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A.I. companies are being built in an environment where investor enthusiasm often outpaces customer proof. A $100 million funding round may signal investor confidence, but for many audiences—especially prospective customers—it says little about whether the company is credible or its product is delivering meaningful results. The same is true of polished launch videos going viral […]

Carl Thoma is 77 years old, a billionaire and one of Dallas’s most prominent art collectors. Together with his wife Marilynn, whom he met while studying at Oklahoma State University, he has assembled an art collection remarkable not only for its scale but also for its geographic, historic and stylistic breadth. The Thomas’ holdings encompass

A.I. is reshaping online dating, from recommending matches on Tinder to helping users break the ice on Hinge. Love-seekers now navigate platforms where algorithms increasingly guide their decisions. Done well, these tools can improve the experience and lead to better matches; done poorly, they risk drowning out authentic human communication. At Match Group—the parent company

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As the foggy days of June gloom finally begin to loosen their grip (albeit reluctantly), Angelenos are settling into the warmer days of high summer. Though the city’s World Cup hosting has come to an end, the local dining scene is keeping pace with an exciting round of July openings.  June also marked a noteworthy

The expectation that artificial intelligence will soon invade every aspect of modern life is cliché by now, but that world-altering technology found its way into the automotive world ahead of schedule. From voice recognition to satellite navigation, more rudimentary forms of A.I. became part of the driving experience more than a decade ago. Those functions

In 2007, Enrico Buonocore opened Langosteria on Milan’s Via Savona. It was an intimate, seafood-led restaurant with only 40 seats, focused on quality of ingredients rather than ostentatiousness. It was also a one-off—Buonocore never imagined the scale of the hospitality empire he has since built across Europe. And at the time, Buonocore was acting as

July 15, 2026 Power in artificial intelligence has stopped moving through the channels everyone was trained to watch. There was a time (not long ago, though it already feels quaint) when you could rank the field by compute and capital raised, and the ranking would roughly match reality. That scoreboard no longer explains who wins.

Just before the art world sailed off for its summer break, the two biggest auction houses posted record half-year results, with Christie’s leading at $4.5 billion in revenue, followed closely by Sotheby’s at $4.4 billion. The week before, Phillips posted a solid $507 million spring season, up 60 percent from the previous year. According to