The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, co-directed by Daniel Roher, delves into the world of AI through the lens of personal anxiety Are we barreling toward AI catastrophe? Is AI an existential threat, or an epochal opportunity? Those are the questions top of mind for a new documentary at Sundance, which features leading AI experts, critics and entrepreneurs, including Sam Altman, the Open...
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, co-directed by Daniel Roher, delves into the world of AI through the lens of personal anxiety Are we barreling toward AI catastrophe? Is AI an existential threat, or an epochal opportunity? Those are the questions top of mind for a new documentary at Sundance, which features leading AI experts, critics and entrepreneurs, including Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, with views on the near-to-midterm future ranging from doom to utopia. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, directed by Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell and produced by Daniel Kwan (one half of The Daniels, the Oscar-winning duo behind Everything Everywhere All At Once), delves into the contentious topic of AI through Roher’s own anxiety. The Canadian film-maker, who won an Oscar in 2023 for the documentary Navalny , first became interested in the topic while experimenting with tools released by OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot ChatGPT. The sophistication of the public tools – the ability to produce whole paragraphs in seconds, or produce illustrations – both thrilled and unnerved him. AI was already radically shaping the filmmaking industry, and proclamations on the promise and peril of AI were everywhere, with little way for people outside the tech industry to evaluate them. As an artist, he wondered, how was he to make sense of it all? Continue reading...
(RTTNews) - Ponce Financial Group, Inc. (PDLB) released a profit for its fourth quarter that Increased, from the same period last year The company's bottom line came in at $9.86 million, or $0.42 per share. This compares with $2.65 million, or $0.12 per share, last year. The company's revenue for the period rose 37.6% to $31.41 million from $22.83 million last year. Ponce Financial Group, Inc. ear...
(RTTNews) - Ponce Financial Group, Inc. (PDLB) released a profit for its fourth quarter that Increased, from the same period last year The company's bottom line came in at $9.86 million, or $0.42 per share. This compares with $2.65 million, or $0.12 per share, last year. The company's revenue for the period rose 37.6% to $31.41 million from $22.83 million last year. Ponce Financial Group, Inc. earnings at a glance (GAAP) : -Earnings: $9.86 Mln. vs. $2.65 Mln. last year. -EPS: $0.42 vs. $0.12 last year. -Revenue: $31.41 Mln vs. $22.83 Mln last year. The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Nasdaq, Inc.
Emerging Asian currencies reached the highest since September as the dollar debasement trade gathers pace, with President Donald Trump criticizing some regional currencies. The Bloomberg Asia Dollar Index rose 0.2% on Wednesday, and is a whisker away from levels last seen in July, while the MSCI EM currency index has reached a fresh record high. The greenback slid after Trump indicated that he was...
Emerging Asian currencies reached the highest since September as the dollar debasement trade gathers pace, with President Donald Trump criticizing some regional currencies. The Bloomberg Asia Dollar Index rose 0.2% on Wednesday, and is a whisker away from levels last seen in July, while the MSCI EM currency index has reached a fresh record high. The greenback slid after Trump indicated that he was comfortable with the declines, while slamming China and Japan for wanting to devalue their currencies. “Dollar weakness overnight is the key catalyst for strong Asia-Pacific FX at the open,” said Wee Khoon Chong , senior APAC market strategist at BNY, “along with more fundamental factors such as growth recovery momentum — especially in the tech space — and ongoing capital inflows into the region.” Asian currency strength may give some relief to “deficit and fiscally triggered” currencies such as the Philippine peso, Indian rupee and Indonesian rupiah that have been weakening, he added. The People’s Bank of China strengthened the yuan daily reference rate by the most since August on Wednesday after the overnight slide in the dollar. This comes after the Chinese central bank guided the yuan daily fix past the key 7 per dollar threshold last week. Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell to the lowest since March 2022 on Tuesday, extending declines from earlier this week. The debasement trade has gained momentum on speculation that US authorities might be willing to work with their Japanese counterparts to support the yen — and thereby are open to a weaker greenback. “Trump’s latest comments on the dollar further added fuel to dollar softness,” said Christopher Wong , a currency strategist at Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. Risks for the dollar versus Asia ex-Japan currencies are “asymmetrically skewed to the downside” unless there’s a hawkish surprise from the Federal Reserve or risk sentiment suffers a knock, he added.
On a sunny Saturday, 25 employees from the Hong Kong law firm Deacons spent the morning working side by side with 18 elderly volunteers, weeding, tilling the soil, and transplanting seedlings, while sharing laughter and lessons on organic farming and healthy eating. The event on January 24 took place on the rooftop of Metroplaza in Kwai Fong, at an urban farm run by Farm the City, one of 13 charit...
On a sunny Saturday, 25 employees from the Hong Kong law firm Deacons spent the morning working side by side with 18 elderly volunteers, weeding, tilling the soil, and transplanting seedlings, while sharing laughter and lessons on organic farming and healthy eating. The event on January 24 took place on the rooftop of Metroplaza in Kwai Fong, at an urban farm run by Farm the City, one of 13 charities selected to receive funding this year from the annual fundraising campaign, Operation Santa Claus (OSC). The funding supports the charity’s project to promote urban farming by turning unused spaces in Hong Kong into gardens that grow vegetables and herbs for low-income elderly residents, helping to supplement their diets. Advertisement The project also aims to improve the physical and mental well-being of elderly people by encouraging them to leave their homes to work on the farm and socialise. This marks the 15th year that Deacons, a long-time major donor, has supported OSC. Advertisement Lilian Chiang Sui-fook, a Deacons senior partner, said the firm, which celebrates its 175th anniversary this year, has benefited from Hong Kong, so it was good to give back to the community as it had done over the years, by doing pro bono work and supporting fundraising campaigns such as OSC.
