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US tourist on safari in Zambia killed by charging elephant
  + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN —An elderly American woman was killed in Zambia after an elephant charged at a vehicle carrying tourists in Kafue National Park. “This is a tragic event and we extend our deepest condolences to the family of the guest who died,” he said. The deceased woman has since been named as 79-year-old Gail Mattson by her family, correcting the age initially cited by Wilderness. “We would like to share some amazing pictures of our wonderful Mom’s trip to South Africa with her friends and family. Zambia is popular with safari travelers thanks to a number of national parks and the quality of its guides.
Persons: Keith Vincent, , ” Vincent, , Gail Mattson, Blake Vetter, Vetter, Mattson, ” Vetter, Rona Wells, ” Wells, Bianca Rudolph, Lawrence Rudolph Organizations: CNN, Wilderness, Facebook Locations: American, Zambia, South Africa, Africa
Like many other enterprise companies, Symphony was locked into its cloud providers as its tech stack became increasingly entwined with and dependent on the cloud companies' tools and software. Some of that computing power and storage comes from the major cloud providers themselves, by way of consumer devices, but they can also come from a company's own private cloud, Gurle said. On Wall Street, tech execs constantly look for new ways to keep cloud costs in check. This is reaching new heights thanks to the AI craze, with the construction of data centers wreaking havoc on rural communities. Here's the pitch deck Hive used to raise $13 million.
Persons: David Gurle, Gurle Organizations: Service, Symphony, Wall Street, Amazon Web Services, Google, Business, Oracle Labs, University of California, Hive, SC Ventures, Chartered, French Locations: University of California Berkeley, America
Wall Street firms know the pains of having to satisfy regulators, and with advancements in artificial intelligence, there's a whole new level of scrutiny and complexity. It involves quality-and-assurance teams who test, verify, validate, and challenge the AI models before they go into production and report issues back to the engineering team to fix. In some cases, banks' technology teams are spending at least half their time documenting models for compliance, Jonas Jacobi, cofounder of fintech startup ValidMind, told Business Insider. AI models are often compared to a "black box" because it can be difficult to understand their decision-making or how the models arrive at their results. With the new injection of capital, ValidMind will build more features, like one aimed at automating the risk management of third-party vendor solutions.
Persons: Banks, Jonas Jacobi, Jacobi, ValidMind, Steve Cohen's, Mehdi Esmail, Andres Rodriguez Organizations: Business, Point72 Ventures, American Express, Third Prime Ventures, York Life, Jacobi, Technologists Locations: Palo Alto, Calif, Wall, ValidMind
Doctor, then a Goldman Sachs managing director who ran the bank-solutions group based in Hong Kong, was visiting the bank's London office. The AI startup was built to suggest potential deals based on the data it's exposed to. Louisa AI knows that a current Goldman employee used to work at the semiconductor company, and the AI knows a project-finance employee in New York. In an article about solar panels, Louisa AI would link the words "solar panels" to "solar" and then to "renewables." Here's the pitch deck Louisa AI used to raise $5 million to fund its AI-powered deal prompter.
Persons: Rohan Doctor, Goldman Sachs, Doctor, Jim Esposito, Louisa AI, Louisa, Janet Yellen Organizations: Business, Blue9, Insight Partners, Goldman, Oxford Locations: Hong Kong, London, Asia, Oxford, Canada, Here's, Taiwan, New York
Norris Ethan White contacted Bianca Alexis Brunette in July 2014 after she appeared on his Instagram feed out of the blue. We had zero mutual friends, but there were several little elements that made her seem like a good catch. But I think you’re beautiful.”Ms. “I said, ‘Ethan, I hope you’re not catfishing me,’ because I literally don’t know who this man is. He says he is a soccer player, but I also knew nothing about soccer.”
