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All strategies mix good days and bumper years with bad days and market-lagging returns. For commodities traders in 2025, it was more of the latter.Conflict in the Middle East caused volatility in oil prices. President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, and their uneven implementation, led to fluctuations in the prices of…
The US just escalated its clash with Europe over tech regulation.The State Department said it has barred five Europeans, including the EU’s former Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton and four members of digital campaign groups, from entering the country over what it called “censorship” of tech platforms. The visa bans…
Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, and Tesla, known as the Magnificent Seven, now have a combined market value of over $20 trillion, making them among the most powerful companies in history.Who is handling their financial records?Another numerically-termed group of powerhouses.The Big Four professional services firms — PwC, Deloitte, EY,…
Universities risk surrendering their intellectual autonomy to Silicon Valley’s influence as they rush to adopt AI, one professor says.In an essay for the Civics of Technology Project — an education platform analyzing technology’s societal impact — Bruna Damiana Heinsfeld, an assistant professor of learning technologies at the University of Minnesota,…
The eight cofounders of the nerdworld business Critical Role came roaring back to Prime Video with the November debut of “The Mighty Nein.”The business’s eight cofounders first started out streaming their home “Dungeons & Dragons” game on Twitch. Then, in 2019, CR raised seed funding of over $11.3 million to…
For much of the past year, Wall Street and Silicon Valley have wrestled with the same uncomfortable question: Will companies really spend money on AI, or is the hype just outpacing budgets?A new CIO survey from RBC Capital suggests that question may finally have an answer, and it’s a resounding…
Some of the world’s most powerful and well-connected leaders converged in Manhattan on Wednesday, and one subject dominated the room: artificial intelligence.Three years after ChatGPT launched, revolutionizing the way the world thinks about and uses AI, the arms race is bigger than ever — perhaps too big.At the annual New…
Traveling with large dogs is a nightmare. Airline restrictions force heavier dogs into the often unsafe cargo hold, and only the uberrich can afford to ferry their furbabies on a private jet.Frustrated by how hard it was to fly with his own Labradors, Maple and Willow — and often having…
A new study suggests the Big Four’s supposedly meritocratic promotion systems may rely far less on performance than on internal politics — and, crucially, on whether your manager is willing to put their own reputation on the line for you.Within the Big Four professional services firms — Deloitte, PwC, KPMG,…
Michael Burry has broken free from the shackles of financial regulation — and he’s making the most of his newfound liberty by sharing his favorite stocks.The prescient investor of “The Big Short” fame closed his hedge fund to outside cash this month, saying he felt “muzzled” by SEC rules and…
