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☆ Russia could give China submarine tech that would cut into US undersea dominance, US admiral says
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-25 | by ( Thibault Spirlet | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementRussia could hand China technology that would cut into US undersea dominance, a US admiral said. At a security forum, he said exchanges among Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China have intensified. Adm. Samuel Paparo, the US Navy's top commander in the Indo-Pacific, said that Russia will likely give submarine technology to China that would undercut the US' undersea dominance. According to Paparo, Russia is not only exchanging military capability and technology with China but also with North Korea and Iran. In return, according to Paparo, Russia would likely provide missile and submarine technology to the North Korean state.

Persons: Adm, Samuel Paparo, Paparo, Kurt Campbell, Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin Organizations: Halifax Security Forum, US Navy, North Locations: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Halifax, People's Republic of China, Taiwan, South China, Philippines, Japan, South Korea, Paparo, Korea, Ukraine, Korean, Russian, Pyongyang, Moscow

☆ Army and its ‘fanatical’ coach aim for perfection. But is that enough?
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-21 | by ( Brian Hamilton | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +22 min

The Army is doing what it can to make it easier for its football team and the man in charge. As he watched his very first practice as athletic director, Buddie saw his football coach picking up errant wrappers on the field. The Army football team wakes up before sunrise and leaves the practice field after dark, unbeaten and almost too busy to notice anyone noticing. Army coach Jeff Monken, 57, is the second-winningest coach in program history. And Jeff Monken is still the Army football coach.

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☆ Almaty, Kazakhstan: How a drab Soviet metropolis became Central Asia’s capital of cool
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-08 | by ( Joe Yogerst | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Almaty, Kazakhstan CNN —Several cities around the globe have reinvented themselves in recent years, but none more successfully than Almaty. Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan’s largest city (population 2.2 million and growing) has evolved from a drab, run-of-the-mill Soviet metropolis into the urban star of Central Asia. “It’s an incredibly livable city,” says long-time American resident Dennis Keen, a historic preservation advocate and founder of Walking Almaty. Over and underground artThe Abilkhan Kasteev State Art Museum is filled with more than 20,000 works of art. Other good collections include the Ihlas Museum of Folk Musical Instruments (in a Russian-style wooden mansion built in 1908) and the ethnographic artifacts of the Almaty Museum.

Persons: It’s, “, ”, Dennis Keen, ” Keen, “ It’s, Jama Nurkalieva, Charles O, Cecil, Alamy, Auyl, James Talalay, Lukas Bischoff, Keen, Roshcha Organizations: Kazakhstan CNN, Walking, Central, Cathedral, Astana, Tselinny Center of Contemporary, Dynamo, Prix Versailles, Park, Art, Louvre, Art Museum, Ihlas Museum, Folk, Almaty Museum, Eiffel, of Contemporary, Academy of Science, Turkish Airlines, Air Astana, Ritz, Carlton Locations: Almaty, Kazakhstan, USSR, Kazakhstan’s, Central Asia, Walking Almaty, “, Central Asian, China, Europe, Russian, Soviet Union, Shan, Lower Kolsai Lake, There’s, Soviet, Zholy, Almaty Metro, Almaly, Auezov, Istanbul, Beijing, Seoul , New Delhi, Bangkok, Arasan, Otrar, Lanzhou, Novotel, Darejani, Ascension

☆ Micro-trends are taking over social media, and keeping up can be really expensive
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Fast-moving fashion micro-trends on social media can drive impulsive spending. A novel aesthetic or "-core" circulates on social media every few weeks, prompting consumers to buy in. 'The perfect profitability storm'Fast fashion, social media, and retailers like Shein have together created "the perfect profitability storm for the businesses and influencers using them," said Anthony Miyazaki, a marketing professor at Florida International University. Along with social media algorithms, micro-trends are being fueled by the cycle of doom spending: buying unnecessary stuff to feel better. "While it's easy to get caught up in what others are doing, it's important to remember that not everything is as it seems on social media," she said.

Persons: —, it's, Anthony Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Instagram, Tubefilter, Shein, Elysia Berman, Berman, TransUnion, Dan Pallesen, Pallesen, Bill Ryze, Ryze, Julie Guntrip, influencers, Guntrip, Baeckström Organizations: Service, King's Business School, Florida International University, Federal Reserve, Jenius Bank Locations: London

☆ A recent big tech plan for carbon removal is at the center of a major climate change emissions debate
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Trevor Laurence Jockims | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

"Nature-based carbon removals, such as soil carbon sequestration, store carbon temporarily in living biomass," said Dr. Allanah Paul, a CO2 removal and carbon accounting expert based in Europe. Nature-based carbon removal does have advantages. The rise of negative emissionsOther climate experts view the criticisms of nature-based carbon removal as missing the central point. "As an emitter, every company should focus on reducing their emissions, but as a purchaser looking to offset residual emissions, they should prioritize purchases of robust negative emissions," he stated. "My understanding is that Symbiosis intends to create a demand for high-quality nature-based carbon removal by setting very high standards for removal quality," Leslie-Bole said.

