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Everything We Know About Swatch and Audemars Piguet’s Blockbuster Collaboration

Everything We Know About Swatch and Audemars Piguet’s Blockbuster Collaboration

Published by Jenni Sidey

Want more insider watch coverage? Get Box + Papers, GQ’s newsletter devoted to the watch world, sent to your inbox every Friday. Sign up here to get it free. Well, it’s official. After partnering with Omega and Blancpain, Swatch is officially teaming up with Audemars Piguet. Without a single official image of a watch—beware of all the convincing AI renderings out there—the collaboration has already transcended the watch world to capture the attention of anyone with roughly $300 to $500 worth of spending power. So, what do we actually know about this new world-conquering linkup? The basics In 2022, Swatch worked with Omega to create an affordable version of the latter’s famed Speedmaster. The “MoonSwatch,” a vibrant $260 take on one of the most iconic watches of all time, instantly became a cultural phenomenon. Swatch followed that up with a similarly budget-friendly spin on Blancpain’s Fifty Fathoms, a legendary dive watch. The MoonSwatch shocked the world upon its release, but the upcoming “Royal Pop,” in whatever form it takes, is a twist that would stun …

OpenAI’s cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO

OpenAI’s cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO

Published by skeptic

In the long-running saga that is Cerebras Systems’ IPO, the finish line is finally in sight. The AI chipmaker said on Monday that it is preparing to sell 28 million shares at $115 to $125 a share. This would raise $3.5 billion and give it a $26.6 billion market cap at the high end. That would be a nice bump in just a couple of months for the late investors who piled into its $1 billion Series H at a $23 billion valuation in February. It would also be a boon to OpenAI and a few of its executives. Should Cerebras pull off an initial public offering at or above the high end, this will be the largest tech IPO of 2026 so far. It could also prove the appetite for even bigger blockbuster offerings in the wings, like SpaceX and possibly OpenAI and Anthropic. Cerebras offers an AI-specific chip called the Wafer-Scale Engine 3 that challenges GPU-based AI chips. Cerebras says its chip is faster for inference while using less power than such competitors. …

If You Grew Up In The 90s, You Probably Rented These 10 Romance Movies While Breathing In That Unmistakable Blockbuster Smell | GalTime Writers

If You Grew Up In The 90s, You Probably Rented These 10 Romance Movies While Breathing In That Unmistakable Blockbuster Smell | GalTime Writers

Published by Jenni Sidey

It’s a Friday night in 1997: you’re walking aimlessly through a room full of rows and rows of VHS tapes illuminated by unflattering light and a very particular carpet-and-plastic scent in the air. After three or four circuits around ye olde Blockbuster block, you and your buds would inevitably meet at the romance section and pick out some faves before heading to the check-out with your plastic card. Don’t forget the Junior Mints and microwave bucket popcorn; it’s gonna be a long evening in front of the tube. Ahhhhh, life was simpler back then. Although streaming is more convenient today, you lose out on the post-Blockbuster anticipation of getting home, gathering snacks and blankets, and hoping that the previous renter was kind enough to rewind before popping that bad boy straight into your VHS, and drifting off into movie heaven on your La-Z-Boy. If you grew up in the 90s, you probably rented these 10 romance movies while breathing in that unmistakable Blockbuster smell:  1. An Affair to Remember (1957) Sure, a lot of it …

The Download: plastic’s problem with fuel prices, and SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO

The Download: plastic’s problem with fuel prices, and SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO

Published by skeptic

3 Iran has struck Amazon’s cloud business in Bahrain again It promised to hit US companies only yesterday. (FT $) + Other targets include Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Nvidia. (CNBC) + AWS data centers in Bahrain were also hit last month. (Reuters $)  4 OpenAI was secretly behind a child safety campaign group It pushed for age verification requirements for AI. (The San Francisco Standard $) + OpenAI had backed the legislation as a compromise measure. (WSJ $) + Coincidentally, Sam Altman heads a company providing age verification. (Engadget)  5 Anthropic is scrambling to limit the Claude Code leak It’s trying to remove 8,000 copies of the exposed code from GitHub. (Gizmodo) + An executive blamed the leak on “process errors.” (Bloomberg $) + Here’s what it reveals about Anthropic’s plans. (Ars Technica) + AI is making online crimes easier—and it could get much worse. (MIT Technology Review)  6 A new Russian “super-app” aims to emulate China’s WeChat And give the Kremlin new surveillance powers. (WSJ $)  7 America’s AI boom is leaving the rest of the world behind  And it’s concentrating power and wealth in a handful of companies. (Rest of World)  8 Chinese chipmakers have claimed nearly half the country’s market Nvidia’s lead is shrinking rapidly. (Reuters $)  9 The first quantum computer to break …

Memory chip giant SK hynix could help end ‘RAMmageddon’ with blockbuster US IPO

Memory chip giant SK hynix could help end ‘RAMmageddon’ with blockbuster US IPO

Published by skeptic

SK hynix, a South Korean memory chip giant already listed on the KOSPI, is laying the groundwork for a potential U.S. listing that could reportedly raise an estimated $10 billion to $14 billion. The company announced this week that it has confidentially filed a Form F-1 with the listing, targeting the second half of 2026. But the real question isn’t just how much it can raise: it’s whether a U.S. listing could increase its trading value as one of the most critical players in the AI chip supply chain. Despite its critical role in high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a key component powering AI systems from companies like Nvidia, the stock has historically traded at a discount to global peers, according to a Seoul-based semiconductor analyst. It’s got a market cap of around $440 billion, but its valuation multiples remain below those of U.S.-listed semiconductor firms, raising questions about whether geography, rather than fundamentals, is partly driving the gap. The move is widely seen as an effort to increase its valuation to match global peers like Micron. …

