Palantir reported second-quarter revenue of $1.94 billion against a $1.81 billion consensus, up 93 percent year over year, and every headline led with that growth rate. It is the wrong number to…
The stall had everything a photographer thinks they want. Whole crabs on crushed ice, whelks in their shells, three grades of oyster, lemon wedges cut that morning, parsley banked up like hedging. I…
The joke writes itself, so let’s get it out of the way. Tim Burton made a film thirty years ago in which a president keeps accepting the invaders’ assurances of peace right up to the moment they…
Two of the largest companies in the world reported within a day of each other and the market sent them in opposite directions. Apple fell about 6% and kept falling, touching $300 on Friday after…
The queue is not for the house. Nobody comes for the house. They come for a courtyard about the size of a generous parking space, a stone balcony bolted to one wall, and a bronze girl standing under a…
Tempus AI reported GAAP net income of $5.6 million for the quarter ended June 30, the first positive bottom line in its public history, and the number is almost entirely an accounting event. Loss from…
A leopard walking straight down the middle of a dirt track, head low, eyes locked on the lens. It is the frame everyone wants and the one most people blow, because the animal is doing the one thing…
I still don’t know which church this is. I walked past it, looked up, took the picture, and kept going, and by the time I thought to check I was three streets away and it had started to rain. There…
On Thursday 30 July, thousands of people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta. Most came by sea, swimming or paddling inflatables the five kilometres from Fnideq and the shorter run from Belyounech, then…
The interesting number isn’t the $1.1 trillion. It’s what happens when you put the two figures next to each other. Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta have spent $1.1 trillion on capex since the AI…