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☆ 16 VCs that are funding the future of entertainment by backing generative AI and other disruptive tech
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

AdvertisementAfter a period of "wild west" investing in AI, Blank believes activity will favor AI companies that respect artists' consent and compensation. It recently co-led a $1 million seed round in Conduiit, which centralizes entertainment companies' production finance operations. Endeavor Venture InvestmentsEndeavor Venture Investments is the venture arm of entertainment and sports behemoth Endeavor. SWaN & LegendThe Virginia-based VC firm has a broad consumer portfolio that includes a number of entertainment investments. With Hollywood in contraction, SWaN has largely hit pause on new entertainment investments to get its portfolio companies on a strong footing.

Persons: Michael Blank, Blank, Jon Miller, Miller, Slack, Garnet Heraman, BDMI, Urs Cete, Michael, TMRW, Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Elysian Park Ventures Jay Adya, Grant Lamos, Tom Brady, Gotham Chopra, Michael Strahan, Jay Adya, Morgan, Kushaan Ahuja, Drew Glover, Glover, Alex Harris, they've, Noah Doyle, Payback India, Jed Katz, Rich Greenfield, Rich, Ilya Pozin, Jamie Seltzer, LightShed, Steve Cohen's, it's, Sri Chandrasekar, Tripp Shriner, Ishan Sinha, That's, Wondery, Ian Doody, Raine, Gordon Rubenstein, Joe Ravitch, Jeff Sine, ‐, Fred Schaufeld, SWaN, that's, Oscar, Jose, Schaufeld, Sam Wick, Alex J, Investcorp, Paul Yoo, Edgar Bronfman Jr, Daniel Leff, Waverley, Leff Organizations: Service, Creative Artists, Connect Ventures, Business, Hollywood, Veteran, TPG, Integrated Media Co, Advancit, CAA, Bertelsmann, Waverley, Octopus Ventures, Accel, Facebook, Venture, Aperture Venture, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Fremantle, Connect, CAA Connect Ventures, New Enterprises Associates, TMRW Sports, Disney, Universal, Elysian Park Ventures, Elysian, Sports, Endeavor Venture, Endeavor Venture Investments, behemoth Endeavor, Dapper Labs, Fiat Ventures, Fiat Ventures Fiat Ventures, Fiat, Payback, Rent, LightShed, Rich Greenfield Influential, LightShed Ventures, Pluto, Apple, Octopus Ventures Octopus Ventures, Investments, Corp, Etsy, Re, Point72 Ventures New York Mets, Range Media Partners, Point72 Ventures, Sri, Powerhouse, Athletic, The New York Times Co, Evolution Media, Creative Artists Agency, Astro, Rave Digital Media, Accel Entertainment, Jose Andrés Media, Berliner, UTA Talent, UTA, UTA Ventures, Ventures, VR, Amazon, PFL Locations: blockchain, —, Conduiit, fintech, London, Australia, Papercup, Los Angeles, Virginia, UTA.VC

☆ OpenAI's ChatGPT back online after 'major' outage
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Hayden Field | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

ChatGPT, OpenAI's viral chatbot is back online after experiencing a brief but major outage Wednesday morning. ET, affecting OpenAI's API services as well, which are used by more than two million developers. ChatGPT users were told that "ChatGPT is at capacity right now" and a status page referred to the issue as a "major outage." We are now seeing normal responses from our services," OpenAI said on its status page. Anthropic's Claude 2 chatbot, a ChatGPT competitor created by ex-OpenAI employees, also experienced issues on Wednesday.

Persons: Sarah Doody, ChatGPT, OpenAI, Anthropic's Claude, chatbot, Claude, Mira Murati Organizations: Fortune

☆ These are the 3 biggest retirement plan rollover mistakes, expert says. Here's how to avoid penalties
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-29 | by ( Kate Dore | Cfp | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The one-year rule is an "archaic belief," according to career expert Sarah Doody. PHOENIX — If you're saving for retirement with a 401(k) or individual retirement account, it's easy to lose money to taxes and penalties when moving money between accounts. A lot of investors make costly rollover mistakes without consulting a professional for guidance, according to Denise Appleby, CEO of Appleby Retirement Consulting. "We need to band together and help to protect those assets," she said, speaking at the Financial Planning Association's annual conference Thursday. Here are three of the most common rollover mistakes to avoid, Appleby warned.

