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New Zealand and South Africa will contest Saturday's Rugby World Cup final and bring one of sport's most enduring, most intense rivalries to the ultimate stage for the first time in nearly 30 years. The All Blacks and the Springboks — with 102 years of games between them — have met in the Rugby World Cup final just once before, a 1995 showdown that carved out a moment that reverberated way beyond sport. Both teams have won two Rugby World Cups after '95, but never against the other, and to understand the meaning of New Zealand vs. South Africa this weekend at Stade de France in Paris, think Brazil vs. Argentina in a soccer World Cup final. The All Blacks were then beaten by host France in the World Cup opener. ___AP Rugby World Cup: https://apnews.com/hub/rugby

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NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyer struggled through a meandering cross-examination of the FTX founder's former girlfriend Thursday, keeping both the judge and the public guessing as to the defense team's strategy in countering the testimony of the government's key witness. Ellison was the CEO of Alameda when it and FTX collapsed in November of last year. Ellison, 28, pleaded guilty to fraud charges in December, when Bankman-Fried was extradited to the United States from the Bahamas. Bankman-Fried, 31, was the majority owner and CEO of FTX until the crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11. “Maybe this is a good time for a break,” Cohen said after an hour of his cross-examination of Ellison.

Persons: Sam Bankman, Caroline Ellison, Fried, Ellison, FTX, Mark Cohen, Cohen, “, Judge Lewis A, Kaplan, ” Cohen, Palo, Judge Kaplan Organizations: Alameda Research Locations: Alameda, United States, Bahamas, Ellison, Palo Alto , California

NEW YORK (AP) — Sam Bankman-Fried ’s former top executive blamed the FTX founder on Wednesday of corrupting her values so she could lie and steal and create false balance sheets, things she told jurors at his New York City trial that she never imagined doing before joining his cryptocurrency empire. “I think it made me more willing to do things like lie and steal over time,” she said. She said she once created seven different balance sheets after Bankman-Fried directed her to find ways to conceal things that might look bad to Alameda's lenders. “I didn’t really want to be dishonest, but I also didn’t want them to know the truth,” Ellison said. ___For more AP coverage of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX: https://apnews.com/hub/sam-bankman-fried

Persons: Sam Bankman, Caroline Ellison, Fried, Danielle Sassoon, Ellison, “, ”, ” Ellison, couldn't, FTX, Palo, Judge Lewis A, Kaplan, ___ Organizations: New, New York City, Bankman, Alameda Research, U.S, Alameda, “ Locations: New York, Manhattan, FTX, Alameda, United States, Bahamas, Palo Alto , California

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Eventually, the losses at the hedge fund, Alameda Research, became so large that there was no way to hide them any longer, Wang said in his second day of testimony. “FTX was not fine,” Wang said, referring to the now-infamous tweet that Bankman-Fried wrote only a few days before the exchange filed for bankruptcy in November 2022. Alameda was given these privileges initially because the hedge fund was the primary market maker for FTX's customers in the exchange's early days. The relationship was effectively a two-way street, where the exchange could help out the hedge fund and vice versa as FTX quickly grew between 2019 and 2022. Caroline Ellison, the former girlfriend of Bankman-Fried and CEO of Alameda, is expected to start testifying Tuesday after Wang.

Persons: Sam Bankman, Fried, FTX's, Gary Wang, Wang, “ FTX, ” Wang, FTX, Caroline Ellison Organizations: New, Alameda Research, Prosecutors, Bankman Locations: New York, Bahamas, Alameda

☆ A developer built a 'propaganda machine' using OpenAI tech to highlight the dangers of mass-produced AI disinformation
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementAdvertisementA developer has built an AI "disinformation machine" using OpenAI-powered technology like ChatGPT. They said they wanted to see AI disinformation "work in the real world," adding that "strong language competencies of large language models are perfectly suited to reading and writing fake news articles." The AI bot would then offer different examples of the same article, written in different styles and with different viewpoints. They said it would do this by "creating fake stories, fake historical events, and creating doubt in the accuracy of the original article." i am nervous about the impact AI is going to have on future elections (at least until everyone gets used to it).

Persons: Paw, inputting, — Sam Altman, Sam Altman Organizations: Wired

☆ AI bros are at war over declarations that Google's upcoming Gemini AI model smashes OpenAI's GPT-4
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The researchers behind the SemiAnalysis blog say Google's upcoming AI Gemini smashes GPT-4. That might explain OpenAI boss Sam Altman's defensive response to a post published over the weekend titled : "Google Gemini Eats The World – Gemini Smashes GPT-4 By 5X, The GPU-Poors." Gemini is a next-gen, multimodal AI model being worked on by researchers at Google's AI arm DeepMind, and is expected to be released later in 2023. In response, SemiAnalysis' Patel posted on X that he got data on Google's GPU stores from a supplier of Google — rather than Google itself. But to say Gemini Smashes GPT-4 by 5x makes it sound like it is 5x better than GPT-4, it's not, its 5x compute.

