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Warren Buffett. AP Images Wall Street's top firms often hire from a specific college class. Steve Hanke of Johns Hopkins teaches students how to value companies using a Buffett-style approach. They build cash-flow models, run simulations, and analyze financial reports and executive pay. Wall Street's top firms jostle to hire from a specific college class . The professor's emphasis on teaching his students how to value companies like Warren Buffett helps explain why. Steve Hanke has taught "Applied Economics & Finance" at Johns Hopkins for more than 20 years. He handpicks the students for his class, and they virtually all score job offers from top-flight banks and hedge funds once they graduate. Hanke has been a Johns Hopkins professor and currency and commodity trader for half a century. The veteran economist is a former adviser to President Ronald Reagan, and was president of Toronto Trust Argentina in Buenos Aires in 1995, when it was the world...

J. Edward Moreno / New York Times : The lawsuits against AI companies could shape the future of copyright or may simply serve as leverage for plaintiffs to secure more favorable licensing deals   —  The use of content from news and information providers to train artificial intelligence systems may force a reassessment of where to draw legal lines. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/Oi5bBmc

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis addresses attendees during a campaign event in Rochester, New Hampshire. AP Photo/Charles Krupa Ron DeSantis keeps saying the US would "flatten" The Bahamas if it attacked Fort Lauderdale. DeSantis' comments on the campaign trail were a comparison to the Israel-Hamas war. The US Embassy in Nassau said the US has a "strong mutual security relationship" with The Bahamas. Ron DeSantis keeps saying it would be easy to blow up The Bahamas, prompting the US Embassy in Nassau to clarify that his comments do not reflect official policy. DeSantis, a 2024 presidential candidate , took a campaign trip to New Hampshire on Saturday, where he has trailed in the polls behind Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, and former President Donald Trump, WMUR , a local ABC affiliate, reported. The Florida governor once again said during the stop that the US would "flatten" The Bahamas if anyone were to ever fire missiles from...

William Barber, Founding Director, Repairers Of The Breach & The Yale Center For Public Theology And Public Policy speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. Barber was escorted by police out of a North Carolina movie theater after he insisted on using his own chair for medical reasons, prompting an apology from AMC. Associated Press AMC apologized after calling police on a civil rights leader. Rev. William Barber refused to leave the theater after staff asked him not to use a chair for his disability. Barber is not facing any criminal charges, police said. AMC apologized after police escorted a civil rights leader from a North Carolina theater because he wanted to use a special chair for his disability. Managers at an AMC theater in Greenville, North Carolina called police on Tuesday during a showing of "The Color Purple" after Rev. William Barber II said he needed to use the chair because he suffers from ankylosing spondylitis, a disabling bone...

Rita Liao / TechCrunch : Chinese robotaxi companies are shifting to less advanced but more commercially viable smart-driving solutions, as funding dries up and losses continue to mount   —  Losses push China's self-driving upstarts to seek new revenue streams  —  A few years ago, robotaxis were the darlings of venture capitalists in China. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/PW2Ar4i

Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling in "Barbie." Dale Robinette/Warner Bros. Greta Gerwig's " Barbie ," starring Margot Robbie , is full of Easter eggs and references. The movie includes many nods to Mattel's various Barbie dolls released over the years.  Here are all the best details you might have missed in the film, which is now available to stream on Max. The opening scene is an homage to Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey." Top: Girls playing with dolls in "Barbie." Bottom: Monkeys in the opening scene of "2001: A Space Odyssey." Warner Bros.; MGM The opening scene of "Barbie" is mostly what was shown in the first teaser trailer for the movie, depicting the dawn of Barbie. A group of girls are seen playing with boring dolls until they meet Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie) standing above them in all her glory. This is a reference to the opening of "2001: A Space Odyssey," which d...