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Your Resource for What’s Moving and Shaking in the Art Trade

Your Resource for What’s Moving and Shaking in the Art Trade

Published by José Betancourt

Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. Happy Venice Week and for all of you at the Biennale, stay dry. Here’s a round-up of the art trade’s comings and goings. Industry Moves• Robert Therrien Estate Leaves Gagosian for David Zwirner: The late sculptor’s work was recently surveyed by the Broad museum in Los Angeles.• Olney Gleason Now Represents Jill Magid: The artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery will open at the gallery on June 11. She is currently having an exhibition at New York’s Mister Fahrenheit gallery.• Tianyue Zhong Joins Marianne Boesky Gallery: Zhong’s work will be featured in the gallery’s Art Basel booth in June, followed by her debut New York solo exhibition in 2027.• OCHI and Management to Co-Represent Africanus Okokon: Based in Providence, Rhode Island, the artist is known films, installations, paintings, assemblages, and more that deal with the concept of memory.• Seung Ah Paik Has Joined Bortolami: Her current exhibition at the New York gallery runs in …

Angela Rayner just proved she’ll do anything to win power – Keir Starmer should be shaking | Personal Finance | Finance

Angela Rayner just proved she’ll do anything to win power – Keir Starmer should be shaking | Personal Finance | Finance

Published by Sam Flores

As Labour heads for annihilation in tomorrow’s elections, Sir Keir Starmer’s position looks shakier than ever. He seems to be the only man in the country who thinks he’s doing a good job. The British public certainly don’t. Labour MPs think he’s toxic, and should be kept away from the publical together. Party activists have had enough too. They’re drifting away en masse to Zack Polanski’s unhinged Green Party. The only thing saving Starmer, for now, is that Labour still can’t agree on who replaces him. But there is a clear frontrunner. Angela Rayner is currently leading the pack, with Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting trailing, and Ed Miliband further back. Yet Red Ange still faces resistance. She’s Marmite even within her own party, and some MPs have will do whatever it takes to block her path to power. Rayner divides the public too. Some admire her for being gritty, grounded and human. Others see those traits as liabilities. Too rough, too unrefined, not PM material at all. And Rayner knows it. Nobody looks at …

Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal

Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal

Published by skeptic

The chatbot also is intentionally flexible, with the new integrations in mind. “It can take on slight tweaks to the look and feel, to make it feel like a natural part of other environments,” Danker says. Shopping Shift The new Walmart experience is part of a broader pivot for OpenAI to focus on having checkouts take place within embedded apps, the Information reported earlier this month, without providing a rationale for the change. Danker spoke about the shift at the Morgan Stanley investor conference this month but didn’t cite the data behind it. OpenAI spokesperson Taya Christianson says the company wants to focus on improvements to help users research products, while giving merchants more control over checkout. “We appreciate our partners for learning with us,” she added. Walmart has excluded some products from Instant Checkout because it knew “the single-item checkout experience is detrimental” in some cases, Danker says. For instance, when someone buys a TV, they likely need to buy accessories like HDMI cables. On its website, Walmart can nudge shoppers to buy a …

‘Our hearts were shaking’: Tehran endures night of heavy Israel, US bombing | US-Israel war on Iran News

‘Our hearts were shaking’: Tehran endures night of heavy Israel, US bombing | US-Israel war on Iran News

Published by Sam Flores

Tehran, Iran – The Iranian capital has experienced one of its most intense nights of bombardment by the United States and Israel since the start of the war 10 days ago as numerous areas of the sprawling city have been hit to devastating effect. Warplanes flew at low altitudes over Tehran overnight into Tuesday, dropping dozens of heavy explosives that shook neighbourhoods across the city of more than 10 million people and frightened residents who have remained in their homes despite the danger. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list More strikes followed during the day with local media reporting that cities like Isfahan and Karaj were also targeted. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday would be “our most intense day of strikes inside Iran”. Sima*, a 38-year-old who lives with her family in western Tehran, said of the overnight strikes: “It felt like tens of fighter jets were flying right above our heads for 15 minutes straight at first, then a few minutes of pause before the next rounds of strikes came in.” …

