From directing The Lego Movie to becoming a single entity, Phil Lord and Chris Miller have had quite the ascent. Now, sending one of the globe’s best actors to his cosmic doom in Project Hail Mary, they’re aiming for the stars When Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were starting out in Hollywood – long before they became a popcorn-flick industry unto themselves with The Lego Movie, the Jump Street ...
From directing The Lego Movie to becoming a single entity, Phil Lord and Chris Miller have had quite the ascent. Now, sending one of the globe’s best actors to his cosmic doom in Project Hail Mary, they’re aiming for the stars When Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were starting out in Hollywood – long before they became a popcorn-flick industry unto themselves with The Lego Movie, the Jump Street films, the Spider-Verse franchise and their latest, Project Hail Mary – the duo found themselves summoned before a panel at the formidable Directors Guild of America (DGA). Lord and Miller wanted to be credited, as they would be for the rest of their career, as co-directors, and that was something the DGA – which, as Miller puts it, prefers “one set of hands on the steering wheel” – was uneasy about. In order to get approval, the pair would have to plead their case to some very famous peers. “It was like a Senate hearing,” says Miller, his eyes widening at the memory. “Steven Spielberg and Jon Favreau and all these people asking questions like: ‘All right, but what happens if one of you gets sick? What are you gonna do?’ It was … interesting.” Continue reading...
This is not Britain’s war, it’s Trump’s and Netanyahu’s. The prime minister should be wary of becoming ensnared like Blair was with Iraq Is this the turning point? A deranged US president and an Israeli prime minister facing prosecution are seeking to entice the armies of the world into the stupidest war of the 21st century. Israel’s strike this week on Iran’s South Pars gas field was clearly mean...
This is not Britain’s war, it’s Trump’s and Netanyahu’s. The prime minister should be wary of becoming ensnared like Blair was with Iraq Is this the turning point? A deranged US president and an Israeli prime minister facing prosecution are seeking to entice the armies of the world into the stupidest war of the 21st century. Israel’s strike this week on Iran’s South Pars gas field was clearly meant to provoke an Iranian retaliation so massive as to ensure a ferocious response from Donald Trump. Thus escalation beckons. This is how small wars become big. There is only one way of calling a halt. It is for Trump and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to stop bombing Iran. Yet both leaders clearly see themselves as trapped. Trump, having already claimed to have won the war, now feels lonely. Though he has amassed the largest aggressive force of modern times, he pleads with his one-time allies to come and give him moral support. But Trump started this war. He must face the wound to his pride that may go with stopping it. He must then complete the harder task of getting Israel also to stop. Continue reading...
Week in wildlife: wild boar babies, fenland ponies and a slug with strange genitalia This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world A mother boar with her babies in a forest near Frankfurt, Germany. Photograph: Michael Probst/AP
Week in wildlife: wild boar babies, fenland ponies and a slug with strange genitalia This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world A mother boar with her babies in a forest near Frankfurt, Germany. Photograph: Michael Probst/AP
When Esther Wong was in high school, she would skip the subjects she did not like and instead head to the library to read books with subject matter she did like. That love of learning stayed with her as she went from studying hospitality management to building a career on Wall Street before transitioning into the world of artificial intelligence and her current role as the CEO and co-founder of 3C...
When Esther Wong was in high school, she would skip the subjects she did not like and instead head to the library to read books with subject matter she did like. That love of learning stayed with her as she went from studying hospitality management to building a career on Wall Street before transitioning into the world of artificial intelligence and her current role as the CEO and co-founder of 3C AGI Partners, an AI venture fund based in Hong Kong. Victoria Tang-Owen, a Hong Kong designer and creative director, recently met with Wong to find out how a lifelong thirst for knowledge helped her achieve career and financial success, and also ask what wealth means to her. As both women share an affinity for cooking, their conversation began over a cake-baking session, then moved on to the HSBC Premier Elite Wealth Centre at the International Commerce Centre to continue over coffee. “I’ve always been a very curious person, and I love to expand my knowledge horizons,” Wong tells Tang-Owen. “I do believe that all the knowledge, once you learn, it gives you a different perspective. So the more different subjects that you learn [about], the broader [the] perspective you have in life.” Advertisement Tang-Owen observes that an appetite for knowledge can be an important part of an elite mindset, to which Wong responds: “Loving to learn also forces you to expand your horizons and put yourself in slightly unfamiliar, uncomfortable situations.” She adds: “Think about your life as a company. You are your own life CEO.” Advertisement Wong has ample experience with going outside her comfort zone, having pivoted from hotel management school to studying physics before embarking on a career in finance. By her 20th year on Wall Street, she had enough financial stability to consider retiring at age 40. Wong also found out she was pregnant, which she says “forced me to think about what was the best for my daughter”.