Persons: Norris Ethan White, Bianca Alexis, , White, Ethan, , ‘ Ethan
Horwitz's March 13 memo was sent to all partners, managing directors, and vice presidents in response to a recent Wall Street Journal story. Women exits at GoldmanThe story comes amid a recent spate of departures of high-profile female executives at Goldman. Other women partners who have left include Katie Koch, a former top executive in asset management; Heather Miner, ex-global head of investor relations; and Jennifer Davis, a former head of retail investment banking. We are very fortunate to have extraordinary female partners that continue to increase in numbers. Our longer term success depends significantly on developing female partners in senior roles."
Persons: Goldman Sachs, Russell Horwitz, hasn't, Horwitz, David Solomon's, Horwitz —, Goldman, Marc Nachmann, Stephanie Cohen, BI's Bianca Chan, Beth Hammack, Cohen, Hammack, Alison, , Solomon, Katie Koch, Heather Miner, Jennifer Davis, Horowitz, Russell W, David, we've Organizations: Business, Horwitz's, Goldman, Firm, Women, Media Relations
Cohen, 46, will join Cloudflare, a San Francisco-based technology company aimed at helping businesses improve their internet security and performance. It will be a familiar role, as she served as Goldman's strategy chief from 2018 to 2020. Having spent 20 years inking deals within Goldman Sachs' investment banking unit, Cohen is no stranger to the boardroom. "But the reality is, Goldman Sachs is not a technology firm," Cohen said. When she broke the news to Argenti, he told her, 'This is exactly what you should do… this is exactly the right company," Cohen recalled.
Persons: Stephanie Cohen, Cohen, " Cohen, David Solomon, Goldman, Beth Hammack, Cloudflare, Solomon, John Waldron, Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn, Goldman Sachs, it'll, Lloyd Blankfein, Brendan McDermid, Reuters Cohen, they're, I, Stephanie, Prince, she'll, Marco Argenti Organizations: Business, Cloudflare, IBM, University of Illinois, Goldman, Reuters, Financial Times Locations: San Francisco, Utah, Urbana, Champaign
When it comes to newer consumer-social startups, the environment they're entering is turbulent — investor checks have dwindled, users are facing subscription burnout, and successful advertising models require massive scale. AdvertisementSo how are the emerging, buzzy social startups approaching monetization in 2024? "There's really only two monetization business models for consumer products," said Tiffany "TZ" Zhong, founder of new social platform NoSpace and early-stage VC firm Pineapple Capital. 3 ways new social-networking startups are approaching monetizationWhile some newer social startups are already monetizing their product, many are still pre-revenue and experimenting with different models to see which will make sense for their product and audience. And Verse CEO Bobby Pinckney told BI that the social platform, centered around music, plans to add a premium subscription that will unlock advanced AI tools, analytics, and templates.
Persons: , there's, Eric Wittman, Tiffany, Zhong, VCs, Bianca Ambrosini, Ambrosini, Marlon Nichols, Nichols, Emma Bates, Andrew Kahn, Danial Hashemi, Alexandra Debow, Bobby Pinckney Organizations: Service, Meta, Business, Pineapple, Mac Venture Capital, Twitter, Crush Ventures, Crush, BI Locations: Berlin
We always use this code: garbage in, garbage out," Raphael, chief data officer and Goldman partner, told Business Insider. As Goldman goes all-in on AI, Raphael is emerging as a key player impacting the bank's future. How Raphael's data platform team is leading the way for AI innovation at GoldmanEven though Raphael's day can vary greatly, it always starts the same. AdvertisementOne is the data platform team, which oversees the entire data stack, including infrastructure and how people access data. For Goldman, AI is not new.
Persons: Goldman Sachs, Raphael, Goldman, It's, SecDB, That's Organizations: Service, Business, Goldman, JPMorgan, UC Berkeley, Engineering SWAT, Curation
Big banks have accelerated the pace of patents filed for AI and AI-related innovations, according to new data from consultancy Evident. There were 854 new patent filings in the year ending June 2022, up 21% from the same period the year prior, according to Evident. There are also knock-on effects, like how a strong patent culture can help banks stand out in the war for talent. This patent data, pulled from Google's patent database, accounts for the 12-month period ending in June 2022. JPMorgan Chase, which leads Evident's AI research index, follows with 120 AI and AI-related patent filings.
