{"id":140402,"date":"2025-10-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140402"},"modified":"2025-10-09T21:34:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T01:34:36","slug":"ft-ari-emanuel-bets-ai-will-boost-leisure-time-with-three-day-working-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140402","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Ari Emanuel bets AI will boost leisure time with three-day working week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ari Emanuel, the Hollywood talent agent and sports tycoon, has raised almost $3bn from investors for a new events venture in a bet that artificial intelligence will shrink the working week and give people more free time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world could be \u201cdown to four-day work weeks\u201d in the coming years, he told the Financial Times. This could go \u201cdown to three with AI\u201d as more people use the technology to expedite everyday tasks, he said. \u201cThere\u2019s going to be more free time.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MARI, Emanuel\u2019s new company, will house the Madrid and Miami tennis Opens, as well as the Frieze art fairs, which Emanuel bought out of Endeavor, the sports and entertainment group he co-founded. The company announced on Wednesday that it had also agreed to acquire Barrett-Jackson, the collector car auction company, from Endeavor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/44b9bbc2-2bb0-4b7a-8361-83eb94f134f8\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ari Emanuel bets AI will boost leisure time with three-day working week <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tkaSMs2V7c\">https:\/\/t.co\/tkaSMs2V7c<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Financial Times (@FT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FT\/status\/1976062072384278618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 8, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ari Emanuel, the Hollywood talent agent and sports tycoon, has raised almost $3bn from investors for a new events venture in a bet that artificial intelligence will shrink the working week and give people more free time.&nbsp; The world could<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=140402\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,149,597,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140402"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140406,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140402\/revisions\/140406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}