Persons: Sam Altman, Sam Altman's, Dylan Patel, Daniel Nishball, Google's, Patel, OpenAI's, Altman, SemiAnalysis, Sundar Pichai, Sundar, G86ZRjnNmS, dtS0Bw3I92 — Dylan Patel, dethrones OAI, it's, ChatGPT Organizations: Google, Hacker

☆ How teachers and students feel about A.I.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Natasha Singer | More About Natasha Singer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

We recently asked educators, professors, and high school and college students to tell us about their experiences using A.I. — Katy Pearce, associate professor, University of WashingtonBefore they even use ChatGPT, I help students discern what is worth knowing, figuring out how to look it up, and what information or research is worth “outsourcing” to A.I. chatbots are making it a lot easier for students to understand difficult concepts in a simple way. It can provide students with endless examples of how to outline essays, business plans and emails. will have on students in the long run but I just don’t want it to make students lazy, as the joy of learning is that “AHA!” moment that comes from figuring something out yourself.

Persons: I’ve, — Katy Pearce, — Nicole Haddad, — Amedeo Bettauer, Sam Avery, chatbots, — Emma Nazario Organizations: A.I, University of Washington, Southern Methodist University, Brookline High School, University of Iowa, AHA, Wheaton

☆ Wegovy-maker Novo Nordisk raises outlook as sales of its weight-loss drug soar
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Hannah Ward-Glenton | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A selection of injector pens for the Saxenda weight loss drug are shown in this photo illustration in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., March 31, 2023. The company's diabetes and obesity division performed particularly well, bolstered by interest in its blockbuster injection Wegovy. Novo Nordisk , which makes the weight-loss drug Wegovy, raised its outlook for 2023 Thursday, as it reported soaring sales. For 2023, the company now anticipates sales growth of 27%-33% and operating profit growth of 31%-37%, at constant exchange rates. The active ingredient in Wegovy is semaglutide, an FDA-approved drug that works by imitating a naturally-occurring gut hormone that helps to regulate appetite.

Persons: Wegovy, Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen, — Sam Meredith Organizations: Novo Nordisk, FDA Locations: Chicago , Illinois, U.S, Danish

☆ Inside the White-Hot Center of A.I. Doomerism
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Kevin Roose | More About Kevin Roose | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

labs and safety research organizations contain some trace of effective altruism’s influence, and many count believers among their staff members. Some Anthropic staff members use E.A.-inflected jargon — talking about concepts like “x-risk” and memes like the A.I. (Just one example: Ms. Amodei is married to Holden Karnofsky, the co-chief executive of Open Philanthropy, an E.A. Open Philanthropy, in turn, gets most of its funding from Mr. Moskovitz, who also invested personally in Anthropic.) safety was genuine, in part because its leaders had sounded the alarm about the technology for so long.

Persons: E.A.s, Dustin Moskovitz, Jaan, Anthropic, Sam Bankman, Fried, Bankman, Amodei, Shoggoth, Holden Karnofsky, Luke Muehlhauser, Moskovitz Organizations: Facebook, Skype, Open Locations: E.A, Jaan Tallinn, Anthropic

☆ Ignoring the Red Flags for the Thrill
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Gina Cherelus | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

(The show was said to had a sixth episode but ended early amid rumors that viewership was too low.) At the center of “The Idol” are Jocelyn (Lily Rose Depp), a pop star on the brink of self-destruction, and Tedros (Abel Tesfaye, a.k.a. The Weeknd), a creepy club owner/cult leader who has her under his spell. Their abusive relationship blossoms despite multiple red flags. But beneath the show’s cheap shocks lies a question many of us have asked ourselves: Why do we pick people who are bad for us?

Persons: Jocelyn, Lily Rose Depp, Abel Tesfaye, ”, Tedros, Leila, Rachel Sennott, “, ” Jocelyn, — Sam Levinson, Reza Fahim, Tesfaye Organizations: HBO

☆ Let's set the table for the second half by reflecting on this year's hated bull market
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +18 min

You don't get the best first-half Nasdaq rally in 40 years simply because the Federal Reserve did this, or the yield curve in the bond market did that. It was almost as if it was prosaic to seek profits, like, "How dare you defy the teachings of the yield curve, you foolish soon-to-be- broke apostate." It was the second move, the second week of March, that told the second tale of the first half: the fall of Silicon Valley Bank. Here we had an out-of-nowhere collapse of a well-known seemingly well-run bank that ran afoul, again, of the yield curve. No company could rival Club stocks Apple (AAPL), Alphabet (GOOGL), Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft and Meta Platforms (META) — nice metamorphous there and Tesla , not a Club name.