Persons: Banks, Alexandra Mousavizadeh, Mousavizadeh, America's Erica, One's Eno, Sumeet Chabria Organizations: Business, Capital, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, chatbots, Bank, America's
Bianca was in the harbor of Riomaggiore, the southernmost of the five picturesque fishing villages that make up the Italian Cinque Terre region. “Then, three days before I was leaving to go home, my friend said, ‘Let’s go to the Cinque Terre. After three days with Alessandro, Bianca didn’t want to leave, but she figured she had no choice. She fed me, of course.”Alessandro also took Bianca on the back of his scooter for hilltop rides around the Cinque Terre. The couple would take their daughter along too, and spend time with their Italian family.
Persons: Bianca Gignac, Bianca, ” Bianca, It’s, she’d, Florence –, , , ‘ Let’s, , Alessandro Morelli, ” Alessandro, , Alessandro, I’d, Bianca –, Artie, “ I’m, skeptically, let’s, She’d, Bianca Gignac Bianca, Bianca didn’t, “ Bianca, don’t, Paola, ‘ I’m, they’d, “ I’ve, I’m, ’ ” Bianca, Riomaggiore –, Alessandro’s, Italy Bianca, ” “ Patience, Bianca’s, ’ ”, Stefano Butturini Bianca, – we’re, ‘ Don’t, we’ve, “ She’s, Italy –, “ It’s, we’re Organizations: CNN, CNN Travel, Italian Cultural Institute of Vancouver, Terre, La Spezia, Getty Locations: Riomaggiore, Italian, Terre, Canadian, Italy, Europe, Florence, La, Cinque Terre, Rome, Canada, Terre wasn’t, La Spezia, Vancouver, Bianca’s, Costa Rica, Bianca
In the midst of an exceptionally warm winter, resorts like Campo Felice have a major problem: there’s no snow. And a long-running drought means there isn’t enough water to make the amount of artificial snow needed to paint its slopes white. And with a lack of rain and record-breaking heatwaves, the lakes that normally provide water for artificial snow have run dry. Across all of Italy’s ski resorts, nearly 90% use artificial snow to some degree, according to Carlo Carmagnola, a snow expert with Météo France who studies the impact of climate change on ski resorts. These changes have been hard not just on the Lallini brothers, but their employees, which usually number 250 in the ski season.
Persons: Campo, Italy CNN —, Campo Felice, Niño, Andrea Lallini, It’s, hasn’t, , , Fiona Sibbett, Carlo Carmagnola, Météo, it’s, Carmagnola, There’s, Lallini, Luca Lallini, we’d, ” Lallini, bianca, Gennarino Di Stefano, Isidoro Francesi, ” CNN’s Camille Knight, Antonia Mortensen Organizations: Campo Felice, Italy CNN, CNN, Northern, Campo, ” CNN, Rocca, Cambio Locations: Italy, Rome, Météo France, Austria, Paris
The Evil Eye? Not Invited.
  + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Sadiba Hasan | Amir Hamja | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
About four years ago, the D.J.s Malinder Tooray, Omar Ahmed and Bianca Maieli hosted a night of music and dancing in Los Angeles. Their show, “No Nazar,” attracted a wide following and filled in what many saw as a gap in the music and nightlife scene. “Nazar” is an Arabic word borrowed by many languages and cultures. It invokes the concept of “evil eye” — that is, an envious glance that can cause harm to those it falls on. The event created by Ms. Tooray, Mr. Ahmed and Ms. Maieli reflected a mood the trio was trying to create — that of an inviting and affirming environment that encourages cultural exchange through music.