Persons: Sarah Doody, Denise Appleby, Appleby Organizations: Appleby Retirement Consulting, Finance

☆ 3 ways to use AI right now to get ahead—if you do, you're 'really going to succeed,' says expert
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

If you're only using artificial intelligence to edit selfies or find dinner recipes, you aren't getting the most out of it. These tools can help you get ahead in your career, according to Sarah Hoffman, VP of AI and machine learning research at Fidelity Investments. She's a particular fan of using ChatGPT, OpenAI's popular generative AI chatbot, in a professional context. In this context, the tool's mistakes and fabrications don't really matter — you're only using it for inspiration. You're establishing a jumping-off point for orienting your brain in the right direction, said Hoffman.

Persons: Sarah Doody, Sarah Hoffman, Hoffman, isn't, ChatGPT Organizations: Fidelity Investments, Fast, Purdue University

☆ Disney starts drafting broadcast TV’s grand finale
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Jennifer Saba | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

It was pretty much the only way to watch “Gunsmoke” or “Howdy Doody” until cable networks arrived in force in the 1980s, bundled together for a monthly subscription fee. For Disney, ABC represented a watershed moment. Look deeper and the big broadcasters attracted only one in five viewers, while one in three watched cable networks. The TV group, excluding cable networks such as Fox News, generated an EBITDA margin of nearly 12% for the year ending June 30. Assume any deal includes cable networks such as Disney Channel and National Geographic.

Persons: Walt Disney, Bob Iger, ”, Howdy Doody, Fox, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Eisner, Iger, what’s, “ Abbott, Singer, Morgan Stanley, Disney’s, they’re, reckons Morgan Stanley, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Sharon Lam, Aditya Sriwatsav, Oliver Taslic Organizations: Reuters, Magic Kingdom, ABC, Disney, ESPN, Charter Communications, American Broadcasting Company, NBC, CBS, Capital Cities, RJR Nabisco, Paramount Global, Comcast, Warner Bros Discovery, Fox, Paramount, National Football League, NFL, Reuters Graphics Reuters, Bloomberg, Apple, Nielsen, BET, Wall Street Journal, Charter, U.S . Federal Communications Commission, Local, Disney Channel, Geographic, Apollo Global Management, TPG, Walt Disney, Thomson Locations: U.S, United States

A car driving with a bull in it was pulled over by police in northeast Nebraska's biggest city. A video of the traffic stop shot by News Channel Nebraska spread quickly online. Reiman said Meyer wasn't headed to a parade Wednesday. Meyer didn't answer his home phone Thursday morning so he couldn't be reached immediately for an explanation. Videos of Lee Meyer driving Howdy Doody around can readily be found online from 2017 and 2019.

Persons: Chad Reiman, ” Reiman, Lee Meyer, Howdy Doody, Reiman, Meyer, Meyer wasn't, Meyer didn't, Rhonda, ”, Rhonda Meyer, US92, “ Lee, he's, he’s, “ We’ve Organizations: Norfolk Police, Ford Crown Victoria, News Channel Locations: Nebraska's, News Channel Nebraska, Burwell, Neligh, Norfolk

☆ This Steer Rides Shotgun
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Michael Levenson | More About Michael Levenson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Let this be a warning to those of you who long to hit the open road with a 2,200-pound steer riding shotgun: Observe all traffic laws, especially when passing through Norfolk, Neb. Lee Meyer, 63, a retired machinist, learned that lesson on Wednesday. For seven years, Mr. Meyer has been chauffeuring his 2,200-pound Watusi-longhorn mix named Howdy Doody with its horns and head exposed to the open air in a customized Ford Crown Victoria with the license plate “Boy Dog.”But he had never been stopped by the police, he said, until Wednesday morning as he drove Howdy Doody into Norfolk from his 15-acre ranch south of Neligh, about 35 miles away. Mr. Meyer had just turned off the highway on what was supposed to be a test run in preparation for Howdy Doody’s appearance at Norfolk’s Oktoberfest when he noticed a police car behind him had turned on its flashing lights.

Persons: Lee Meyer, Meyer, Howdy Doody, Howdy Doody’s Organizations: Ford Crown Victoria Locations: Norfolk, Neb, Neligh

☆ I Loved ‘Pee-wee’s Playhouse’ Enough to Marry It
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( James Poniewozik | More About James Poniewozik | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Pee-wee’s Playhouse” premiered on CBS in 1986, the year I graduated from high school, which means I was probably too old for it. Or maybe too young. (Among them was a young Laurence Fishburne as Cowboy Curtis, wielding an animated lasso.) The overstuffed set, with its midcentury candy palette and zigzag angles, looked like a B-52s album you could live inside. Pee-wee the character was a parody — a high-on-Pixy-Stix exaggeration of the clean-cut kids’ hosts of the 1950s, a Howdy Doody who brought himself to life.

