Jour : 9 juin 2025
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Harnessing AI to Optimize Hotel Operations and Elevate Guest Experience
From staffing shortages and rising energy costs to the constant pressure of maintaining exceptional guest satisfaction, today’s hotel managers face plenty of challenges. With profit margins often razor-thin, even small innovations can have a significant impact. That’s why solutions that enhance productivity, reduce costs, support staff, and ultimately enrich both the guest journey and the…
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Sunday Curation Special: The New Lines of Luxury
Stories, ideas, and moments that inspired me across luxury and beyond.Editor’s NoteThis week, we’re doing something a little different.Instead of a traditional curation, I’m sharing a special report that I believe every brand leader, private banker, wealth advisor, and luxury strategist should read. It’s called:The New Lines of LuxuryA global report by frog and Capgemini…
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Could AI make a Scorsese movie? Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky discuss
Demis Hassabis and Darren Aronofsky met in 1999 when they were invited to speak at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London about the future of storytelling. At the time, Hassabis was a video game developer; today he is CEO of Google’s DeepMind AI lab and a Nobel laureate in chemistry. Aronofsky had released his…
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I’m Expedia’s marketing chief. Here’s how we’re preparing for a future when people use AI to plan their vacations.
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233. « The Illusion of Thinking » — Thoughts on This Important Paper
At a technical level, the paper asks important questions and answers them in super interesting ways. The paper was written by Apple researchers including an intern, The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity by Parshin Shojaee†, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio,…
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The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes before providing answers. While these models demonstrate improved performance on reasoning benchmarks, their fundamental capabilities, scal- ing properties, and limitations remain insufficiently understood. Current evaluations primarily fo- cus on established mathematical and coding benchmarks, emphasizing final answer accuracy.…
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Asia Pacific Hospitality Newsletter – Week Ending 6 June 2025
IOI Group Acquires CDL’s 50.1% Stake in Singapore’s South Beach Mixed-use Development Malaysia-based IOI Properties Group Berhad (“IOI Group”) is set to acquire full ownership of Singapore’s South Beach mixed-use development by purchasing Singapore-based City Developments Limited’s (“CDL”) 50.1% stake with an estimated sale consideration for SGD834.2 million. The sale consideration is based on an…