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☆ A VC and former student-athlete who played with Aaron Rodgers breaks down 7 big opportunities in the burgeoning NIL startup scene
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Tiara White | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Today, the venture capitalist is looking to invest in startups in the name, image, and likeness space transforming college sports. NIL, as it's called for short, has become big business since 2021, when student-athletes gained the right to make money from it. Some college athletes are making millions from brand and sponsorship deals, and a cottage industry has cropped up to support the rapidly changing industry. He and his partners also raised $25 million in 2021 for a venture-capital firm, Fiat Ventures, which invests in early-stage companies in the fintech space, per its website. After months of researching and talking to startups, Glover broke down the seven biggest opportunities he sees in the NIL industry:

Persons: Drew Glover, Aaron Rodgers, Cameron Jordan, Marshawn Lynch, Glover, couldn't, Jonathan Ferrey, Vint, he's, He's Organizations: University of California, Business, California, Fiat Growth, Fiat Ventures, LinkedIn Locations: Berkeley, Berkeley , California

☆ 'Father of the internet' sounds the alarm on the gold rush around AI chatbots
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Britney Nguyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

One of the fathers of the internet is warning against hastily investing in AI chatbots due to hype. Cerf said people must be "thoughtful" about using AI chatbots, and it will not always benefit them. Vint Cerf, widely recognized as a "father of the internet," warned people against hastily investing in conversational AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard simply because they're "cool" and buzzed about. As chief internet evangelist, Cerf "contributes to global policy development and continued spread of the Internet," according to Google Research. After OpenAI released its viral AI chatbot ChatGPT in November, tech giants like Google and Microsoft have joined the competition to release their own AI chatbots into the race.

☆ Father of internet warns: Don't rush investments into AI just because ChatGPT 'is really cool'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Google chief evangelist and “father of the internet” Vint Cerf has a message for business executives looking to rush business deals around chat artificial intelligence: "Don’t." Cerf pleaded with attendees at a Mountain View conference on Monday not to scramble to invest in conversational AI just because "it’s a hot topic." "There’s an ethical issue here that I hope some of you will consider," Cerf told the conference crowd Monday. He’s known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet” because he co-designed some of the architecture used to build the foundation of the internet. Cerf warned against the temptation to invest just because th technology is “really cool, even though it doesn’t work quite right all the time."

☆ Alphabet Chairman John Hennessy explains why Google was hesitant to put out its ChatGPT competitor
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Jennifer Elias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Google 's Bard announcement last week was meant to show that the company has similar technology as the popular ChatGPT chatbot, even though it still has ways to go before becoming product-ready, Alphabet Chairman John Hennessy said Monday. Hennessy, who spoke on key trends for 2023, briefly touched on Google being caught in the sudden onrush of interest in ChatGPT and generative AI. Last week, the company launched its response to ChatGPT in a conversation technology it is calling Bard. However, the announcement had the appearance of being rushed to match Microsoft's inclusion of ChatGPT technology into its search engine, Bing, and investors punished Alphabet stock, sending it down 9% for the day. Hennessy said Google was slow to roll out its ChatGPT competitor in part because it's still giving wrong answers.

☆ Everything you need to know about the M&A market for 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

After a long, cold dealmaking season, insiders are hoping to the market begin to thaw this year. So Insider's Carter Johnson spoke to six M&A bankers about what to expect this year. And while it's true sellers could always try and wait out the market, there's no gurantee of when things can get better. Click here to read more about what to keep an eye out for in the M&A market this year. This is what we know about the man some once considered to be a potential successor to CEO James Gorman.

☆ Here's the 13-page deck a fintech for investing in high-end wines and spirits used to raise a $5 million seed round
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Paige Hagy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Vint is a fintech that offers fractionalized shares of high-end wines and spirits. Vint used this 13-page pitch deck to raise a $5 million seed round. This fintech wants to make investing in wines and spirits accessible to everyone by creating a new asset class. The market for investing in wines and spirits is "highly inefficient" and "largely inaccessible," Vint CEO and cofounder Nick King told Insider. Read the 13-page pitch deck Vint used to raise a $5 million seed round.

☆ Vint Cerf Helped Create the Internet on the Back of an Envelope
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( Emily Bobrow | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

This is largely thanks to a design that Vint Cerf sketched on the back of an envelope while holed up with fellow computer scientist Robert Kahn in a Palo Alto cabana nearly 50 years ago. “Bob and I were like two hands on one pencil,” Dr. Cerf, 79, says over video from his home in McLean, Va., dressed in his usual three-piece suit. “We had a Stanford secretary type it up, and what did we do with the handwritten original? We threw it away! Historians have never forgiven me,” he adds with a laugh.

☆ Un tânăr, prins în flagrant delict de către polițiști chiar în momentul în care-și prepara droguri
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-15 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Un tânăr a fost prins în flagrant delict de către polițiști, chiar în momentul în care-și prepara droguri și urma să le consume. Potrivit unui comunicat emis de Poliție, individul a fost identificat la domiciliul unui amic, pe strada Zaikin și escortat la inspectorat. Probele delicte depistate de oamenii legii au fost ridicate și îndreptate la Centrul tehnico-criminalistic şi expertize judiciare pentru efectuarea expertizelor. Suspectul s-a dovedit a fi locuitor al Capitalei, în vârstă de 43 de ani. Acesta a comunicat că a preparat drogurile pentru consum propriu imediat.

Persons: Suspectul Organizations: inspectorat Locations: Capitalei

(foto) Cum arată acum moara de vânt din Cernoleuca și cum va arăta aceasta după restaurarea din 2021Ion Ștefăniță, directorul Agenției de Inspectare și Restaurare a Monumentelor din Republica Moldova, anunță că moara de vînt din satul Cernoleuca, raionul Dondușeni, ar putea fi restaurată. „Țin să-i mulțumesc arhitectului Mihai Andrieș, pentru efortul depus la elaborarea documentației de proiect privind restaurarea obiectivului protejat – Moara din Cernoleuca. Potrivit specialiştilor, în secolul al XIX-lea, în Basarabia erau 2.600 de mori de vânt – toate tipurile care au existat vreodată în Europa. Moara de vânt din Cernoleuca este un monument de arhitectură amplasat lângă satul Cernoleuca din raionul Dondușeni. Moara a fost construită la răspântia secolelor XIX și XX.

Persons: Ion Ștefăniță, Mihai Andrieș, Igor Vieru, Serghei Bondarciuc Organizations: Monumentelor, Facebook, Ministerului Culturii Locations: Republica Moldova, Dondușeni, Cernoleuca, Basarabia, Europa, Moldova

Cinsprezece hectare de vegetație uscată au ars aseară în satul Alexeevca. Cele mai extinse incendii de iarbă şi stufăriş au fost înregistrate în raioanele Hînceşti, Ungheni, Străşeni, Anenii Noi, Şoldăneşti, Cahul dar şi municipiul Chişinău. Conform comunicatului de presă emis de către IGSU focul a nimicit peste 600 ha de teren în urma arderii. În acest context, pompierii şi salvatorii amintesc cetățenilor că arderea vegetației uscate este contraindicată. În condiții de vînt și umiditate redusă orice sursă de aprindere poate provoca focare de proporții.

Locations: Hînceşti, Ungheni, Străşeni, Anenii Noi, Şoldăneşti, Cahul, Chişinău

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