May 2026

Jensen Huang Eyes CPU Boom as Agentic A.I. Reshapes Chip Market

Nvidia’s astronomical rise to the world’s most valuable public company. was propelled by its graphics processing units (GPUs). Now, as A.I. enters its agentic phase, CEO Jensen Huang is betting future growth on central processing units (CPUs), long a secondary focus for the company. “The world has 1 billion human users. My sense is that

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Barry X Ball Connects the Secular and Sacred in “The Shape of Time”

Long before the age of museum commissions and mega-galleries, the Catholic Church was at the epicenter of the European art world. Renaissance-era patrons, eager to curry favor with a powerful papacy and to flaunt their wealth, poured their money into lavish paintings and sculptures given as gifts to the Church, and artists made their livings

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Christie’s Wednesday Sales Achieved $162.7 Million as Bonhams’ 20th & 21st Century Evening Sale Topped $22 Million

There is very little room for error left among the major auction houses: increasingly, every consignment and sale must be executed with perfection, so that, at worst, a lot will go underestimated but still sell, particularly in the main evening sales and for headline-generating consignments. Last night, Christie’s delivered another solid but less dynamic performance

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