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To get what you want, try shutting up - WSJ
 Still, she barrels on, giving job candidates at the hospital where she works a full history of the building and parking logistics. She slips into a monologue during arguments with her husband, even when there’s nothing good left to say. She tries to determine, via a torrent of texts, if her son is giving her the silent treatment. (Turns out he just had a cold.)
He once sat across the negotiating table from an executive who was convinced his company was worth far more than Hamburger wanted to pay to acquire it. What Hamburger desperately wanted to do was explain all the reasons behind his math. What he actually did was throw out a number and then shut his mouth.
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WorkG.O.P. Candidates, Looking to Soften Their Image, Turn to Their WivesA spokesman for Mr. Anderson criticized The New York Times’s decision to focus on the footage and said that “Derrick’s opponent and every other candidate in America are in similar pictures and video with supporters of all kinds.” The spokesman said the video simply showed Mr. Anderson “with female supporters and their kids.” Work
WorkFrancis Ford Coppola bet more than $100 million on his legacy. Now what? - WSJ Francis Ford Coppola was flush from The Godfather in 1973 when he bought an architectural jewel in San Francisco’s North Beach for $500,000. His new headquarters was a flatiron building clad in tile and copper, with an eight-story steel frame that withstood the great earthquake of 1906. Coppola has held on to the Sentinel Building through a half-century of intense seismic activity in his career, including cinematic triumphs and Hollywood debacles, bankruptcies and windfalls—most recently, a fortune he amassed in the wine trade and then leveraged to fund a wild big-budget movie called Megalopolis, the 85-year-old director’s first release in 13 years. WorkAre sustainable fund managers any different? - WSJ Advocates of sustainable investing believe it could be the key to lowering carbon emissions and creating a more just society, claiming that asset managers can prod companies to do good by incorporating environmental and social factors into their investment decisions.
WorkMark Zuckerbergs AI vision makes Metaverse a slightly easier sell - WSJ The chief executive of Meta Platforms kicked off the company’s annual developers conference on Wednesday, showing off its latest headsets that now employ a mix of virtual reality and augmented reality technology. That has been the historic aim of the event, at least since the company once known as Facebook spent $2 billion to acquire VR headset maker Oculus in 2014. But the VR business mostly has been a dud. Meta’s Reality Labs division that includes VR generated just over $2 billion in revenue for the 12 months ended in June—about what the company’s core advertising operation generates every five days. WorkHumanoid robots are the next threat from China - WSJ Hollywood in the 1970s and ’80s often imagined a world where technology is so evolved it is almost human, from “Star Wars," in which R2-D2 and C-3PO are not just tools but also friends to humans, to “The Terminator," in which an assassin-robot is disguised as a human. Science fiction is about to become reality. Artificial-intelligence-enabled humanoids capable of blending seamlessly into our world will soon be a part of everyday life.
WorkWhat Wall Streets women pioneers had to put up with - WSJ “Wall Street" was still centered around actual Wall Street, a compact area with not only the major firms—JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns—but also many smaller brokerage houses. A veritable army of female secretaries, teletypists and data-entry clerks would pour out of the subways in the early morning, daring to enter this male bastion in heels and skirt. Those who started to climb the ladder usually found their foothold in the smaller firms. They put up with a lot, none of it subtle, all of it exacerbated by the two-martini lunch. WorkWhy silver is having a golden moment - WSJ The commodity’s price is up about 34% year to date, outpacing gold, which keeps hitting record highs. Year to date, about $856 million has flowed into the iShares Silver Trust, an exchange-traded fund that owns physical silver bullion, according to FactSet. Wheaton Precious Metals, a company that owns the rights to precious metals from mines, including gold and silver, is up about 30% year to date.
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WorkExtreme Weather Is Taxing Utilities More Often. Can A.I. Help?Extreme weather has increasingly strained the grid, and it is the No. 1 cause of major power outages in the United States. In some areas of the country, the risk of hurricane-induced power outages could become 50 percent higher in the coming decades as such storms get stronger. WorkWho Is Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah?He has long called for the liberation of Jerusalem and referred to Israel as “the Zionist entity,” maintaining that all Jewish immigrants should return to their countries of origin and that there should be one Palestine with equality for Muslims, Jews and Christians.
WorkWorkMicrosoft explains how it's tackling security and privacy for RecallGiven the near instant backlash, it's not too surprising to see Microsoft being extra cautious with Recall's eventual rollout. The real question is how the the company didn't foresee the initial criticisms, which included the Recall database being easily accessible from other local accounts. Thanks to the use of encryption and additional security, that should no longer be an issue, but it makes me wonder what else Microsoft missed early on.
