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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...
...The group, which includes Glen Weyl, a Microsoft economist and researcher, Danielle Allen, a Harvard philosopher and director of the Safra Center for Ethics, and many other industry notables, is sounding...
...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....
...Glen Cronin has been recruited from Rothschild while David Burlison has been hired from Lazard. Jones Day has hired W. Anders Folk and Kristin Berger Parker as partners in its Minneapolis office....
...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...
.... $236 And the best gifts I’ve received are the prints by pop artist Allen Jones that my mother used to buy me....
...Macro funds overall made an average of 8.5 per cent in the first half of the year, according to Hedge Fund Research, with Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater and Andrew Law’s Caxton Associates among those profiting....
...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....
...Among the latter was John, 54, a financial adviser in Glen Rock, who was clad in a black tracksuit and puffing on a cigar while he walked his miniature dog down the main drag on a recent evening....
...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....
...Thug and Nicki Minaj, as Sir Elton does on The Lockdown Sessions, or mouthing stentorian platitudes about every root having branches, as we find the Rocketman doing in the company of country singer Jimmie Allen...
...Ray Dalio is not among them....
...He joins from Allen & Overy. Freshfields has appointed 27 new partners....
...As Andrew Whiffin writes in the excellent Lex Newsletter this week, that is exactly what City minister John Glen told the Association of British Insurers at its annual dinner....
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