Persons: Tooray, Omar Ahmed, Bianca Maieli, , “ Nazar ”, Ahmed, Maieli Locations: Los Angeles, Asia
AI researchers have struggled with hedge funds' culture around proprietary secrets, which goes against the open-source philosophy foundational to AI and academia. Some recruiters, including Michael Stover, are seeing double- and triple-digit growth in AI hiring among hedge funds and prop-trading firms. For heads of AI, he said, hedge funds are dishing out a minimum of $1.5 million in total comp. But perhaps the top reason hedge funds are interested in the technology is that AI capabilities are bait in the war for investing talent. It's one of the few large US hedge funds without an executive or centralized team dedicated to AI or machine learning.
Persons: Ken Griffin's Citadel, Li Deng, Deng, Ken, Ken Griffin, Michael Stover, Stover, ExodusPoint, Balyasny, Agni Ghosh, Stott, isn't, Sumeet Chabria, Conor Twomey, Tim Mace, Mace, May's Ghosh, it's, They're, Peter Finter, Finter, That's, Ghosh, you've Organizations: Microsoft, Business, Citadel, Milken Institute, Reuters, Millennium Management, Bloomberg, Balyasny Asset Management, Man, Bank of America, Wall, Wall Street, Tech, Google Locations: Chicago, Seattle, Beverly Hills , California, London, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Wall
Though Ozzy Osbourne left Black Sabbath in 1979, his wife, Sharon Osbourne, told Billboard any songs the band wrote — Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward — require the approval of all four members to license. Regardless of the social media feud, legal experts say if true, the unauthorized use of the samples would be a “clear-cut” case of copyright infringement. He didn't dispute it,” entertainment attorney Donald M. Woodard of Carter and Woodard told Business Insider. AdvertisementOsbourne's recent objection to West's sample would be considered a new copyright claim, as the license for use does not permit West to sample the song in perpetuity. In 2022, Chicago artist Marshall Jefferson accused the rapper of using his song “Move Your Body” in the West song “Flowers” without permission.
Persons: , Ty Dolla, West —, Ye —, Ozzy Osbourne, Donna Summer, West …, Donna Summer's, , Osbourne, West swiped, Ye, Kanye, Hitler West, he'd, Instagram, Alex Jones, Hitler, Sharon Osbourne, — Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward —, Rolling Stone, FUGA, Tyrone William Griffin Jr, — hasn't, Sharon, Bianca Censori —, Ozzy, who's, I've, Donald M, Woodard of Carter, Woodard, West, ” Woodard, , Robert Freund, Freund, Marshall Jefferson, Griffin Organizations: Service, ign, Business, Billboard, West, iTunes, Apple Music, FUGA, Spotify, Amazon Music, Daily Mail, Kanye Locations: Chicago
A day after Trump's visit last year, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg went to East Palestine. But soon after the East Palestine derailment, some local officials began to criticize the Biden administration for the lack of a presidential visit. Biden issued an executive order requiring Norfolk Southern to pay for any long-term cleanup efforts. At a White House briefing this week, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden was traveling to East Palestine at the mayor's invitation. Deeter, a member of a local advocacy group, River Valley Organizing, hopes Biden's visit is more than a photo-op.
Persons: Joe Biden, Biden, Donald Trump, Trump, Trump's, Pete Buttigieg, Trent Conaway, Karine Jean, Pierre, Conaway, Jean, Pierre said, Alan Shaw, Timothea Deeter, Biden's, we've, He's Organizations: Republican, Democratic, Transportation, White, Norfolk Southern, Railway Safety, Commerce, Science, Environmental Protection Agency Locations: East Palestine , Ohio, East Palestine, Palestine, Southern
Swift's fans reacted by buying Beyoncé's new single, "TEXAS HOLD 'EM." AdvertisementYe, formally known as Kanye West, is feuding with Taylor Swift's fans after he shared a post claiming he was Spotify's global top artist. "WHEN I SAID THAT I'M THE NEW JESUS BITCH I WASN'T EVEN THINKING ABOUT TAYLOR SWIFT. "ALSO, I'M SURE I'VE BEEN FAR MORE HELPFUL TO TAYLOR SWIFT'S CAREER THAN HARMFUL. TO ALL TAYLOR SWIFT FANS I AM NOT YOUR ENEMY UUUM IM NOT YOUR FRIEND EITHER THOUGH LOL," Ye added.
