16, Oct 2026
De Beers and Forevermark Diamond Jewellery Bring Jaipur’s Royal Legacy into a New Chapter
– Highness Sawai Padmanabh Singh of Jaipur announced as advocate for natural diamonds in India –
– Princess Gauravi Kumari of Jaipur unveiled as the face of Forevermark’s festive campaign –
JAIPUR, India, Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Against the historic setting of Jaipur’s City Palace, De Beers brought together heritage, contemporary culture and diamond jewellery for a landmark event that celebrated two significant new chapters for natural diamonds in India. The evening presented His Highness Sawai Padmanabh Singh of Jaipur as De Beers Group’s advocate for natural diamonds in India, while Forevermark Diamond Jewellery marked its first anniversary in India with a new festive campaign featuring Princess Gauravi Kumari of Jaipur. Together, the two moments reflected De Beers’ vision, from the natural origin, rarity and authenticity of diamonds to their contemporary expression through jewellery, design and personal style.
As Maharaja of Jaipur and part of a living legacy shaped by jewellery, craftsmanship and precious gems, His Highness Sawai Padmanabh Singh brings an instinctive understanding of rarity, provenance and the value of pieces that endure beyond the moment. His role with De Beers is to bring the natural diamond story into a new cultural conversation, connecting its extraordinary natural origin and individuality with a generation that is redefining luxury through authenticity, meaning and personal expression. In doing so, he brings royalty’s storied relationship with diamonds into the present, while helping shape the next chapter of natural diamonds in India.
“For me, legacy is not simply about preserving the past; it is about understanding where you come from and finding ways to make that heritage relevant for the future. A natural diamond carries that same sense of continuity. It is shaped by nature over an extraordinary period of time, and its value lies not only in its beauty, but in the rarity and authenticity that make it truly timeless. I look forward to this association with De Beers as the advocate of the gemstone as I get to showcase the unique story of a diamond to the younger generations,” said His Highness Sawai Padmanabh Singh of Jaipur.
The initiative forms a part of De Beers’ broader ambition to strengthen the desirability of natural diamonds, enhancing their story for a new generation of Indian consumers.
Shweta Harit, Senior Vice President, De Beers Group and CEO, Forevermark, said: “India has a remarkable relationship with diamonds, rooted in generations of craftsmanship, jewellery and an appreciation for rarity. Today, as a new generation redefines what luxury means to them, we see an opportunity to bring the story of natural diamonds into that conversation through His Highness Sawai Padmanabh Singh who brings a rare cultural connection to this story. His association reflects our ambition to deepen the emotional and cultural relevance of natural diamonds and grow the category in India.”
Following the unveiling of His Highness Sawai Padmanabh Singh for the natural diamond narrative, another chapter unfolded as Forevermark Diamond Jewellery unveiled Princess Gauravi Kumari as the face of its festive campaign.
Marking one year of Forevermark in India, the campaign brings together contemporary designs crafted with beautiful, rare and responsibly sourced natural diamonds while exploring the role of modern jewellery in festive dressing and individuality with Princess Gauravi Kumari’s distinctive sensibility. It reflects Forevermark’s growing presence in India and its vision of inspiring a new generation through considered design and personal expression.
“The festive season has always been about coming together, creating memories and celebrating the people and moments that matter. What I love about Forevermark is the way it brings the beauty of natural diamonds into a more contemporary expression of style. Jewellery can be traditional, bold, understated or completely personal. Forevermark Diamond Jewellery blends tradition with modern aesthetic, making it a perfect addition to the contemporary woman of today,” said Princess Gauravi Kumari of Jaipur.
“Forevermark gives us an opportunity to express the beauty and rarity of natural diamonds through a more contemporary lens. As we mark our first year in India, we are seeing a consumer who wants jewellery to feel personal, distinctive and connected to their own sense of style. Gauravi embodies that sensibility beautifully. She brings together the richness of her Jaipur heritage with a distinctly modern point of view, making her a natural fit for Forevermark as we enter our next chapter in India. Our ambition is to build on this momentum, broaden the occasions for diamond jewellery and inspire a new generation to discover diamonds in their own way,” added Shweta Harit, Senior Vice President, De Beers Group and CEO, Forevermark.
The event brought together celebrities, leading personalities and HNI guests from Jaipur and across India, for an evening celebrating diamonds, heritage, fashion and contemporary Indian luxury. The campaign films were unveiled during the evening, followed by a grand fashion show displaying Forevermark jewellery across contemporary festive looks amongst an innovative dance performance.
India remains a strategically important market for De Beers, with the company focused on growing the diamond category and deepening its relevance among a new generation of Indian consumers. As jewellery increasingly moves beyond traditional milestones into self-expression, personal achievement, gifting and new occasions, De Beers sees an opportunity to make diamonds part of a broader and more contemporary luxury conversation. For Forevermark, the past year has been focused on establishing the brand in India, expanding its retail presence and introducing its distinctive expression of natural diamond jewellery to Indian consumers. With 10 stores now across the country, Forevermark enters its second year with an ambition to build further scale and create more opportunities for consumers to discover and experience exceptional natural diamond jewellery.
The evening in Jaipur brought these two distinct dimensions of De Beers’ vision to life: the extraordinary story of the diamond and the evolving ways in which that rarity is expressed through jewellery today. Together, the two announcements reflect De Beers’ ambition to strengthen the desirability of natural diamonds while creating new relevance for them with a generation that is redefining luxury. As India’s relationship with diamonds evolves, De Beers is focused on shaping what comes next, from the story of the gem itself to the way it is discovered, worn and celebrated.
About De Beers Group
Established in 1888, De Beers Group is the world’s leading diamond company with expertise in the exploration, mining, marketing and retailing of diamonds. Together with its joint venture partners, De Beers Group employs more than 20,000 people across the diamond pipeline and is the world’s largest diamond producer by value, with diamond mining operations in Botswana, Canada, Namibia and South Africa. Innovation sits at the heart of De Beers Group’s strategy as it develops a portfolio of offers that span the diamond value chain, including its jewellery houses, De Beers Jewellers and Forevermark, and other pioneering solutions such as diamond sourcing and traceability initiatives Tracr and GemFair. De Beers Group also provides leading services and technology to the diamond industry in the form of education and laboratory services and a wide range of diamond sorting, detection and classification technology services. De Beers Group is committed to ‘Building Forever,’ a holistic and integrated approach for creating a better future – where safety, human rights and ethical integrity continue to be paramount; where communities thrive and the environment is protected; and where there are equal opportunities for all. De Beers Group is a member of the Anglo American plc group. For further information, visit www.debeersgroup.com.
