Former England captain seeks inspiration from the pioneering Kevin Pietersen as he heads a 12-strong contingent of compatriots in 2026’s tournament “I will always be grateful for what the IPL gave me,” Kevin Pietersen tells Jos Buttler. “ It gave me a lot of controversy, I earned a lot of money, but it also saved my career because I made trusting relationships that I was able to call upon to give ...
Former England captain seeks inspiration from the pioneering Kevin Pietersen as he heads a 12-strong contingent of compatriots in 2026’s tournament “I will always be grateful for what the IPL gave me,” Kevin Pietersen tells Jos Buttler. “ It gave me a lot of controversy, I earned a lot of money, but it also saved my career because I made trusting relationships that I was able to call upon to give longevity to my career.” The conversation is on Buttler’s podcast, For The Love Of Cricket, released on Tuesday, with the pair hailing their experiences of playing in the Indian Premier League. (For the love of content, they also discuss Pietersen’s new career as a YouTuber.) The 45-year-old was there in the early years, rebelling against English cricket’s uneasy relationship with a revolutionary startup , exhilarated to call Rahul Dravid and Jacques Kallis his teammates. Continue reading...
Gewandhaus Orchestra/Nelsons/Schuen/Zeppenfeld (Deutsche Grammophon) The Latvian conductor finds dynamic light and shade in seven discs’ worth of special performances with an orchestra once led by the composer himself Andris Nelsons’ tenure may have been prematurely terminated in Boston , but this handsome box set with his other ensemble, the venerable Gewandhaus Orchestra, is proof positive of th...
Gewandhaus Orchestra/Nelsons/Schuen/Zeppenfeld (Deutsche Grammophon) The Latvian conductor finds dynamic light and shade in seven discs’ worth of special performances with an orchestra once led by the composer himself Andris Nelsons’ tenure may have been prematurely terminated in Boston , but this handsome box set with his other ensemble, the venerable Gewandhaus Orchestra, is proof positive of the Latvian conductor’s prodigious talent. Of course, Mendelssohn is in the orchestra’s DNA – after all, the composer held the reins in Leipzig from 1835 until his death in 1847 – but these performances, especially of the five symphonies, are pretty special. Recorded live between 2021 and 2024, tempi are brisk, though never rushed. It’s the phrasing, elastic and full of dynamic light and shade, that brings these accounts to life. Listen to the ultra-lithe opening movement of the Italian Symphony, or the filigree woodwind in the Scottish Symphony’s scherzo. In Nelsons’ hands, the First Symphony – often the Cinderella of the set – takes its place alongside its more colourful cousins. Continue reading...
Ripple effects from the war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz continue to widen. There’s yet another brewing shortage, this time in helium. While most people associate helium with balloons and funny voices, the element is used in a surprisingly wide variety of industrial settings, including semiconductor production, where its role in advanced lithography has been growing rapidly. But...
Ripple effects from the war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz continue to widen. There’s yet another brewing shortage, this time in helium. While most people associate helium with balloons and funny voices, the element is used in a surprisingly wide variety of industrial settings, including semiconductor production, where its role in advanced lithography has been growing rapidly. But helium mining and exploration in North America has been practically non-existent for a variety of r
Spanish inflation jumped to its highest level since June 2024 due to the Iran war, supporting the case for the European Central Bank to raise interest rates. Consumer prices rose 3.3% from a year earlier in March, data Friday showed. That’s up from 2.5% in February but short of the 3.8% median estimate in a survey of economists. The surge was driven by costlier fuel, statistics agency INE said. So...
Spanish inflation jumped to its highest level since June 2024 due to the Iran war, supporting the case for the European Central Bank to raise interest rates. Consumer prices rose 3.3% from a year earlier in March, data Friday showed. That’s up from 2.5% in February but short of the 3.8% median estimate in a survey of economists. The surge was driven by costlier fuel, statistics agency INE said. Soaring energy prices brought on by the conflict in the Middle East are stoking fears of an inflation spike like the one that struck four years ago. Traders see the ECB stepping in and some officials are already pondering a hike in borrowing costs at next month’s meeting. President Christine Lagarde , however, said this week that she and her colleagues won’t act without sufficient information on the size and persistence of the shock. Spain is the first major euro-area economy to report price data for this month, with the 21 nation bloc itself only releasing its reading on March 31. The latest ECB outlook envisages prices will rise 2.6% this year, surpassing the 2% target. New forecasts later Friday from the Bank of Spain are likely to revise up previous projections for domestic inflation of 2.1% in 2026 and 1.9% in 2027. “The situation is very uncertain and highly volatile, and what we must do is continue assessing a wide range of information,” Governor Jose Luis Escriva said last week. The government is acting already, rolling out a €5 billion package of tax cuts and subsidies that focus on transport, agriculture and electricity bills. “This is an absolute disaster,” Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told lawmakers Wednesday. “Every bomb that falls in the Middle East ends up hitting — and we are already seeing it — our families’ pockets.” ECB Won’t Be ‘Paralyzed by Hesitation’ on Iran, Lagarde Says Nagel Says ECB Can React Quickly on Inflation Risks If Needed EU Leaders Face Multi-Year Energy Squeeze After Qatar Attack
Rena Effendi’s film Searching for Satyrus began with a quest for the endangered insect that bears her family name. Before long, she was reckoning with secrets, lies and the mysterious life of her wayward dad High in the Caucasus mountains, the photojournalist Rena Effendi is searching for the butterfly that bears the name of the father she hardly knew. It is rocky, bleak, beautiful – and impossibl...
