Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Somebody has been playing Balkan heavy metal in the café. The culprit’s identity remains a mystery, but let’s just say that our 6ft 2in Bosnian barista seems sheepish. Almost everybody in hospitality has their own…
Elon Musk’s X has blocked searches for Taylor Swift after sexually explicit images of the pop star created using artificial intelligence spread widely on the platform. The incident is the latest example of how social media groups are scrambling to tackle so-called deepfakes: realistic images and audio, generated using AI, that can be abused to portray…
Polygon will help Lugano achieve its goals by providing rails to facilitate some of the transactions. Lugano, one of the most popular tourist destinations in Switzerland, has embraced the Polygon network, a Layer 2 scaling solution built on the Ethereum ecosystem to accelerate its crypto evolution. In an announcement on November 22, Polygon said the…
In achieving this $95 million figure, Swift’s film broke the previous record for the largest opening weekend ever for a concert film. That mark was formerly held by Justin Bieber’s 2011 film “Never Say Never”, which opened to $29 million. Pop superstar Taylor Swift’s new concert film “Eras Tour” dazzled in its box office debut…
SWIFT has been actively involved in various CBDC-related projects, including a wholesale CBDC initiative in collaboration with the New York Federal Reserve Bank, utilizing a regulated liability network. SWIFT, a prominent bank messaging platform connecting over 11,500 financial institutions worldwide, announced that three banks have joined the beta phase of its central bank digital currency…
John Medina AMC Entertainment Holdings (NYSE:AMC) was one of the few meme stocks that I always monitor on the regular basis due to the immense buying power of retail traders. Retail traders are powerful and it’s no secret that AMC remains a popular holding amongst Generation Z and Millennial investors. Unfortunately, most retail traders have…
The experiment was built on Swift’s earlier successes in connecting Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and digital assets with existing and emerging payment systems. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), the global financial messaging network, has unveiled the results of a groundbreaking experiment hindering the widespread adoption of tokenized assets. According to an…
PM Images Vivid Seats Inc. (NASDAQ:SEAT) delivered quarterly market place orders growth, and offered a guidance increase. I think that further optimization of the performance of marketing campaigns, M&A, and organic growth from discounts strategy could accelerate FCF growth. Besides, further offerings like the Taylor Swift Eras tour could enhance the size of each order,…