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30 Jan 2024

Royal Caribbean’s "Icon of the Seas" has set sail on its maiden voyage. It’s five times the size of the Titanic.

Source: Jon Erlichman

30 Jan 2024

Elon Musk said that the first human patient has received a brain implant from his startup Neuralink Corp.

A significant step forward for the company that aims to one day let humans control computers with their minds. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Musk said that the patient is recovering well, and that initial results of the procedure were promising. Source: Bloomberg

30 Jan 2024

JUST IN: Fidelity has marked up the value of its shares in X by 11% during the month of December, according to a new disclosure

Usage of X is currently at an all time high of 384 billion user seconds per day. It is also believed that the launch of Elon Musk's AI company, Grok, has helped increase valuation. X is currently the #2 news app on the App Store. Source: The Kobeissi Letter

30 Jan 2024

As a reminder. The bank never goes bankrupt and G7 countries will NOT default on their claims. Adjustment takes place through money debasement

There are 3 ways to invest at a time of FIAT currency: 1/ Spend 2/ Invest in risk assets 3/ Invest in store of values

29 Jan 2024

"Australia (67%) and Canada (74%) have the highest percentage of money losing companies in the world and Japan (15%) has the lowest" - via @AswathDamodaran

Source: Charlie Munger Fans

29 Jan 2024

Where the next 1,000 babies will be born

Source: Amazing maps

29 Jan 2024

Composition of the Sensex over the last 3 decades

Source: Investment Books (Dhaval)

26 Jan 2024

🚨 Breaking news: Google just launched LUMIERE, the latest AI model for video generation. Lumiere is expected to transform the future of VIDEO forever

Lumiere can generate video from different inputs, including text-to-video, which works like a regular image generator and generates a video from a text prompt, and image-to-video, which takes an image and uses its accompanying prompt to bring the photo to life in a video. The model can also put a fun spin on video generation through stylized generation, which uses a single reference image to generate video in the target style using a user prompt. In addition to generating video, the model can be used to edit existing video through various visual stylizations that modify a video to reflect a specific prompt, cinemagraphs that animate a specific area of a photo, and inpainting, which fills in missing or damaged areas in the video. Source: Shruti Mishra, www.zdnet.com

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