The Download: how AI is shaking up Go, and a cybersecurity mystery

The Download: how AI is shaking up Go, and a cybersecurity mystery

Published by skeptic

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI is rewiring how the world’s best Go players think Ten years ago AlphaGo, Google DeepMind’s AI program, stunned the world by defeating the South Korean Go player Lee Sedol. And in the years since, AI has upended the game. It’s overturned centuries-old principles about the best moves and introduced entirely new ones. Players now train to replicate AI’s moves as closely as they can rather than inventing their own, even when the machine’s thinking remains mysterious to them. Meanwhile, AI is democratizing access to training, and more female players are climbing the ranks as a result. Today, it is essentially impossible to compete professionally without using AI. Some say the technology has drained the game of its creativity, while others think there is still room for human invention. Read the full story. —Michelle Kim MIT Technology Review Narrated: Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake. In April 2024, a …

NASA spots colossal eruptions shaking Io — Jupiter’s most volcanic moon

NASA spots colossal eruptions shaking Io — Jupiter’s most volcanic moon

Published by Jenni Sidey

NASA has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption outside of Earth on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. On December 27, 2022, Juno, NASA’s spacecraft, witnessed numerous active volcanoes erupting simultaneously and releasing far more energy than any other eruption recorded in the solar system to date. A team of researchers from Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) published a paper summarizing the results of their analysis of Juno’s infrared instrument data. It is believed that Io’s volcanism may be connected beneath the surface by a large network of magma reservoirs. Io currently holds the record for being the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with an estimated 400 active volcanoes. However, this most recent eruption was unprecedented. The eruption covered approximately 40,400 square miles, which is larger than many U.S. states, and released between 140 and 260 terawatts. By comparison, the infamous 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption released around 52 terawatts. Unprecedented Observations From Juno “It is also notable that this eruption occurred simultaneously from multiple active sources; as such, the eruption increased …

Malachi Kirby: ‘Forest Whitaker held me. The cameras were off but I was shaking’

Malachi Kirby: ‘Forest Whitaker held me. The cameras were off but I was shaking’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter There is something about my face that makes people want to see me cry,” says 36-year-old Malachi Kirby, who has made a career out of brooding and breaking down in shows like Black Mirror, Roots and Small Axe. Looking at him now, his robust cheekbones and robust-er jaw, I wonder why that might be. Probably there’s something about seeing immovable strength undone by a stroke of sadness – like watching a trickle carve itself into the side of a mountain and become a raging river. “It’d be nice to actually have fun on set for once,” Kirby laughs, giving a quick flash of pearly teeth. We’re speaking in a suite in an upscale London hotel; he’s on the sofa, grazing on a bowl of nuts. For now, fun will have to wait. Kirby’s role opposite Stephen Graham in A Thousand Blows …

Iran’s protests led by shopkeepers is shaking up the regime

Iran’s protests led by shopkeepers is shaking up the regime

Published by Sam Flores

Protesters march through downtown Tehran on December 29, 2025. FARS NEWS AGENCY VIA AP Jewelry sellers in Tehran’s bazaar and currency exchange agents were among the first to raise their voices, shuttering their shops in protest as early as Sunday, December 28, in the streets of the Iranian capital. Soaring gold prices and the sudden collapse of the rial, the national currency, devastated their businesses, compounding the economic malaise in a country battered by years of government mismanagement, endemic corruption and international sanctions. As if a spark had been lit, the protesters were soon joined by shopkeepers from other parts of the capital, who left their stalls one after another to march in the streets. Several thoroughfares in Tehran were packed with people on Tuesday, as the movement spread to major cities across the country: Isfahan, Shiraz, Kermanshah and Yazd. In some places, universities also erupted in anger against the authorities, who responded with tear gas. “At 10 am, one of my colleagues took the initiative to cut the electricity to all the shops,” an …