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Sotheby’s is selling several works from the estate of late Swiss collectors Rolf and Margit Weinberg in New York this spring. They span “masterpieces of the late 19th century to pioneering examples of early abstraction and expressionism,” the house said in a statement. Lots from Modern Perspectives: The Collection of Rolf & Margit Weinberg, which will be sold during the house’s modern evening sale on May 13, include works by Edgar Degas, Egon Schiele, Edvard Munch, Henri Matisse, and Wassily Kandinsky. Paul Cézanne’s portrait of his wife, Hortense Fiquert – titled Portrait de Madame Cézanne (c. 1877) – will headline the…

“There’s a new kind of coding I call ‘vibe coding’, where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists,” he said. “I’m building a project or webapp, but it’s not really coding—I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.”  If this all sounds very different from poring over lines of code, that’s because Karpathy was talking about a particular style of coding with AI assistance. His words struck a chord among software developers and enthusiastic amateurs alike. In the months since, his post has…

Step into Dubai’s Al Quoz Industrial district and you’ll see the telltale signs of a place mid-transformation: corrugated steel walls, faded industrial signage, the occasional half-finished mural. But turn onto Alserkal Avenue and the mood shifts—quickly. Scooters whiz by, espresso machines hum, and someone is inevitably hauling a sculpture through the courtyard. It feels like a cultural campus crossed with a start-up utopia, if either of those things came with a heat index of 110. Founded in 2008 by Emirati patron Abdelmonem Bin Eisa Alserkal, the Avenue began with a single vision: to support and catalyze Dubai’s growing cultural infrastructure. The first art…

Listen to the article 13 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. While retailers have a vested interest in understanding all of their shopper demographics, the industry’s youngest customers are always a source of fascination, even before they fully come into their spending power. They represent the future retailers need to build toward, and their preferences will shape investments in the industry in a variety of ways. Although the youngest Gen Zs just entered their teenage years, attention is already turning to their successors, Gen Alpha. The group is still reliant on their parents…

In a world increasingly shaped by generative AI, a new battleground has quietly emerged: how brands appear in machine-generated search results. Now, a startup backed by top investors and marketing veterans is promising to lift the curtain on what some are calling the “black box” of AI search.Brandlight, founded by CEO Imri Marcus, CTO Dvir Dvash and COO Uri Gafni, has emerged from stealth with $5.75 million in funding and a mission to help companies influence how AI models perceive, interpret, and present their brands. Investors in the round include Cardumen Capital and G20 Ventures, along with advisors such as…

Determining how best to incorporate AI in your reporting can be daunting. For journalists and small newsrooms navigating tight deadlines and limited resources, harnessing AI tools to carry out time consuming tasks can be pivotal. For students developing a foundational skill set for future reporting careers, the technology can’t be ignored. Think of AI tools similarly to how you do common applications like Microsoft Excel or Adobe Photoshop: AI can help free up time, which you can in turn dedicate to more in-depth reporting, and more creative writing, visuals and marketing, among other perks. However, a 2024 survey by the…

A new paper co-authored by the former CEO of Google has outlined a future where AI training data centers could be blown up by foreign nations.Eric Schmidt, along with Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and the Center for AI Safety’s Dan Hendrycks, warned that “destabilizing AI developments could rupture the balance of power and raise the odds of great-power conflict.”The paper lays out the concept of Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM), modeled on nuclear mutual assured destruction (MAD), where any “aggressive bid for unilateral AI dominance is met with preventive sabotage by rivals.”This could involve espionage, cyberattacks, or kinetic strikes…

We recently compiled a list of the 15 Best Small Cap AI Stocks to Buy Right Now. In this article, we are going to take a look at where C3.ai, Inc. (NYSE:AI) stands against the other small cap AI stocks. Smaller-cap AI stocks may present potentially attractive investment opportunities for investors seeking exposure beyond the already well-known Big Tech giants. Many of these companies operate quietly under the radar, developing specialized AI products, software, and applications that could significantly impact various sectors, from healthcare and finance to cybersecurity and manufacturing. While large-cap technology leaders have already benefited greatly from early…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appears to have struck a deal with the Trump administration to avoid export restrictions on the company’s H20 AI chips. The H20, the most advanced Nvidia-produced AI chip that can still be exported from the U.S. to China, was reportedly spared thanks to a promise from Huang to invest in new AI data centers in the U.S. According to NPR, Huang made the proposal during a dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort sometime last week. Nvidia declined to comment. Many in the semiconductor industry feared H20s, which are modified to have lower performance than other Nvidia chips,…

Deyuan Liu1*   ·   Peng Sun1,2*   ·   Xufeng Li1,3   ·   Tao Lin1† 1 Westlake University   2 Zhejiang University   3 Nanjing University * These authors contributed equally.   † Corresponding author. [arXiv] [Project Page] Summary:Diffusion models have made impressive progress in generating high-fidelity images. However, training them from scratch requires learning both robust semantic representations and the generative process simultaneously. Our work introduces Embedded Representation Warmup (ERW) – a plug-and-play two-phase training framework that: Phase 1 – Warmup: Initializes the early layers of the diffusion model with high-quality, pretrained visual representations (e.g., from DINOv2 or other self-supervised encoders).…