As extreme wealth taxes gain steam in the United States, the ultra-rich are planning escape routes, even if they never end up using them. Californians will vote in November on a measure that would impose a flat 5% tax on the state’s more than 200 billionaires. Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page moved assets
Natalia Solórzano Vásquez’s next film, “Spells to Revive a Witch,” has found new partners in the Spanish company Testaferro and the Uruguayan Guay Films. The hybrid documentary, aimed at the Costa Rica Media Market, is produced by Costa Rican company Sputnik Films. Mariana Murillo’s label has already produced “Tierra de ashes” by Sofía Quirós Úbeda,
Ukraine said on Thursday that its forces had carried out more than 16,000 ground drone missions in June alone, more than double the January figure. “From logistics to medical evacuation, UGV units are taking on the most dangerous tasks,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said in a social media post on X announcing the June
Heretic has acquired the worldwide sales rights to “Nobody’s Violence,” the 17th feature film by prolific Canadian auteur Denis Côté, which has its world premiere in the main competition at the Locarno Film Festival. In the director’s latest, he reunites with actress Larissa Corriveau, star of previous features such as “Social Hygiene,” “That Kind of
Satya Nadella quietly criticized AI labs like Anthropic for the way they train their models. In an X post on Sunday, Microsoft’s CEO said that model makers complaining about distillation are hypocritical. Distillation is the process of training a less powerful model based on the results of a stronger one. “While the great innovation that
The man who headed Trump Accounts said President Donald Trump wants to automatically open accounts for all American children. In an “All-In Podcast” interview published Saturday, Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerstner talked about the early success of Trump Accounts and how Trump wants to increase its adoption. “In fact, the president suggested that we would
