A Hello, a Return and a Chicken Potpie

Fancy seeing you here. If you’ve only started reading “Where to Eat” in the last four months, then you may not know me: I’m Nikita Richardson, and I’m freshly returned from a stint on The Times’s Live team covering breaking news. (Thank you so much to Pete Wells for covering for me while I was…

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Microsoft, Amazon and Google Face F.T.C. Inquiry Over A.I. Deals

The Federal Trade Commission opened an inquiry on Thursday into the multibillion-dollar investments by Microsoft, Amazon and Google in the artificial intelligence start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic, broadening the regulator’s efforts to corral the power the tech giants can have over A.I. These deals have allowed the big companies to form deep ties with their smaller…

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