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☆ Some hear echoes of the Web3 frenzy around generative AI. But its future is likely to play out very differently.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Mariam Pettit, partner at Global Founders Capital, said the rush toward AI was in part driven by investor FOMO. While investors and industry insiders don't anticipate the same fate for generative AI startups, many see the parallels between the two industries. Indeed, VCs are paying premiums and pre-empting rounds into hot AI startups in a bid to get a place on the cap table. AI founders are aware that they need to differentiate themselves in order to survive, at the very least. "And with vertical AI startups, it's much clearer that all the data we have is approved by the creator of that data."

Persons: Marc Andreessen, ChatGPT, Mariam Pettit, FOMO, Rainer Haeckl Web3, Sam Bankman Fried, Ash Arora, LocalGlobe, Arora, Sam Altman, Andreessen Horowitz, Ayman Fadil, Fadil, Pettit, Devang Agarwal Organizations: Business, Alpha, Global Founders Capital, Investors, Tech, Talis Locations: German, London, Web3, LocalGlobe, Jasper

CNN —One year after catastrophic floods devastated swathes of Pakistan, some 4 million children in the South Asian nation remain without access to safe water, the United Nations children’s agency has warned. “Vulnerable children living in flood-affected areas have endured a horrific year,” Abdullah Fadil, UNICEF Representative in Pakistan, said in the statement. “The climate-related disaster deepened pre-existing inequities for children and families in affected districts,” UNICEF said in the statement. Children pick vegetables from water at a flooded market after heavy rainfall in Lahore on June 26, 2023. Fadil from UNICEF said the agency has called on the government of Pakistan and its partners to “increase and sustain investment in basic social services for children and families.”He added: “We cannot forget the children of Pakistan.

Persons: ” Abdullah Fadil, “, Asim Hafeez, Dera Allah Yar, Fida Hussain, Imran Khan, Khan, ”, Stephen Innes, Arif Ali, Fadil Organizations: CNN, United Nations, UNICEF, UNICEF Representative, Bloomberg, Getty, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Capital Economics, Analysts Locations: Pakistan, Karachi Division, Sindh province, Pakistan’s, Dera, Jaffarabad district, Balochistan, AFP, Asia, Lahore, South Asia, Afghanistan, India

Al-Jamil Al-Fadil, a resident of Tuti in Khartoum, told CNN that projectiles fell on the neighborhood. And in the Kafouri area north of Khartoum, warplanes overhead came under fire from anti-aircraft missiles, eyewitnesses told CNN journalists in Sudan. Food and water shortagesAndou Dieng, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Sudan, said looting as well as fighting is continuing across the country despite attempted ceasefires. In the capital Khartoum, eyewitnesses and CNN journalists in the north of the city told CNN that RSF paramilitary soldiers are occupying at least one water station, causing shortages to vital water supplies. More than 2,700 people from around 76 countries have arrived in Saudi Arabia in recent days after being evacuated from Sudan, the Saudi ambassador to the UK told CNN on Thursday.

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) "Super floods" in Pakistan have left 3.4 million children in need of "immediate, lifesaving support," according to UNICEF. The floods -- caused by record monsoon rains and dubbed by one minister as "the worst humanitarian disaster in a decade" -- have impacted 16 million children in total, UNICEF's Pakistan Representative Abdullah Fadil said following his visit this week to the country's southern Sindh Province. That estimate came as the country's National Disaster Management Authority updated the death toll from the floods since mid-June to 1,545 people, 552 of them children. Meanwhile, officials in the country warn that toll is likely to rise as deaths are being under reported and diseases like dengue fever are on the rise. Azra Pechuho, health minister for the southern Sindh Province -- one of the hardest hit areas where many schools and other facilities remain shut, said there was now a "state of emergency" caused by the vast amount of standing water, which provides the perfect breeding conditions for Aedes mosquitoes to spread the dengue virus.

☆ Egipt: Explozia unui gazoduct în Peninsula Sinai
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-25 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

"O explozie s-a produs joi seară la gazoductul principal care alimentează oraşul Al-Arish, în zona Sabika, la vest" de capitala provinciei Sinaiul de Nord, a precizat sursa.Explozia nu a făcut victime şi "nu va afecta aprovizionarea oraşului cu gaz", a afirmat într-un comunicat guvernatorul provinciei Sinaiul de Nord, Mohamed Abdel Fadil Shousha.Cauzele exploziei urmează să fie stabilite.Martori au declarat pentru AFP că fumul şi flăcările erau vizibile la 30 de kilometri depărtare de Al-Arish.Pe de altă parte, forţele de securitate au fost aduse pentru operaţiuni de curăţare a zonei şi a fost deschisă o anchetă, potrivit comunicatului.În februarie, organizaţia jihadistă Stat Islamic (SI), foarte activă în Peninsula Sinai, a revendicat un atentat împotriva unui gazoduct la 80 de kilometri est de Al-Arish.Atacurile s-au înmulţit după destituirea în 2013 preşedintelui islamist egiptean Mohamed Morsi de către armată.Cu începere din februarie 2018, autorităţile efectuează o operaţiune pe întreg teritoriul Egiptului împotriva militanţilor islamişti, axată în principal în nordul Peninsulei Sinai şi deşertul occidental, scrie agerpres.ro.

Persons: Mohamed Abdel Fadil, -, organizaţia, Mohamed Morsi Locations: Al, Sinaiul, Nord, Peninsula Sinai, autorităţile, Peninsulei Sinai, deşertul

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