Listen to Odd Lots on Apple Podcasts Listen to Odd Lots on Spotify Watch Odd Lots on YouTube Subscribe to the newsletter The war in Iran has already lasted longer than many people might have expected. There was an initial assumption, after oil prices started surging, that President Trump could just declare victory at any moment. But that hasn't happened, and the longer this goes on, the more damag...
Listen to Odd Lots on Apple Podcasts Listen to Odd Lots on Spotify Watch Odd Lots on YouTube Subscribe to the newsletter The war in Iran has already lasted longer than many people might have expected. There was an initial assumption, after oil prices started surging, that President Trump could just declare victory at any moment. But that hasn't happened, and the longer this goes on, the more damage is being done to the region's energy infrastructure. Already a key gas plant in Qatar has been damaged so badly that it's expected to take it years to repair. On this episode, we speak with return guest Gregory Brew, a senior analyst at Eurasia Group who specializes in energy and Iran. Beyond his current work, Greg is the author of two books on the history of oil in Iran. We discuss the logic of the war from both the Iranian and American perspectives, and why the Trump administration may have walked into a \
Many high-profile people, including quite a few smart ones, have been publicly declaring that Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is dead or doomed for as long as the coin has existed. As of this writing, the count as tracked by BitcoinDeaths, a data aggregator, stands at 471 separate public obituaries, issued by everyone from Nobel laureates to bank chief executives, hedge fund managers, prime ministers, cable...
Many high-profile people, including quite a few smart ones, have been publicly declaring that Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is dead or doomed for as long as the coin has existed. As of this writing, the count as tracked by BitcoinDeaths, a data aggregator, stands at 471 separate public obituaries, issued by everyone from Nobel laureates to bank chief executives, hedge fund managers, prime ministers, cable news pundits, and at least one central banker. The legendary investor Warren Buffett, for his part, is responsible for at least eight of those declarations. Today, Bitcoin is priced at about $71,000, down by about 44% from the all-time high of about $126,000 in October, so the skeptics are predictably emboldened at the moment. But the coin's habit of continuing to live when people are saying that it's dead suggests that writing this asset off has been one of the more expensive mistakes in financial history. Let's look at what history says on this topic. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
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In this article NVDA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers the keynote address at the GTC AI Conference in San Jose, California, on March 18, 2025. Josh Edelson | Afp | Getty Images The perks of working in Silicon Valley have long included high salaries. Now, some engineers may be offered a new incentive: artificial intelligence tokens. Nvidia CEO Jensen ...
In this article NVDA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivers the keynote address at the GTC AI Conference in San Jose, California, on March 18, 2025. Josh Edelson | Afp | Getty Images The perks of working in Silicon Valley have long included high salaries. Now, some engineers may be offered a new incentive: artificial intelligence tokens. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday floated a novel compensation model that would give engineers a token budget on top of their base salary, effectively paying them to deploy AI agents as productivity multipliers. Tokens, or units of data used by AI systems, can be spent to run tools and automate tasks and are becoming "one of the recruiting tools in Silicon Valley," Huang said. "[Engineers] are going to make a few hundred thousand dollars a year, their base pay," Huang said at the chipmaker's annual GPU Technology Conference . "I'm going to give them probably half of that on top of [their base pay] as tokens ... because every engineer that has access to tokens will be more productive." The pitch signaled Huang's broader vision of the workplace, in which engineers oversee a fleet of AI agents capable of completing complex, multi-step tasks autonomously with minimal user input. It is a vision that Huang has been building toward publicly. Last month, he told CNBC that Nvidia 's employees would one day work alongside hundreds of thousands of AI agents. "I have 42,000 biological employees, and I'm going to have hundreds of thousands of digital employees," he said. VIDEO 15:35 15:35 Watch CNBC's full interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang after earnings and guidance beat The comments come as concerns grow that AI agents — software systems capable of independently executing complex, multi-step tasks — will hollow out white-collar work. In a memo to investors, Howard Marks, founder of Oaktree Capital Management, warned of "an incredible leap ahead in AI's capabilities" that now allows it to "act auto...