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Here are the meanings of the least-found words that were used in (mostly) recent Times articles. — When Fashion Becomes a Form of Protest (Aug. 17, 2016)2. botnet — a network of hijacked computers used maliciously:The Dutch responded by launching the H.T.C.U. Since then, it has become one of the world’s leading law enforcement forces in fighting cybercrime. And the reading of the Summer Book can fall effortlessly within the world of the three L’s. — The Ezra Klein Show: The Men — and Boys — Are Not All Right (March 10, 2023)And the list of the week’s easiest words:

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But in the process of jogging his memory, things got complicated, and confusing, and messy because her ex didn’t remember anything, including their breakup. He amplified or even brought out for the first time these qualities that you didn’t know you had. He didn’t know he was about to start a graduate program at Central Saint Martins or that he lived in a dilapidated warehouse in Whitechapel with a pet rabbit. tyler wetherallAnd I used the excuse that, often, he didn’t remember our conversations. tyler wetherallHe had asked — Sam had asked a friend of his why I didn’t visit more often.

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☆ Wall Street's official stock market outlook — The latest CNBC Market Strategist Survey
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Michael Bloom | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Where do the sharpest minds on Wall Street believe the market is headed? The CNBC PRO exclusive Market Strategist Survey is a roundup of year-end targets for the S & P 500 from top Wall Street strategists, updated quarterly, or whenever there is a material change to the forecasts. Here are the current 2023 targets from top strategists. Maximum target: 4,575 — Sam Stovall, CFRA Minimum target: 3,725— Venu Krishna, Barclays Average target: 4,147 Median Target: 4,100

☆ Microsoft agrees to buy electricity generated from Sam Altman-backed fusion company Helion in 2028
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Photo courtesy HelionMicrosoft said Wednesday it has signed a power purchase agreement with nuclear fusion startup Helion Energy to buy electricity from it in 2028. "This is the first time that I know of that a company has a power purchase agreement signed," Holland told CNBC. The potential of fusion is "unbelievably huge," Altman told CNBC. As of Tuesday, this is still his largest investment ever, Altman told CNBC. Carbon-free energy includes hydro, nuclear and renewables for Microsoft, a Microsoft spokesperson told CNBC.

☆ Silicon Valley Bank and inflation complicate the Fed’s next move
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Everyday now we've been talking about Silicon Valley Bank — SVB — and I've had to catch myself several times from saying SBF — Sam Bankman-Fried — the guy behind the other big financial collapse in recent months. A) No rate hike at allB) 25 basis pointsC) 50 basis pointsTweet me (@philrosenn) or email me (prosen@insider.com) to let me know. Bank stocks are rising again as nerves calm — though SVB-driven fears are still niggling. Bank of America picked out a batch of financial stocks that offer upside right now amid the chaos. The token soared 15% as the February CPI print fueled more speculation for a smaller rate hike.

☆ It's official — Sam Bankman-Fried will soon be extradited to the US
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Sam Bankman-Fried will be heading to the US after over a rough week in a Bahamas prison, per WSJ and NYT. The former FTX CEO is expected to arrive in New York as soon as Wednesday. A federal court in Manhattan would determine bail, amid criminal charges filed against Bankman-Fried. The New York Times has also reported Sam Bankman-Fried is set to be extradited. The New York federal court overseeing the criminal case is expected to decide on bail when Bankman-Fried first appears in court after his arrival to New York.

☆ How FTX 'death spiral' spelled doom for BlockFi, according to bankruptcy filing
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Rohan Goswami | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The former FTX CEO bailed out and took over crypto firms as cryptocurrency markets withered with Terra's spring crash. Today, BlockFi filed for bankruptcy in New Jersey, after weeks of speculation that the FTX collapse had fatally crippled it. The FTX "death spiral," as BlockFi advisor Mark Renzi put it, has now spread to another crypto entity. According to Renzi, exposure to two successive hedge fund failures, the FTX rescue, and broader market uncertainty all conspired to force BlockFi into bankruptcy. Both firms have already collected millions in fees from BlockFi in preparation work for the bankruptcy, according to court filings.