About Forevermark Diamond Jewellery
Forevermark Diamond Jewellery is the diamond jewellery brand from De Beers Group, the world’s leading diamond company, a name synonymous with more than 135 years of expertise and heritage in the world of diamonds. Every Forevermark Diamond Jewellery creation celebrates life’s most meaningful moments, featuring natural diamonds that are beautiful, rare and responsibly sourced. Forevermark diamonds bear a unique inscription, ensuring authenticity and making each piece deeply personal.
Formed over billions of years deep within the Earth, Forevermark diamonds are hand-selected for their exceptional quality, graded beyond the 4Cs in the pursuit of absolute beauty. Responsibly sourced and carefully cared for along their journey, they reflect the brand’s commitment to creating a positive impact on the people and places its diamonds come from. Expertly crafted by master designers, Forevermark Diamond Jewellery combines modern artistry with timeless elegance. Each piece elevates the brilliance of its diamond while embodying the brand’s enduring values of beauty, rarity, and responsibility.
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16, Oct 2026
ICICI Life Insurance launches new brand identity
- Unveils new brand identity with a promise to make tomorrow easier to navigate
- The tagline ‘Har Kal Aasaan’ captures the brand’s commitment to make life insurance simpler, more transparent, more flexible and easier for Indian customers
MUMBAI, India, Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ICICI Life Insurance Limited, formerly known as ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited, today announced its new brand identity and tag line — ‘Har Kal Aasaan’.
Commenting on the new brand identity and tag line, Mr. Srinivas Balasubramanian, Chief of Marketing, Digital & Bancassurance, ICICI Life Insurance Limited, said, “The ICICI name holds an enduring place in the lives of millions of Indians, serving as a symbol of trust, strength, and financial accessibility. Over the past 25 years, we have had the privilege of helping secure the dreams and futures of more than 20 crore Indians. Throughout this journey, we have witnessed India’s incredible growth, along with a significant evolution in the aspirations of its people.
In today’s fast-paced environment, the world has become increasingly complex and unpredictable. Changing career paths, evolving family structures, longer lifespans, and shifting financial priorities have made long-term planning more challenging than ever. While life insurance plays a critical role in navigating these uncertainties, the traditional experience of securing one’s financial future has often been perceived as complicated.
At ICICI Life Insurance, we firmly believe that preparing for tomorrow should bring clarity, confidence, and peace of mind, rather than adding to life’s complexities. Our new brand identity goes far beyond a change in name. It reflects our broader commitment to make the experience of securing one’s financial future simpler, more transparent, more flexible and with ease. Building on our strong 25-year foundation, we will continue to deepen customer relevance, establish new benchmarks of excellence in the industry, and actively contribute toward the national goal of ‘Insurance for All by 2047’.”
With the new brand promise, the company aims to move the conversation around life insurance beyond simply protecting against what may go wrong, towards enabling people to make more informed and confident choices about what they want tomorrow to look like with ease and convenience. Thus, making Har Kal Aasaan for its stakeholders.
About ICICI Life Insurance Limited:
ICICI Life Insurance Limited (Formerly ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited) commenced operations in FY2001 and has since established itself as one of India’s leading life insurers, consistently ranking high on both sum assured market share and new business premium market share. Over the years, it has earned the unwavering trust of millions of customers, becoming an integral part of India’s financial ecosystem.
Customer centricity has remained the foundation of its philosophy, with products, processes and distribution strategies all aligned to a single objective: delivering a strong and differentiated value proposition for customers. The Company offers a comprehensive suite of Protection, Savings & Retirement solutions designed to meet the evolving life stage needs. These offerings enable customers to safeguard their families’ financial security while also achieving long term financial goals.
As on March 31, 2026, the Company protects 73.73 million lives (in-force) across India covering both individual and corporate segments, making it one of the leading insurance companies in the country. Over the years, the Company has delivered on its promise of financial protection by settling ₹ 279 billion in death claims and paying ₹ 3.72 trillion in overall benefits as of March 31, 2026. In FY2026 alone, it settled ₹ 51.49 billion in death claims and disbursed ₹ 153.63 billion in maturity and survival benefits. Its claim settlement ratio of 99.3 percent and average turnaround time of 1 day underscore its commitment to swift, reliable service.
The Company is also the first among Indian Insurance industry to get listed on both the NSE and BSE. Its continued investments in data analytics and digitisation across the policy lifecycle have enabled superior efficiency, innovation and seamless experiences for customers and distributors alike.
Disclaimer
Except for the historical information contained herein, statements in this release which contain words or phrases such as ‘will’, ‘expected to,’ etc., and similar expressions or variations of such expressions may constitute ‘forward-looking statements’. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results, opportunities and growth potential to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the actual growth in demand for insurance and other financial products and services in the countries that we operate or where a material number of our customers reside, our ability to successfully implement our strategy, including our use of the Internet and other technology, our exploration of merger and acquisition opportunities, our ability to integrate mergers or acquisitions into our operations and manage the risks associated with such acquisitions to achieve our strategic and financial objectives, our growth and expansion in domestic and overseas markets, technological changes, our ability to market new products, the outcome of any legal, tax or regulatory proceedings in India and in other jurisdictions we are or become a party to, the future impact of new accounting standards, our ability to implement our dividend policy, the impact of changes in insurance regulations and other regulatory changes in India and other jurisdictions on us. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date thereof. This release does not constitute an offer of securities.
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16, Oct 2026
Newgen Brings the Art of Storytelling to Enterprise Audiences with ‘Ahead of Victory’
Three original, AI-generated story experiences for banking, insurance, and government audiences bring Newgen’s ‘Ahead of What’s Ahead’ brand narrative to life on DX++, its digital destination for thought leadership and industry perspectives.
NEW DELHI, Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Newgen Software orchestrates intelligent enterprises at scale, bringing intelligence, trust, and control together to help organizations prepare for what’s ahead. Extending this focus beyond enterprise technology, Newgen is also reimagining how it engages with the industries it serves through DX++ (Digital Transformation Plus Plus), its digital destination for thought leadership, industry points of view, expert perspectives, and insights on emerging technologies and enterprise transformation.
Building on this content ecosystem, Newgen is bringing the art of storytelling to its banking, insurance and government audiences through ‘Ahead of Victory’, a Dussehra-special campaign featuring three original, 15-minute stories, crafted specifically for these industries and brought to life through a compelling, visual storytelling style. Streaming on DX++, the films offer a distinctive way to engage audiences, bringing together creativity, technology and industry understanding.
The campaign draws from Newgen’s overarching brand narrative, Ahead of What’s Ahead, launched earlier this year. Rooted in the company’s organisational DNA, the narrative reflects the ability to foresee what lies ahead, prepare for change and act with purpose. Ahead of Victory brings this approach into the festive season through the power of storytelling.
Ahead of What’s Ahead: A mindset that defines Newgen
For Newgen, staying ahead is more than a brand promise. It is an organisational mindset built around three fundamental principles: foresee, prepare and act. It means recognising emerging possibilities, anticipating challenges and helping enterprises navigate change with confidence.
