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Losing Beck

Photo: Perou This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. It was the summer of 2000, and Leigh Limon was working late on the set of Southlander, an independent movie her boyfriend, the musician Beck Hansen, had a supporting role in. The film followed

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Are global stock markets heading for a crash?

At the height of the summer, the mood was optimistic in the world’s financial capitals. Powered by the AI revolution, the US stock market had rallied to a fresh all-time high, as investors bet the multitrillion-dollar investment spree would overshadow the hit from the Iran war. Now the warning lights

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How DraftKings Uses A.I. to Target the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose

Credit...Hokyoung Kim times investigation Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction. Credit...Hokyoung Kim Listen · 20:57 min Sept. 19, 2026 About a year into his job as a data analyst at DraftKings, Jayden Butts

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