Persons: ”, Herman, Paul Reubens, Laurence Fishburne, Cowboy Curtis, Howdy Doody Organizations: CBS

☆ Don’t buy this major ‘myth’ about job-hopping, says career coach: ‘It is an archaic belief’
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

But career coach Sarah Doody says the one-year mark is arbitrary. Here are their tips on how to execute a successful job-hop:Make a 'career values criteria list'Most people have a sense of what they want in a job. Doody wants you to write it down in what she calls a "career values criteria list." When constructing this list, Doody urges job seekers to include items beyond just salary, benefits and other "life-sustaining criteria." If you end up in the latter situation, Doody says it's not too late for a job criteria list to be helpful.

Persons: Sarah Doody, it's, Doody, Nancy Wang, That's, Wang, they've Organizations: Amazon Web Services

☆ A career coach’s 4-step guide to using ChatGPT and LinkedIn for a successful job hunt
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-13 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The age of online job hunting has led job seekers to make a critical mistake, according to career coach Sarah Doody. But when used correctly, technology like ChatGPT and LinkedIn can help a candidate dodge that mistake, says Doody. But features like LinkedIn Spotlights pull certain profiles out of the haystack and highlight them to recruiters. According to LinkedIn, Spotlights aim to help recruiters "prioritize candidates who are more likely to engage with you and your organization." Specifically, she suggests using it to identify the common themes within a job description, which will ultimately help instruct you on how to customize your application materials for that specific job.

Persons: Sarah Doody, Doody, you'll, you've Organizations: Professional, LinkedIn, ChatGPT Locations: manila, Glassdoor

☆ How to ace a cold email, according to hiring experts: 'Change your mindset to a warm email'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Isabel Engel | In Isabel--Engel | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

A cold email is an important way to network within your potential field of interest, Monster career expert Vicki Salemi tells CNBC Make It. To successfully send a cold email — and get on your dream company's radar — hiring experts share their tips in this step-by-step guide. Establish a connectionHow to ace the art of the cold email? Ultimately, Salemi says that warm emails, based on commonalities, are often more successful than cold emails. "Try to change your mindset from a cold email to a warm email," Salemi says.

Persons: —, Vicki Salemi, Salemi, that's, Sarah Doody, Doody, — Salemi, I'm Organizations: CNBC

☆ Kremlin document shows how Russia is instructing state news outlets to handle potential losses in Ukraine counteroffensive: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Kremlin has prepared media talking points about Ukraine's expected counteroffensive, per Meduza. Sources told independent Russian outlet Meduza the document is aimed at priming the public for potential losses, or to capitalize on any Russian success. Reporters have been told "not to downplay expectations for the NATO-supported counteroffensive," and not to say that "Kyiv is unprepared for a 'counteroffensive," Meduza reported. Dr Precious Chatterje-Doody, an Open University lecturer in politics and an expert on Russian media, told Insider that the reported guidance fits "perfectly" with Russia's existing coverage of the war. Most Russian media is subject to strict controls over how the Ukraine war is discussed.

☆ How to get over writer's block, unlock your creativity, and brainstorm great ideas
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Cindy Perman | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Whether you're trying your hand at a screenplay like Charlie or brainstorming ideas for an upcoming meeting, there are a few things you can do to unlock your creativity and get the ideas flowing. Sometimes, connecting with someone else is the catalyst that unlocks our own creativity and gets the ideas flowing. "However, I find that once I just start, it creates momentum, because then I have something to work with, and the ideas start to flow and with progress comes confidence!" In her book "Bird by Bird," on the art of writing, Lamott describes the SFD this way: All good writers write them. A former colleague and I used to joke that our ideas were so good, it was bigger than a brainstorm.

☆ Here's the six-word outlook for stocks in 2023: going to hell in a handbasket
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

We knew that the stock market had formed a bubble and that it was going to pop as interest rates went up. That, in turn, pushed the stock market off a cliff so steep that we still cannot see the bottom. This all goes back to the Fed's move to keep interest rates at 0% after the 2008 financial crisis. Since interest rates were so low, companies that didn't make money could just borrow to keep the lights on. In 2018, Wall Street got a preview of how ugly this bubble would look once it popped in earnest.

