The Wall Street Journal

08/08/2025

“Everybody remarks on my skin,” Martha Stewart said during an interview about her first beauty line. “It makes me very happy.” 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/453MEL3

08/08/2025

There were 25 players in the Cleveland Guardians’ clubhouse last week who weren’t particularly happy to learn that their teammate, top closer Emmanuel Clase, had emerged as the subject of a gambling investigation. There were 282 baseball fans who were probably even angrier.

Those are the people who have invested in Clase’s career. And not in a figurative sense, but rather with actual dollars in the hope of collecting a return.

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08/08/2025

There was a secret plan to free Alexei Navalny from Putin’s arctic gulag. Did Biden's White House wait too long?

As the Biden administration deliberated, friends of the famous Russian opposition leader rallied behind an audacious plan to spring him from Putin’s gulag.

08/08/2025

Exclusive: Meta Platforms’ much-hyped new team devoted to building machine superintelligence has a name, an initial project—and a fast-growing list of employees poached from other AI labs.

The new group is spearheading work on the latest version of Llama, the large language model that is Meta’s answer to ChatGPT.

08/08/2025

From Wall Street Journal Opinion: The parties have gerrymandered since before the word was coined in 1812. Both parties act in egregious ways. When they complain about the other, it’s hypocrisy pure and simple, writes Karl Rove.

Democrats’ hypocrisy is worthy of Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy.’

08/08/2025

Rich Cohen explains why there’s nothing more American than the McLobster, Denali Mac and other regional treats on the McDonald’s menu.

Ray Kroc understood the value of homogeneity, but underestimated just how big and weird the country can be.

08/08/2025

Microsoft hired one of the founders of Google’s DeepMind to help it catch up in the AI race. Now, Mustafa Suleyman is raiding his former shop for top talent. https://on.wsj.com/4mc0UaK

Mirroring a tactic from Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, Suleyman has been personally calling recruits, pitching them on the idea that the fledgling AI division Microsoft created last year is a nimbler, more startup-like workplace than DeepMind has become under Google’s ownership, according to people familiar with the matter.

Suleyman, head of Microsoft AI, has offered heftier pay and the opportunity to help turn Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot into a more formidable competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the people said.

The company has poached at least two dozen executives and other employees from Google in the last several months, with most having worked at DeepMind, the people said.

Suleyman’s recruitment offensive is the latest salvo in the increasingly frenzied battle for AI talent. Individual pay packages have run into nine figures, and companies are spending tens of billions more on data centers.

08/08/2025

A North Korean man defected to South Korea after he swam down the coast wrapped in plastic foam and evaded armed border guards.

08/08/2025

From valet stands to reading-light sconces over the bed, here are the decorating moves that hotel designers love enough to use at home.

From signature scents to a minibar ‘anywhere but in the kitchen,’ hospitality pros share the interior design upgrades worth stealing

07/08/2025

The threat of more U.S. sanctions on Russia jump-started stalled peace talks but might not produce a deal to halt the fighting.

07/08/2025

From Wall Street Journal Opinion: America has tried drug decriminalization, and the results are in: more crime, more disorder, more death. Next time radicals try to bring it to the ballot box, voters should remember how it went, writes Charles Fain Lehman.

Decriminalization caused major rises in crime in both Oregon and Washington state.

07/08/2025

Exclusive: Intel’s CEO was already at odds with the company's board before President Trump called for him to resign.