OpenAI said it will be restructured as a public benefit corporation, and the nonprofit that controls the organization would receive shares in the new company.OpenAI revealed details on Friday about its plans to adopt a new corporate structure that will remove the company from control by a nonprofit that has...
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The Embraer 190 was traveling to Grozny, Russia, but crashed near Aktau, Kazakhstan, killing 38 people onboard. Investigators are focusing on Russian air defense as the likely cause.A passenger plane carrying 67 people, traveling from Baku, Azerbaijian, to Grozny, Russia, crashed on Wednesday on the shore of the Caspian Sea...
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The hospital, Kamal Adwan, has been caught in the middle of Israel’s offensive against Hamas militants in northern Gaza.The Israeli military forced patients and staff members to leave one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza on Friday, and officials in the Gaza health ministry said they had lost...
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Read some of our best journalism that you may have missed this year.Journalists learned a tough lesson when they began posting articles online: Sometimes, the stories we work hardest on get overlooked.Some of the reasons for this are obvious. Maybe a beautifully crafted feature story is overtaken by a major...
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The vote was the second major impeachment in two weeks after President Yoon’s ill-fated martial law bid set off turmoil. The country’s currency has plunged.Lawmakers from South Korea’s governing party protested on Friday against a vote to impeach the country’s acting president, Han Duck-soo. The motion, which passed 192-0, came...
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After moving to oust President Yoon Suk Yeol, opposition lawmakers voted to impeach the interim leader as well. Here’s how the turmoil unfolded.President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived declaration of martial law has created South Korea’s biggest constitutional crisis since the country democratized in the late 1980s.On Dec. 14, Mr. Yoon,...
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He built Suzuki Motor from a small company into a global powerhouse, entering the Indian market in the 1980s in one of his early successes.Osamu Suzuki, who led Suzuki Motor for more than four decades and transformed the Japanese automaker into a global powerhouse, has died. He was 94.Suzuki Motor...
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The settlements culminate a lengthy personal and legal odyssey for the first accuser, Alex Harrison, who was subsequently shunned by teammates and parents.In an unexpected legal twist, a school district in Marin County, Calif., has paid $17.5 million to four former high school students who accused a predatory tennis coach...
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The long-range missiles provided by the United States and Britain were used to strike inside Russian territory, despite concerns that their use would escalate the conflict. Kyiv’s stockpiles are running out.With much fanfare, Ukraine was granted permission to fire Western long-range missiles at Russian military targets more than a month...
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It wasn’t long ago that Havana’s Plaza of the Revolution was packed with American tourists knocking into each other with selfie sticks while taking photos of the iconic image of the revolutionary Che Guevara and trying to catch a ride in a candy-apple red 1952 Chevrolet Bel-Air.Today, those polished 1950s-era...
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Times Opinion staffers share how they escaped it all this year.By the end of the year, many of us feel exhausted by the news. So we asked the staff members of Times Opinion to share how they escaped it all this year. These are the habits we started, the ones...
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Russia’s state aviation authority said the Azerbaijan Airlines plane had been trying to make an emergency landing. The Kazakh authorities said that at least 29 people survived.Dozens of people were feared dead after a jet carrying 62 passengers and five crew members crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan...
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