Biden? Trump? The Politics of Talking About It at the Office.
Some companies have banned political discussions at work, but that might be easier said than done.
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Some companies have banned political discussions at work, but that might be easier said than done.
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An unsteady debate performance by President Biden has scrambled the thinking among some donors about whether the party needs to find an alternative.
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Tax policy, inflation, the economy and markets will be some key issues for corporate America and Wall Street in tonight’s showdown between President Biden and Donald Trump.
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Inside Nvidia’s $500 Billion Wipeout
The chipmaker’s stock has tumbled in recent days, a reminder that the artificial intelligence stock boom could be tough to sustain.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and
The iPhone maker is the first U.S. tech giant charged with breaching the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, potentially exposing it to huge fines.
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Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, the Justice Department’s top antitrust official, talked with DealBook about the agency’s focus on middlemen companies and the challenge of A.I.
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How Billionaires Are Reshaping the Presidential Race
Wealthy donors including Timothy Mellon helped Donald Trump’s campaign out-raise President Biden’s last month, but Democratic supporters are still spending.
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Inside Elon Musk’s Mission to Win Back Advertisers
The billionaire met with senior brand executives at the Cannes Lions advertising festival this week, after crudely telling them off last year.
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Elon Musk’s Mindset: ‘It’s a Weakness to Want to Be Liked’
In an interview, the tech billionaire slams advertisers for pulling back from X and discusses his emotional state.
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Kamala Harris on Polling and Polarization
In an interview, the vice president discusses the extent to which she follows polls and why social division is like a virus.
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Jamie Dimon on Why He Thinks We Are Living in One of the Most Dangerous Times
The JP Morgan chief on E.S.G., the dire state of the global economy and Elon Musk.
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Bob Iger of Disney on Culture Wars and Streaming
The chief executive talks about returning to the company’s roots while adapting to changing times.
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How Andrew Ross Sorkin Gets Business and World Leaders to Open Up
The many sides of Elon Musk, the challenges of political interviews, warming up guests beforehand — we take you behind the scenes of the DealBook Summit.
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At the DealBook Summit, Leaders Contend With an ‘Existential Moment’
Even leaders who usually display unrestrained confidence expressed anxiety about the state of the world.
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The 2024 Election Will Be Unlike Any Other. Is the Media Ready?
Journalists are facing “deep fakes,” sagging trust, global unrest and an unprecedented Trump campaign being run “from the courthouse steps.”
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Addressing the Tensions Between China and the Rest of the World
U.S.-China trade is at a record high, but businesses and governments are wrestling with how to balance national security and commercial interests.
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In the Creator Economy, There Is Money to Be Made
People from all types of backgrounds have become stars — and it’s a trend that’s expected to get even bigger and make them even richer in years to come.
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Silicon Valley Confronts a Grim New A.I. Metric
Where do you fall on the doom scale — is artificial intelligence a threat to humankind? And if so, how high is the risk?
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The C-suite has been relatively quiet about the presidential election, as executives fear becoming a political target.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni
VW and Rivian, a maker of electric trucks that has struggled to increase sales and break even, will work together on software and other technologies.
By Jack Ewing
The tech giant has been accused of stifling competition by packaging its video conferencing app with other tools like Word and Excel.
By Adam Satariano
Corporate executives complain about some of President Biden’s policies, along with his rhetoric. But so far they have not abandoned him en masse.
By Ben Casselman, Jim Tankersley, Sydney Ember and Theodore Schleifer
The company’s latest internal memo about its corporate culture is more about how it expects employees to behave than what it wants to become.
By Nicole Sperling
The company’s App Store policies are illegal under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act, according to regulators in Brussels.
By Adam Satariano and Tripp Mickle
SoftBank and Naver helped bridge geopolitical relations with a joint venture to own the operator of the messaging app Line, but now the partnership is fraying.
By River Akira Davis
Economists are debating what effect the singer’s sweep through Europe will have this summer as swarms of fans increase demand for hotels and services.
