Laugh at him all you want, he is still one of the most accomplished and wealthiest person on earth.It is 2024 and Elon Musk is still the world’s richest man worth over $200B. The recent Delaware court ruling against Elon Musk’s staggering $55.8 billion compensation package is quite peculiar. I really didn’t know a court that do that. Block a pack package to an executive in a public company. This decision, targeting what the judge deemed an “unfathomable” sum, marks a pivotal moment in the ong...

Laugh at him all you want, he is still one of the most accomplished and wealthiest person on earth.It is 2024 and Elon Musk is still the world’s richest man worth over $200B. The recent Delaware court ruling against Elon Musk’s staggering $55.8 billion compensation package is quite peculiar. I really didn’t know a court that do that. Block a pack package to an executive in a public company. This decision, targeting what the judge deemed an “unfathomable” sum, marks a pivotal moment in the ong...

Biden is gearing up for the re-election and he has a heavy war chest to help.It’s no secret that in the high-stakes game of presidential elections, money talks. Generally speaking, the candidate who raised the most money tends to win and become the President of the United States. It is the most coveted job in the world. The POTUS is quite literally the most powerful and influential person in the world. President Joe Biden’s campaign, with a staggering $97 million raised in the last quarter of...

Biden is gearing up for the re-election and he has a heavy war chest to help.It’s no secret that in the high-stakes game of presidential elections, money talks. Generally speaking, the candidate who raised the most money tends to win and become the President of the United States. It is the most coveted job in the world. The POTUS is quite literally the most powerful and influential person in the world. President Joe Biden’s campaign, with a staggering $97 million raised in the last quarter of...

Shopping bots to help me spend more, faster? Sure!Finally, a good use of AI? Heard of Rufus? Not some kind of party drug. Its Amazon’s AI assistant. Rufus, designed to simplify the shopping experience, is Amazon’s new tool. By summarizing product reviews and listing details, Rufus aims to streamline the decision-making process for shoppers.AI should be used intelligently in consumerism and online shopping.“To use Rufus, customers in the beta can start typing or speaking their questions into t...

Shopping bots to help me spend more, faster? Sure!Finally, a good use of AI? Heard of Rufus? Not some kind of party drug. Its Amazon’s AI assistant. Rufus, designed to simplify the shopping experience, is Amazon’s new tool. By summarizing product reviews and listing details, Rufus aims to streamline the decision-making process for shoppers.AI should be used intelligently in consumerism and online shopping.“To use Rufus, customers in the beta can start typing or speaking their questions into t...

So what’s happening in big tech now?The tech industry, once a beacon of relentless growth and innovation, is now caught in the throes of massive layoffs. These are the companies letting people go by the hundreds and thousands. Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Spotify, Salesforce, Twitch, Duolingo, Discord and many more. More than a quarter million employees rendered unemployed since Jan 2022. But what’s driving this unsettling trend? Is it a knee-jerk reaction to economic shifts, or ...

So what’s happening in big tech now?The tech industry, once a beacon of relentless growth and innovation, is now caught in the throes of massive layoffs. These are the companies letting people go by the hundreds and thousands. Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Spotify, Salesforce, Twitch, Duolingo, Discord and many more. More than a quarter million employees rendered unemployed since Jan 2022. But what’s driving this unsettling trend? Is it a knee-jerk reaction to economic shifts, or ...

Man or woman, this is entirely, inarguably, really impressive.One of their pilots just won a beauty competition. Blending beauty, brains, and bravery, the U.S. Air Force officer Madison Marsh has been crowned Miss America 2024, marking a historic moment as the first active-duty Air Force officer to win the prestigious title. This 22-year-old master’s student from Harvard Kennedy School was crowned the pageant winner, redefining the boundaries of what women in the military can achieve. There a...

Man or woman, this is entirely, inarguably, really impressive.One of their pilots just won a beauty competition. Blending beauty, brains, and bravery, the U.S. Air Force officer Madison Marsh has been crowned Miss America 2024, marking a historic moment as the first active-duty Air Force officer to win the prestigious title. This 22-year-old master’s student from Harvard Kennedy School was crowned the pageant winner, redefining the boundaries of what women in the military can achieve. There a...

Sir Elton has been an inspiration for many over the decades.The magnificent Sir Elton John just added a new gem to his crown: an Emmy. With this win, he enters the hallowed EGOT club — cementing an illustrious career that refuses to bow to the limits of genre or medium. This prestigious accolade, called EGOT is when someone wins an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. “There’s no higher accomplishment in Hollywood than becoming an EGOT winner. While many stars have come close to completing the gaun...

Sir Elton has been an inspiration for many over the decades.The magnificent Sir Elton John just added a new gem to his crown: an Emmy. With this win, he enters the hallowed EGOT club — cementing an illustrious career that refuses to bow to the limits of genre or medium. This prestigious accolade, called EGOT is when someone wins an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. “There’s no higher accomplishment in Hollywood than becoming an EGOT winner. While many stars have come close to completing the gaun...

Are you as confident or brave as Michael “Bitcoin” Saylor?The company holding the largest amount of BTC is not a crypto company. MicroStrategy. You must have heard of them. Or its enigmatic soothsayer of a CEO, Michael Saylor. He is able to relate anything back to BTC and praise it in a billion different ways. “MicroStrategy, the largest publicly traded holder of Bitcoin, says it acquired an additional 850 BTC in January, bringing its total holdings to 190,000 BTC, worth $10 billion.” Yes, co...

