and ZDNet journalists

We’ll be kicking off the 2016 GeekWire Summit next Tuesday morning, Oct. 4, with something new: a panel of veteran… Read More

Ada Developers Academy spotlighted in NYT article about anxieties of millennials

What defines the millennial generation? Some say technology, as the first wave of digital natives. Others say numbers — babies of… Read More

NYT burnishes Seattle’s reputation for world-changing nonprofits, fueled by tech money

It goes without saying that Paul Allen and Bill Gates had an enormous impact on Seattle. But their influence on… Read More

Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post hires NYT public editor who criticized paper’s Amazon coverage

The Washington Post has hired Margaret Sullivan, the former public editor for The New York Times and the person who criticized… Read More

Virtual reality meets journalism: Associated Press producing new video series using VR

We all know that virtual reality will revolutionize entertainment and gaming, but the Associated Press launched a video series today… Read More

Here’s why Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen plans to give most of his money away

Paul Allen is following in the footsteps of legendary philanthropists like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, but is doing so… Read More

Amazon rips into NYT story with new details about ex-employees quoted in ‘bruising’ piece

Updated below with response from The New York Times, which stands by its story and says former employee Bo Olson disputes… Read More

Former Amazon execs: Working at Amazon a cinch compared to startup life

Almost anyone who has worked for Amazon seems to agree it has high standards, but there’s still one big question… Read More

Authors of ‘Amazonian Manifesto’ hire marketing firm to spread message at Amazon HQ

The mysterious group that authored the “Amazonian Manifesto” to urge changes in Amazon’s workplace culture has hired a marketing company to get the message out to employees… Read More

‘Obsess about the employee’: Amazon worker lobbies for alternative leadership principles

Amazon’s official 14 leadership principles start off with a call to obsess about the customer. But what about obsessing about… Read More

Amazon employee’s ‘manifesto’ calls for 3 reforms to improve company

More than a week after the New York Times published its behind-the-scenes look at Amazon’s “bruising” workplace, the debate continues… Read More

NYT science reporter John Markoff: We shouldn’t worry about robots attacking us

Last month, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Steve Wozniak and hundreds of others wrote a letter that detailed their concerns for… Read More

NYT Public Editor: ‘Generalization and anecdote’ in Amazon exposé ‘doesn’t seem like quite enough’

The New York Times’ investigation into Amazon’s allegedly “bruising” culture is quickly becoming one of the newspaper’s most talked about stories in… Read More