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☆ The 4-day workweek may not be the answer to workplace productivity and flexibility, Davos panelists say
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, included a panel on the four-day workweek. "We have had a static, for many countries, five-day week for about a century," Grant said Thursday at his panel discussion called "The Four-Day Week." While a four-day workweek seems like an obvious answer, there are some key factors to consider before making the change, they agreed. The four-day week "is very much a discussion for the upper class," van Gennip said. Flexibility through reorganizationWhether it be a four-day workweek or another method of schedule restructuring, a focus on both flexibility and productivity also benefits companies, van 't Noordende said.

☆ NHL roundup: Connor McDavid leads streaking Oilers past Kraken
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

[1/4] Jan 17, 2023; Edmonton, Alberta, CAN; Edmonton Oilers forward Connor McDavid (97) carries the puck up ice during the first period against the Seattle Kraken at Rogers Place. Mandatory Credit: Perry Nelson-USA TODAY SportsJanuary 18 - Connor McDavid scored his NHL-leading 38th goal of the season as the Edmonton Oilers defeated the visiting Seattle Kraken 5-2 on Tuesday night. Derek Ryan, Warren Foegele, Ryan McLeod and Zach Hyman also tallied for the Oilers, who extended their winning streak to four games. Kyle Connor scored for the Jets, who had a three-game win streak come to an end. Carter Verhaeghe, Anton Lundell and Josh Mahura also scored goals for Florida.

☆ 11 podcasts that busy venture capitalists and founders say they trust right now
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

Investors at JetBlue Ventures, Mighty Capital, and other VC firms shared their favorite podcasts. Another recommendation is "Origins" by partners at the biotech VC firm Notation Capital. Here are 11 great options, recommended by VCs, founders, CEOs, and other industry insiders. "The main thing about the VC world is building relationships, and Harry is an example of a great networker," Gershfeld said. "BTC is the single-most important asset in the world, and that podcast gets to the heart of why that is."

☆ I performed magic tricks for Elon Musk at a PayPal reunion party. Here's what went down.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Chan performed tricks for PayPal's 20th IPO anniversary last year, with Elon Musk also attending. Two decades later, I had the opportunity of a lifetime to perform magic tricks for my old company at PayPal's 20th IPO anniversary party in August. The invitation said it would be a "tricked-out PayPal reunion party" and I was very excited in the build-up. Daniel ChanMost of the PayPal founders, known as the "PayPal Mafia," were there, including Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, and Max Levchin. I fooled Elon Musk.

☆ Consider Microsoft's investment in OpenAI an M&A deal, says Semafor's Liz Hoffman
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

In this videoShare Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailConsider Microsoft's investment in OpenAI an M&A deal, says Semafor's Liz HoffmanSemafor's Liz Hoffman joins CNBC's 'Squawk Box' to discuss Microsoft's decision to put $10 billion into ChatGPT owner OpenAI and more.

☆ How big a threat is ChatGPT to Google? Morgan Stanley breaks it down
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

But the latest artificial intelligence trend taking the industry by storm could spell trouble for Google-parent Alphabet 's profitability near term, according to Morgan Stanley. This emerging threat, known as ChatGPT, went viral when it debuted in November, amassing a million users within days of its launch. Nowak estimates that every 10% of Google searches that shift to artificial intelligence, or natural language queries, could increase costs by $6 billion in 2025 for the tech company. To be sure, Google could overcome the challenges posited by ChatGPT and surprise analysts by creating a more efficient tool. "This, to us, speaks to GOOGL's challenge and the profit disruption threat as it looks to continue to innovate/lead while also protecting/delivering FCF for investors through a weakening macro environment with slowing ad growth," Nowak wrote.

☆ Microsoft is reportedly in talks to pump in $10 billion into OpenAI — the owner of ChatGPT — valuing the company at $29 billion
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft is in talks to invest about $10 billion into OpenAI, the startup behind the ChatGPT chatbot, per Semafor. The investment would value OpenAI at $29 billion. Microsoft already invested $1 billion into OpenAI in 2019. The investment would value OpenAI at about $29 billion, Semafor's Liz Hoffman and Reed Albergotti reported. The Wall Street Journal reported last Thursday that OpenAI was in talks to sell existing shares of the company in a tender offer that would value the firm at $29 billion.