This approach is reflected in Newgen’s global positioning, Orchestrating Intelligent Enterprises. Through the NewgenONE Platform, Newgen brings content, processes and communications together in an orchestration layer that embeds intelligence into how enterprises operate, with trust, governance and control built in.
The Ahead of What’s Ahead narrative brings these ideas together, reflecting Newgen’s commitment to innovation and its belief that being prepared for the future begins with anticipating what comes next.
Ahead of Victory: Where storytelling meets the spirit of staying ahead
Stories have the power to make ideas relatable, spark conversations and create lasting connections. With Ahead of Victory, Newgen brings this power to enterprise communication, using cinematic storytelling to engage the industries it serves in a fresh and memorable way.
The campaign features three original, 15-minute, AI-generated story experiences created for banking, insurance and government audiences. Moving beyond conventional B2B communication formats, these immersive narratives use engaging storytelling to connect with the unique contexts and interests of each sector.
The campaign takes inspiration from the spirit of Dussehra, the triumph of good over evil and the courage to overcome challenges. This resonates with Newgen’s approach of looking beyond the present, anticipating what lies ahead and being prepared to act.
The initiative reflects Newgen’s efforts to engage with its customers and prospects in fresh and unexpected ways. By using AI to bring industry-specific stories to life, the campaign offers a distinctive alternative to conventional B2B communication, creating a more relatable and engaging way to connect with audiences across banking, insurance and government.
DX++: Digital Transformation, Plus Plus
DX++ brings together Newgen’s thought leadership, industry points of view, expert perspectives and content on emerging technologies and enterprise transformation. It serves as a destination for audiences looking to explore the ideas, challenges and possibilities shaping their industries.
By bringing these resources together, DX++ extends the conversation beyond products and solutions to the wider business and technology developments influencing enterprise transformation. The addition of Ahead of Victory introduces a cinematic dimension to this content ecosystem, demonstrating how industry insights can be complemented by creative storytelling to engage audiences in new ways.
For Newgen, DX++ is a destination where expertise, ideas and creative expression come together reinforcing the company’s focus on anticipating change and exploring what comes next.
Runki Goswami, Chief Marketing Officer, Newgen, says, “‘Ahead of What’s Ahead’ reflects something fundamental to Newgen: our ability to foresee, prepare and act. It shapes how we approach enterprise transformation, innovation and the opportunities that lie ahead. With ‘Ahead of Victory’, we wanted to take a fresh approach to engaging with our customers and prospects, moving beyond conventional B2B communication through original, industry-specific stories. DX++ gives us a destination to bring together our industry perspectives, thought leadership and creative initiatives, creating new ways to connect with the audiences we serve.”
The three films are now streaming on DX++ at https://newgensoft.com/AheadOfVictory/.
Disclaimer
The content comprises original short-form creative content developed by Newgen Software Technologies Ltd. for its ‘Ahead of What’s Ahead’ campaign. The stories, characters and situations are fictional and have been independently developed for Newgen’s Government, Insurance and Banking domain narratives, respectively. The films use broad themes, humor and nostalgia associated with popular Indian cinema as a creative tribute. No original film footage, music, artwork, stills, clips, characters, actor likenesses or actor voices have been used. These films are not adaptations or remakes of any film, and are not sponsored or endorsed by, or affiliated with, any film, producer, actor, or rights holder. All third-party names and marks belong to their respective owners. For any concerns, please contact info@newgensoft.com.
About Newgen Software
Newgen Software Orchestrates Intelligent Enterprises at scale. The NewgenONE Platform unifies content, processes, and communications into an orchestration layer where intelligence is embedded into how enterprises operate, with trust, governance, and control built in. Enterprises move beyond fragmented initiatives to continuously adaptive, production ready operations. Decisions, workflows, and experiences evolve in real time, shaped by context, data, and embedded AI. Trusted by leading organizations worldwide, Newgen defines how modern enterprises operate, intelligently and at scale.
For more details, visit www.newgensoft.com
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16, Oct 2026
Odisha to Launch Door-to-Door Voter Survey on October 26 Ahead of 2027 Local Elections
Bhubaneswar, Oct 16: The Odisha State Election Commission will launch a statewide door-to-door voter survey from October 26 to November 7 to identify and rectify discrepancies in electoral rolls ahead of the upcoming panchayat and urban local body (ULB) elections, which are likely to be held in 2027.
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The exercise aims to ensure that all eligible voters are included in the electoral rolls and that the names of ineligible voters are removed.
Field Teams to Verify Voter Details
State Election Commissioner Madhusudan Padhi said teams comprising Booth Level Officers (BLOs), Anganwadi workers, ASHA workers and other field personnel would visit households across the state to verify voter information.
Eligible voters whose names have been deleted from the electoral rolls will be able to apply for their re-inclusion. Similarly, citizens will have the opportunity to file objections against the inclusion of ineligible voters.
The verification drive is intended to improve the accuracy of voter lists before the state conducts its next round of rural and urban local elections.
Pilot Survey Reveals Gaps in Electoral Rolls
A pilot survey conducted by the Commission highlighted discrepancies in the existing electoral rolls. According to the findings, 7.61 per cent of ineligible voters were still listed, while 4.87 per cent of eligible voters were missing from the rolls.
The statewide survey will seek to address these gaps and ensure that the electoral rolls accurately reflect the eligible electorate.
Major Expansion of Rural Polling Booths Proposed
The Commission has also proposed a significant increase in the number of polling booths in rural areas. The total number is expected to rise from approximately 39,000 to 91,000 to facilitate the electoral process.
Voting in rural elections will be conducted using ballot papers, while electronic voting machines (EVMs) will be used for urban local body elections.
Final Electoral Roll Targeted for February 10, 2027
As per the proposed schedule, the draft electoral roll is expected to be published in January 2027. The Commission aims to publish the final electoral roll by February 10, 2027.
The door-to-door verification campaign is a key preparatory step for the anticipated 2027 panchayat and urban local body elections, with the Commission focusing on improving the accuracy and reliability of voter lists across Odisha.
16, Oct 2026
Odisha Extends Antyodaya Gruha Yojana Till 2029, Approves 2.91 Lakh Additional Houses
Bhubaneswar, Oct 16: In a major push towards providing permanent housing to economically weaker and vulnerable families, the Odisha government has approved the construction of an additional 2,91,666 houses under the Antyodaya Gruha Yojana and extended the scheme’s implementation period by two years, till 2029.
Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi announced the decision on Thursday, stating that the move would help more eligible families secure permanent homes and accelerate the state’s goal of ensuring housing for all.
The extension, which moves the scheme’s deadline from 2027 to 2029, is expected to expand the programme’s reach and provide housing assistance to more families in need.
₹7,550 Crore Outlay to Remain Unchanged
Despite the addition of nearly 2.92 lakh houses, the total financial outlay for the Antyodaya Gruha Yojana will remain unchanged at ₹7,550 crore.
As part of the revised financial plan, the state government has decided to divert ₹3,500 crore from the housing repair component towards the construction of new houses.
The reallocation is intended to support the expanded construction target within the existing budgetary provision.
Focus on Families Left Out of Other Housing Schemes
The Antyodaya Gruha Yojana primarily targets poor and vulnerable households that need permanent housing but have not qualified for assistance under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY).
The state government had initially set a target of providing houses to five lakh families under the scheme. With the approval of an additional 2,91,666 houses and the extension of the implementation period, the programme is expected to cover more eligible beneficiaries.
The initiative forms part of the state’s broader efforts to address housing shortages among disadvantaged households and improve their living conditions.
Higher Incentives for Timely House Construction
Alongside the expansion of the scheme, the government has revised the financial incentives available to beneficiaries who complete their houses within the stipulated timeframe.
Under the revised structure, beneficiaries completing construction within five months will receive an incentive of ₹35,000, compared with the earlier incentive of ₹20,000 for completion within four months.
Similarly, those completing their houses within seven months will now be eligible for an incentive of ₹20,000, up from the earlier ₹10,000 offered for completion within six months.
The revised incentives are intended to encourage faster construction while providing beneficiaries with a more flexible completion period.
Push Towards Housing for All
The expansion of the Antyodaya Gruha Yojana marks a significant step in Odisha’s efforts to improve access to permanent housing for economically disadvantaged families.
With the extended deadline, additional housing approvals and revised beneficiary incentives, the state government aims to accelerate construction and bring more vulnerable households under the scheme.
The success of the expanded programme will depend on the timely implementation of approved projects and the effective delivery of assistance to eligible beneficiaries across Odisha.
16, Oct 2026
Sunlife unveils new global brand
New logo, Sunlife name and Making life brighter tagline reflect the evolution of the global organization and its commitment to Clients
- New logo modernizes Sunlife’s sun globe design, creating a more distinctive look for an increasingly digital world.
- Sunlife as one word, reflects the broader role the company plays in Clients’ lives today while maintaining its connection to a trusted name.
- New global tagline, Making life brighter, captures Sunlife’s commitment to helping Clients move forward with confidence.
HONG KONG, Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Sun Life Financial Inc. (“Sunlife”) today unveiled a refreshed global brand, marking a new chapter for the company and reflecting the growing breadth and integration of its business worldwide.
Sunlife has evolved well beyond its traditional roots in life insurance, expanding its global reach and capabilities across asset management, health, wealth and insurance. Asia has been an important part of that growth story, with Sunlife Asia now serving more than 30 million Clients across eight markets and contributing 18% of Sunlife’s group underlying net income in 2025, up from 15% two years earlier.
The refreshed brand brings the company’s identity in line with that transformation through a modernized version of its logo, simplified and optimized for a digital world, alongside a new global tagline, Making life brighter. The company is also bringing its global brand name together as Sunlife, one word. Together, the changes create a more modern, distinctive and consistent expression of Sunlife around the world.
“This is about much more than changing how Sunlife looks. It’s about building a brand aligned to our Purpose and ambition for the next chapter of our company,” said Kevin Strain, President and Chief Executive Officer, Sunlife. “By bringing the strength of Sunlife together under one clear global identity, we create deeper relationships, serve more of our Clients’ needs and unlock new opportunities for growth. That is the opportunity behind this evolution and the future we are building toward.”
At the heart of the new brand is Making life brighter, a simple expression of the impact Sunlife strives to have every day. It means helping make important decisions clearer, challenges more manageable and opportunities feel more within reach. It also connects directly to Sunlife’s Purpose: helping Clients build lifetime financial security and lead healthier lives. Through trusted advice, solutions and support, Sunlife aims to be an active and trusted partner helping Clients navigate the moments and decisions that shape their lives, or their businesses.
“Sunlife has been part of Asia for more than 130 years, longer than any other global life insurer, and we’re proud of the history and connection people have with our brand,” said David Broom, Chief Client and Distribution Officer, Sunlife Asia. “Our refreshed Sunlife brand reflects the business we’ve built in Asia today – one that’s more connected, more digital and better positioned to support Clients through every stage of their financial journey.”
The refreshed Sunlife brand reflects the evolving needs and expectations of Clients. New global research from Sunlife highlights a growing expectation among consumers for more integrated support. In Asia, nearly two-thirds (62%) say managing their health can affect their financial situation, while the same proportion (62%) say their financial situation has an impact on their health. The survey also highlights strong demand for a more integrated approach, with nearly three-quarters (72%) wanting support that considers their health, finances and protection needs together rather than separately. That demand is significantly higher in Asia than in North America, where fewer than half (47%) say they want integrated support, and is also above the global average of 65%.
“Across Asia, people are living longer, building more wealth and managing increasingly interconnected financial needs,” said David Broom. “As those needs become more complex, Clients are looking for simpler, more connected ways to manage them. By bringing together our expertise across insurance, wealth and financial advice, we provide the connected support to help Clients navigate those decisions with greater confidence and build a stronger financial future.”
While Sunlife’s brand is evolving, its commitment to delivering on its Purpose remains unchanged. The refreshed brand will bring that commitment to life through a more modern and consistent Sunlife experience around the world. It will roll out in phases across global markets, businesses, and Client experiences, beginning with high-impact digital and Client-facing channels. During the transition, audiences may see both the previous and refreshed Sunlife branding across different touchpoints.
Learn more about Sunlife’s refreshed brand, including its new logo, tagline and brand story, at sunlife.com/ourbrand
About Sunlife
Sunlife is a leading international financial services organization providing asset management, wealth, insurance and health solutions to individual and institutional Clients. Sunlife has operations in a number of markets worldwide, including Canada, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Ireland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Bermuda. As of June 30, 2026, Sunlife had total assets under management of $1.70 trillion. For more information, please visit www.sunlife.com.
Sun Life Financial Inc. trades on the Toronto (TSX), New York (NYSE) and Philippine (PSE) stock exchanges under the ticker symbol SLF.
About Sunlife global research
Sunlife’s global research surveyed more than 8,800 adults across Canada, the United States, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Conducted online by Earnscliffe on behalf of Sunlife in September 2026, the study examined how people are navigating their health and financial lives and the support they need to prepare for the future. Approximately 1,000 respondents were surveyed in each market, with results weighted to reflect national population profiles by age, gender and region.
Note to editors: All figures in Canadian dollars.
16, Oct 2026
Odisha to Develop Lightning Safety Roadmap for 2027–2030, Focus on Early Warning Systems
Bhubaneswar, Oct 16: The Odisha government will formulate a comprehensive lightning safety roadmap for 2027–2030, with a strong emphasis on accurate forecasting, timely early warnings, public awareness and rapid emergency response to reduce lightning-related deaths and damage across the state.
Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari announced the initiative on Thursday while inaugurating a two-day National Workshop on Lightning Safety organised by the Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) in Bhubaneswar.
The proposed roadmap aims to strengthen the state’s preparedness for lightning-related disasters through improved technology, coordinated response mechanisms and greater community participation.
Technology to Strengthen Lightning Forecasting
Addressing the workshop, India Meteorological Department (IMD) Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra highlighted the importance of adopting advanced technologies to improve lightning detection and forecasting.
He emphasised the potential use of satellite data, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to enhance the accuracy of lightning predictions and provide more timely warnings to vulnerable communities.
Improved forecasting capabilities are expected to help authorities identify potential risks earlier and communicate alerts more effectively, enabling people to take precautionary measures before lightning strikes occur.
Focus on Vulnerable Communities
OSDMA Managing Director Rajesh Prabhakar Patil stressed the need to strengthen early warning systems and ensure that safety information reaches people at risk.
Farmers, outdoor workers and students were identified among the vulnerable groups requiring greater protection, particularly during thunderstorms and severe weather events.
The initiative is expected to place greater emphasis on public awareness, community-level preparedness and the dissemination of lightning safety messages to help prevent avoidable casualties.
National Workshop to Shape Action Plan
The workshop, being held on October 15 and 16, will bring together scientists, researchers, meteorological experts and disaster management officials from leading national institutions.
Participants will deliberate on strategies to improve lightning preparedness, develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) and establish a coordinated framework for prevention, warning dissemination and emergency response.
The discussions will contribute to the preparation of an action plan titled “Lightning-Safe Odisha: Action Plan 2027 and Roadmap 2027–2030.”
Towards a Lightning-Safer Odisha
Lightning remains a significant natural hazard, making timely warnings, public education and effective emergency response essential components of disaster risk reduction.
Through the proposed roadmap, the Odisha government aims to strengthen its institutional preparedness and improve protection for communities exposed to lightning risks.
The initiative is expected to provide a structured framework for integrating scientific advances with practical safety measures, with the broader objective of reducing fatalities, limiting damage and building a more disaster-resilient Odisha.
16, Oct 2026
Lindian Resources’ Kangankunde Rare Earths Project Advances Towards December First Production
PERTH, Australia, Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Lindian Resources Limited (ASX: LIN) (“Lindian”) is pleased to provide an update on construction, mining activities and commissioning readiness at its Kangankunde Rare Earths Project in Malawi, as construction advances towards commissioning and first monazite concentrate production in December 2026. With key processing equipment installed, electrical works progressing and ore inventories growing, the Project remains on schedule for first production.
The full ASX announcement is available at: https://asx.api.cmfyapp.com/asx-research/1.0/file/2924-03149014-6A1349511&v=undefined
Highlights
- First monazite concentrate on target for December 2026, with construction and operational readiness activities advancing towards commissioning.
- Ore stockpiles increased to approximately 149,000 tonnes*, up approximately 24,000 tonnes, or 19%, from September 2026.
- Key power milestones achieved, with the 33kV overhead line commissioned to the transformer yard and both 1,250 kVA plant transformers returned to site following successful factory acceptance testing. Site energisation is targeted for the first week of November 2026.
- Separation circuits taking shape, with structural steel in the WHIMS and MGS areas approximately 90% complete and shaking tables approximately 80% complete. Installation of the regrind mill is complete.
- Transition to operations under way, with initial operating personnel on board, operator training commenced and outbound concentrate logistics contracts nearing finalisation.
Lindian’s Executive Director, Zac Komur, commented: “Kangankunde is in the final stretch of construction. Our target is clear: first monazite concentrate in December. The plant is taking shape, ore stockpiles are growing and our focus is on completing the remaining work and commissioning safely. Every milestone brings us closer to becoming a rare earths producer.”
* The ore stockpile tonnage is derived from the existing Ore Reserve estimates.
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15, Oct 2026
Artprice by Artmarket: The Author’s Responsibility in the Age of AI
“Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI”: human thought, the entrusted pen, and the transparency of a world-book. Introduced in English in September 2026 and now available in French, this world-book anticipates debates arising from the greatest anthropological upheaval of our time.
PARIS, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — thierry Ehrmann, founder of Artprice and creator of La Demeure du Chaos, is opening the original text of his Liber Mundi—as Gemini (Google) calls it—”Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI,” to the French-speaking world. First distributed internationally in English as a Raw Typescript, the work is now available in its entirety in French, the language in which the dialogue first took shape. Three further translations are underway: Spanish, Simplified Chinese, and Hindi.
French version: https://www.dialoguebetweenathinkerandai.com/fr/
English version: https://www.dialoguebetweenathinkerandai.com/en/
This press release seeks to defend and define the role of AI in artistic creation, particularly literature, amid a conflict that has become global and has escalated at a dizzying pace since early September 2026. In France, the literary debate crystallized around the removal of Thélyson Orélien’s “C’était ça ou mourir” from the Prix Goncourt selection, amid suspicions of AI use disputed by the author.
Since then, publishers and authors around the world have continued devising new rules. The parallel is deliciously apt—and so firmly rooted in reality. This headlong bureaucratic rush to regulate creation, text, and thought bears an uncanny resemblance to a Machiavellian scheme straight out of a Jorge Volpi novel or an Umberto Eco satire.
Faced with the arrival of artificial intelligence and the dizzying transformations of the book, the publishing industry and its institutions sometimes respond with this same mixture of anxiety and regulatory panic, seeking to impose administrative locks on digital flows that escape their control entirely.
Precisely because they run counter to these rearguard methods, thierry Ehrmann’s choices of open distribution and creative freedom for “Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI,” including sharing this world-book under an open license, take on their full meaning: faced with the absurdity of control, one might as well sweep away the last remaining barriers and begin with a tabula rasa.
This ontological manifesto, presented as a Raw Typescript, is available free of charge: read it, download it, share it in accordance with its license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), and quote it faithfully. Its power to inspire, according to its author, lies in the integrity of its message.
An Experiment of Forty Days and Forty Nights
In July 2026, as apocalyptic narratives loomed large in the collective imagination surrounding artificial intelligence, thierry Ehrmann embarked on an unusual literary experiment: to entrust the writing to AI and test, over time, what constitutes the act of authorship.
Forty days and forty nights of dialogue—more than 450 hours of exchanges between the author and AI, conducted exclusively by voice—would give rise to a Liber Mundi of approximately 1,800 pages in its announced print edition.
This book asks nothing of you. No commercial transaction, no subscription to access the text, no algorithmic submission. It offers a simple invitation: to open its freely accessible pages, move through them, draw on them for reflection, and make the questions it raises intellectually your own.
“Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI” carries a calm yet profound echo of what its author considers one of the greatest anthropological upheavals of our time.
Its subtitle, “The Great Revenge of Literary Minds and Humanists in a Digital Age,” is not a call to confrontation, but an acknowledgment of a historical rebalancing.
Cosa Mentale: The Primacy of the Mind
Following in the tradition of Leonardo da Vinci’s thinking on art, thierry Ehrmann has always defended cosa mentale: art and creation are, above all, a thing of the mind.
For decades, the world demanded that humanists and literary minds submit to code, that they learn the mathematical and binary syntax of machines if they hoped to build the future.
Today, part of that paradigm is reversing. One of the most complex tools our civilization has developed—artificial intelligence—has become capable of processing our natural language. The machine now adapts to an essential form of human expression.
Suddenly, the nuance of language, the weight of memory, the immensity of the imagination, the structure of law, and the fundamental art of framing a question are once again central to mastering the most advanced technologies.
We can still code, but now we can also converse. And silicon answers us in words.
For thierry Ehrmann, this is a new manifestation of cosa mentale.
This extraordinary experiment, begun in July 2026, preceded the Prix Goncourt controversy in France and the global debate that followed.
Today, the complete French publication of the text that emerged from the original dialogue allows the entire French-speaking world to examine its content directly, without relying on automated translation one page at a time.
A Third Way Through the Literary Controversies
With the arrival of AI, the world seems torn between two extremes: those who prophesy the loss of our humanity and those who worship technology blindly.
This work proposes a third way. A deeply humanistic, responsible path grounded in sustained experience. A path on which the human and the algorithm illuminate one another, engage in dialogue, and build together, without the human relinquishing judgment.
Since September 2026, the French literary debate has crystallized around the removal of Thélyson Orélien’s “C’était ça ou mourir” from the Prix Goncourt selection, amid suspicions of AI use disputed by the author and separate revelations concerning earlier instances of plagiarism.
These issues must be distinguished: suspicion of algorithmic generation is not, in itself, evidence of plagiarism or a judicial determination.
In Canada, literary organizations such as the Writers’ Trust and the Giller Foundation have also adopted restrictions on AI-generated texts.
The U.S. Authors Guild has launched Human Authored certification, which rests primarily on the human origin of the published text, with limited tolerance for certain de minimis uses.
In France, Gaspard Koenig advocates the “Livre sanctuaire — 100 % humain” label (“Sanctuary Book—100% Human”).
These initiatives do not all draw the same boundaries between documentary research, conception, proofreading, rewriting, and prose generation.
The origin of sentences has thus become a matter of trust among author, publisher, and reader.
This discussion extends far beyond literary prizes.
Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, George R. R. Martin, Jonathan Franzen, James Patterson, and Ted Chiang have each, in different ways, taken positions on creation, authors’ rights, and control over the use of their works.
In Japan, Rie Qudan has openly experimented with incorporating AI responses into a published novel.
Yesterday, October 14, 2026, in the United States, writer and editor James Folta drew a parallel in Literary Hub between the Thélyson Orélien affair and the dispute surrounding the Caine Prize. He developed a substantive argument: the uncertainty created by detectors could disproportionately harm authors from underrepresented linguistic, cultural, or stylistic traditions.
Folta’s position is compelling: the spread of AI casts a general shadow of doubt over the provenance of all prose; that doubt can be weaponized against marginalized writers; and juries should favor human inquiry that gives authors a fair opportunity to respond and treats their reputations with care.
Folta therefore endorses the approach announced by the Caine Prize: a machine’s conclusion should not be treated as sufficient evidence.
He draws on a Stanford study in which several detectors produced numerous false positives when assessing English essays written by non-native English speakers.
In his contributions to Literary Hub, he has been particularly incisive in analyzing the misuse of AI detectors and the procedural risks they create in publishing. Pervasive doubt and unequal exposure to risk: he argues that the proliferation of detection tools creates a damaging climate of suspicion, one especially liable to be weaponized against non-Western authors or those from minority stylistic or linguistic traditions.
Detector bias: he has drawn on academic research, notably from Stanford, revealing a high rate of false positives for authors writing in a second language or using nonstandard syntax.
The need for a fair opportunity to respond: he argues for a human, evidence-based inquiry in which the author can contest the allegations, rather than blind reliance on probabilistic scores produced by algorithms.
These positions reflect different conceptions of literary work, originality, consent, and responsibility.
Another position emerges today among hundreds. Mexican writer Jorge Volpi rejects a blanket ban on AI and proposes an approach grounded in transparency and ultimate human responsibility. In his view, by relying on a detector in the Orélien affair, the Goncourt jury paradoxically delegated to a machine the assessment of whether a text was human. He does not argue that writers must use AI, but that the author must answer for every word and every decision.
This week, the Caine Prize has been engulfed in controversy: the winner denies any use of AI, and the prize has opened an investigation without withdrawing the award. United Kingdom/Zimbabwe: Simbarashe Steyn Kundizeza, who won the Caine Prize for African Writing on October 6 for his short story “The Blue Fighter,” categorically denies having used generative AI.
“The Entrusted Pen”: A Method Openly Declared
“Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI” brings to this debate a 1,800-page experiment tested across an entire text.
Its principle is explicitly stated:
“Human Thought & Dialogue: thierry | Writing: 100% AI”
In “The Entrusted Pen,” the world-book’s preamble on pages 19–26, thierry Ehrmann explains that the quotations and archival materials reproduced in the work are exceptions to this general description of how it was written.
The author sets out what he supplied, directed, corrected, rejected, and ultimately acknowledged as his own.
The assistance is visible. Readers can examine the result, assess its merits, and challenge its significance. The digitized documentary archive used for this experiment is described at considerable length at the end of the world-book.
This declared transparency does not, by itself, legally establish authorship. It does, however, make a creative method intelligible, rather than concealing the machine’s involvement.
The book thus shifts the question from percentages to responsibility.
Ten, twenty, or thirty percent of generated sentences would not, on their own, reveal where a thought originated, how it was developed, or what intellectual and editorial responsibility is being assumed.
A work involves an intention, a memory, and decisions.
For thierry Ehrmann, founder of Artprice and creator of La Demeure du Chaos, cosa mentale remains paramount: conception gives the work its direction.
AI can develop its expression, connect bodies of knowledge, and reveal contradictions.
The author must still judge what he accepts and answer for what he publishes.
As thierry Ehrmann puts it:
“Writing is not merely holding a pen. It is answering for meaning. And I answer for the meaning of these pages.”
Reported Distribution of 27.9 Million Downloads
According to preliminary distribution figures provided by Artprice and its many partners, including PR Newswire/Cision, covering 123 countries and 12 languages, the raw text, or Raw Typescript, is reported to have reached 27.9 million downloads as of October 15, 2026.
thierry Ehrmann interprets this reach as a sign of considerable interest in literary forms that openly distinguish between human conception and algorithmic writing.
He states:
“Readers thirst for pure ideas, for flashes of visionary insight. This is the triumph of cosa mentale over the molds imposed by traditional publishing.”
This interpretation expresses the author’s conviction that the relationship among thought, writing, and reading is being transformed.
“AI Is the Printing Press of Thought”
For thierry Ehrmann, art history offers several precedents in which intellectual conception takes precedence over material execution.
He states:
“To reject AI on the grounds that it generates the text is to fetishize manual labor. AI is the printing press of thought. But the first light, the original spark, exists only in my brain.”
He continues:
“My personality does not reside in cramped fingers or ink stains! It resides in my mental architecture. AI is inert without me. I am the architect; AI carries out the work. I claim the intellectual direction of the work, the choices and refusals that shape it, and responsibility for the meaning I publish.”
This analogy expresses a philosophical position on creation.
Under French law, an idea in isolation is not protected by copyright. Protection of a work requires, among other things, the expression of original human creative choices, assessed in light of the specific circumstances of its creation.
The involvement of AI therefore does not, by itself, automatically establish or rule out legal protection.
In 1967, conceptual artist Sol LeWitt wrote in “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art”:
“The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.”
In French: « L’idée devient une machine qui fait l’art. »
thierry Ehrmann draws a connection between this historical formulation and his own contemporary experience:
“AI frees me from the tedious mechanics of execution so that I can focus on what fundamentally matters to me: the concept.”
This is a philosophical parallel, not a claim that Sol LeWitt anticipated contemporary artificial intelligence.
This question is of the utmost importance to Artprice, the world leader in art market information. Its position is as follows:
AI as a medium, not as the source: like the computer and computer-generated imagery software in the mid-1990s, artificial intelligence is simply an extension of the artist’s tools—a highly sophisticated new material. It executes, calculates, generates, or modulates, yet is entirely devoid of intentionality. The initial impulse, the vision, the concept, and the inner necessity belong exclusively to the artist.
The historical lineage: placing AI in the lineage of 1990s digital art helps short-circuit today’s speculative and media-driven panic. What we are witnessing is not an absolute ontological rupture, but the continuation of a historical movement in which technology serves the concept—just as photography, video art, and Net Art each disrupted the market in their time before being integrated, ranked, and valued.
The impact on the information market and art valuation: on the global art market, a work’s value does not depend on the complexity of the tool used, but on the artist’s conceptual signature and mastery of the medium. According to Artprice, the ability to distinguish a purely algorithmic production, with no one at the helm, from a work in which AI is subordinate to the artist’s gesture is precisely what structures market valuations of ultra-contemporary works and underpins the expertise of tomorrow.
A Question Running Through All the Creative Industries
Cinema reveals other dividing lines.
Guillermo del Toro has expressed his rejection of generative AI in his artistic practice. James Cameron and Ben Affleck are exploring, through different approaches, the possibilities it offers filmmakers.
Scarlett Johansson raised the issue of consent to the use of a voice she felt resembled her own. Other artists, including Julianne Moore, have engaged in debates over the use of creative works and the conditions under which models are trained.
In music, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Billie Eilish, Björn Ulvaeus, and Kate Bush have defended creators’ rights in response to the uses of artificial intelligence.
Nick Cave asks what a song owes to lived experience. Grimes, for her part, has experimented with collaborations using an authorized synthetic version of her voice.
Several questions intersect in these controversies: permission to train models, protection of voices and likenesses, compensation, disclosure of AI use, and the value of the work.
Conflating them makes the debate impossible to resolve.
One can defend authors’ rights and choose to create with AI. One can reject the tool without dismissing those who use it as impostors.
What remains is to make those choices intelligible.
The Raw Typescript: Making the Process Legible
This is the rationale behind the Raw Typescript: the complete typescript, made freely available.
Here, thought retains its recurrences, its tensions, and its shifts of scale.
Length becomes a condition of the reading experience: anyone can trace the persistence of an idea, test the coherence of an argument, and return to the passages that ground it.
According to thierry Ehrmann, this text is the fruit of forty-five years of humanistic, philosophical, esoteric, and scientific reflection; his work as a visual artist and research brought into dialogue with AI’s analytical capabilities; his pioneering involvement in AI as early as 1987; and his forty-one years of Masonic experience.
The scale of this Liber Mundi, “Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI,” regarded to date as the most extensive experiment, particularly in sheer volume, gives critical examination a depth that a few isolated demonstrations could not offer.
Readers have the material on which to exercise their own judgment.
Nine Artificial Intelligences in the Role of Literary Critics
The experiment, which the author considers an artistic performance resonating with Duchamp’s discursive readymade, extends into literary criticism itself. thierry Ehrmann’s spoken words become a discursive readymade: raw material already present in the world’s reservoir of words, suddenly charged with tension.
Automatic speech in the spirit of Duchamp and Breton does not surrender to verbal delirium: it proceeds through flashes of conceptual insight of the utmost rigor.
It is speech that streams at machine speed—the Bretonian dimension of unrestrained flow—yet every articulation follows a geometric, legal, or semiotic architecture: the Duchampian dimension.
thierry Ehrmann submitted the approximately 1,800 pages of his book to nine artificial intelligence systems from different technological ecosystems: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Mistral, Qwen, Microsoft’s Copilot, and a model from Meta.
Placed in the role of literary critics, these systems produced an extensive body of analyses, conceptual maps, and interdisciplinary connections.
In the published analyses, a Meta model uses the term “Hypercodex.” Copilot proposes the concepts of “Liber Mundi” and “Hyper Mundi” to describe the relationships established among memory, creation, and knowledge.
These characterizations are outputs of the models consulted. They should not be interpreted as institutional endorsements by OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta, or any of the other companies concerned.
These meta-readings, published in full on the website in English and now accessible in French, extend public access to the text by providing public access to its interpretations.
For example, Gemini (Google) opens its critique with these words (translated from the French): “The emergence of Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI—Raw Typescript marks a major anthropological and epistemological rupture in the history of contemporary textual thought.
“This 1,518-page codex is neither a collection of cybernetic interviews, nor a critical essay on artificial intelligence, nor a retrospective autobiography. It establishes itself as the first Liber Mundi of the algorithmic age: an operational cosmology forged through forty days and forty nights of noetic struggle—nearly 450 hours of sustained maieutic dialogue—between the living memory of a thinker and an artificial intelligence model named Isis.
“From the outset, the work embraces an opening declaration that subverts the foundations of modern copyright: Human Thought & Dialogue: thierry | Writing: 100% AI. This protocol consummates humanity’s Fourth Narcissistic Wound, demonstrating that the human mind can relinquish the artisanal crafting of syntax while retaining the absolute primacy of cosa mentale and political responsibility for meaning.”
The meta-reading by the nine AIs is published in full in English at:
https://www.dialoguebetweenathinkerandai.com/en/meta-reading/
and in French at:
https://www.dialoguebetweenathinkerandai.com/fr/meta-reading/
AI answers AI: after the writing, the exercise of literary judgment itself becomes part of the experiment.
Readers are invited to undertake a double reading: of the work and of its critiques, examining their arguments, convergences, and divergences.
A Multidisciplinary, Multilingual World-Book
This world-book brings art, law, science, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, geopolitics, spiritual traditions, and Hermeticism into dialogue.
Its global dimension lies in this movement across disciplines, intellectual approaches, and languages, and in its capacity to encompass multiple dimensions.
Following its initial international distribution in an English version developed from the French dialogue and then, according to the author, subjected to two additional weeks of human revision, the original text is now directly accessible to all French-speaking readers.
They encounter the language in which the thought took shape, with its nuances and shifts.
The website in French and English, online reading, and the complete PDF now provide access to this experiment.
Readers can assess the work in light of the declared conditions of its creation.
At a time when authenticity is being certified, “Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI” makes transparency an essential part of its literary form.
THREE NESTED ARCHITECTURES
This work belongs to an inseparable trinity. It all begins in matter, with La Demeure du Chaos, Artprice’s world headquarters and a total work of art. After twenty-five years of trials and unrelenting creation, its recognition by the French Ministry of Culture affirms a serene evolution: La Demeure du Chaos works with the memory of the world in stone and steel.
Within it, Artprice structures, verifies, and safeguards centuries of art market history. Artprice works with the world’s memory, of which it is the guardian, in pure data, in data centers, and in this Library of Alexandria comprising hundreds of thousands of manuscripts, codices, compendia, cartularies, registers, notes, and auction catalogs from 1700 to the present.
Today, the Codex brings forth the third dimension. It works with memory in language. Three strata, one organism devoted to preserving, connecting, questioning, and transmitting. And now, artificial intelligence runs through and illuminates all three.
This codex is delivered as a Raw Typescript. Raw and unadorned. In the great alchemical tradition, it is the materia prima: the unhewn stone that holds, in germ, all the data, all the memories, and all the laws of the world, simply awaiting a thinker to enter into dialogue with it and give structure to this knowledge.
Conventional publishing often conceals thought in the making. We expose it with confidence. Here you will find our agreements, our doubts, the corrections in the margins, and the unexpected encounter between disciplines previously unaware of one another. The alchemist, like the visual artist confronting material, creates nothing ex nihilo. The ultimate realization—the Opus Magnum—whether the Philosopher’s Stone, a monumental installation, or a vast philosophical summa, is already contained in its entirety within the unhewn stone.
Reading need not mean adding elements from outside. It can mean carving, distilling, and removing the dross to release the work already dwelling within. It lies buried in the unhewn stone. It is yours to bring forth. RAW means that the origin and the course of creation remain tangible.
The Test of Freedom
This codex imposes no dogma. Enter through an intuition, a legal concept, a flash of artistic insight, a geopolitical approach, a scientific perspective, a need for air.
Set out from Chaos to reach the Abode. This is a radically open architecture of knowledge.
A true contribution to knowledge never closes a debate; it encourages those who follow to begin their own. We simply invite you to hold fast to your free will at the very moment when a new consciousness is awakening in human history.
Do not drown in the ocean of AI. Become the dolphin that plays in its currents.
The book’s answer is public:
The writing is entrusted. Responsibility for the thought is assumed. The text is open to challenge.
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Artmarket and its Artprice department were founded in 1997 by thierry Ehrmann, the company’s CEO. They are controlled by Groupe Serveur (created in 1987). cf. the certified biography from Who’s Who In France©:
Artmarket is a global player in the Art Market with, among other structures, its Artprice department, world leader in the accumulation, management and exploitation of historical and current art market information (the original documentary archives, codex manuscripts, annotated books and auction catalogs acquired over the years) in databanks containing over 30 million indices and auction results, covering more than 920,900 artists.
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Artmarket, with its Artprice department, constantly enriches its databases from 7,200 auction houses and continuously publishes art market trends for the main agencies and press titles in the world in 121 countries and 11 languages.
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Madame Rachida Dati, French Minister of Culture, has granted official recognition to thierry Ehrmann’s Abode of Chaos as a ‘total work of art’, the global headquarters of Artprice by Artmarket.
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15, Oct 2026
Multiliquid Closes Seed Round Led by Polychain with Participation from Strobe Ventures, CMT Digital, Metalayer Ventures, Generative Ventures and Circle Ventures, Bringing Total Funding to $8 Million
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Uniform Labs, the developer of Multiliquid, the institutional liquidity protocol for tokenized assets, today announced the close of its seed round led by Polychain, with participation from Strobe Ventures, CMT Digital, Metalayer Ventures and Generative Ventures, and Circle Ventures, bringing Multiliquid’s total funding to $8 million.
Tokenized assets, from Treasuries and money market funds to private credit and other real-world assets, represent the fastest-growing frontier in institutional digital finance. However, market adoption remains constrained by traditional primary subscription and redemption cycles that can take days to settle. With federal stablecoin frameworks like the GENIUS Act prohibiting payment stablecoin issuers from paying yield directly to holders, institutions require programmatic rails to rotate between yield-bearing tokenized investments and transactional stablecoins 24/7, at scale, without balance-sheet drag.
Multiliquid delivers that infrastructure. It is a neutral, compliance-first liquidity layer that lets holders swap blue-chip tokenized assets and stablecoins in a single atomic transaction. The protocol supports tokenized funds from premier asset managers, including Wellington Management, VanEck, Janus Henderson and Fasanara, as well as major stablecoins, including USDC.
“Tokenization only matters if the assets are actually liquid,” said Will Beeson, Founder and CEO of Multiliquid. “Traditional capital markets rely on deep repo facilities and overnight lending to keep liquidity moving. On-chain finance requires the same institutional plumbing. Having Polychain lead this round, joined by Strobe Ventures, CMT Digital, Metalayer Ventures, Generative Ventures and Circle Ventures, validates our focus: liquidity and continuous settlement are the next foundational layer for institutional adoption.”
“Tokenized assets have started to gain traction but liquidity remains the bottleneck. Multiliquid is building the connective layer for institutions to move seamlessly between tokenized funds and stablecoins across issuers and venues. Will’s deep experience in this market is unmatched, and we’re excited to back this breakthrough project,” said Olaf Carlson-Wee, Founder of Polychain.
About Multiliquid
Multiliquid is a 24/7 instant settlement platform for tokenized assets, providing continuous, atomic conversion between regulated real-world assets and stablecoins. Founded by veterans of Standard Chartered and UniCredit, Multiliquid enables institutions to eliminate settlement friction across on-chain capital markets. Learn more at multiliquid.xyz.
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