“Dick was always by our side,” Henry Kravis of KKR, whom Beattie advised in the Nabisco takeover fight, told me. Kravis also mentioned this moving anecdote

on.ft.com/4jB6PUs Top Paul Weiss lawyer defects from firm after its capitulation to Donald Trump

Does it feel like there are a lot of crypto physical attacks — ie, kidnappings, assaults, &c — these days? (Hard to escape that feeling with the latest arrests in NYC.)

@bwarner.bsky.social finds that we could be heading toward a record this year in today's DealBook www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

Ouch www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/b...

Jesus, it's been a while, longer than I could have ever dreamed of. Also, perhaps a sign that I've been here so long I forgot when my work anniversary was

What a description

Spicing up the Tulane M&A law conference this morning

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

And if you want to read the full responses by both R1 and o1, check them out here

DeepSeek R1:
ChatGPT o1: chatgpt.com/share/67994a...

Both chatbots laid out a series of steps for de-escalating the conflict and creating scenarios where all the sides could claim some victory.

Interestingly, both laid out fairly similar strategies, though o1 made more of an argument for why there was no need to fight.

Have been playing around with DeepSeek and, while this is super-surface-level and probably addressable if you modified your own version of DS, this is kinda interesting

Oh, and this is true

On site at the @nytimes.com DealBook Summit, where @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social is going to interview some of the biggest newsmakers around: Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman, Serena Williams, Alex Cooper, Prince Harry and more www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/b...

This is me

Never let 'em see you bleed (cf. www.wsj.com/business/air...)