Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Feb 13, 2017 (I)

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(1) Kyle Stock, Movers.

one item that stands out: "One of 2016's biggest private art deals recently came to light -- Oprah Winfrey sold Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II for $150 million, 71 percent above her 2006 purchase price.

Note:
(a) Gustav Klimt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Klimt
(1862 – 1918; Austrian; this page contain a painting titled "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I")
(ii) Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Adele_Bloch-Bauer_II
(In 2006 Oprah Winfrey bought "for almost $88 million" and sold it in 2016 "sold it to an unidentified Chinese buyer for $150 million")

(b) "Adele ("from a Germanic root meaning 'noble' "): "female given name"
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Adele
(pronunciation)

(2) Anousha Sakoui with Jeanne Yang, 好莱坞 "Hollywood."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... d-s-growth-in-china

Note: summary underneath the title in print: Studios were set for a jump in China's quota on US films this year. Then came President Trump

(3) China Makes Nice with Ivanka and Jared.
https://www.bloomberg.com/politi ... oth-ties-with-trump

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: Beijing seeks to cultivate Trump through his family
(b) The authorship in BusinessWeek (print) is "Bloomberg News."

(4) Joshua Brustein, The Bot That Bluffed Me.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... ers-that-play-poker

Quote:

(a) "Four of the best professional poker players in the world spent most of January holed up at the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, losing.

(b) "Their opponent was a piece of software called Libratus, running at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center in Monroeville, a nearby suburb. Libratus played eight hands at once, two against each opponent. The AI played differently from humans—pausing to think forever when little money was at stake, then making huge, sudden wagers of irregular amounts at odd intervals. Coming from a human, behavior like that would be irritating, reckless, and, over the long run, expensive. But Libratus is inhumanly good.

"When the 20-day tournament at Rivers ended on Jan 30, the pros had lost $1.8 million to the artificial intelligence designed by Tuomas Sandholm and Noam Brown, computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University. (The players didn't actually have to pay up.) Earlier in January, University of Alberta researchers published the results of a contest in which their own AI software, DeepStack, beat 11 poker pros in no-limit hold 'em. DeepStack played by the same specialized rules as Libratus—one-on-one play with the chip stacks reset after each hand

Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: AI breakthroughs may make it tougher for humans to compete in online poker matchups
(b) There is no need to read the rest.