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A.I. Needs Power, Land and Data Centers. Bruce Flatt’s $1 Trillion Brookfield Already Owns Much of It.

Long before ChatGPT, Brookfield spent decades buying power plants, utilities and what one executive calls “boring businesses.
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Inside the Room: The Founders, Investors and Operators at Observer’s A.I. Power Index Party

Founders, CEOs and investors packed Dante Elizabeth Street as Bloomberg’s Shawn Edwards and Candidly’s Laurel Taylor accepted ...
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In a Class Defined by Size, the Lexus LX 600 Distinguishes Itself Through Design

To find the LX 600’s competition, you have to look at the luxury SUVs that make no particular claims to ruggedness: the ...
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Tinder CTO Vinay Kuruvila Is Making the World’s Biggest Dating App A.I.-Pilled

Tinder is using A.I. at every stage of the dating journey, from choosing profile photos to deciding who users see next. Its ...
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How Industry Fairs Evolved into Places to Meet Horology’s Most Famous Makers

Collector-focused watch shows are proliferating across the United States and around the world, reflecting a fundamental shift ...
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Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka Found a Blueprint for Survival in Ancestral Ways of Making

At the Venice Biennale and beyond, the Japanese Canadian artist turns handmade paper into sculpture that links psychological ...
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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Built The Row Into a $1 Billion Label by Keeping It Private. Their Spotify Playlists Are the Rare Window In.

As The Row makes its Paris Fashion Week debut as an FHCM member, Frédéric Sanchez and Maison Kitsuné’s Antoine Ressaussière ...
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A Cannes Bakery Is Making the Case for Sourdough on the French Riviera

The modern boulangerie has built a following among chefs and residents with long-lasting loaves, old-world fermentation and a ...
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How the Most Enduring Paris Fashion Houses Outlived Their Founders

From Louis Vuitton’s monogram to Schiaparelli’s Place Vendôme return, seven Parisian labels owe their longevity to successors ...
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Tinder CTO Says Top Engineers Spend $15,000 a Month on A.I. Tokens

Tinder is using A.I. to reshape everything from recommendations and profile photos to the code powering the app itself.
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Why Dolly Parton Never Became a Billionaire

Throughout her life, she dedicated herself to using her money in a way that could do the most good for the most people. Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images for The Recording Academy She practiced singing ...
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Constantin Nitsche Wrestles with the Limits of Painting

In conversation with Observer, the artist describes working without concept or deadline, the longing for completeness he borrowed from Kafka and how Marseille inspired him to embrace a broader ...