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  • Tech and Business Correspondent, Vanity Fair
  • Reporter in Residence, Omidyar Network
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Zohran's Tech Czar Is Undaunted

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New York City's new chief technology officer, Lisa Gelobter, on TikTok, “bureaucracy hacking,” and why her department can pull off what DOGE could—or would—not. This winter, a few months into my pregnancy, I began making a spreadsheet to collect information about my local childcare options.
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Can AI Save Luxury Retail?

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Everyone from big-name designers to multibrand department stores are looking for ways to use AI. When Dr. Nasrin Mostafazadeh and her husband first moved to New York City from Iran, they picked out an apartment with a very specific view: the Fifth Avenue headquarters of Lord & Taylor. The scenery didn't last very long. “Seeing these big signs saying, ‘Going out of business' on something that was the epitome of luxury to us…. It was so jarring,” she said.
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Vanity Fair

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Cam Fink, John Kessler, and Ned Koh founded the AI unicorn Aaru when they were 18, 15, and 19. Now they've got even bigger ambitions. When the young founders of Aaru were starting their company, they would woo new customers with a magic trick. They'd run their simulation model—an AI that churns out the opinions of hundreds of thousands of imaginary individuals—on a question the would-be client already knew the answer to.
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