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Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani has died at age 93.Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis Via Getty ImagesItalian fashion designer Valentino Garavani has died at 93 in Rome.He launched the Valentino fashion house in 1960 and soon became a key figure in the fashion world.Here's a look at how women across fashion and Hollywood paid tribute to him.Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani, known as Valentino, has died at 93, his foundation announced in an Instagram post on Monday."Our founder, Valentino Garavani passed away today at his Roman residence, surrounded by his loved ones," the caption read.Valentino founded his eponymous fashion house in 1960 and quickly became one of fashion's defining figures. He was celebrated for his glamorous, elegant designs and his signature shade, "Valentino Red."His clothes were worn by numerous celebrities and even royalty, including Princess Diana, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, and Elizabeth Taylor."I know what women want," he said in "Valentino: The Last Emperor," a 2008 documentary about his life and career. "They want to be beautiful."Here's how women across fashion and Hollywood paid tribute to the designer after his death.Gwyneth PaltrowGwyneth Paltrow and Valentino Garavani at the 2002 Venice Film Festival.J. Vespa/WireImageGwyneth Paltrow paid tribute to Valentino in an Instagram post featuring a photo of her kissing the late designer on the cheek."I was so lucky to know and love Valentino-to know the real man, in private. The man who was in love with beauty, his family, his muses, his friends. His dogs, his gardens, and a good Hollywood story. I loved him so much. I loved how he always pestered me to 'at least wear a little mascara' when I came to dinner. I loved his naughty laugh," Paltrow wrote in the caption."This feels like the end of an era. He will be deeply missed by me and all who loved him. Rest in peace, Vava," she wrote.Paltrow has worn Valentino gowns for many major moments over the years, including the 2013 Met Gala and her 2018 wedding to Brad Falchuk.Cindy CrawfordCindy Crawford and Valentino Garavani at the Valentino Fall 1997 Couture runway show.WWD/Penske Media via Getty ImagesCindy Crawford paid tribute to the designer on Instagram, sharing a photo of the pair on the runway together."I'm heartbroken to hear of Valentino Garavani's passing. He was a true master of his craft, and I will always be grateful for the years I had the privilege of working closely with him," Crawford wrote.Crawford has walked the Valentino runway and appeared in multiple campaigns for the brand over the years.Carla BruniCarla Bruni and Valentino Garavani at Paris Fashion Week in 2017.Pascal Le Segretain/Getty ImagesFormer French first lady and model Carla Bruni also took to Instagram to share a tribute to Valentino."I'm moved by the departure of the immense Valentino who will leave so much beauty in the world. He was a teacher and it was an honor and a great privilege to know him and parade for him and I will always remember his great kindness and infinite elegance," Bruni wrote in her caption in Italian. "My thoughts are with @giancarlogiammetti and all of Valentino's family. Rest in peace #valentino."Bruni has modeled for Valentino numerous times throughout her career.Claudia SchifferValentino Garavani on the runway with Claudia Schiffer during the finale of his spring 1998 couture collection.WWD/Penske Media via Getty ImagesClaudia Schiffer paid tribute to Valentino with a series of Instagram photos, including shots of her with the designer and from her campaigns for the brand."Heartbroken to hear of the passing of my old friend Valentino. He is what true legends are made of, living on forever through the brand he created, the embodiment of timeless elegance and glamour. I loved the special times where I got to bring his creations to life on and off the runway. One of my favourite campaigns was in Rome where I became Anita Ekberg in La Dolce Vita, a memory I will cherish forever,"…

