Tag: business
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Max von Thun is the Director of Europe and Transatlantic Partnerships at the Open Markets Institute, an anti-monopoly think-tank. In late September, Amazon announced a sweeping new “strategic collaboration” with… more ›
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This is the second part of Betting the Firm. In Part I, we explored why the company of the future will look like a venture fund. In Part II, we… more ›
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Why does every store suddenly look the same? Inside Brooklyn’s Big Night. Yes, it has fancy anchovies. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.… more ›
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Before they gobbled up headlines everywhere, large language models ingested truly staggering amounts of data to train their models. That training data didn’t emerge from the ether: Some of it… more ›
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Google plans to add conversational artificial-intelligence features to its flagship search engine, Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai said, as it deals with pressure from chatbots such as ChatGPT and wider… more ›
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When NFT (non-fungible token) sales surged in the spring of 2021, the art world held its breath for a digital culture shift. https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/12/02/nft-artist-royalties-under-threat more ›
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As Russian supplies divide the diamond world, much of the tension is focused in the “midstream,” a vast network of mostly family-owned businesses that cut, polish and trade the world’s… more ›
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For nearly as long as there have been cities, there have been efforts to create ideal cities. The Italian Renaissance saw the birth of places like Pienza and Palmanova, exquisitely… more ›
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GUANGZHOU, China — As I walked through the narrow alleyways of the garment district here in China’s third-largest city one afternoon, I saw a woman I’ll call Wong Yip sitting beside… more ›