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Today we are joined in studio by film critic Patty Spitler, who shares her thoughts on the highly anticipated film “It Ends With Us,” which has just hit theaters. Based on the bestselling novel by Colleen Hoover, the film takes audiences on an emotional rollercoaster ride through the ups and downs of a romance gone wrong. Patti described the book, published in 2016, as one of Huber's most challenging works. The story centers on Lily, a young woman who moves to Boston to start a new life after the death of her abusive father. Lily makes a new start and…
Welcome to Startups Weekly, your weekly dose of the can't miss happenings from the startup world. Want to receive it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week we cover AI founders playing musical chairs, big defense tech investments, and other issues at Techstars. This week's most interesting startup stories Image credit: TechCrunch Founders and senior executives from some of the hottest AI startups are flying around this week. OpenAI personnel changes: John Shulman, one of OpenAI's co-founders, left the company in May to join rival AI startup Anthropic, following former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, who launched…
Sundance Institute and G2Go Entertainment have announced the short film competition finalists, a screenwriting intensive for Taiwanese filmmakers and panel events for the upcoming Sundance Film Festival Asia in Taipei, which runs from August 21 to August 25. The short film competition will feature works by six Taiwanese filmmakers, one of which will be awarded the Best Short Film Jury Prize, sponsored by non-profit organization Gold House, on the opening night. This year's six films include Peng Zi-hsun's “Addiction,” Charles Barratt's “Century Egg,” Hou Ming-chun's “Darling This Was Hard,” Effie Cheng's “MAMU,” Qing Wen's “Side By Side” and Lin Chengyu's…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's ongoing embrace of regressive politics is starting to have a direct impact on the electric vehicle maker's operations in Europe.Fortune magazine reports that Rothmann, one of Europe's largest drugstore chains, has “effectively” suspended the purchase of Tesla vehicles because of its mercurial CEO's support for a climate change denier and former president who has repeatedly reversed his position on electric cars.Rothman made his reasons very clear in his statement.”Elon Musk has made no secret of his support for Donald Trump,” the statement read. “Trump has repeatedly stated that climate change is a hoax. This stance stands…
Text Size Central Asian leaders met in Kazakhstan on Friday to seek to agree on common policies on water management in a region where scarce resources often spark conflict. In the five former Soviet Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan), 80 percent of the land area is desert and grassland, and interruptions to water supplies are commonplace. “It is necessary to develop a new integrated water policy based on equal and fair water use and strict implementation of obligations,” Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who hosted the summit, was quoted as saying by the presidential website. The way…
Stockholm-based duo The Dorm have been totally gearing up since releasing their latest track, “Toxic Eyes,” last Friday, August 2nd, 2024. This new single is a game changer, especially since it comes with a memorable and visually appealing music video, which you can have a listen to below before we tell you more about what the duo are up to and the broader story behind the song. The story behind “Toxic Eyes” According to The Dome, the song unpacks the idea that dreams blind us to reality. They describe it as, “Dreams blind us to reality, poison our eyes, and…
Let's play a game. Name one big tech company that came out of Europe in the last 15 years other than Spotify. Can't think of anything? That's because the European Union is a tariff cartel, squashing the innovative capacity of its member states, over-regulating US companies that manage to get in, and looting the EU coffers just to be safe. This has had disastrous consequences, the recent crash of CrowdStrike being one of them. The EU is laughably behind the US, China and even India in technological innovation. This should not be the case. Europe is a developed economic continent…
Wall Street has been fascinated by the emergence of generative AI for almost two years. But as DuPont prepares to split into three separate companies, one of the company's surprisingly fascinating businesses has to do with something we could never have done without: water. In late May, the chemical and materials maker announced plans to split into three publicly traded companies: a water business, an electronics-focused company that would benefit from AI, and a new DuPont serving the healthcare, mobility, construction markets, and more. DuPont's ability to benefit from the introduction of artificial intelligence was what attracted us to the…
U.S. stocks were mixed, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up about 0.1% on Friday.Expedia Group (EXPE) shares surged in trading on Friday after the company reported better-than-expected second-quarter results.Expedia Group reported quarterly earnings of $3.51 per share, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $3.06 per share. The company reported quarterly revenue of $3.558 billion, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $3.534 billion.Expedia Group Inc. shares rose 9.4% to $129.02 on Friday.Here are some other major stocks that posted gains in today's trading:Blend Labs, Inc. BLND rose 32% to $3.55 after the company reported better-than-expected Q2 financial performance. William Blair also upgraded…
Look, don't camp: JANNABI's Choi Jonghoon performs during the 2024 Incheon Pentaport Music Festival in Incheon, South Korea on August 4. (Photo by Justin Shin/Getty Images) Malaysia 1975: Lawsuit over festival cancellationFuture Sound Asia, organisers of Malaysia's biggest international pop festival, Good Vibes, is suing British rock band The 1975 and each of its members separately over the cancellation of the festival in 2023.Authorities shut down the festival after the first night's performance after lead singer Matty Healy allegedly criticized anti-LGBTQ policies on stage and then kissed bassist Ross MacDonald.According to Variety and The Guardian, the company filed a $2.4…