Persons: Paul, Allanah Paul, Strong, Julia Strong, Salesforce, Paul Davies, Haley Leslie, Bole, Leslie Organizations: Symbiosis, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Symbiosis Coalition, Coalition, Council, US, World Resources Institute Locations: Europe, Symbiosis, The State

☆ Elon Musk says Neuralink could help humans compete with AI: 'Let's give people superpowers'
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewElon Musk says his Neuralink brain implants will be the best way for humans to both integrate and compete with advanced AI systems in the future. Musk said the company embedded a Neuralink chip into the brain of its first patient in January 2024. AdvertisementMusk has billed Neuralink as a technology that, in the future, could facilitate "symbiosis" between humans and artificial intelligence. Musk himself has criticized OpenAI, the world's leading AI company, which he helped found, for being too aggressive and not adequately considering the importance of safety. Musk compared vision enhancements with Neuralink to the visor worn by the character Geordi La Forge from Star Trek.

Persons: —, Elon Musk, Musk, Lex Friedman, Weeks, Friedman, OpenAI, Forge, Neuralink Organizations: Service, Business, Star Trek Locations: Forge

☆ How Carlos Alcaraz won the French Open by beating his biggest opponent: His body
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Matthew Futterman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +11 min

More specifically, it’s Alcaraz’s body, but also his mind — to the extent that it so often dictates how his body feels. AdvertisementAlcaraz, the 21-year-old Spanish star who makes tennis fans gasp like no one else can, beat Alexander Zverev of Germany on Sunday to win his first French Open title. Alcaraz’s first French Open is a triumph of perseverance (Frey / TPN via Getty Images)A year ago, it was anything but inevitable. GO DEEPER Game, Set, Match: Carlos Alcaraz beats Alexander Zverev to win first French OpenThe weeks before the French Open had been filled with doubts. Alcaraz at the 2021 ATP Next Gen finals, which he won, beating Sebastian Korda in the final.

Persons: there’s, Carlos Alcaraz’s, Carlos Alcaraz, Alexander Zverev of, Philippe, Chatrier, Alcaraz’s, Frey, TPN, physiotherapists, ”, Alexander Zverev, Alcaraz, That’s, Sebastian Korda, Julian Finney, Indian Wells, Novak Djokovic, Djokovic’s relentlessness, Djokovic, Sinner, Andrey Rublev, Jan, Lennard Struff, J.J, Wolf, “ I’m, “ It’s, Clive Brunskill, He’d, “, Zverev, Alain Jocard, cramp, We’re, ” Zverev, hadn’t, Roland Garros, Tim Goode, Antonio Borga, Dan Goldfarb Organizations: PARIS, Mousquetaires, Getty, U.S, ATP, Miami Open, Wimbledon, Getty Images, Australian, Rio, The Athletic Locations: Italian, Alexander Zverev of Germany, South America, Indian, Paris, Monte Carlo, Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, AFP, Eurasia

☆ Opinion | Senators Need to Stop the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

An unfortunate symbiosis has developed between pro-Israel culture warriors like Republican Representative Elise Stefanik and the most self-indulgent fringe of pro-Palestinian campus protesters. Together they are, wittingly or unwittingly, shifting attention from the urgent emergency in Gaza, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to defy the United States and invade the southern city of Rafah, to the much smaller problem of campus antisemitism. The United States has none.” Within the movement, I imagine such rhetoric functions as a sign of total commitment, a no-going-back rejection of hollow liberal pieties. Since 2016, pro-Israel politicians have pushed versions of a bill called the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act, which would codify, for the purpose of enforcing federal civil rights law in higher education, a definition of antisemitism that includes rejection of Israel as a Jewish state. In the past, civil libertarians were able to head such legislation off, but that’s become harder in the current fevered climate.