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Key Points Applied Digital’s stock has generated massive gains over the past year. But its stock isn’t cheap, and it will stay unprofitable for the foreseeable future. Equinix looks like a more stable, income-generating play on the same AI trend. 10 stocks we like better than Applied Digital › Applied Digital (NASDAQ: APLD) has been one of the market's hottest AI stocks. The data center operator's...
Key Points Applied Digital’s stock has generated massive gains over the past year. But its stock isn’t cheap, and it will stay unprofitable for the foreseeable future. Equinix looks like a more stable, income-generating play on the same AI trend. 10 stocks we like better than Applied Digital › Applied Digital (NASDAQ: APLD) has been one of the market's hottest AI stocks. The data center operator's stock surged nearly 540% over the past 12 months, impressing bulls with rapid growth, new leases, and the planned spin-off of its cloud business. On the surface, Applied Digital seems like a great AI play. It builds and buys big data centers, powers them up, and leases them to companies that install their own servers. It even launched its own cloud-based AI infrastructure platform in 2023, but it plans to spin it off this year because it's unprofitable and awkwardly positioned as a competitor to its own customers. Where to invest $1,000 right now? Our analyst team just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks to buy right now, when you join Stock Advisor. See the stocks » From fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025 (which ended last May), Applied Digital's revenue soared from $8.5 million to $144.2 million (excluding its cloud business). At the end of fiscal 2025, it operated two data center sites in North Dakota with a combined capacity of 286 MW. It's already contracted $16 billion in lease payments for the next 15 years, and most of those payments will come from the cloud-based AI infrastructure company CoreWeave (NASDAQ: CRWV). To meet that surging demand, Applied Digital is expanding its Polaris Forge 1 campus in Ellendale. However, that expansion is costly -- and analysts expect it to remain deeply unprofitable even after it spins off its cloud business. That means it will take a long time for the company to achieve its goal of becoming a data center real estate investment trust (REIT) -- which is obligated to pay out at least 90% of its taxable income as dividends. On ...
President Donald Trump’s relaxed tone about the dollar selloff is fueling speculation the US currency is at the start of a longer-term decline. The dollar suffered its deepest one-day drop since last year’s tariff rollout after Trump said on Tuesday he didn’t think the currency had weakened excessively . Bloomberg’s dollar gauge slid as much as 1.2% as the comments sapped the appeal of the greenba...
President Donald Trump’s relaxed tone about the dollar selloff is fueling speculation the US currency is at the start of a longer-term decline. The dollar suffered its deepest one-day drop since last year’s tariff rollout after Trump said on Tuesday he didn’t think the currency had weakened excessively . Bloomberg’s dollar gauge slid as much as 1.2% as the comments sapped the appeal of the greenback and US Treasuries — boosting what has become known as the debasement trade. For Stephen Jen , founder of Eurizon SLJ Capital, this marks the start of a new phase of dollar declines as the Trump administration targets an exchange rate that supports US exporters. “This may very well be the beginning of the next leg lower in the dollar, and many may not be prepared for it,” said Jen, a former Morgan Stanley currency strategist who developed the “ dollar smile ” theory. “There has been a generation of currency analysts accustomed to dealing with a strong dollar and a strong US economy, and unable to process the scenario of a weakening dollar and a strong US economy.” The dollar’s recent decline is great for US businesses, Trump told reporters in Iowa. While that’s in line with previous commentary from US officials, his remarks moved currency markets late Tuesday, partly because they appeared to validate the steep decline in the greenback in recent sessions. Bloomberg’s dollar index sank to the lowest level in almost four years in New York trade, before trimming some of its declines in Asia Thursday. The dollar’s slump helped push both the euro and pound to the strongest levels since 2021, while the Swiss franc reached the highest since 2015. In Asia, the Malaysian ringgit and Taiwan dollar led gains against the US currency in early Asian trade. “When the person who could jawbone to defend the currency sounds unconcerned, the perceived backstop under the dollar gets thinner,” said Anthony Doyle , chief investment strategist at Pinnacle Investment Management. “Markets are reop...
A 46-year-old man from Perak in Malaysia sneaked out of the country to visit his pregnant second wife without his first wife’s knowledge. He landed in hot water when he was arrested while returning from Indonesia via an illegal route. His passport was being held by his first wife. The man, a lorry driver, who just arrived from Tanjung Balai in Indonesia, told officers he had travelled to Medan to ...
A 46-year-old man from Perak in Malaysia sneaked out of the country to visit his pregnant second wife without his first wife’s knowledge. He landed in hot water when he was arrested while returning from Indonesia via an illegal route. His passport was being held by his first wife. The man, a lorry driver, who just arrived from Tanjung Balai in Indonesia, told officers he had travelled to Medan to visit his pregnant second wife. Advertisement “My second wife was pregnant and in critical condition, which is why I decided to take an illegal route to Medan,” he said. He could not travel by air as his passport was held by the first wife. Advertisement “I didn’t want my first wife to know about my second marriage. This is the first time I used the back route because she held my passport,” he said.