The Eman family increased its stake in Artmarket.com to help Artprice's "AI-first" transformation

Paris, August 24, 2026-As announced by Artmarket.com in its second quarter press release released on August 13, 2026, the title is "Artmarket.com: Growth in the second quarter of 2026-from a gradual transition to Artprice's 'AI-first' transformation,"Artmarket.com founder and CEO Thierry Ehrman and his family reiterated their complete confidence in Artprice by Artmarket.com-the global leader in art market information-and the continued growth of its business. This momentum is particularly due to the large amount of money invested in developing Artprice by Artmarket.com's proprietary vertical AI solutions "Intuition Art Market ©" and "Blind Spot ©."

The belief of the Ehrman family and controlling shareholder Groupe Serveur in the continued expansion of Artprice by Artmarket will soon be realized by increasing their stake in Artmarket.com, that is, purchasing additional Artmarket.com. shares. All mandatory regulatory disclosures will be submitted to the French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) in accordance with the law and posted online within the statutory time limit, and share purchases will be made strictly within the authorized trading window.

These current and upcoming transactions are only intended to reaffirm their confidence in the future of Artprice by Artmarket.com and provide Artmarket.com. They never intended to initiate takeover offers or crowd-out takeovers (tender offers/buyouts), contrary to persistent misunderstandings in certain forums, and did not involve the Ehrman family's failure to disclose transactions or the crossing of thresholds by holding shares.

AMF's ONDE Extranet (Electronic notification and declaration tool) is specifically used for submitting official regulatory declarations (Insider trading, large shareholding crossing thresholds, etc.) lists the following current and upcoming documents:

First application--No. 2026DD1133787 (Published on August 17, 2026)
Second application--No. 2026DD1134265 (Published on August 20, 2026)
Third Supplementary Submission-No. 2026DD1134267 (Published on August 20, 2026)

In line with the decision to increase the family's equity participation in Artmarket.com, Ms. Naj Ehrman, a member of the Board of Directors of Artmarket.com, has purchased additional shares in Artmarket.com. As the total amount of her acquisitions exceeded the legal regulatory threshold, she had completed mandatory disclosures to the issuer and the AMF in full compliance with Article 19 of the EU Market Abuse Regulation (MAR).

In addition, these share purchases follow normal market price fluctuations, which in no way changes the Ehrman family's commitment to strengthening its shareholding position in Artprice by Artmarket.com. [TAG

As an iterative update, Thierry Ellman has completed the manuscript of an 1800-page philosophical and scientific treatise devoted to artificial intelligence from 1987 to the present. The central chapter of the work (approximately 450 pages, rigorously documented) documents Artprice's little-known human journey, culminating in the construction of a universal memory of the art market on a global scale, forged through extraordinary encounters with art market sociologists and late historical market figures.

These historical relationships make Artprice a reliable guardian of the collective memory of these characters. Among other insights, the work also scientifically illustrates Artprice's "AI-first" transformation, based on the philosophical framework elaborated in 2026 with the AI concept of "alignment." The multilingual work will be distributed globally in free digital and paid print versions, the latter of which will be sold in bookstores. The English version will be released on OpenAI, Gemini and Artprice by Artmarket.com at the end of August 2026, and the French version will be released in September 2026.

The following is a short excerpt from the original manuscript that demonstrates the literary style and philosophical premise of the treatise-the role of artificial intelligence in the formation of thoughts and memories:

"Artprice was not born to steal secrets from the art market. It was born to prevent public markets from falling into amnesia. This distinction is crucial. It carries a specific concept of freedom. Transparency is not about eliminating privacy; it is about making things that are already in the public domain understandable. The more Artprice develops, the more we realize that our responsibilities go far beyond the economic and industrial functions of the database. When you own several books, you can do with them as you please. But when you collect hundreds of thousands of unique fragments of the world's art market memory from multiple continents, legal ownership does not exempt you from moral responsibility: it makes you the guardian of the memory of this universal art market. Receive without erase. Connected rather than standardized. Measure without disparaging. Transparency without profanity. Utilize digital technology without replacing human eyes. To build a digital information economy, we never forget that there is a work of art behind every piece of data, and there is a person behind every piece of art. For nearly three decades, we have followed these principles and never felt the need to include them in a manifesto. Subsequently, artificial intelligence changed the nature of the challenge. With AI, memory is no longer just an object of query, it has become an absolute learning and training ground. A vertical proprietary AI can now process an amount of information that any team of art historians or researchers will not be able to absorb in a lifetime. Connect, correlate, detect patterns, discover abnormalities, reconstruct genetic relationships, identify blind spots, and generate algorithm hypotheses. This is an extraordinary power. However, it makes the authenticity and quality of the original source more critical than ever. At that moment, the thousands of libraries we saved around the world underwent another status shift. They are no longer just Artprice's past, but become the ultimate guarantee of its future. A vertical AI focused on the art market only makes sense if it is rooted in a memory whose pedigree is perfectly traced through catalogs, manuscripts, transcripts, photos, biographies, auction records, cross-verified sources, manual corrections, and decades of strict standardization. Source precedes model. Always."