Persons: Elise Stefanik, Benjamin Netanyahu, “, ”, Panther, Kwame Ture, Stokely Carmichael, Israel, that’s Organizations: Palestinian, Columbia, National Lawyers Guild, United, Senate, Semitism Locations: Israel, Gaza, United States, Rafah, stoke

☆ Neuralink patient said he asked about reports of botched brain-chip surgeries on monkeys
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewNeuralink's first patient, Noland Arbaugh, said he did his research before he decided to get the brain implant, including looking into the reports of animal testing gone awry. AdvertisementBefore Elon Musk's company Neuralink began human testing, the company shared demos of monkeys and pig test subjects using the implant. "No monkey has died as a result of a Neuralink implant," Musk wrote on X in September. "It's hard to describe something in your brain," Arbaugh said. Neuralink began recruiting for human trials last year and unveiled its first human patient earlier this month.

Persons: —, Noland Arbaugh, Arbaugh, Neuralink, Elon, UC Davis, Musk Organizations: Service, Business, UC, Reuters, US Department of Agriculture, Wired

☆ Elon Musk claims the first human patient has received a Neuralink brain implant
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk claimed on X that Neuralink's first human patient received their brain implant. AdvertisementElon Musk on Monday claimed in a post on X that a Neuralink brain implant has, for the first time, been inserted into a human patient's brain. "The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well," Musk wrote. AdvertisementMusk previously said the Neuralink device would record and stimulate brain activity, acting as a "Fitbit in your skull," and claimed the implant would eventually "solve" conditions including autism and schizophrenia . "However, any for-profit medical device company also has a vested interest in generating a consumer base, which is why they make the sometimes grandiose claims they do."

Persons: Elon Musk, Musk, —, Elon, Stephen Hawking, Hilary Brueck, Neuralink, Tesla, Lou Gehrig's, Insider's Brueck, Randy Bruno, Bruno, that's, Jason T, Eberl, Albert Gnaegi, Healthline Organizations: Service, Business, SpaceX, FDA, Reuters, Columbia University, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health, Saint Louis University

☆ Thousands of people are reportedly lining up to have a portion of their skull removed and one of Elon Musk's brain chips implanted
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk's startup received FDA approval to start human trials earlier this year. The brain chip startup aims to implant a device that acts as a "Fitbit in your skull." NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. AdvertisementAdvertisementThousands of people have expressed interest in receiving one of Neuralink's brain implants, according to a recent Bloomberg report from one of Elon Musk's biographers, Ashlee Vance. "They are currently kicking our ass," Musk said after Synchron implanted its first device in a US patient in July 2022.

Persons: —, Elon Musk's, Ashlee Vance, Neuralink, Musk, Vance, Elon, Musk's, Synchron, That's, SpaceX's Organizations: Bloomberg, Elon Musk's, Service, US Food and Drug Administration, FDA, Reuters, SpaceX, YouTube Locations: Australia

☆ Humans could become 'part AI' to keep up with superintelligent machines, OpenAI's chief scientist says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But he told MIT Technology Review that he wasn't sure whether he would choose to become "part AI." Elon Musk has said Neuralink will help people merge with AI — but it is unclear if it's possible. AdvertisementAdvertisementOpenAI's chief scientist has said that people may choose to become "part AI" in the future to compete with superintelligent machines. AdvertisementAdvertisementSutskever is currently working on OpenAI's "superalignment" project , which aims to build fail-safes that will prevent superintelligent AI from going rogue. Despite this, Sutskever told MIT Tech Review that he was unsure whether he would ever choose to merge with AI, should it become possible.

Persons: Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, —, he's, –, Sutskever, OpenAI Organizations: MIT Technology, Service, MIT Tech Review Locations: —

☆ Jazz’s Hancock Competition Returns, Crowning an Electrifying Rising Star
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Giovanni Russonello | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Jazz’s future — actually, its present — looks brighter than it has in at least 50 years. In April 2022, Jon Batiste cleaned up at the Grammys, becoming the first jazz musician below retirement age in decades to win album of the year. Young improvisers like him seem less intimidated than ever by jazz’s gloried history, and are dumping their energies into fusions and multimedia projects. For much of Saturday afternoon, when 11 pianists under 30 competed in the semifinals, there was cause to wonder. At one point I started to wonder if there was a rule against bringing in your own original tunes.

Persons: —, Jon Batiste, Young improvisers, jazz’s, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk, George Gershwin, Carl Allen Organizations: Hancock

☆ Elon Musk's Neuralink is now recruiting people with serious disabilities like ALS to test if his brain chips are safe
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's Neuralink is seeking candidates for its first human trials. Neuralink wants to test their brain chips on people with cervical spinal cord injuries or ALS. The company is under federal investigation for animal welfare abuses while conducting animal tests. At a company event last year, Musk said he would test Neuralink's brain chips on himself when human trials begin. AdvertisementAdvertisementNeuralink received approval from the Food and Drug Administration in May to embark on human trials.