Rena Effendi’s film Searching for Satyrus began with a quest for the endangered insect that bears her family name. Before long, she was reckoning with secrets, lies and the mysterious life of her wayward dad High in the Caucasus mountains, the photojournalist Rena Effendi is searching for the butterfly that bears the name of the father she hardly knew. It is rocky, bleak, beautiful – and impossible. The grass is fried yellow by the increasingly fierce summer sun, the butterfly’s food has been grazed by sheep and, if it exists at all, Satyrus effendi usually flies only as a single insect across a square kilometre of rock, scree and slope. A butterfly hunt makes an unlikely subject for a prize-winning documentary, but Searching for Satyrus is a gripping quest that reveals a remarkable part of the world little known to western audiences while examining issues from war and nationalism to global heating and extinction. Ultimately, however, Effendi’s search for her father’s butterfly becomes a moving reckoning with the secrets and lies in her family and the life of her wayward father. Continue reading...
It has not been a great year so far for financial stocks, with the sector down about 10% year to date. Consumer finance stocks, which include many fintechs, are some of the worst performers, dragging down the sector with a decline of 21% year to date. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
It has not been a great year so far for financial stocks, with the sector down about 10% year to date. Consumer finance stocks, which include many fintechs, are some of the worst performers, dragging down the sector with a decline of 21% year to date. Image source: Getty Images. Continue reading
CPB stock has tumbled over the last several years as shifting consumer habits, strong competition from upstarts, and other headwinds have dented its earnings outlook.
CPB stock has tumbled over the last several years as shifting consumer habits, strong competition from upstarts, and other headwinds have dented its earnings outlook.
BWX Technologies is a top supplier of nuclear technologies, components, and fuel that has soared to all-time highs. It is primed to be a long-term winner in the nuclear-heavy AI energy trade, with added exposure to U.S. defense spending.
BWX Technologies is a top supplier of nuclear technologies, components, and fuel that has soared to all-time highs. It is primed to be a long-term winner in the nuclear-heavy AI energy trade, with added exposure to U.S. defense spending.
BWX Technologies is a top supplier of nuclear technologies, components, and fuel that has soared to all-time highs. It is primed to be a long-term winner in the nuclear-heavy AI energy trade, with added exposure to U.S. defense spending.
BWX Technologies is a top supplier of nuclear technologies, components, and fuel that has soared to all-time highs. It is primed to be a long-term winner in the nuclear-heavy AI energy trade, with added exposure to U.S. defense spending.
美国财政部声明称，在特朗普的领导下，美国正走在“史无前例的经济增长、持久的美元霸权、金融强劲和稳定的道路上” 【财新网】 3月26日，美国财政部宣布，美国总统特朗普的签名将出现在美元纸币上，这是美国历史上首次在美元上印刻美国在任总统的签名。 据路透社报道，首批印有特朗普签名的美元将在今年6月付印，这批钞票的面值为100美元。随后几个月，还将印刷其他面额的包含特朗普签名的美元。这些新美元货币可能需要数周时间，才能通过银行系统流通到社会上。 原本的美元纸币上，同时印有美国财长和财政出纳官两人的签名。美国财政出纳官（Treasurer of the United States）向美国财长汇报，其主要职责是负责美国铸币局等财政事务。
J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images Introduction What AI future is the market currently pricing? Right now, trillions of dollars are being invested as though artificial general intelligence ( AGI ) is inevitable. Big companies are engaged in an expensive, frenzied arms race searching for this holy grail. But what if it doesn't exist? In this article I make a three-part argument. First, there ...
J Studios/DigitalVision via Getty Images Introduction What AI future is the market currently pricing? Right now, trillions of dollars are being invested as though artificial general intelligence ( AGI ) is inevitable. Big companies are engaged in an expensive, frenzied arms race searching for this holy grail. But what if it doesn't exist? In this article I make a three-part argument. First, there are strong reasons to doubt that AGI is achievable on current computing hardware. Second, that this entails diminishing returns on the trillions of dollars of capital being invested to create larger and larger models. And third, that the biggest beneficiaries from AI technologies are likely to be the companies that can best implement current AI tools to improve efficiency and productivity rather than the companies actually building the tools. What Everyone Is Getting Wrong Hyperscalers, AI Labs, and even governments have bought into a couple of false metaphors. First is the idea that the mind/brain is at all like a computer (and vice versa). Because we didn’t understand the mind, we analogized it to the most advanced thing we had created. It didn’t help that we named pieces of the computer after properties that our minds possess, like memory. In philosophy of mind, this false analogy birthed a theory called " Computationalism ," which posits that consciousness is just the result of a complex information processing system. Therefore, any information processing system with requisite complexity could come to possess consciousness, self-awareness, and agency. The second false metaphor is that neural networks are good models for how the brain works (and vice versa). Although neural nets have allowed us to build some tremendous algorithmic systems, they are digital simulations of how a brain physically works. A digital simulation of a hurricane can seem to behave just like a real hurricane, but it doesn't make your computer wet and your room windy. It lacks the physical propertie...