Jour : 20 août 2025
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Bed Time Stories by Testbed Vegas – 18th August 2025
Good evening, from the dirty boulevard! Testbed Vegas checks out what’s going on in, around, and about Las Vegas. We’ll give you the Testbed Vegas perspective on what it means for our fair valley and where we think it might be going. Everything you need for a Las Vegas-driven dreamscape! This week, the news cycle…
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Bed Time Stories by Testbed Vegas – 18th August 2025
Good evening, from the dirty boulevard! Testbed Vegas checks out what’s going on in, around, and about Las Vegas. We’ll give you the Testbed Vegas perspective on what it means for our fair valley and where we think it might be going. Everything you need for a Las Vegas-driven dreamscape! This week, the news cycle…
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Shafted
A curious war is afoot, one fought not with bullets, but with lobbying dollars and legislative ink.
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Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems: What Actually Works in Production – UserJot
I’ve been experimenting with adding AI agents to UserJot, our feedback, roadmap, and changelog platform. Not the simple “one prompt, one response” stuff. Real agent systems where multiple specialized agents communicate, delegate tasks, and somehow don’t crash into each other. The goal was to analyze customer feedback at scale, find patterns across hundreds of posts,…
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AI, guest experience, and hybrid hospitality to top the agenda at Independent Hotel Show 2025
Changing perceptions of luxury and the latest trends in hospitality – from AI to experiences – will shape the 2025 agenda of the Independent Hotel Show on 6-7 October at Olympia. With more than 80 industry leaders speaking across three stages, the event will be tackling a wide range of challenges, trends, and opportunities for…
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Barbara Muckermann
When Barbara Muckermann stepped into the CEO role at Kempinski Group in May 2024, she wasn’t expecting to uncover one of hospitality’s best-kept secrets. But that’s exactly what she did. A deep dive into the brand’s archives quickly revealed a forgotten legacy of bold innovation and cultural richness. Now, it’s a legacy she’s determined to…
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Barbara Muckermann CEO at Kempinski Group
When Barbara Muckermann stepped into the CEO role at Kempinski Group in May 2024, she wasn’t expecting to uncover one of hospitality’s best-kept secrets. But that’s exactly what she did. A deep dive into the brand’s archives quickly revealed a forgotten legacy of bold innovation and cultural richness. Now, it’s a legacy she’s determined to…
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Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist Icon Changed How We See Art
Of course, not everyone was in love with the structure at 75th and Madison, where Jacqueline Kennedy watched the ribbon cutting in 1966. Ada Louise Huxtable, art critic for The New York Times, feared it was too “somber and severe for many tastes,” and art critic Emily Genauer, writing in The New York Herald Tribune,…
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A First Look at Sotheby’s New Home
The September 2025 cover of Sotheby’s Magazine I n the changing tides of the New York art world, the inverted ziggurat of the former Whitney Museum of American Art building has remained a stalwart presence. The enigmatic granite-clad monument has weathered the ebb tide of its architect Marcel Breuer’s reputation in the 1980s, the tsunami…
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AI x Commerce | Andreessen Horowitz
Is Google Screwed? Maybe. But Not How You Think. The internet’s most profitable business model has always been simple: running search ads on monetizable queries. When you search “how many protons are in a cesium atom,” Google makes no money. When you search “best tennis racket,” it prints cash. This asymmetry defines the entire search…