By Eshe Nelson
Executives challenged the anti-immigration policies of the far-right candidate Jordan Bardella and spending plans by a left-wing coalition at a packed gathering in Paris.
By Liz Alderman
The European Union will impose economic penalties aimed at some shipments of Russian natural gas, hoping to deprive Moscow of income.
By Melissa Eddy
Officials kept rates at their highest level since 2008 for a seventh consecutive meeting, even as inflation dipped to 2 percent in May.
By Eshe Nelson
Portfolio managers have conflicting incentives as the economic and financial risks from climate change become more apparent but remain imprecise.
By Lydia DePillis
The rebuke for breaking European Union rules that require strict financial discipline comes two weeks before French voters head to the polls for parliamentary elections.
By Liz Alderman
After more than a decade of deep budget cuts, slow growth and weak productivity, the country has struggled to overcome years of uncertainty and underinvestment.
By Eshe Nelson
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The company became the latest electric vehicle start-up to fail to meet investors’ expectations after a high-profile public debut.
By Danielle Kaye
Dave Calhoun, the embattled company’s C.E.O., heads to Capitol Hill amid new whistle-blower accusations and questions over succession.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni
He co-founded D.L.J., the first securities firm to offer shares to the public. As S.E.C. chairman, he pressed for a stronger watchdog role after a series of accounting scandals.
By James R. Hagerty
Vivek Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general, wants warning labels on the tech platforms, arguing that they are fueling a mental health crisis among teens.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch, Ephrat Livni and Vivienne Walt
The company’s TNT channel and the N.B.A. have long been inextricably linked, but that may end after next season. Plus, Charles Barkley is retiring.
By Tania Ganguli, Kevin Draper and Nicole Sperling
For 50 years, Michaels has managed both the weekly circus of producing “Saturday Night Live” and the broader task of keeping it relevant. How does he do it?
By Lauren Hirsch
Investors worry about a possible debt crisis in the country as polls show the far right could be brought to the brink of power in less than a month.
By Liz Alderman
Investors voted overwhelmingly to reinstate the C.E.O.’s multibillion-dollar compensation package, inextricably tying the car maker’s future to the tech billionaire.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni
About 72 percent of shares in the balloting affirmed the chief executive’s lucrative stock award. The company hopes to get a court to reinstate it.
By Jason Karaian and Jack Ewing
The league has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to cultivate an immense potential fan base in Africa and develop future stars.
By Tania Ganguli
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On the social media platform X, which Mr. Musk owns, reactions to a vote that reaffirmed Mr. Musk’s $45 billion package were buoyant.
By Eli Tan
The vote was seen as a referendum on his management of the electric car maker and on the limits of executive pay.
By Jack Ewing and Peter Eavis
Markets appear to be dismissing the central bank’s more pessimistic take on inflation, as the S&P 500 nears a new high.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch, Ephrat Livni, Benjamin Mullin and Vivienne Walt
Tesla mechanics in Sweden have been striking for six months with little movement from their employer. Nordic shareholders hope to change that.
By Melissa Eddy
A huge run-up in the stock’s value followed a 2018 vote on Elon Musk’s compensation package. But investors have recently become less enamored.
By Peter Eavis and Jack Ewing
The deal is a rare example of a traditional Hollywood studio owning a movie theater chain.
By Danielle Kaye
The vote is seen as a referendum on the limits of executive pay and the accountability of Silicon Valley billionaires.
By Jack Ewing and Peter Eavis
After months of negotiations, Shari Redstone walked away from a tie-up with SkyDance. Here’s how a plan to reshape the media conglomerate broke apart.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch, Ephrat Livni and Benjamin Mullin
Created by alumni from Meta and Google, Mistral is just a year old and has already raised more than $1 billion in total from investors, leading to eye-popping valuations.