This Tom Cruise/Steven Spielberg Blockbuster Is Still Somehow Underrated

This Tom Cruise/Steven Spielberg Blockbuster Is Still Somehow Underrated

Published by Jenni Sidey

This is an edition of the weekly newsletter Tap In, GQ senior associate editor Frazier Tharpe’s final word on the most heated online discourse about music, movies, and TV. Sign up here to get it free. To be The Movie Guy in any given group chat is to open yourself up to the vaguest of texts from your civilian friends: “give me a good movie to watch.” No genre, no reference point, no specifier of any kind—just “a good movie”. There are always unspoken qualifiers that come with this plea, though: nothing “dated” or “too old,” nothing too weird or challenging, but also nothing that’s so populist that it’s syndicated on TNT every other weekend. So when my homie Eliot, one of the biggest “I need a movie” texters in my phone, threw the Bat Signal up the other day, I knew he wanted something conventionally entertaining and ideally 10 years younger than us. I offered Out of Sight with a hard sell (“Trust me”) but he didn’t bite—two years too old to make his …

Seedance 2.0: Could this uncannily good AI make blockbuster films that are worth watching? | Science, Climate & Tech News

Seedance 2.0: Could this uncannily good AI make blockbuster films that are worth watching? | Science, Climate & Tech News

Published by Daniella Wilson

If you spend much time on social media, you’ll have surely noticed the surge in AI-generated video filling up your feed. We were promised superintelligence but instead got “AI slop” – clips-for-clicks of people and pets doing funny, diverting, but ultimately pointless things. Or worse. Deepfake videos of politicians or celebrities have improved in line with the advancing sophistication of AI video-generating models. A surge of supposedly “educational” AI-generated video on platforms like YouTube Kids, say campaigners, threatens to misinform, or at best confuse, young minds. You need javascript enabled to view this content Enable javascript to share Share Is this an AI ‘breakthrough moment’? Then there’s the film and TV industry, understandably furious that their stories, actors and characters appear to be being used to train, without permission or remuneration, AI video models. Models so powerful they can spit out an algorithmic pastiche of their work at a fraction of the cost and effort, threatening to upend their industry. But are we starting to see watchable, arguably worthwhile, AI-generated content out there? It was …

Project Hail Mary review: Ryan Gosling charms in sci-fi blockbuster with a reassuring soul

Project Hail Mary review: Ryan Gosling charms in sci-fi blockbuster with a reassuring soul

Published by Daniella Wilson

Project Hail Mary is in cinemas now. Add it to your watchlist The last time Ryan Gosling blasted off into space was in the guise of Neil Armstrong heading for the moon in 2018’s First Man, making it home again before the milk in his fridge had gone off. Project Hail Mary is a considerably longer voyage into the unknown that sees Gosling’s mild-mannered science teacher Dr Ryland Grace on a fictional mission with significantly greater stakes than the one embarked upon by NASA’s real-life history maker. Exactly how long it’s been thus far when Ryland awakens on a spaceship isn’t immediately clear, certainly not to the hippy-haired, shaggy-bearded doc himself who’s suffering from amnesia; the most he can surmise is that he’s “several light years from my apartment” and all his fellow crew members have died. The bewildered traveller’s temporary memory loss is a tidy device, setting up a succession of patchy recollections to serve as flashbacks explaining how he got where he is and what’s happening back on Earth to have made the …

Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock to Star in Blockbuster Show at the Met

Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock to Star in Blockbuster Show at the Met

Published by Jenni Sidey

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will host a major exhibition for two major artists who have never been subject to such treatment by the institution before: Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock. The famously married artists each established a legacy that stands on its own. This show, to open in October and run through January 2027, will survey those legacies both on their own and side-by-side. In a press release, Met director Max Hollein said, “With its distinctive premise and scope, Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous exemplifies The Met’s commitment to reexamining modern art through rigorous scholarship and fresh perspectives. By considering each artist on their own terms while also foregrounding their consequential relationship, the exhibition situates Krasner’s and Pollock’s work within a broader cultural and artistic context.” Hollein went on to call the approach integral to the vision he foresees for the Met Department of Modern and Contemporary Art’s forthcoming new wing, scheduled to open in 2030. Related Articles Krasner and Pollock met as young artists when they were included in a …

A Blockbuster That Understands Ambition

A Blockbuster That Understands Ambition

Published by Sam Flores

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer or editor reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s special guest is Rafaela Jinich, an assistant editor who works on this very newsletter and has written about the secret to loving winter and the upside of not fitting in. Rafaela credits Andy Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada with kick-starting her interest in journalism. She is also looking forward to the World Cup, has a soft spot for Shakira, and enjoys rereading Agatha Christie’s mystery novels. — Stephanie Bai, senior associate editor My favorite blockbuster: The Devil Wears Prada. I don’t know how many people can say they decided to become a journalist after watching this movie—but I did. In middle school, I was convinced that I wanted to be Andy Sachs (it felt safer than aspiring …