Persons: Elon Musk's Neuralink, Neuralink, Musk, — Organizations: Service, Food and Drug Administration, Reuters Locations: Wall, Silicon

Shivon Zilis was pictured alongside Elon Musk and their twins for the first time on Wednesday. Insider first reported that Musk quietly fathered twins with Zilis, a director at Neuralink, in 2021. AdvertisementAdvertisementGrimes, whose legal name is Claire Boucher, said on X that communication about Zilis' twins "wasn't handled super well." Last week, in a since-deleted post on X Grimes accused Zilis of blocking her on social media. The Neuralink director has also taken to posting about her children in recent months.

Persons: Shivon Zilis, Elon Musk, Musk, Zilis, Elon Musk's, Walter Isaacson, —, Isaacson, Musk wasn't, Justine, Grimes, He's, he's, Tesla, Justin Sullivan, Ray Kurzweil, I've, Sam Altman, OpenAI's, Jonathan Raa, Neuralink, Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, ck Elon Musk, Gonzalez, Austin Zilis, Claire Boucher, wasn't, Musk's, X Grimes, Tau, ftw Organizations: Service, Yale University, Yale, IBM, Bloomberg Beta, Forbes, Canadian, Conference, Neuralink, Getty, Food and Drug Administration, California, Twitter, SpaceX Locations: Zilis, Wall, Silicon, Austin, Ontario, Canada, Markham , Ontario, California, Texas, Boca Chica, South Texas

☆ 'Potential minefield': Value investor Guy Spier talks U.S. bank risks, reveals his top stock to own
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Ganesh Rao | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Renowned value investor Guy Spier has said U.S. regional banks are a "potential minefield" in the current market environment. Moody's left the larger banks' ratings unchanged. Consolidation risks Spier explained that his view stems from the fact that the U.S. banking system remains highly fragmented, with around 12,000 banks nationwide. While not a "massive advantage," Spier believes larger money center banks like Bank of America have a slight edge in profitability over regional banks. Technology threat Aside from the risks highlighted by Moody's, Spier suggested that technology and innovation also pose major threats to regional banks.

Persons: Guy Spier, Spier, Warren Buffett, CNBC's, Moody's, he's Organizations: Bank of America, Spier . Technology, of America, Federal Reserve, U.S, JPMorgan, Citi, Asset Relief, CNBC Locations: Spier, U.S, Bank

☆ Energy minister says he is confident Ukraine will keep lights on this winter
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

July 29 (Reuters) - Ukraine's energy minister, reflecting on Saturday on what he has portrayed as the largest repairs campaign to a power system in modern history, expressed confidence the country could meet its generation needs during the cold months. He said he could not give details now but that the country was adding power in ways it had never done before. Missile and drone attacks on energy infrastructure following Russia's full-scale invasion last year caused sweeping blackouts and water outages for millions of Ukrainians during the winter. Galushchenko said that while the scale of any new Russian attacks were hard to predict, Ukraine would be able to carry out repairs. Reporting by Nick Starkov in Kyiv and Elaine Monaghan in Washington; Writing by Elaine Monaghan; Editing by Alistair BellOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Galushchenko, Nick Starkov, Elaine Monaghan, Alistair Bell Organizations: Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Kyiv, Washington

NEW YORK, June 6 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Sequoia is blazing another new trail in venture capital. As one of Silicon Valley’s pioneers, Sequoia Capital has backed everything from Apple (AAPL.O) to Zoom Video Communications (ZM.O) over the past half-century, and many others in between, including Instagram, 23andMe (ME.O) and DoorDash (DASH.N). The world has changed, however – and changed yet again – since Sequoia opened its doors. Valentine named Sequoia after a tree that lives thousands of years, signifying a plan to survive and grow through any sort of climate. Follow @thereallsl on TwitterFollow @anshumandaga on TwitterCONTEXT NEWSVenture capital firm Sequoia Capital said on June 6 that it would separate its China, India and Southeast Asia, and U.S. and European arms into three businesses.