Are you as confident or brave as Michael “Bitcoin” Saylor?The company holding the largest amount of BTC is not a crypto company. MicroStrategy. You must have heard of them. Or its enigmatic soothsayer of a CEO, Michael Saylor. He is able to relate anything back to BTC and praise it in a billion different ways. “MicroStrategy, the largest publicly traded holder of Bitcoin, says it acquired an additional 850 BTC in January, bringing its total holdings to 190,000 BTC, worth $10 billion.” Yes, co...

The big boys are merging. Is this a signal for the NFT market?The NFT is consolidating, not collapsing. NFTs are dead! Nobody is buying them anymore. The hype is over. That is what people are yapping about. But that isn’t true. Like all markets that evolve and mature, there will be some degree of consolidation, merging, with lousy and scammy NFT projects dying off naturally. It is a natural step towards maturation of a market. Pretty much only the top few NFTs will survive, with most of the o...

The big boys are merging. Is this a signal for the NFT market?The NFT is consolidating, not collapsing. NFTs are dead! Nobody is buying them anymore. The hype is over. That is what people are yapping about. But that isn’t true. Like all markets that evolve and mature, there will be some degree of consolidation, merging, with lousy and scammy NFT projects dying off naturally. It is a natural step towards maturation of a market. Pretty much only the top few NFTs will survive, with most of the o...

Have you seen Sora AI yet?Sora AI. If you haven’t heard of it. Go do yourself a favor and Google it. Just when you thought AI couldn’t get any more mind-bending, OpenAI pulls a rabbit out of its high-tech hat with Sora, a text-to-video AI model that’s leaving jaws on the floor and imagination in overdrive. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill tech advancement. It’s a full-on reality warp. A quantum leap of the imagination. Imagine typing a sentence and watching it transform into a minute-long vide...

Have you seen Sora AI yet?Sora AI. If you haven’t heard of it. Go do yourself a favor and Google it. Just when you thought AI couldn’t get any more mind-bending, OpenAI pulls a rabbit out of its high-tech hat with Sora, a text-to-video AI model that’s leaving jaws on the floor and imagination in overdrive. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill tech advancement. It’s a full-on reality warp. A quantum leap of the imagination. Imagine typing a sentence and watching it transform into a minute-long vide...

The typo that shook wall street.You really cannot be too careful these days. The tiniest error will lead to catastrophe. The smallest of mistakes will amplify into something entirely. The infinitesimally meniscal slip can destroy confidence, trust and hundreds of billions of dollars in value. Just ask Lyft. In big business, annual reports and corporate finance, every digit counts. But for Lyft, a misstep in their latest earnings report proves just how costly a simple typo can be.Mistakes are ...

The typo that shook wall street.You really cannot be too careful these days. The tiniest error will lead to catastrophe. The smallest of mistakes will amplify into something entirely. The infinitesimally meniscal slip can destroy confidence, trust and hundreds of billions of dollars in value. Just ask Lyft. In big business, annual reports and corporate finance, every digit counts. But for Lyft, a misstep in their latest earnings report proves just how costly a simple typo can be.Mistakes are ...

Heard of "Pokémon with guns” yet?Ever wondered what if someone made Pokemons and threw in awesome guns, explosions and bullets? Say hi to Palworld. Blockbuster video games often come with colossal budgets, but not for Palworld. GTA 6 costs more than a billion dollars to make and took 11 years. Palworld needed only $7M and made more than $200M already. The meteoric rise of Palworld is very interesting.The world of indie games is fascinating and burgeoning.This indie game, whimsically dubbed “P...

Heard of "Pokémon with guns” yet?Ever wondered what if someone made Pokemons and threw in awesome guns, explosions and bullets? Say hi to Palworld. Blockbuster video games often come with colossal budgets, but not for Palworld. GTA 6 costs more than a billion dollars to make and took 11 years. Palworld needed only $7M and made more than $200M already. The meteoric rise of Palworld is very interesting.The world of indie games is fascinating and burgeoning.This indie game, whimsically dubbed “P...

Didn’t Hertz just announce buying thousands of Teslas?“In 2022 Hertz signed a deal with both Polestar and Elon Musk’s Tesla to buy tens of thousands of cars to fulfill its pledge of having 25% of its fleet go electric. The deal for 65,000 Polestars was estimated to be worth approximately $3 billion, while Hertz’s deal with Tesla was for 100,000 vehicles” Its 2024, and they are selling away 20,000 EVs. Did they just pull a Jack Sparrow stunt on us all? Hertz is steering away from its electric ...

Didn’t Hertz just announce buying thousands of Teslas?“In 2022 Hertz signed a deal with both Polestar and Elon Musk’s Tesla to buy tens of thousands of cars to fulfill its pledge of having 25% of its fleet go electric. The deal for 65,000 Polestars was estimated to be worth approximately $3 billion, while Hertz’s deal with Tesla was for 100,000 vehicles” Its 2024, and they are selling away 20,000 EVs. Did they just pull a Jack Sparrow stunt on us all? Hertz is steering away from its electric ...