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Gates Foundation gives millions to help persuade ultra-wealthy donors to give more of their billions

GeekWire

Bill and Melinda Gates at the University of Washington in 2017. In October 2020, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave $5 million to the TED Foundation’s Audacious Project to “research and overcome barriers to large scale giving by ultra-high net worth donors.”. In 2017, ultra-wealthy American families donated just 1.2%

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The end of digital transformation and the rise of business model innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, in my 2017 “ State of Digital Transformation ” report, I learned that only 37% of businesses viewed digital transformation as an investment in the fight against market evolution and disruption. That would make generative AI potentially more disruptive than the internet, social media, and the mobile revolution.

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T-Mobile Store Owner Made $25M Illegally Unlocking Cellphones

SecureWorld News

Department of Justice (DOJ) says Argishti Khudaverdyan, 44, was found guilty of 14 federal criminal charges for the scheme he ran from 2014 to 2019 that netted $25 million in criminal proceeds. which was a T-Mobile store, in Los Angeles in January 2017. How was he unlocking these phones?

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Redfin CEO says strength of housing market ‘almost feels eerie’ amid economic and health crisis

GeekWire

Redfin topped Wall Street estimates for the quarter , reporting $214 million in revenue, up 8%, and a net loss per share of $0.08. Redfin is investing in tech-enabled tools that aid the remote homebuying process, such as virtual tours, video appointments with agents, and more to help adjust for social distancing mandates.

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Generative AI: A paradigm shift in enterprise and startup opportunities

CIO Business Intelligence

How we got here The most notable enabling technologies in generative AI are deep learning, embeddings, transfer learning (all of which emerged in the early to mid-2000s), and neural net transformers (invented in 2017). The parameters of the neural net models are adjusted using the examples presented to the model in training.

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Vizio files to go public, has sold over 80 million TVs

The Verge

Later in the filing, Vizio says: While we generate the significant majority of our total net revenue from sales of our Smart TVs and sound bars, our Platform+ net revenue has grown 304.4 Important background on Vizio’s data practices: the company agreed in 2017 to pay the FTC $2.2 percent from $36.4 million in 2018 to $147.2

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Pandemic spells uncertain future for bikes and scooters as mobility services confront new realities

GeekWire

Seattle pioneered dockless bike-share in the United States with its novel 2017 pilot. LimeBike, Spin, and Ofo bikes in Seattle in 2017. billion net loss for the first quarter of 2020 and CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told investors gross bookings in major cities are down as much at 70%. A micro-mobility test lab. permanently.

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