By Adam Satariano
The tech giant announced a slew of artificial intelligence-focused features, but also signaled it will be patient in rolling out the technology to users.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni
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Wall Street and Silicon Valley will be watching the company’s developers conference closely for signs of whether the iPhone maker can finally catch up on artificial intelligence.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch, Ephrat Livni and Vivienne Walt
Apple, a latecomer to artificial intelligence, has struck a deal with OpenAI and developed tools to improve its Siri voice assistant, which it is set to showcase on Monday.
By Tripp Mickle
The company has lobbied to reinstate the package awarded to Musk six years ago — now worth about $56 billion — after a Delaware judge voided it.
By Michael J. de la Merced and Sarah Kessler
The latest data could add to fears that the labor market remains too hot to bring inflation fully under control.
By Ben Casselman
A week after his criminal conviction, the former president was in deep-blue San Francisco raising money from some of Silicon Valley’s best-connected entrepreneurs and investors.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni
Mr. Lynch, who was accused of defrauding Hewlett-Packard after it paid $11 billion for his software company, spent a decade working to clear his name.
By Michael J. de la Merced
The quarter-point reduction comes as inflation in the eurozone cools, prompting the E.C.B. to move before the Federal Reserve in the United States, where rates remain high.
By Eshe Nelson
The Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department are set to proceed with investigations into the dominance of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni
The distress in commercial real estate is growing as some office buildings sell for much lower prices than just a few years ago.
By Joe Rennison and Julie Creswell
Humane’s Ai Pin was supposed to free people from smartphones, but sales have been slow. Now Humane is talking to HP and others about a potential sale.
By Tripp Mickle and Erin Griffith
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The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.
By David McCabe
The European Central Bank is widely expected to cut interest rates on Thursday. But how low it can go may ultimately depend on the Federal Reserve.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni
A “competitiveness crisis” is raising alarms for officials and business leaders in the European Union, where investment, income and productivity are lagging.
By Patricia Cohen
With eurozone inflation falling, the European Central Bank has signaled it is ready to lower rates this week, diverging from the U.S. Federal Reserve.
By Eshe Nelson
The billionaire investor’s profile has soared on social media. That could help him grow Pershing Square, his financial empire.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch, Ephrat Livni and Theodore Schleifer
A post on a long-dormant Reddit account suggested the trader known as Roaring Kitty had amassed a large stake in the video game retailer.
By Michael J. de la Merced
Michael Saylor did not pay any income taxes to Washington despite living there from 2005 through 2020, the attorney general for the District of Columbia said.
By Lauren Hirsch
The technology company MicroStrategy and its founder, Michael Saylor, agreed to a $40 million deal to end a lawsuit accusing him of evading income tax.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni
“The consumer was a fat pig — now there’s nothing left, and they need to feed the pig again,” one banker told DealBook.
By Lauren Hirsch, Sarah Kessler and Ephrat Livni
The Tesla chief executive is taking to his social media company to press shareholders to vote for a critical pay package on June 13.
By Kate Conger and Jack Ewing
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Money flowed into the former president’s re-election campaign from Wall Street and Silicon Valley following Thursday’s historic conviction.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni
The Republican is courting the mogul to bolster his re-election fight, but the Biden campaign sees a political opportunity to exploit.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni
ConocoPhillips has agreed to buy Marathon Oil for $22.5 billion, as consolidation in the U.S. energy sector shows little sign of slowing down.
By Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ravi Mattu, Bernhard Warner, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch, Ephrat Livni and Edmund Lee
The takeover is the latest in a wave of consolidation sweeping the oil industry, with the biggest players rushing to acquire smaller rivals.
By Bernhard Warner and Rebecca F. Elliott
After some trying years during which Mr. Zuckerberg could do little right, many developers and technologists have embraced the Meta chief as their champion of “open-source” artificial intelligence.
By Mike Isaac
The kingdom is trying to juggle its still-vital petroleum industry with alternative energy sources like wind and solar as it faces pressure to lower carbon emissions.
By Stanley Reed
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