☆ Packers' Walker apologises for shoving Lions' medical staffer
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Jan 8, 2023; Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA; Green Bay Packers linebacker Quay Walker (7) heads to the sideline after being disqualified for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty during the fourth quarter at Lambeau Field. Mandatory Credit: Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via USA TODAY NETWORKJan 9 (Reuters) - Green Bay Packers rookie linebacker Quay Walker apologised on Monday after shoving a member of the Detroit Lions' medical staff, which led to his second ejection from an NFL game this season for unsportsmanlike conduct. Since then I've questioned myself on why did I do what I did when the trainer was doing his job!! "To the Detroit lions and to the entire training staff including the person I did that too. Walker was selected by the Packers in the first round of the 2022 NFL Draft and led the team in tackles this season.

☆ In a leaked memo, CEO of electric vehicle leasing startup Autonomy warns the company is in dire financial condition but says he will do whatever it takes to save the business
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Ben Bergman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But the market changed at the end of the year as Autonomy suddenly faced a perfect storm. CEO Scott Painter says he will do whatever it takes to save the business, including selling his own assets. It was not the New Years greeting employees of Autonomy, a Santa Monica-based startup offering electric vehicle subscriptions, were hoping to receive in their inboxes. Autonomy announced in August it was moving away from selling Teslas exclusively. Painter said the company would prioritize making payroll and keeping the business operational and added he would do whatever it takes to keep Autonomy operational.

☆ NHL roundup: Blues' Jordan Kyrou nets first hat trick
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Jordan Binnington made 33 saves for the Blues, who have won the first three outings of a five-game road trip. It was the second consecutive game, and fifth on home ice this season, that the Canucks lost 5-1. Nic Dowd scored goals 11 seconds apart in the second period and had an assist on Orlov's game-winner. He remains at 800 career goals, one behind Red Wings legend Gordie Howe for second place on the all-time list. Jeff Skinner and Lawrence Pilut also scored goals for the Sabres, who won their fourth straight game and completed a sweep of a three-game Western road trip.

☆ The Year in Pictures 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( The New York Times | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +57 min

Every year, starting in early fall, photo editors at The New York Times begin sifting through the year’s work in an effort to pick out the most startling, most moving, most memorable pictures. But 2022 undoubtedly belongs to the war in Ukraine, a conflict now settling into a worryingly predictable rhythm. Erin Schaff/The New York Times “When you’re standing on the ground, you can’t visualize the scope of the destruction. Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 25. We see the same images over and over, and it’s really hard to make anything different.” Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 26.

Since the early days of the invasion, Mr. Putin has conceded, privately, that the war has not gone as planned. “I think he is sincerely willing” to compromise with Russia, Mr. Putin said of Mr. Zelensky in 2019. To join in Mr. Putin’s war, he has recruited prisoners, trashed the Russian military and competed with it for weapons. To join in Mr. Putin’s war, he has recruited prisoners, trashed the Russian military and competed with it for weapons. “I think this war is Putin’s grave.” Yevgeny Nuzhin, 55, a Russian prisoner of war held by Ukraine, in October.

☆ Astronauts explain why nobody has visited the moon in 50 years — and the reasons are depressing
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Dave Mosher | Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

The last time a person visited the moon was in December 1972, during NASA's Apollo 17 mission. But those stays during the Apollo program didn't establish a lasting human presence on the moon. Researchers and entrepreneurs have long pushed for the creation of a crewed base on the moon — a lunar space station. But many astronauts and other experts suggest the biggest impediments to making new crewed moon missions a reality are banal and somewhat depressing. During NASA's Apollo program, 12 people landed on the moon.

