Inside Montblanc’s Century of Leather Party With Alexandra Daddario, Seo Kangjun and Paul Anthony Kelly
Espresso martinis and mezcal highballs circulated on silver trays as the Crane Club filled up Tuesday night, with Montblanc clearing the restaurant’s tables and arranging leather goods, writing instruments and an oversize Writing Traveler installation throughout the room. In the mix was Alexandra Daddario, carrying a Montblanc bag with a pen cleverly built into it.…
Read MoreBusiness Signage Sways 84% of Shoppers, New Survey Finds
Your sign is doing more selling than you think, according to a national survey Signarama released September 8. Eighty-four percent of Americans said business signage influences whether they buy from a company, and 39% said they have walked in purely because of what was hanging outside. That is a conversion channel most founders never optimize.…
Read MoreBrazil eyes China as buyer of carbon credits, targets accord by COP31
By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Brazil plans to use a high-level visit to China next week to assess whether Beijing could become a buyer of Brazilian carbon credits and advance talks toward a bilateral carbon market accord that officials hope to announce by the COP31 global climate summit this November in Turkey,…
Read MoreIndia will lead in AI adoption, scale over next decade: Sarvam cofounder
Pratyush Kumar, cofounder of Sarvam, said India will lead in artificial intelligence (AI) over the next 10 years. He also said the financial sector will be one of the core sectors driving this demand and adoption. Speaking at the Global Fintech Fest 2026, Kumar said: “While it is year four of ChatGPT launch, but…
Read MoreBarclays lifts S&P 500 index’s year-end target to 7,950 on strong earnings
Published Wed, Sep 9, 2026 · 11:10 PM [LONDON] Barclays raised its year-end target for the benchmark S&P 500 index to 7,950 from 7,800 on Wednesday (Sep 9), following a standout earnings season led by technology companies. The revised target is about 3.6 per cent higher than the index’s last close. The brokerage sees the…
Read MoreMining dependence, rising borrowings strain Chhattisgarh finances: NCAER
Chhattisgarh’s dependence on mining revenues and its growing reliance on borrowings are constraining the state’s fiscal sustainability and its capacity to invest for the future, according to a new working paper released by the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). The study, titled “Assessing the Fiscal Dynamics of Chhattisgarh State: A Comparative Study…
Read MoreAnthropic Insiders Casually Admit AI Could “Kill All Humans”
Researchers on the frontier of artificial intelligence are sounding the alarm on the likelihood that their products will cause a mass extinction event. Jacob Coxon, a researcher who trains AI models, announced his resignation from Anthropic Tuesday night in a series of posts claiming that AI companies are approaching an “endgame” race that could kill…
Read MoreFive Books for Lingerie Lovers
When Jennifer Wilson set out to, in her words, “investigate the political implications of cleavage,” for a piece in this week’s issue about how conservatives are trying to take sexy back, she didn’t realize how few women know their actual bra size. “That’s incredible to me, given how much space in the cultural imagination boobs…
Read MoreWhat Makes Vance Appealing | National Review
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Read MoreCan You Write a Memoir in the Third Person?
The first-person insights of memoir serve epiphany and discovery, as though all confessions are truthful. The distance of third person makes these moments of reflection more meaningful, as though part of the book’s journey is young B’s discovery of a language that might capture how he feels inside. Occasionally, Dillon writes in the second person,…
Read MoreCOE premiums up across the board; Cat A price hits all-time high of S$133,009
[SINGAPORE] The Category A certificate of entitlement (COE) premium hit an all-time high of S$133,009 in the Wednesday (Sep 9) tender exercise, even as the prices rose across all the other categories. Meant for smaller, less powerful cars and electric vehicles (EVs), the latest Category A COE price was 3.5 per cent higher than the S$128,501 posted at the…
Read MoreENG vs PAK 3rd Test: Where to watch live streaming of today’s Test match?
Babar Azam-led Pakistan will look to salvage pride when they face England in the third and final Test at Edgbaston in Birmingham on Wednesday. England have already secured an unassailable 2-0 series lead after dominant victories in the opening two Tests, leaving Pakistan battling to avoid a clean sweep. England have been the stronger…
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