In a black and white video that Samira watches at the library, we learn that the creepy house across the street was built in 1902 by H. Horace Hinkley — look, it’s Tom Hanks! — a mining magnate and philanthropist who originally purchased the land that would become the town of Hinkley Hills. (Hanks, of course, was … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Big Tech companies will have to raise tens of billions of dollars to fund their skyrocketing investments in artificial intelligence this year, as capital spending outpaces cash flows even among some of the world’s most … Read more
Just in time to create a new Super Bowl ad, Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek has made the priciest domain purchase in history, buying AI.com for $70 million, according to the Financial Times. The deal, paid entirely in cryptocurrency to an unknown seller, shatters previous records. (Broker Larry Fischer, who facilitated the sale, is presumably celebrating … Read more
AMC “Breaking Bad” made a name for itself with its high octane thrills and increasingly dramatic twists, but was the science fueling Walter White’s criminal empire scientifically accurate? The short answer is: mostly! The long answer is that, with the input of science advisors like University of … Read more
SUNDAY AM Writethru: After Saturday update…What can be as bad as a 2,000-mile snowstorm that shutters theaters? Why, Super Bowl weekend. And while it’s not the lowest weekend of the year, it came close with all movies doing $61.6M (per ComScore) versus the $55.1M till two weekends ago when 400 multiplexes turned off the lights … Read more
On Jan.30, 2026, US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $509.7 million in net outflows, which looks like pretty straightforward negative sentiment until you look at the individual tickers and realize a few of them stayed green. That contradiction aged fast over the next few days. Feb. 2 snapped back with $561.8 million in net inflows, then … Read more
When a startup announced plans last fall to recreate lost footage from Orson Welles’ classic film “The Magnificent Ambersons” using generative AI, I was skeptical. More than that, I was baffled why anyone would spend time and money on something that seemed guaranteed to outrage cinephiles while offering negligible commercial value. This week, an in-depth … Read more
A24’s new limited debut Pillion saw terrific numbers as did Oscar-nominated Hamnet from Focus Features, which has been out since November, as independent distributors Bleecker Street and Vertical set milestones on an unusual theatrical weekend against the Super Bowl and the Winter Olympics. Harry Lighton’s Pillion starring Alexander Skarsgård and Harry Melling opened to $241.8k … Read more
Google worldwide search volume for “crypto” is hovering near one-year lows, reflecting weak investor sentiment amid a broad market downturn that reduced the total market capitalization of crypto from an all-time high of more than $4.2 trillion to about $2.4 trillion. Worldwide search volume for “crypto” is 30 out of 100 at the time of … Read more
Discovery Before the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots face off at Super Bowl LX on Sunday, a far more important rivalry is being settled on a slightly different field. Team Ruff and Team Fluff will once again go paw to paw in Puppy Bowl XXII — airing … Read more