☆ FTX’s Collapse Upends Sam Bankman-Fried’s Washington Play
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Paul Kiernan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON— Sam Bankman-Fried ’s multimillion-dollar Washington charm offensive revolved around a small financial regulator and a group of senators with whom the purported crypto billionaire found common cause in a bid for light-touch regulation of digital assets. For FTX, the crypto exchange Mr. Bankman-Fried founded, the goal was to steer oversight of crypto into the hands of what was perceived to be a friendlier regulator than the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has been promising a more stringent approach.

☆ Ukraine says Russian missile strike on hospital killed newborn; Zelenskyy promises winter shelters
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Sam Meredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his overnight address that winter shelters with basic services including heat, water and a first-aid kit would be freely available to citizens across the country. He said these "invincibility" centers would be necessary to support people in the event of further Russian attacks on the country's energy system. More than 4,000 centers have been prepared so far, Zelenskyy said. "I am sure [that] by helping each other, we will all be able to get through this winter together," he added. — Sam Meredith

NASSAU, Bahamas— Sam Bankman -Fried’s $32 billion crypto-trading empire collapsed in an incandescent bankruptcy last week, prompting irate customers, crypto acolytes and Silicon Valley bigwigs to ask how something that seemed so promising could have imploded so fast. The emerging picture suggests FTX wasn’t simply felled by a rival, or undone by a bad trade or the relentless fall this year in the value of cryptocurrencies. Instead, it had long been a chaotic mess. No one could say exactly what belonged to whom. Prosecutors are now investigating its collapse.

☆ Crypto is a 'significantly non-compliant' market and investors need better protections as FTX faces collapse, SEC chief Gary Gensler says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Carla Mozée | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

There must be stronger protections in place for investors in the crypto market, SEC Chair Gary Gensler said Thursday on CNBC. He appeared as crypto exchange FTX was on the verge of collapse in facing a potential shortfall of up to $8 billion. The crypto industry is "significantly non-compliant," but regulations "are often very clear," said Gensler. He appeared as contagion fears have been running high in the cryptocurrency market as investors watched FTX — the third-largest crypto exchange — veer toward collapse. And if we need, going to be the cop on the beat, going into court, putting the facts and the law in front of judges."

☆ Uriașă operațiune de salvare, după ce un bloc de 12 etaje de lângă Miami Beach s-a prăbușit parțial în timpul nopții
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-24 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +1 min

Sursa foto: Twitter Miami Beach PoliceUriașă operațiune de salvare, după ce un bloc de 12 etaje de lângă Miami Beach s-a prăbușit parțial în timpul nopțiiO clădire cu 12 etaje de lângă Miami Beach s-a prăbușit parțial în timpul nopții. O uriașă operațiune de salvare este în desfășurare pentru salvarea persoanelor prinse sub dărâmături. Imaginile surprinse la locul tragediei, în Surfside, la nord de Miami Beach, arată o grămadă uriașă de moloz după prăbușirea unei părți însemnate a clădirii, scrie BBC. Technical Rescue Teams and units from @MiamiDadeFire going balcony-to-balcony of collapsed condo building in #Surfside just north of Miami Beach. Un reporter al Associated Press a scris pe Twitter că are informații că o femeie a murit și că un băiat în vârstă de 10 ani a fost salvat.

Persons: June, Sam Brock Organizations: Miami Beach Police, Miami Beach, BBC, Miami, Technical, ABC News, Associated Press Locations: Miami, Our

☆ Un restaurant din Texas a instituit taxe inedite pentru clienți: „75 de dolari dacă trebuie să vă ascultăm de ce nu doriți să purtați mască”
▼ + stars: | 2021-03-28 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +2 min

Un restaurant din Texas a instituit taxe inedite pentru clienți: „75 de dolari dacă trebuie să vă ascultăm de ce nu doriți să purtați mască”La începutul lunii martie, pe fondul scăderii cazurilor de infectare și a vaccinării masive, guvernatorul din Texas, Greg Abbott, a dispus anularea obligativității de a purta mască pe teritoriul statului din sudul Statelor Unite și de a permite afacerilor să se deruleze la capacitate maximă. Ne-am simțit onorați și privilegiați când două cupluri ne-au spus că e prima dată când mănâncă într-un restaurant de la începutul pandemiei”, a spus LaCombe pentru CNN. Președintele SUA, Joe Biden, a criticat în termeni duri deciziile statelor de a relaxa abrupt regulile de protecție. Suntem pe punctul de a putea schimba fundamental natura acestei boli datorită modului în care suntem capabili să dezvoltăm vaccinuri. Ultimul lucru de care avem nevoie este gândirea neanderthaliană că, între timp, totul este în regulă”, a declarat președintele american.

Persons: Greg Abbott, Texanii, Sam, Președintele, Joe Biden Organizations: Facebook, CNN, Președintele SUA Locations: Texas, Statelor Unite, Denton, american

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