Persons: Ye, Taylor Swift, , Taylor Swift's, Swift, Taylor, Swifties, TAYLOR SWIFT, Kim Kardashian, Scooter Braun, WE, TAYLOR, SWIFT, Tree Paine, Kardashian, Brandon Marshall's, Bianca Censori, Marshall, Brandon Marshall, Kanye Organizations: Service, Spotify, NFL, Kanye West Locations: TEXAS, Ye's, ife, IFE
It’s a reality that’s all too common among bankers on Wall Street — and one that venture-capital investors are hoping to capitalize on . "I was seeing how rote the work was, what a pain it was,” Stengel said, who would often work hundred-hour weeks . While at Princeton in 2019, Stengel researched how to use AI in chatbot form to analyze financial and economic data. Rogo is an AI platform built for investment bankers, hedge fund analysts, and private equity investors. Here's the 9-page pitch deck Rogo used to raise $7 million.
Persons: Gabriel Stengel, It’s, ” Stengel, Stengel, John Willett, Tumas Rackaitis, Gilder Gagnon Howe, , we've Organizations: Service, Lazard, Wall, Business, Princeton, JPMorgan, Co, AlleyCorp, Company Ventures, BoxGroup, ScOp Ventures, SEC
Insurance companies represent a big opportunity for private equity firms, who invest with the accumulated premiums paid by millions of everyday Americans. It's not just insurance clients that benefit from AI to bring more transparency to the cloudy private credit market. With private credit, insurance firms can invest in a more diversified set of assets with greater yield (and, albeit risk) than public credit markets, like vanilla corporate bonds. And because insurance companies often have long-term horizons with their financial obligations to policyholders, they can invest in less-liquid asset classes, like private credit. But to win more insurance clients, Blackstone must compete with the likes of Apollo Global Management, Carlyle, and KKR, which have also been keen on insurance.
Persons: Blackstone, John Stecher, it's, Stecher, Gilles Dellaert, Carlyle, that's, Jon Gray, Gray Organizations: Blackstone, , Business, Insurance, Blackstone Insurance, Apollo Global Management, KKR Locations: BXCI
NEW YORK (AP) — Ever-present on the lips of Taylor Swift and the uniforms of both Super Bowl teams. The color red has gone boom as loud as TNT. The phenom that is Taylor Swift at boyfriend Travis Kelce's Kansas City Chiefs games was a red-hued wonder of a lead-up to Super Bowl LVIII. You can wear red accessories to add color to a more neutral look or throw on a red lip or red nail polish. THE RED VS. RED SUPER BOWLThe 49ers have some skin in the red fashion game, too, in running back Christian McCaffrey's fiancee, Olivia Culpo, and in Kristin Juszczyk, fullback Justin Juszczyk's wife.
Persons: Taylor Swift, Trav, Travis Kelce's, We've, we've, Pat McGrath, , Laurie Pressman, Stuart Semple, Erin Jaeger, it’s, Christian McCaffrey's, Olivia Culpo, Kristin Juszczyk, Justin Juszczyk's, Kristin, Jaeger, I’m, Sabato De Sarno, Gucci Rosso, ” Jaeger, Bianca Betancourt, Semple, Anish Kapoor, It's, , Geothe, Michel Pastoureau's Organizations: Super Bowl, TNT, Travis Kelce's Kansas City Chiefs, Media, Chiefs, San Francisco 49ers, Pat McGrath Labs, FOOTBALL AS, North America, 49ers, Swift, Vogue Locations: Taylor, British, North, Paris, Milan, China, India
Fintech has shown few signs of recovering in 2024 as funding declines and layoffs continue. VCs said they want to pick up deals this year in AI and cost-management tools for software. Investors digging for deals in the fintech industry are zeroing in on a few pockets of resilience. Venture funding to financial-technology startups fell by 50% in 2023 from 2022, according to CB Insights. Only one month into 2024, fintech layoffs have been abound.
