Emergency: 15 Countries Just Fled Iran. Crypto is Next.
Digital Asset News· 2026-02-27 19:23
Hello everybody. Welcome to the Friday live stream. We got a lot of things to go over.Let's just jump right into it. So today, as you all know, I'm sure you check your portfolio a couple times. We are in a little bit of a downward trend and uh Bitcoin's going below 66 into the 65 territory.It'll probably go farther down that pipe. As we can see, all-time highs, we are rapidly moving away from all-time highs and are down quite a bit. Now, before we get into today's top stories, which is essentially Iran and ...
AI Video Generation: An AGI Precursor?
Alex Kantrowitz· 2026-02-27 19:20
You can think of a video model that can generate you 10 seconds, 20 seconds of a realistic scene. It's sort of a model of the physical world. Intuitive physics we'd sometimes call it in physics land.And it's sort of intuitively understood how uh liquids and and and and objects behave in the world. And that's um and obviously one way to exhibit understanding is to be able to generate it at least to the to the to the human eye being accurate enough to to be satisfying to the human eye. Obviously, it's not com ...
Polymarket of The Week: This Crypto Company Was Exposed by ZachXBT
Bankless· 2026-02-27 18:25
A major investigation dropping February 26th, that's today, of one of crypto's most profitable businesses where multiple employees abused internal data to insider trade over a prolonged period of time. So, Zack XPTt just dropped this. And of course, Zack XPTt is the sleuth of all sleuths.I mean, you don't want to be on any of you do not want to be in [laughter] Zach's crosshairs if you are in Zero. Yeah. >> He's bringing justice to crypto.Anyway, >> if you don't like Zack XBT, that's a bad look for you. >> ...
Jack Dorsey's Block lays off 40% of employees due to AI innovation.
Yahoo Finance· 2026-02-27 18:02
Jack Dorsey's companies announced it's going to cut set 40% of the workforce. And Dorsy says intelligence tools are quote fundamentally changing how to run a company. >> His note to employees cold comfort to the folks who are getting laid off because of AI.It is a move where I think he says that they may end up regretting this. Posted on a different note that he's grateful for what they've done. There's a severance 20 week severance.>> They're getting decent severance. >> They're saying that it's not an iss ...
Workplaces are failing caregivers—here’s how to fix it | Samantha Brady
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-27 18:00
Here's a concerning statistic for you all. 50%. That's the percent of US employees who are actively looking for or interested in having new jobs.This year, companies are struggling to retain top talent. And nearly twothirds of HR leaders say that retention is a critical issue this year. But what if I told you that there's a massive workforce of incredibly skilled, loyal employees that most companies are undervaluing, causing them to mentally disengage or even physically leave the workplace.Well, who are the ...
Gold: Dubious Speculation
Benjamin Cowen· 2026-02-27 17:31
Hey everyone, thanks for jumping back into the heavy metal verse. Today we're going to talk about gold dubious speculation. If you guys like the content, make sure you subscribe to the channel, give the video a thumbs up, and check out my website at benjamancow.com. You can also use the coupon code ITC50 to get 50% off your first month of Into the Cryptoverse Premium. Links in the description below.Let's go ahead and jump in. So, gold is back above 5200. Now, what's interesting is when you look at monthly c ...
Why Eli Lilly is Winning the Weight Loss War
The Wall Street Journal· 2026-02-27 17:30
There's a clear victor in the weight loss wars and it's Eli Liy. For about a century, Eli Liy and Novo Nordisk have competed in the diabetes market. Both were insulin giants.Neither clearly won. When the GLP1 boom began, investors assumed that a rising tide would lift both boats. Both companies already had blockbuster diabetes drugs.think Ompeic and Mount Jarro. So the thinking was that both companies would do quite well in the weight loss market too. At first, Novo Nordisk pulled ahead.The company won appr ...
The Galaxy S26 Ultra’s new Privacy Display is pretty cool. #Vergecast
The Verge· 2026-02-27 17:20
So, the way Samsung has built it is there there's basically two sets of pixels on the display. There's the standard sort of wideangle pixels and there's much more focused pixels that just like hit vertically. And so, you can turn off the ones that have the wider field of view and you get this effect of a privacy display.The reason that's important is because Samsung and you can toggle that privacy display on and off in 10,000 different ways, including geo fencing and routines, including specific apps, inclu ...
What It Actually Takes to Run a Broadway Show Every Night | WSJ
The Wall Street Journal· 2026-02-27 17:00
- Whenever there's been war, famine, economic downturns, Broadway has been a place for people to come and to put their fears aside and sit there and be entertained. It's part of our national character. - It's a very New York feeling when you're leading up to that time when a Broadway show is happening, there's more cabs, there's more restaurants bustling, there's all of these people lining up outside every Broadway theater.- When you hear that crowd and that murmur going out there, the musicians feel it, th ...
Make space for the beauty | Cate Armstrong | TEDxTorrey Pines
TEDx Talks· 2026-02-27 16:42
[applause] It hasn't hasn't always been easy to accept the things I didn't want to see to make space for the beauty. I'm a walking contradiction. I wish I could come here today and simplify my feelings into one truth.The best I can do is give an honest snapshot of life. I am continuously changing. an unruly combination of my light and dark despite believing it's an imbalance I can fix.But maybe you're like me and quietly hyperfixate on the growing pains while projecting to have it all together. It's in the ...