Persons: Don Valentine, – Roelof Botha, Neil Shen, Shailendra Singh –, Valentine, Sequoia, ByteDance, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Sharon Lam Organizations: YORK, Reuters, Sequoia Capital, Apple, Video Communications, Investments, HK, Sequoia, Venture, Thomson Locations: China, India, U.S, Sequoia, Southeast Asia, United States, Mumbai, Shanghai

☆ Could these Verto air purification towers tackle India’s pollution problem?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Oscar Holland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Designed by architecture firm Studio Symbiosis, which has offices in India and Germany, the towers contain five air filtration “cubes” stacked inside a geometric shell. Studio Symbiosis said that a construction company in the US has meanwhile ordered around 40 of the towers to tackle dust and fine debris at building sites. Using filters from German firm Mann+Hummel, the Studio Symbiosis architects focused on creating the most efficient shape for the towers, with digital models simulating different wind conditions. “Our core business is architecture — we did not want to get into air purification,” Amit said. Avesh GaurIronically, by using electric fans to suck in air, the towers are contributing — albeit negligibly — to the very emissions they are trying to mitigate.

☆ 10 Things in Tech: Amazon Web Services salaries, Elon Musk returns to Tesla, and a ‘secret’ ChatGPT prompt library
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Diamond Naga Siu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I'm Diamond Naga Siu, and I don't dream of labor (I do occasionally have dreams about writing the newsletter). And hiring managers told my colleague Aki Ito that it's currently incredibly difficult to find and hire enough qualified people. The country that wins the competition over the batteries of the future will not only control the electric vehicle market. Lopez gives us a front-seat look at the landscape of the critical EV battery market. A leaked email revealed that Musk now wants to approve all new hires — including contractors — at Tesla.

☆ ‘Class of ‘09’ Review: Imagining the FBI’s AI Dilemma
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-10 | by ( John Anderson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Brian Tyree Henry Photo: FX NetworksHollywood and its offspring have cozied up to the FBI—often to their mutual satisfaction—since “G-Men” of 1935. Under fire for its catalog of gangster films, Warner Brothers simply flipped the script: James Cagney went from public enemy to federal investigator, J. Edgar Hoover ’s infant agency got the star treatment, and the studio looked righteous while raking it in. Class of ’09 Begins Wednesday, HuluYes, the relationship has had its ups and downs—suspicions, infidelities, trial separations. But there’s always a reunion, with the FBI being portrayed as an agency in which wayward people are an aberration, and the stalwart agents of fiction keep the faith. It may be a problematic symbiosis, but it never seems to totally collapse, not even in “Class of ’09.”

☆ Guest view: Protecting Earth’s underground heroes
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Tokiers Mark Tercek | Mark Tercek | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

This activity seals and traps hidden underground ecosystems and their carbon-capturing capabilities. A recent estimate published by Nature found that more than 70% of the Earth’s known soil biodiversity hotspots are unprotected by current conservation schemes. The first step is to incorporate underground ecosystems into global conservation and climate schemes. We should also begin systematically mapping and monitoring underground biodiversity hotspots across the Earth. Researchers are starting to record, analyse and use soundscapes to identify underground biodiversity hotspots.

☆ The story of Neuralink: Elon Musk's AI brain chip company where he had twins with a top executive
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Isobel Asher Hamilton | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Neuralink is one of Elon Musk's strange and futuristic companies. Neuralink is Musk's neural interface technology company. It's developing a device that would be embedded in a person's brain, where it would record brain activity and potentially stimulate it. Musk also had twins with top Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis, Insider was first to report. While Musk likes to talk up his futuristic vision for the technology, the tech has some potential near-term medical applications.

☆ How an ‘electronic nose’ could help fight wildfires
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Preventing even a fraction of wildfires from developing would have sweeping benefits. Climate change is making wildfires more intense, and the number of extreme wildfire events is projected to increase up to 14% by 2030. Existing early warning systems are based on visual detection of smoke, either through satellite imaging, cameras on the ground or human observers. Placed at the edge of the forest, these gateway sensors transmit the emergency signals to the internet over satellite and 4G. This detection time was phenomenal and showed how much potential the Dryad system has,” he adds.

☆ In leaked memo, Google's controversial, visionary healthcare executive Andy Conrad lays out Verily's challenges and a path toward independence: 'I have drifted away from my true passion.'
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-09 | by ( Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

"Verily is increasingly becoming a more commercial-stage company," Conrad told employees. "I've come to realize that I have drifted away from my true passion — science," Conrad said in the memo. "So at the New Year I want to move away from running the company day to day to concentrate on projects for which I have a deep interest and can contribute in a meaningful way." Insider previously reported that Conrad had taken a step back from day-to-day responsibilities as Gillett had increasingly absorbed more leadership responsibilities. Conrad said the company would search for a new CFO "with a deep healthcare background for the next phase of our growth."

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