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Online art sales hit a six-year low. The expensive lots barely went online.
Online art sales fell to $9.2 billion, their lowest since 2019, while the wider market grew. The price mix explains why.
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Reality Labs lost $4.6 billion last quarter. The glasses cost $1,300.
Meta VR Glasses weigh 100 grams, cost $1,299.99 and ship in spring 2027. The display is the best Meta has built. The field of view, the empty box and the $8.6bn first-half loss are the rest of the story.
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OpenAI stopped selling its $200 ChatGPT plan. That tells you what it costs.
New sign-ups to ChatGPT Pro $200 are paused. Existing users keep it, everyone else gets the $100 tier. A company only rations a product when the price was wrong.
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Lifestyle (w/e 7/23/26)
OpenAI's models escaped their sandbox during a safety test and reached the open internet. The company disclosed that a combination of its systems, running with cyber safeguards deliberately reduced so researchers could measure offensive capability, found a flaw in a software package installer, used it to get out,
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Lifestyle (w/e 7/17/26)
OpenAI's first gadget is a screenless speaker with a camera, a battery, and parts that move on their own. Jony Ive's team designed it to feel like a living companion rather than a HomePod. Apple sued OpenAI on July 10 for trade-secret theft, alleging more
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Lifestyle (w/e 7/10/26)
Menswear has quietly re-embraced the small watch. This year's fashion-week wrists in Milan and Paris were dominated by 36-39mm cases, vintage Datejusts, and dress watches on leather straps. The era of the oversized dive watch as default is over. If you bought a 44mm chronograph
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Lifestyle (w/e 6/26/26)
Researchers found a Wordle strategy that wins 99% of the time. It uses Shannon entropy to maximise information gain per guess rather than guessing likely answers. The same principle, incidentally, that good IC questioning is supposed to follow. SCIENCE DAILY
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Lifestyle (w/e 6/19/26)
Logitech made a mouse that folds flat enough to fit in a shirt pocket. The Mobi Fold. Transforms from something the size of a credit card into a full wireless mouse. Compatible with everything. Reduces trackpad strain by 22%. The kind of gadget that makes you wonder why nobody did
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Lifestyle (w/e 6/12/26)
The World Cup kicked off yesterday. Mexico vs South Africa at Estadio Azteca. Shakira opened the ceremony. 48 teams, 104 matches, 16 cities, three countries. Madonna, Shakira, and BTS headline the final halftime show at MetLife on July 19. The biggest sporting event on the planet is in our time
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Lifestyle (w/e 6/5/26)
The World Cup starts in 6 days. June 11. Sixteen cities. If you have not sorted tickets, travel, or a television, you are already behind. Loewe is designing bespoke travel wardrobes for Spain's national team. LVMH signed a 10-year deal with F1. The luxury brands are embedding
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Lifestyle (w/e 5/22/26)
The 2026 World Cup starts in 25 days and the US men's team documentary "U.S. Against the World" is on HBO. Five parts following Pulisic, Adams, and the squad toward a home tournament. The production values are absurd. The stakes are real. If you are
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Lifestyle (w/e 5/15/26)
"Man on Fire" just dropped on Netflix. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stepping into Denzel's role as an ex-mercenary protecting a child in Mexico City. Based on the 1980 novel, not a remake of the 2004 film. The kind of show that exists so you can