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Why Chile Might Be South America’s Most Overlooked Adventure Capital
From Atacama to Patagonia, Chile makes extremes easy with dark-sky nights, glacier days and coastal dinners.
11/30/2025, 7:30:00 AM PST
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The Best Art Galleries in Vienna, Austria
Largely recognized for its imperial grandeur, this city is home to a thriving network of contemporary galleries that offer a balance of bold experimentation and classic artistic traditions.
11/29/2025, 6:16:12 AM PST
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Gagosian’s Kara Vander Weg On Shaping the Afterlife of an Artist’s Work
The gallery’s “Building a Legacy Program” demonstrates how careful stewardship can pull even underappreciated artists back from the brink of market amnesia.
11/28/2025, 11:00:10 AM PST
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Japan’s Bold Bid to Lead the Next Era of A.I.
Japan is positioning itself as a global A.I. hub, blending regulation, industry adoption and homegrown models.
11/28/2025, 10:21:52 AM PST
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The Cozy Red Wines to Gift for the Holidays
A globe-trotting mix of cabernets, pinot noirs and off-beat varietals proves that the season’s coziest red-wine gifts don’t have to be predictable.
11/28/2025, 7:45:00 AM PST
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The Confidence Trap: How Companies Misjudge Talent—and Lose Their Best Leaders
Professor Ginka Toegel, a leading expert on organisational behaviour and leadership at IMD Business School and author of The Confidence Myth, examines why companies continue to confuse confidence with competence, and how that misalignment quietly distorts promotion decisions. By unpacking new data on potential ratings, feedback patterns, and promotion outcomes, Toegel shows that the future of effective leadership development depends on replacing intuition-driven judgments with evidence-based sys…
11/28/2025, 7:00:35 AM PST
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The Best Holiday Gifts for the Art Lovers and Artists On Your List
Here's what to buy the art enthusiast in your life.
11/28/2025, 5:15:00 AM PST
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The $10 Million Hermès Problem: Estate Planning When Luxury Collectibles Outpace the Art Market
From a $10 million Birkin to a $2.9 million Macallan, luxury collectibles are transforming not only the alternative asset market but also estate and tax planning.
11/28/2025, 5:00:32 AM PST
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11 Executives Driving Anthropic’s Meteoric Rise in the A.I. Boom
A detailed look at the founders, executives and board members guiding Anthropic’s explosive growth.
11/28/2025, 5:00:28 AM PST
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Why Some Collectors Sell Their Artworks Through Trusts
A charitable remainder unitrust provides art collectors looking to sell with a stream of income and a smaller tax burden than they would face if they sold a work outright.
11/27/2025, 9:00:07 AM PST
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Real Estate’s Last Black Box Is About to Break Open
Blake O’Shaughnessy, a top real estate broker turned tech founder, examines why the housing market still operates behind a wall of inaccessible data, creating a system where buyers and sellers are forced to navigate one of life’s biggest financial decisions with incomplete information. Transparent, accessible housing data, he argues, is the infrastructure shift that will finally modernize real estate and make the market work for the people it’s supposed to serve.
11/27/2025, 8:30:12 AM PST
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Why Real-World Utility, Not Meme Coin Mania, Will Drive Crypto’s Next Wave
Maksym Sakharov, group CEO and co-founder of WeFi, examines why the next phase of crypto growth won’t be driven by meme coins or speculative manias, but by the rapid rise of stablecoins, tokenized assets and decentralized on-chain banking. Sakharov argues that real-world payments and robust infrastructure will define crypto’s evolution into a mature parallel financial system.
11/27/2025, 7:00:18 AM PST
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Tiny Treasures: The Stocking Stuffers She’ll Love This Holiday Season
These chic stocking stuffers prove that bigger isn't always better.
11/27/2025, 6:00:20 AM PST
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Defying Definition: Why Fictional Words Cast Such a Spell On Us
It’s time to brush up on the art of the sniglet, because 'Wicked: For Good' is about to bring familiar yet fantastical and tongue-twisting neologisms back to the big screen.
11/27/2025, 5:00:57 AM PST
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OpenAI’s Secretive A.I. Gadget Designed by Jony Ive Aims to Redefine Tech’s Vibe
Altman and Ive say OpenAI's first A.I. device aims to replace tech’s chaos with calm, simplicity and a touch of whimsy.
11/26/2025, 12:43:44 PM PST
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This A.I. Startup Hiring Neurodivergent Workers Beats Scale AI in Major Defense Contract
The Virginia startup Enabled Intelligence beats Scale AI for a major military contract.
11/26/2025, 9:38:51 AM PST
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Hans van Manen Remembers Photographer Erwin Olaf
"The last time I saw him, he had so many ideas—some serious and some scandalous—and he shared them from his hospital bed. It was deeply moving," he told Observer.
11/26/2025, 9:27:44 AM PST
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A.I. Leaders Warn Entry-Level White-Collar Jobs Are Being Automated Away
Top A.I. and business leaders warn that automation is hollowing out the early-career white-collar pipeline.
11/26/2025, 8:43:50 AM PST
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Manar Abu Dhabi Illuminates a Growing Ecosystem of Creativity and Public Engagement
The sweeping open-air exhibition stretches from Al Ain’s 400-year-old fort to the mangrove islands of Jubail, recasting the U.A.E.’s cultural landscape through the elemental language of light.
11/26/2025, 8:13:57 AM PST
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The Most Unique Bottles of Gin to Gift this Holiday Season
From ant-infused distillations to hand-carved Kenyan juniper bottles, these gins are engineered to delight and dominate any bar cart.
11/26/2025, 7:30:00 AM PST