One of Claude Monet’s 'Water Lilies' paintings could fetch over $40 million at an upcoming auction. Other works include David Hockney’s 'Two Chairs and a Wooden Spoon, July 1988’ and Banksy’s 'Love is in the Air'

Schlumberger heirs are set to auction a rare Claude Monet masterpiece at Sotheby’s in Paris, a sale that could fetch a record price for a painting sold in France. Read more: 📷: Damien Perronnet/Sotheby’s

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love” - Claude Monet Claude Monet was a French artist and a leading founder of the Impressionist movement. Born in Paris in 1840, he became celebrated for portraying landscapes, gardens, and scenes of everyday life with an emphasis on light, atmosphere, and color. Monet frequently painted the same subjects under different lighting and weather conditions to capture their changing appearance. His famous Impression, Sunrise helped inspire the name “Impressionism.” He later created his iconic water lily paintings at Giverny before his death in 1926 at age 86.

Anthropic IPO details and new model release, OpenAI GPT-6.1 Astra delay, AMD acquires World Labs: • Busy in terms of AI headlines, including details of Anthropic's IPO prospectus (S-1 still not on EDGAR) from Reuters. Highlights included $518B of future cloud and infrastructure commitments and wo customers making up nearly 25% of revenue. Anthropic also released new Claude Sonnet 5.5, which is 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5, scores within a few points of Opus 5.5 on most benchmarks and is significantly cheaper. Anthropic also talked up its cybersecurity capabilities. Elsewhere, OpenAI scrapped planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra, citing deception and control issues. AMD to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in stock. Li will serve as AMD's EVP & chief scientist reporting to Lisa Su. World Labs builds spatial/3D for simulation, robotics and physical AI. Reports discussed similar playbook Nvidia used with Hugging Face Deal. $NVDA $AMD #Anthropic# #AI# #OpenAI# #GPT6# #WorldLabs# #IPO# #Tech# #ClaudeSonnet# Gain immediate access to unparalleled insights with #StreetAccount#: