Sam Altman’s ‘Batcave,’ a flying boat, and a $45 million dinosaur skeleton: Lifestyle news roundup
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American Express announced Tuesday that it will be bringing one of its high-end Centurion airport lounges to a new location. The credit card company is opening a new edition of the franchise at Washington, D.C.’s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday.
A huge wind farm is causing trouble for Massachusetts beachgoers. The Nantucket Harbormaster announced Tuesday that much of the area’s shoreline was closed to visitors after pieces of wind turbines started washing up on shore this week.
A hedge fund billionaire purchased the “finest stegosaurus specimen ever to appear at auction” for a whopping $45 million on Wednesday – a record-setting sum in the world of dinosaur collecting.
As summer reaches its peak across the Northern Hemisphere, it’s hard to imagine a better way of spending a vacation than channeling your inner ship captain and sailing across the ocean.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman wanted a mansion with a bat cave. Instead, he apparently got a “lemon.”
That’s according to a new suit filed against the contractors of the $27 million house Altman owns in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood.
The lawsuit against the builders, Troon Pacific and its CEO Greg Malin, is seeking unspecified damages for the luxury home. The plaintiff is listed as 950 Lombard LLC, and public records say the OpenAI CEO is the mansion’s current resident, according to The San Francisco Standard. The LLC purchased the home in 2020.
Cruise ships are vacations from hell to the point where, if you’re trapped on one, you might need a vacation from your vacation. What better way to get away while getting away than to get away by train.
Despite the old expression stating otherwise, it turns out that money actually can buy happiness – with a new study revealing that extremely high net worth individuals are “substantially and statistically significantly happier” than even those with incomes in excess of $500,000 a year.