☆ Morgan Stanley weighs in on the ChatGPT obession and the risk to Google's search business
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Google and search go together like Kleenex and tissues, Band-Aid and bandages and Crock-Pots and slow cookers. In other words, Google's brand is so connected to search that people talk about googling for information they need, even if they use an alternative search engine. ChatGPT may pose an emerging threat to the artificial intelligence industry, but Google's sheer scale, size, and dominance in the search business positions it well for battle, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Brian Nowak. In the long run, however, don't be surprised if ChatGPT, or other AI competitiors, impact consumer behavior patterns around travel search, he added. "While we believe the near-term risk is limited – we believe the use case of search (and paid search) is different than AI-driven content creation – we are not dismissive of threats from new, unique consumer offerings," Nowak wrote.

☆ Why tech insiders are so excited about ChatGPT, a chatbot that answers questions and writes essays
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Lately, Zwingmann has been generating lecture notes using ChatGPT, a new chatbot that's quickly become the latest fad in tech. ChatGPT automatically generates text based on written prompts in a fashion that's much more advanced and creative than the chatbots of Silicon Valley's past. Five days after OpenAI released ChatGPT, Altman said that the chat research tool "crossed 1 million users!" ChatGPT is essentially a variant of OpenAI's popular GPT-3.5 language-generation software that's been designed to carry conversations with people. While ChatGPT is free, OpenAI sells access to its underlying language and related AI models for businesses to use.

☆ Yale sued over 'systemic discrimination' against students with mental health disabilities
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

Yale University is being sued over what students say is "systemic discrimination" against students with mental health disabilities. The officials never discussed alternate accommodations with her that would have allowed her to stay at Yale while she sought mental health treatment, the lawsuit says. The advocacy group, which is led by Yale alumni and current students, fights for better mental health accommodations at the school. Its policies are harshest "on students with mental health disabilities from less privileged backgrounds, including students of color, students from poor families or rural areas, and international students," it says. "The need for student mental health and wellness support continues to increase, and Yale remains committed to responding to this need," Peter Salovey said.

☆ How an intellectual approach and a whimsical mascot helped lead to this fund's number one ranking
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Carmen Reinicke | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

"We are sort of a little low-key like a fox," said Hoffman, adding that the animals are also excellent hunters. "In down markets we really prove the benefit of the kind of slow, steady, conceptual and intellectual approach that we take," said Hoffman. Fund history and strategy Marshfield Associates is a Washington D.C.-based firm founded in 1989 by Niemczewski, who's now joined by Hoffman and another principal, Chad Goldberg. While Morningstar classifies the fund in the growth category, Marshfield regards itself as value-oriented with a stress on company quality. "I think what you're seeing this year is the outcome of what happens when you have an investor like us, that is very different from the market," Hoffman said.

☆ In Arizona, election deniers refuse to back down
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Ned Parker | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

FILE PHOTO: Supporters of Republican candidate for Arizona Governor Kari Lake and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters protest outside the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center as vote counting continues inside, in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., November 12, 2022. The defeat of Lake and other election deniers was seen as a powerful rebuke of candidates who echoed Trump’s myths of a stolen election. Republican activists urged voters not to use the secure box on Election Day, according to Maricopa County officials. Maricopa County on Sunday released a report detailing voter numbers by location on Election Day and was scheduled to certify election results on Monday. DELAYS IN CERTIFICATIONElsewhere in Arizona, two conservative counties, Mohave and Cochise, do not plan to certify election results until Monday, the final day to formally do so, following pressure by election deniers.

Image Residents of a village near Kherson on Monday help exhume the bodies of six people that showed signs of execution. Credit... Finbarr O'Reilly for The New York TimesImage The remains of six people, including ropes that indicated they had been tied up. Credit... Finbarr O'Reilly for The New York Times Image Police mark a body bag as war crimes investigators exhume several bodies on Monday. Every day the whomp of artillery fired from Russian forces now positioned miles away across the Dnipro River shakes the city. Image Workers exhume bodies from a communal grave in the southern Ukrainian village of Pravdyne.

