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...George Hammond: Google seemed to have been caught a little bit cold by the launch of ChatGPT last year. Why do you think that was? Are they in a position to catch up?...
Liquidity crunch leads investors such as Andreessen Horowitz to sovereign wealth funds in Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE
Options include teaming up with a large buyout group to bid for portions of collapsed US lender’s business
Moves by Alphabet, Meta and Salesforce come as companies respond to downturn in sector’s stocks by cutting costs
...Additional reporting from Tabby Kinder, Richard Waters, Tim Bradshaw and George Hammond. This article has been amended to clarify Mustafa Suleyman’s role at Google....
New York-based firm’s slow pace of raising comes amid leadership change and broader fall for venture capital
Executive’s decision to step back ‘based largely on geography’ after move to Florida during pandemic
...Additional reporting by Stephen Morris and George Hammond in San Francisco...
Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI team up to establish best practices but critics argue they want to avoid regulation
Group has raised just over $2bn for a vehicle targeting $6bn amid scepticism over tech valuations
...Across the two spaces over 30 works of sculpture, photography, painting and embroidery are beautifully juxtaposed with Soane’s domestic spaces. Curated by Maya Binkin. On until January 7....
Eaton Square deal comes as private equity tycoon’s star dims in New York after scrutiny of Epstein links
Many founders have scrambled to recover funds they had parked in large amounts at the failed lender
Hedge fund outlines methodology for determining worth of ‘growth’ groups amid investor unease
Luxembourg-based group is the latest real estate company to be targeted by short sellers
...As DD’s Tabby Kinder and George Hammond report, Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East more broadly, have emerged as a shimmering oasis for tech investment....
...A master’s degree in sociology focused her interest on moments of “crisis in modern societies”, and she began to create deeply hued figurative paintings....
...For a budget at the higher end, my colleague Lucy Hammond Giles designed a very smart piece of furniture with pocket doors which open to reveal a mirrored interior, beautifully lit with glass shelves....
...Flora Yukhnovich’s loose rococo-inspired painting is one highlight; another is Caroline Walker’s moody green-tinted snapshot of a woman’s living room....
...Other examples of Morris’ work – including tapestries, drawings and paintings – will go on display in the newly opened Oscar Niemeyer Pavilion, which overlooks the rolling Provençal countryside....
...Lord Philip Hammond, who was chancellor during Theresa May’s government, is a partner at the firm....
...Now, my experiment with hand-painting my own furniture might have been a failure. But it did teach me something valuable: paint is one of the most inexpensive and impactful ways to reflect your taste....
...BS Puglia: Tra Albe e Tramonti by Luigi Ghirri is published by Mack, £45 Stem subjects: contemporary flower portraits Traditionally the subject of still-life paintings, the flower has a rich history in...
...He summarised the situation by saying: “We’re painting a mural on the side of a building, and all kinds of stuff is falling off.”...
...It softens and diffuses sunlight, so that a view of the city from a Silver Lake terrace or a Koreatown rooftop is more Impressionist painting than photograph....
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