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...Standout performers last year included Sir Christopher Hohn’s TCI, Ken Griffin’s Citadel and Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking....
...some users have complained that it has overcorrected towards generating images of women and people of colour, such that they are featured in historical contexts inaccurately, for instance in depictions of Viking...
...Google was quickly forced to pause the generation of people by the bot’s image-generating tool, after it was found to produce depictions of women and people of colour in inaccurate contexts, for instance as Viking...
...Yugoslav forces in Kosovo employed crudely made fake artillery from wood and plastic tubes to trick Nato pilots....
...“She got up and stood there holding her stupid knock-off Kate Spade bag or whatever it was, her hair pulled back into a ponytail and crowned with a useless, plastic, tortoiseshell headband,” notes the narrator...
...Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking lost only 2.5 per cent in its main hedge fund — respectable given the equity market turbulence....
...On Tuesday, Reuters’ Milana Vinn reached out to a bagholder: Aliya Capital Partners LLC, one of the biggest investors that joined Elon Musk’s $44-billion acquisition of Twitter Inc, said on Tuesday it expects...
...A Guest at the Feast: Essays by Colm Tóibín is published by Viking on 3 November...
...How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Futureby Vaclav Smil, Viking £20/Penguin $28 The question of how fast the world can shift away from fossil fuels to a cleaner energy...
...The company had made good progress with investments in plastics recycling and energy from waste services, he said....
...Tiger Global, Coatue, Viking, Maverick, Lone Pine, D1 and Light Street declined to comment....
...Tiger Global and its fellow “cubs” — including Philippe Laffont’s Coatue Management, Glen Kacher’s Light Street Capital and Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking — have been hit by “brutal” sell-offs in technology...
...An even larger dilemma is posed by what Smil calls “the four material pillars of modern civilization”: steel, ammonia, cement and plastics....
...The rapacious Vikings were barely less welcome....
...Scientific American says mycelium is “the fungus mushrooms are made of, but it can also produce everything from plastics to plant-based meat to a scaffolding for growing organs — and much more”....
...The interest in private assets comes on the back of huge gains reaped by some so-called Tiger cubs — protégés of Julian Robertson’s famed Tiger Management — such as Tiger Global’s Chase Coleman, Viking’s...
...Not all the cubs have gone on to become Vikings, Coatues or Tiger Globals....
...For years reporters had highlighted the fact that China spends more on imported computer chips than plastic, oil and iron combined....
...Vinyls and plastics had jarred with that ambition and Orbia’s drive to focus less on chemicals and more on agriculture, water and infrastructure....
...When he made Fedora in 1978, a film about an ageing actress who forces her daughter to take her place and name after plastic surgery leaves her disfigured, Hollywood had already declined to finance the film...
...Like Vikings, camp counsellors needed something hard to sink, easy to beach and reasonable to carry....
...Plus, the FT’s Judith Evans explains why consumers are changing their attitudes towards single-use plastic in the pandemic. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information....
...Mind you, there was that RPC plastic packaging deal last year . . . Sir Stelios £5m? Whistle for it!...
...Plastic surgery clinics, a lucrative source of core ad revenues, are taking a hit. Nose jobs are the last thing on people’s minds....
...Staff wore paper hats with Viking horns. Customers idly browsed Kallax shelving options. There was gentle bickering, even laughter. A man said he could murder some meatballs....
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