Vinod Khosla says stock prices aren't the way to evaluate AI bubbles.Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty ImagesVinod Khosla said he measures AI industry health by API calls, not stock prices or Wall Street trends.Debate over an AI bubble grows as investment surges and leaders like Bill Gates and Michael Burry weigh in.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argues AI is driving a major shift in computing, not just market speculation.Vinod Khosla has his eye on one AI metric, and it's not stock prices.On an episode of OpenAI's podcast released on Monday, the famed venture capitalist shared how he's gauging whether we're in an AI bubble — or not."People equate bubble to stock prices, which has nothing to do with anything other than fear and greed among investors," he said. "So I always look at, bubbles should be measured by the number of API calls."API, or Application Programming Interface calls, refer to the process in which one software application sends a message to another application to request data or to trigger an action. They are a common indicator of digital tools' use, especially with the rise of AI agents. High API calls can also be a mark of a poor or inefficient product.Khosla said the bubble shouldn't be called "by what happened to stock prices because somebody got overexcited or underexcited and in one day they can go from loving Nvidia to hating Nvidia because it's overvalued."The 70-year-old VC, whose notable investments include OpenAI, DoorDash, and Block, compared the AI bubble to the dot-com bubble. He said he looked out for internet traffic as a metric during the 1990s, and with AI bubble concerns, that benchmark is now API calls."If that's your fundamental metric of what's the real use of your AI, usefulness of AI, demand for AI, you're not going to see a bubble in API calls," he said. "What Wall Street tends to do with it, I don't really care. I think it's mostly irrelevant."Concerns that the AI industry is overvalued because of massive investments became one of the buzziest themes in the second half of 2025. The phrase "AI bubble" appeared in 42 earnings calls and investor conference transcripts between October and December — a 740% increase from the previous quarter, according to an AlphaSense analysis.Top business leaders remain split about whether the bubble is about to burst.Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates said AI has extremely high value, but it's still in a bubble."But you have a frenzy," Gates told CNBC in late October. "And some of these companies will be glad they spent all this money. Some of them, you know, they'll commit to data centers whose electricity is too expensive."Earlier this month, "Big Short" investor Michael Burry raised the alarm on an AI bubble in a Substack exchange.Burry wrote that companies, including Microsoft and Alphabet, are wasting trillions on microchips and data centers that will quickly become obsolete. He added that their spending has "no clear path to utilization by the real economy."Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has dismissed concerns of a bubble. His company became the world's first $5 trillion market cap company in October on the back of the AI boom.In an October Bloomberg TV appearance, Huang said that instead of overspeculation, AI is part of a transition from an old way of computing."We also know that AI has become good enough because of reasoning capability, and research capability, its ability to think — it's now generating tokens and intelligence that is worth paying for," Huang said. Read the original article on Business Insider

OpenAI's Sarah Friar floated "licensing models" as a new revenue path as the company seeks to make more money amid massive compute costs.Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty ImagesOpenAI's finance chief just put "licensing models" on the table.She said the company could take a share of downstream sales if a customer's product takes off.Her comments come as OpenAI prepares to test ads to help fund soaring compute costs.OpenAI's chief financial officer is musing about new ways the company could make money beyond ChatGPT subscriptions.In an episode of "The OpenAI Podcast" published Monday, Sarah Friar floated the idea of "licensing models," in which the company could take a share of downstream sales if a customer's product takes off."Let's say in drug discovery, if we licensed our technology, you have a breakthrough. The drug takes off, and we get a licensed portion of all its sales," Friar said."It's great alignment for us with our customer," she added.Friar's comments offer a glimpse of how OpenAI is thinking about funding its compute-hungry ambitions as it broadens its business model.Friar said OpenAI began with a single subscription after launching ChatGPT, but has since expanded to multiple price points, SaaS-style enterprise pricing, and credit-based pricing for customers who "want to pay more to get more."As OpenAI looks at commerce and ads, Friar said the model should always give the best answer, not a sponsored one, and maintain an ad-free tier.Last week, OpenAI announced it is preparing to test ads in ChatGPT, as the company seeks to boost revenue while facing spending commitments of about $1.4 trillion over the coming years.The move marks a shift from the company's earlier stance. Less than two years ago, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described advertising as a "last resort.""Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me," Altman said during an event at Harvard University in May 2024. "I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model."Since then, Altman's tone has evolved alongside OpenAI's expansion and ballooning compute costs. In June, he said on OpenAI's podcast that he wasn't "totally against" advertising, but emphasized that it would need to be handled carefully.OpenAI also completed its restructuring in October, shifting the company toward a more traditional for-profit structure — a change Altman said would make it easier to raise capital going forward.Read the original article on Business Insider

L’ancien maire de Levallois-Perret est convoqué ce mardi devant le tribunal correctionnel de Nanterre pour deux affaires de détournement de fonds publics.