SoFi Technologies (SOFI 0.52%) was a huge winner last year as it dazzled the market with its high growth and innovation. The stock ended 2025 with a 70% gain, on top of a 55% gain the year before. However, it has started off on the wrong foot in 2026, down 33% year to date. Right now, it trades at $17.40 per share, down from a high of $32.73 just this past November. Can SoFi get back to $30 by the...
SoFi Technologies (SOFI 0.52%) was a huge winner last year as it dazzled the market with its high growth and innovation. The stock ended 2025 with a 70% gain, on top of a 55% gain the year before. However, it has started off on the wrong foot in 2026, down 33% year to date. Right now, it trades at $17.40 per share, down from a high of $32.73 just this past November. Can SoFi get back to $30 by the end of the year? SoFi wants to be the future of banking SoFi is an all-digital bank that offers a large array of financial services on its easy-to-use app. Lending is its core segment, typically accounting for about half of total revenue, but its financial services segment is growing much faster. This segment includes all of the non-lending services like investing and cryptocurrency trading, which have recently returned to the platform. The company has introduced several new blockchain products, including a SoFi Stablecoin, and it aims to innovate and offer specialized products like access to initial public offerings (IPO). SoFi also has a business-to-business segment that it calls Tech Platform. Management has likened it to the "Amazon Web Services (AWS) of financial services," and while it has been growing more slowly than its other segments, it has been adding value to the company recently by providing the infrastructure capabilities to launch new products quickly. The concept is hitting a note with SoFi's target market of students and young professionals. It continues to report record new additions each quarter, reaching 1 million new customers in the 2025 fourth quarter. New products are outpacing new customers, with 1.6 million new ones in the fourth quarter, indicating that the company's cross-selling strategy is working. Expand NASDAQ : SOFI SoFi Technologies Today's Change ( -0.52 %) $ -0.09 Current Price $ 17.09 Key Data Points Market Cap $22B Day's Range $ 16.59 - $ 17.29 52wk Range $ 8.60 - $ 32.73 Volume 1.9M Avg Vol 61M Gross Margin 61.06 % Gaining 72% in 9 m...
Key Points SoFi is attracting new members and generating higher revenue at a fast pace. It's launching many new products to meet demand for its core customers. SoFi stock is trading at a discount to its average P/E ratio. 10 stocks we like better than SoFi Technologies › SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) was a huge winner last year as it dazzled the market with its high growth and innovation. The s...
Key Points SoFi is attracting new members and generating higher revenue at a fast pace. It's launching many new products to meet demand for its core customers. SoFi stock is trading at a discount to its average P/E ratio. 10 stocks we like better than SoFi Technologies › SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) was a huge winner last year as it dazzled the market with its high growth and innovation. The stock ended 2025 with a 70% gain, on top of a 55% gain the year before. However, it has started off on the wrong foot in 2026, down 33% year to date. Right now, it trades at $17.40 per share, down from a high of $32.73 just this past November. Can SoFi get back to $30 by the end of the year? Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue » SoFi wants to be the future of banking SoFi is an all-digital bank that offers a large array of financial services on its easy-to-use app. Lending is its core segment, typically accounting for about half of total revenue, but its financial services segment is growing much faster. This segment includes all of the non-lending services like investing and cryptocurrency trading, which have recently returned to the platform. The company has introduced several new blockchain products, including a SoFi Stablecoin, and it aims to innovate and offer specialized products like access to initial public offerings (IPO). SoFi also has a business-to-business segment that it calls Tech Platform. Management has likened it to the "Amazon Web Services (AWS) of financial services," and while it has been growing more slowly than its other segments, it has been adding value to the company recently by providing the infrastructure capabilities to launch new products quickly. The concept is hitting a note with SoFi's target market of students and young professionals. It continues to report record...