☆ Putin purges Russia's Human Rights Council, replacing critics with pro-war cheerleaders
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Russia's Human Rights Council was reshuffled to exclude critics and bring in pro-war cheerleaders. It comes ahead of a key annual meeting where free speech about the Ukraine war was to be discussed. This system — often referred to as controlled opposition — is what Chatterje-Doody said had allowed organizations such as the Human Rights Council to express genuine criticism. On October 7, Russia rejected a UN Human Rights Council draft resolution condemning what the body called "the significant deterioration of the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation." Top Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that membership rotations at the Human Rights Council are normal.

Comedian Kathy Griffin's Twitter account was suspended Sunday, the same day she changed her page's title to "Elon Musk" and mocked the new CEO. Musk would appear to be the main beneficiary of his policy, which might seem to contradict his claim to be a "free speech absolutist." Griffin used her "Elon Musk" account Sunday to urge Americans to vote for Democrats in the midterm elections Tuesday to preserve abortion rights. Musk has been widely criticized for his shaky start running Twitter after he criticized its content moderation and promised a new era of free speech. That appears to be part of what inspired many to switch their page names to Elon Musk.

☆ Kathy Griffin suspended from Twitter for impersonating Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Donie O'Sullivan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN Business —Twitter has suspended comedian Kathy Griffin for impersonating the company’s new owner, Elon Musk. Musk has made an $8 Twitter subscription plan his signature bid to bolster the company’s revenue. Comedian Sarah Silverman used her verified account to troll Musk, copying his profile picture, cover image and name. “This will be clearly identified as a condition for signing up to Twitter Blue,” he tweeted. Musk mocked Griffin Sunday, quipping that “she was suspended for impersonating a comedian.” Musk also tweeted that Griffin could get her account back by paying $8 a month for Twitter Blue, although it wasn’t clear whether Musk was serious.

☆ Twitter delays $8 ‘blue check’ verification plan until after the midterms
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Jennifer Korn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN Business —Twitter is delaying the rollout of account verifications for its paid Twitter Blue subscription plan until after the midterm elections, a source with knowledge of the decision confirmed to CNN. A fresh Twitter account created by CNN that opted for the paid feature did not show the checkmark on its public profile. The decision to delay the rollout comes as the entire decision to charge users for verification has faced wide public backlash. Television actress Valerie Bertinelli similarly changed her account name to the Twitter CEO’s, tweeting Friday that “[t]he blue checkmark simply meant your identity was verified. Musk has also said he will limit the company’s content restrictions and require the paid subscription for account verification.

☆ Raises are projected to be skimpy this year. But experts say that even in a downturn, employers want to retain and reward their top talent. Here's how to make your ask.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( Rebecca Knight | Rachel Durose | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Experts say that even in a shaky, flaky economy like this one, most employers are apt to retain and reward their top talent. If you're going to ask for a raise, you need a game plan. "Treat the act of asking for a promotion like a project," Sarah Doody, the founder of the job search and career accelerator company Career Strategy Lab, told Insider. So, you need to ask your boss to be compensated and titled as a manager, she said. As you make the ask, Tilia recommended not using the word, "raise," but rather, "title and pay adjustment."

☆ The UN rejected Russia's push to hold a secret vote on its attempts to annex parts of Ukraine
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Mia Jankowicz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Russia wanted a UN vote over whether to condemn its actions in Ukraine to be a secret ballot. The UN roundly rejected that on Monday, and the vote is set to be held in public later this week. A secret vote may have made some Russian allies more likely to vote to support it, experts told Insider. Russia's UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia had argued that the vote should be a secret one. The resolution was drafted before Russia's bombardment on Monday of numerous cities and regions of Ukraine, including some that had not been attacked in months.

☆ 4 ways to ask for a raise during economic uncertainty
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Rebecca Knight | Rachel Durose | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Slow growth, high inflation, and layoffs mean it's the perfect time to ask for a raise. It may seem counterintuitive, but an economic downturn means it's the perfect time to ask for a raise. Asking for a raise can also be a matter of timing and when you need to make more money. So, you need to ask your boss to be compensated and titled as a manager, she said. As you make the ask, Tilia recommended not using the word, "raise," but rather, "title and pay adjustment."

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