☆ World Cup 2022 - Germany 1-2 Japan: Late Ritsu Doan and Takuma Asano goals earn shock victory
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Charlotte Marsh | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

Japan celebrates during a FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group E match against Germany at Khalifa International Stadium on Nov. 23, 2022 in Doha, Qatar. Marc Atkins | Getty Images Sport | Getty ImagesEach Japan goal was greeted with a team bundle at the corner flag, and there were joyous celebrations at full-time. For Germany, their poor World Cup form continues, having finished bottom of their group at the 2018 tournament. After having two earlier efforts blocked, Gundogan stepped up and expertly dispatched his spot-kick to see the four-time World Cup winners in front. We made mistakes that we should never commit especially in a World Cup and those are the things that we need to improve on."

☆ Sam Bankman-Fried was reported to own a $100 million stake in Elon Musk's Twitter. Musk says that's a lie.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-23 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk said neither he nor Twitter have ever taken an investment from Sam Bankman-Fried or FTX. Semafor had earlier reported that Sam Bankman-Fried had a stake in the newly private Twitter. Semafor reported that Musk's text in May followed a message from Bankman-Fried in which he expressed his support for Musk's plans for Twitter and said he wouldn't be able to invest new money in Twitter. Meanwhile, the Financial Times reported that an FTX balance sheet dated November 10 listed Twitter shares as an "illiquid" asset. Musk also has pointed out that Bankman-Fried was an investor in Semafor, the media outlet that reported that Bankman-Fried had a stake in Twitter.

Lee County suffered none of the state’s 123 Irma deaths. That experience influenced many people’s decisions not to flee Hurricane Ian. “Hurricane Ian is going to be the strongest outreach messaging for southwest Florida ever,” said Gleason, the Charlotte County spokesman. “When you live through it, then that message sinks in deep and forever.”A view of the Matanzas Pass side of Estero Island, home to Fort Myers Beach, Fla. Fort Myers Beach is expected to take years to rebuild. Thomas Simonetti for NBC NewsMichael Yost's two closest friends in Fort Myers Beach drowned in Hurricane Ian.

More than 15 years of Israeli blockade has not quite killed off beekeeping in Gaza. But beekeepers say climate change just might. "This year was the worst for beekeepers in Gaza," said Waleed Abu Daqqa, who tends hives in the eastern section of the Palestinian coastal enclave. And now, the "prime factor" causing a bee crisis is climate change caused by global warming, Baysouni said. Bees and other pollinators are vital to agriculture and wildlife around the world, and the impact of climate change is a global problem.

☆ Pepsi once offered a fighter jet as a joke prize in a promotion. A student tried to claim it anyway.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Pepsi launched a "points" promotion in 1996 that included a "joke" prize of a $23M fighter jet. College student John Leonard took this challenge seriously, and launched a plan to nab the prize. Pepsi launched a rewards scheme called Pepsi Points, with customers able to redeem items using points accrued from buying its drinks. The company released a TV commercial for the promotion that ended with the claim that 7 million points would allow a Harrier fighter jet worth about $23 million to be redeemed. However, he saw a loophole: buy Pepsi Points for 10 cents each, meaning the seven million points needed for the jet would cost $700,000.

[1/2] Darrell Brooks, charged with killing five people and injuring nearly 50 after plowing through a Christmas parade with his sport utility vehicle on November 21, appears in Waukesha County Court in Waukesha, Wisconsin, U.S. November 23, 2021. Mark Hoffman/Pool via REUTERS/File PhotoNov 15 (Reuters) - Grieving relatives of those injured and killed when a man drove through a Christmas parade near Milwaukee last year will have a chance to confront the driver during a two-day sentencing hearing beginning on Tuesday. The driver, Darrell Brooks, 40, faces life in prison after a circuit court jury in Waukesha, Wisconsin, found him guilty on Oct. 26 of 76 criminal charges, including six counts of intentional homicide. On numerous occasions during the proceedings, Dorow admonished Brooks for failing to follow court rules and arguing with her. She removed Brooks from the courtroom several times, sending him to another room where he watched the proceedings.

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