Dispatches From the Departures Gate: No Passport, No Cry

Dispatches From the Departures Gate: No Passport, No Cry

[ad_1] Losing another passport is scarier than eye contact with a lion, as you can see on the writer’s safari in Kenya. Katherine Parker-Magyar “We’ll let you into Jamaica,” said the head of security at Kingston International Airport, sliding my worthless passport back towards me beneath the glass window. “But it’s on you to find…

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Dario Amodei Hires OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy in Major Talent Win

Dario Amodei Hires OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy in Major Talent Win

[ad_1] Andrej Karpathy will help lead pretraining efforts at Anthropic. Photo by Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images The latest barb in the intensifying rivalry between OpenAI and Anthropic: Dario Amodei’s hiring of Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and former head of Tesla’s self-driving unit. Karpathy has joined Anthropic’s pretraining team,…

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Sotheby’s $304M Modern Evening Auction Confirms the Market Has Found Its Footing

Sotheby’s 4M Modern Evening Auction Confirms the Market Has Found Its Footing

[ad_1] Sotheby’s closed the sale with a 98 percent sell-through rate and strong results for fresh-to-market works from the Barbier-Müller, Donati and Wingate collections. Photo: Julian Cassady Anchored by top consignments, fresh-to-market museum-grade masterpieces and excellent provenance, Sotheby’s Modern Evening Auction on May 19 closed with a $304 million result, a 98 percent sell-through rate…

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Phillips’ $115.2 Million Evening Sale Was a Testament to the Power of Pre-Planning and Priority Bidding

Phillips’ 5.2 Million Evening Sale Was a Testament to the Power of Pre-Planning and Priority Bidding

[ad_1] Phillips Evening Sale on May 20 closes white-gloves with a $115.2 million total, 122 percent up from May 2025. Courtesy Phillips Phillips may not have made as much noise ahead of this season’s marquee sales as the other major houses, with their announcement of major estates and consignments, but its specialists have certainly been…

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