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The First Bukhara Biennial Reveals That the Most Expensive Ingredient Is Time
(left) Nomin Zezegmaa in collaboration with Margilan Crafts Development Centre, ᠣᠩᠭᠤᠳ (Ongod), 2025; (right) Pakui Hardware in collaboration with Alisher Rakhimov and Shokhrukh Rakhimov, Black Bile, 2024-2025. Photo: Felix...
Latent Labs’ Simon Kohl Is Rewriting the Code of Biology With Generative A.I.
At Latent Labs, Simon Kohl is using A.I. to move biology from observation to creation. Photo by JL Creative, Courtesy of Latent Labs Simon Kohl, recognized on this year’s...
One Fine Show: ‘June Crespo, Danzante’ at Secession
June Crespo’s “Danzante” breathes life into the inanimate. Photo: Iris Ranzinger Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New...
15 Men’s Leather Jackets Worth the Closet Real Estate
Leather jackets are one of those things men either get very right or catastrophically wrong. Pick well and suddenly you’ve got a uniform for dinners, flights and dates. Pick...
Delta Flies Higher on the Wings of Luxury Travel
CEO Ed Bastian said Delta has so far been unaffected by the U.S. government shutdown. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Between the U.S. government shutdown and ongoing economic uncertainty, it’s a...
Contemporary Artists in the Baltics Fight Instability with Connection
Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, You Shouldn’t Have to See This, 2024. Photo: Kaspars Teilāns, courtesy of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art “In the Baltics right now there...
This DeepSeek Rival Founded By DeepMind Alum Raises $2B, Hits $8B Valuation
Reflection AI, a startup launched earlier this year, has quickly surpassed unicorn status. Rifky Nur Setyadi for Unsplash+ At the start of the year, Chinese A.I. startup DeepSeek jolted...
After 10 Years, Parisian Cafe Mokonuts Still Thrives on Spontaneity and Charm
Moko Hirayama and Omar Koreitem. Courtesy Mickaël A. Bandassak The first time I visited Mokonuts, I went for the cookies. It was 2017, at the height of the social...
Wall Street Leaders Split on Trump’s Push to Change Quarterly Earnings Rules
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon supports amending quarterly earnings report requirements. Michel Euler/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Since 1970, U.S. public companies have been mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Sora Marks OpenAI’s Leap Into Social Media—and Into a Reality Crisis
Sora is redefining social media by merging A.I. video generation with community-driven creation and collaboration. Cheng Xin/Getty Images OpenAI’s newest video generator, Sora 2, is rapidly reshaping the social...