Persons: Fintech, VCs, Jack Dorsey's Block Organizations: PayPal, Business Locations: Brex
Once ChatGPT hit the scene at the end of 2022, Wall Street ramped up its efforts in AI. Here is what we know about how Wall Street is embracing AI:AdvertisementBanks accelerated their AI research and use cases due to the rise of ChatGPTWe identified 17 of the top AI executives and technologists to know at the country's biggest banks. Large language models, the form of AI behind ChatGPT, could transform how Wall Street does business. As financial firms' AI strategies come into focus, they're hiring more technologists with specialized skills. For those who want to land an AI job on Wall Street, here's everything you need to know about how tech skills and roles are changing.
Persons: ChatGPT, , Banks, Jamie Dimon, Dimon, Goldman Sachs, Marco Argenti, Dimitris Tsementzis, aren't, Bridgewater, Charlie Flanagan, Tim Mace, AllianceBernstein, Andrew Chin Organizations: JPMorgan, Man, Service, fintech, Deutsche Bank, fund's AIA, Management Locations: dealmaking, Swedish
Her youthful obsession realized in front of her, Ella was inspired to buy her first piece of Lolita fashion in 2015, from the popular Lolita e-tailer Angel Pretty. While Lolita style is named after Vladimir Nabokov’s eponymous teen in the controversial 1955 novel, the overlap ends there. Even 1950s-style American prom dresses, with their extravagant skirts and bodices, influence contemporary Lolita fashion, he said. The skirt's fullness, achieved through the use of a petticoat, is a key characteristic of Lolita fashion. Ella says her personal Lolita style is a blend of classic and sweet, with a healthy dose of prints and patterns.
Persons: Ella hadn’t, waltzed, , Ella, Lauren, Shelby Knowles, Pretty, ” —, She’s, it’s, Michelle Liu Carriger, Bianca, Kandace, Vladimir Nabokov’s, Masafumi, Monden, accessorized, Lolitas, Marie Antoinette, Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin, ” Monden, ” Liu Carriger, lacy Lolita, Kei, don’t, Liu Carriger, Nghi, Mary, Jane heels, substyles Organizations: CNN, American, UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, Television, University of Sydney, New, Asahi Shimbun, Pink House Locations: California’s Bay, Japan, America, San Francisco , California, US, Oakland , California, Australia, British, Otaru, Hokkaido, Tokyo, Lolitas, California
Balyasny Asset Management is working to build the AI equivalent of a senior analyst by combining multiple different AI tools, the hedge fund's head of applied AI told Business Insider. Balyasny is working to plug BAM ChatGPT, as it's called, into every internal and third-party dataset at Balyasny. "We're pretty laser-focused right now to move from junior analysts to senior analysts," Flanagan said of the agents' abilities. AdvertisementCharlie Flanagan, head of applied AI, Balyasny Asset Management Balyasny Asset ManagementHedge funds are keen to capitalize on the AI wave sweeping up Wall Street. AdvertisementLooking ahead, Flanagan is encouraging analyst and PM teams to build their own "agents" using AI building blocks created by the Applied AI team.
Persons: we're, Charlie Flanagan, Flanagan, Slack, aren't, Goldman Sachs Organizations: Service, Balyasny, Management, Business, Microsoft, Software, Man, Sigma, Wall, Citadel, BAM, intel Locations: Bridgewater
BI spoke to 13 financial professionals about drugs on Wall Street, from cocaine to psychedelics. The conversations come amid a rise in substance abuse and drug overdose deaths. But frequent drug use can lead to addiction, while any drug can lead to death if it is laced with deadly fentanyl. Meanwhile, drug overdose deaths were recently tallied at over 100,000, double where they were in 2015. And overdose deaths can be avoided with tools like fentanyl testing strips.
Persons: Organizations: Service, Business, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute on Drug
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