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Has friendship of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett reached final act?

As Berkshire global shareholders made their pilgrimage to Omaha for the conglomerate's annual meeting, they were delighted by the public displays of the pair's friendship

How the alt-right became mainstream

Reeve's reporting begins around 2013, but the internet culture she depicts starts at least a decade earlier

Behind prisoner swap: Spies, a killer, secret messages, unseen diplomacy

Quiet negotiations between the United States and Russia over a possible prisoner swap had dragged on for more than a year

Bomb smuggled into Tehran guesthouse months ago killed Hamas leader: Report

An explosive device hidden in a heavily guarded complex where Ismail Haniyeh was known to stay in Iran was what killed him, according to a Times investigation

Economics of Olympics: Why is it so hard for host cities to control costs

Figuring out how to keep host city expenses on budget is vital for the Olympics, which have struggled to find host cities in places where citizens have a say in the decision

Iron lady versus autocrat: Venezuela faces existential vote for president

The election, held on the birthday of the movement's founder, Hugo Chávez, pits Chávez's successor, President Nicolás Maduro, against the previously little-known Edmundo González, a former diplomat

A lesser-known history of maths

Madhava's work serves to make point that complex mathematics belongs to all people and all cultures in all periods, and that to dismiss historical work as ethnomathematics is to express a prejudice

Secret family battle for Murdoch empire revealed in sealed court documents

Since Murdoch designed the trust nearly 25 years ago, the family's political views have diverged sharply

Paris Olympics 2024: Security thins out tourists, business down 50%

Many are hoping that tourists will flood back after the restrictions are eased, but Paris trade organizations warned that more than 1,000 entrepreneurs would struggle to recoup losses

Democrats donate over $50 mn online after Biden exits presidential race

The huge amount is based on a New York Times analysis of the online ticker of contributions maintained by ActBlue, the leading site processing Democratic donations

Chinese billionaire criminal secretly profited off Jack Ma's deals

Xiao Jianhua was languishing in detention on bribery and corruption charges - a larger-than-life target of a government crackdown on graft

Why the global league of autocrats thrives

One of the great failures of neoliberalism was to assume that all good things would go together

Data that powers artificial intelligence is disappearing a rapid pace

Over the past year, many of the most important web sources used for training AI models have restricted the use of their data, according to a study by the Data Provenance Initiative

US elections: Can Trump-Vance administration herald new era for dollar?

"As your president, one would think that I would be thrilled with our very strong dollar," Trump said in 2019

From sceptic to superfan: Senator JD Vance's dramatic Trump turnabout

That was nearly a decade ago, when Trump's political ascent coincided with Vance's rise as the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," his memoir of growing up poor in Ohio

How Microsoft's Satya Nadella became tech industry's steely-eyed AI gambler

The notion that Nadella is a steely-eyed risk taker with a grand vision for AI can be hard to square with his history as a low-key boss in an industry full of corner office peacocks

Bernie Madoff: Thoughts from the jailhouse

For every dollar he stole, Madoff seems to have generated at least one piece of regular paper

Spacesuits to dome habitats: Inside Elon Musk's plan to colonise Mars

Musk, 53, has directed SpaceX employees to drill into the design and details of a Martian city, according to five people with knowledge of the efforts and documents viewed by NYT

Tesla's share of US electric car market slips below 50% for first time

The numbers are the latest sign that Tesla is losing its dominance in a market it in effect created in 2012 when it introduced the Model S sedan

As EV revolution slows down, automobile major Ferrari enters the race

A lot is riding on Ferrari's 200-million-euro "e-building," which went into operation last month and is nearly twice the size of Rome's Colosseum