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...The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with Computers by Ray Kurzweil (Bodley Head)One of the most influential and far-sighted thinkers on artificial intelligence offers a “thrillingly positive” vision...
...The book offers a scathing investigation of the “radical transparency” espoused by Bridgewater’s billionaire founder Ray Dalio....
...It is tempting, for example, to take George Soros’ theory of reflexivity or Ray Dalio’s talk about five big forces of history seriously as predictive frameworks....
...Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It by Amy Finkelstein, Liran Einav and Ray Fisman (Yale University Press) With a focus on the US, Risky Business tackles knotty questions...
...Following the bankruptcy filing, Bankman-Fried was replaced as chief executive of FTX by John Ray III, a restructuring expert who represented plaintiffs in the Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford frauds and...
...Ray McGuire, the Wall Street rainmaker who joined Lazard as president in April, welcomes the new blood....
...As well as two other works by Ruscha, the auction will have three paintings by Philip Guston — including his “Chair” (1976, est $12mn-$18mn) — and pieces by Man Ray, Henri Matisse and Ken Price....
...He joins from Allen & Overy. Law firm Goodwin has named 58 new partners....
...(“Madonna of the Magnificat”, from the collection of the late Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, sold for $48.5mn with fees at Christie’s New York in November.)...
...When a new owner wanted to finish Charles Deaton’s trippy flying saucer-inspired Sculptured House — famous for its appearance in Woody Allen’s 1973 comedy Sleeper — he called Ray to complete the unfinished...
...It’s a bold statement from someone who helped liquidate Enron’s operations and represented plaintiffs in the Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford frauds....
...a hint of David Lynch in its theatrically spot-lit red velvet curtains and dark rooms, and the exhibits are, from the first moment, the absolute lodestones of the movement, from Dalí’s paintings to Man Ray...
...The melancholic, drifting prose of Duncan’s earlier novels has earned him comparisons to German émigré author WG Sebald, whose books Geoff Dyer once described as having a “posthumous quality” to them; this...
.... $236 And the best gifts I’ve received are the prints by pop artist Allen Jones that my mother used to buy me....
...So Ray Dalio has spoken directly to officials from the Chinese Communist party and is encouraged that they have told him that their recent actions do not mean that foreigners and foreign investors are not...
...Allen & Overy, meanwhile, will invite 1,000 people to a City of London venue for more traditional fare of live music, food and drink....
...But Allen was unrepentant, arguing that he had clearly disclosed how he generated the image and that he had broken no rules....
...(Allen Lane, February), while in The Last Days of Roger Federer (Canongate, May), Geoff Dyer examines the daunting subject of late middle age, looking at the “late and last” achievements of artists, athletes...
...I well remember its December opening, a ray of light when inflation was truly rampant in Britain and the stock market stood at about half the index value it had reached three years before....
...Ray Dalio is not among them....
...He joins from Allen & Overy. Freshfields has appointed 27 new partners....
...The Startup Wifeby Tahmima Anam, Canongate Books £14.99 This whip-sharp novel about Asha Ray, a Bangladeshi-American scientist and entrepreneur, is both an entertaining read and a searing examination of...
...I was asked to scout bands in Birmingham in 1965 and heard a voice that sounded like Ray Charles, but higher pitched. It ended up being Steve Winwood....
...The title of Sen’s book is drawn from a Tagore novel, The Home and the World, which is about the complexities of India’s struggle against western domination that was also immortalised in a Satyajit Ray movie...
...At present, AI systems are only good at one narrow thing — such as playing chess or Go, or reading X-rays — and have no general intelligence....
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