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For Paramount, other factors were most likely in play.
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Shari Redstone, the company’s board chair, almost certainly prefers a Skydance deal, which would allow her to sell her shares at a control premium. It’s unclear whether the all-cash Paramount offer from Sony and Apollo would be as lucrative for her.
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Redstone
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to avoid conflicts of interest. But that committee is nonetheless aware that Skydance’s bid for National Amusements, the parent company of Paramount, was supported by Redstone, the company’s most influential shareholder. That was likely a factor in its decision to move forward with exclusive talks, said Steven Davidoff Solomon, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
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Solomon said the special committee might have seen Skydance’s offer as the only plausible deal on the table. “Let’s see if we can get it done,” Solomon said, articulating his interpretation of the committee’s approach. “If we
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The Biden administration recommended reclassifying marijuana.
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Changpeng Zhao
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, the founder of Binance and one of the industry’s biggest names, was given a term of four months for money laundering. Zhao, who pleaded guilty last year, received less than the three-year term that prosecutors had recommended. With a fortune
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Much of
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in Omaha today will resemble gatherings of years past: the tens of thousands of attendees from around the world; dozens of representatives from the conglomerate’s portfolio companies, from Fruit of the Loom to the BNSF railroad; and Warren Buffett himself on hand to answer shareholder questions.
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But this year Buffett will be without his longtime right-hand man,
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Charlie Munger
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, who died in November at age 99. For ages, the centerpiece of the shareholder conclave was an hourslong question-and-answer session featuring the two men, who perfected a buddy-comedy act — Buffett first answered with sunny optimism, and then Munger followed with sharp-tongued cynicism. (This year, Buffett will be joined by his top lieutenants, Greg Abel and Ajit Jain.)
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Here are some of the best zingers that Munger let fly at Berkshire annual meetings over the years:
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“If you mix the mathematics of the chain letter or the Ponzi scheme with some legitimate development like the development of the internet, you are mixing something which is wretched or irrational or has bad consequences with something that has very good consequences. But you know, if you mix raisins with turds, they’re still turds.” (2000)
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“What I needed to get ahead was to compete against idiots. And luckily there’s a large supply.” (2014)
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“I have avoided compensation consultants all my life. I hardly can find the words to express my contempt.” (2017)
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“A man who jumps out of a building is OK until he hits the ground.” (2023, on government deficits)
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Von Wolfe’s “Euphoria’s Embrace,” 2024.
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Von Wolfe, via Virginia Damtsa
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For clues on the future, DealBook visited two art galleries in London featuring works created by traditional artists experimenting with A.I.
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In “AI & Technology Influence on Contemporary Art,” a show curated by
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Virginia Damtsa
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and on display through Sept. 10 at
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Gabriel Scott
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, three painters have used the tech to test the boundaries of human creativity, exploring whether A.I. is a liberating tool or an existential risk to creativity. Jonathan Yeo — whose
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painting of King Charles III
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, the first since he was crowned, will be unveiled this month — asked an A.I. to create a series of self-portraits. Von Wolfe, an oil painter, built his own A.I. to create an image of a digital sculpture that is displayed in a light box. And Henry Hudson asked an A.I. to create an image and then used oils to paint a version of it.
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“Post-Photography: The Uncanny Valley,” a show at the
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through May 17, also features the work of three artists.
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Boris Eldagsen
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of Germany won a Sony World Photographer Award last year — and turned it down, after revealing that he had used A.I. to create his entry partly to kick-start a discussion about technology and art. The image, “The Electrician,” and other works by Eldagsen are displayed alongside images by Ben Millar Cole, a British photographer, and Nouf Aljowaysir, a Saudi-born artist. It would be impossible for most viewers to know that their art was generated using tools like DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.
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The artists created the works by using A.I. as a tool, as if it were a paintbrush or a computer. For workers trying to understand how their own jobs will evolve, that could provide some hope that humans will have a role to play for a bit longer yet.
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