The Best of The Wall Street Journal

The unit, once seen as developing a new form of storytelling, had about 50 employees

Disney and Microsoft both closed projects tied to the metaverse this month, while Facebook parent Meta focuses on artificial intelligence.

The CEO behind ChatGPT navigates the line between developing artificial intelligence on the cutting edge and pushing technology to dystopia.

Artificial intelligence is already a big part of our daily lives.

Proposed legislation would require developers to list copyright material used in generative artificial-intelligence tools.

Consumer-packaged goods and finance marketers could see flat ad spending in 2023, while entertainment, travel and betting will enjoy tailwinds, according to a forecast from media investment firm…

In an uncertain economy, companies post ads for jobs that they might not really be trying to fill.

Tension boiled over plans to take control of marketing and other decisions away from content chiefs at Disney.

Some Gen Z professionals are saying no to hustle culture. “I’m not going to go extra.”

Women assessing their careers say they are determined to advance while keeping work-life boundaries intact.

Chess engines were supposed to make classical chess more predictable. Instead, they made the most inventive player of all time more creative.

While his rivals battle for the title in Kazakhstan, the highest rated grandmaster of all time spent a night calling bluffs instead of pushing pawns.

The FTX founder’s approach to risk fueled his rise to the top of the crypto world. Then came the catastrophic fall.

Partner Chris Dixon, who was one of the earliest evangelists for the blockchain technology powering cryptocurrencies, says he has “a very long-term horizon.”

Its own in-depth research shows a significant teen mental-health issue that Facebook plays down in public. Part 2 in a series offering an unparalleled look inside the social-media giant’s failings—and…

The social-media giant internally studied how it polarizes users and how it might address the resulting harms, then largely shelved the research.

Consumers are rethinking their relationship to subscriptions—and so are companies.

Founders Fund, the venture-capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has bought large sums of bitcoin that are now worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is relocating his home and personal investment firms to Los Angeles from San Francisco and scaling back his involvement in the tech industry, people familiar with his…

The combination of high inflation and high market valuations could require revisions to the retirement rule-of-thumb.

People planning for retirement need a game plan for required minimum distributions. Do it right, and they’ll keep more savings in their pockets—and less in the government’s.

Women filled computer-programming jobs in the U.S. and U.K. after World War II, but as government and business professionalized programming, the decline of female coders began.

James Damore says that his good-faith effort to discuss differences between men and women in tech couldn’t be tolerated in the company’s ‘ideological echo chamber.’

From social media to job applications, the pressure to declare our feelings in public is turning us into gushing adolescents.

Greg Robinson, whose boss calls him “the most effective leader of a mission I have ever seen,” turned a $10 billion debacle into a groundbreaking scientific undertaking. Every moonshot is the result…

For Ludwig Wittgenstein and Simone Weil, deep thought and physical labor belonged together.

Finding new homes for a cherished collection of rare books brings back a family’s complicated love affair with reading.

Citizen volunteers teamed up with soldiers to turn the tide in the most consequential European battle since World War II.