WorkWork WorkWorkWorkBret Taylor of Sierra joins Disrupt 2024 | TechCrunchJoin us at Disrupt 2024, taking place at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 28-30, as we delve into this topic with Bret, along with a host of other insights. Register your passes today and enjoy savings of up to $600. This offer ends tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT. WorkLast Hours to Snag up to $600 Off Disrupt 2024 Passes | TechCrunchBe sure to catch the excitement of Startup Battlefield 200, a highlight of Disrupt where 200 hand-picked pre-Series A startups present their groundbreaking ideas to a panel of prominent VC judges. They’ll be competing for a $100,000 equity-free prize and the prestigious Disrupt Cup. WorkWorkThe 27-year-old economic adviser for Gen Z - WSJ Sure, she has hundreds of thousands of social-media followers, but she isn’t trying to sell them anything, except maybe a book about the economy she published earlier this year. She’s happy with the title “author," though that only covers part of what she does. “Economic commentator" is what San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly recommended, so that’s what Scanlon has been calling herself. WorkTrump Suggests Putin Wants to End War, as Zelensky Looks OnMr. Zelensky is in a difficult position with Mr. Trump. He knows Mr. Trump has a solid chance of winning in November, and that if he does, he will immediately face a decision over how much support to give to Ukraine and what posture the United States will take in the conflict. Earlier this week, Mr. Zelensky made mildly critical comments about Mr. Trump that almost scuttled their meeting. WorkU.S. Charges Iranians With Hacking Trump CampaignThe influence campaign described in the indictment suggests that Iran’s cyberskills and ambitions have expanded sharply in recent years, learning from techniques that Russia and China have mastered. It suggests rapid progress over the past 15 years, when Iran created its first “cybercorps,” partly in response to a successful American-Israeli breach into its nuclear production facility at Natanz, destroying hundreds of the country’s nuclear centrifuges. WorkIsrael's New Campaign Against Hezbollah Started With Raid in SyriaHezbollah began attacking northern Israel soon after Oct. 7, and the two sides have been exchanging fire ever since. Then on Sept. 17, about a week after the raid, thousands of pagers carried by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon. The next day, hundreds of walkie-talkies used by the militants detonated. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied a role in the attacks, which killed dozens of people and injured more than 3,000. WorkAmerica's partisan divide on EVs has caught car CEOs off guardTrump has also repeatedly voiced an oil-lobby claim that recent Environmental Protection Agency rules that favor EVs are a “mandate” that bans gas-powered cars. If he is elected to a second term in the White House, Trump has promised to freeze the benefits of the IRA, including EV tax credits, something his ally and Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks his company would benefit from. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkHot Microphones and No Audience: Here Are the Rules for the V.P. DebateThe candidates will be given two minutes to answer a moderator’s question, with their rival then granted two minutes to respond. “Then, each candidate gets one minute for further rebuttals,” the rules state. “At the discretion of the moderators, candidates may get an additional minute each to continue a discussion.” WorkDeal to Reopen Libya's Central Bank Eases Fears of Renewed ConflictLibya has been mired in political deadlock, chaos and violence since 2011, when rebels overthrew the country’s longtime dictator, Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi, during the Arab Spring protests. In recent years, the country has been split between rival parallel governments in its east and west, a division that led to an all-out civil war until 2020. WorkThe Big Apple Business View on Eric AdamsPrivately, executives suggest that Adams could stay put for now. The local economy is holding up, despite ongoing concerns about homelessness, crime and other quality-of-life issues. Some suggested that so long as the state’s top Democratic leaders don’t pressure him to go, the mayor has time to fight. WorkLloyd Macklowe, Leading Purveyor of Art Nouveau, Is Dead at 90Mr. Macklowe was selling print advertising for New York area businesses, including the Universal Folding Box Company, and his wife was teaching at P.S. 158, an elementary school on the Upper East Side, when, shortly after marrying in 1964, they sought to furnish their apartment by perusing offerings for secondhand merchandise advertised in The New York Times. WorkMark Zuckerberg Is Done With PoliticsAs recently as June at the Allen and Company conference — the “summer camp for billionaires” in Sun Valley, Idaho — Mr. Zuckerberg complained to multiple people about the blowback to Meta that came from the more politically touchy aspects of his philanthropic efforts. And he regretted hiring employees at his philanthropy who tried to push him further to the left on some causes. WorkTitan Sub Tragedy: Coast Guard Hearings Reveal New InsightsPhil Brooks, who became the company’s engineering leader in 2021, said OceanGate’s financial woes contributed to his decision to leave the company just months before the Titan and its crew were lost. “The company was economically very stressed,” he testified. As a result, he added, safety was “being compromised.” WorkWorkWorkWorkA Remote Alaskan Island Is on High Alert for a RatHer team looked for signs of a rat, like droppings and chew marks, and aimed flashlights at dark corners. It deployed traps loaded with peanut butter and field cameras. It also called in what Dr. Divine described as a “rat strike team,” which includes various federal agencies who assist in case an invasive species makes it to the island. WorkOpenAI sees roughly $5 billion loss this year on $3.7 billion in revenueThe Times, citing an analysis by a financial professional who reviewed OpenAI's documents, reported that the roughly $5 billion in loses this year are tied to costs for running its services as well as employee salaries and office rent. The costs don't include equity-based compensation, "among several large expenses not fully explained in the documents," the paper said. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkKey Fed inflation gauge at 2.2% in August, lower than expectedIn recent days, Fed officials have switched their focus from inflation fighting to an emphasis on supporting a labor market that has shown some signs of softening. At their meeting last week, policymakers indicated a likelihood of another half percentage point in cuts this year then a full point in reductions for 2025, though markets expect a more aggressive path. WorkWhy analysts are calling Cava the next Chipotle"No one had been able to kind of transform the Mexican category into a national chain, and Chipotle did that, said Setyan. "Cava is doing the same thing with the Mediterranean cuisine and concept."Â |
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