Small Business Cybersecurity Lags Your Team’s AI Habit

Small Business Cybersecurity Lags Your Team’s AI Habit

Six in 10 owners now report staff reaching for public chatbots and writing assistants on the job, according to research Nationwide published Tuesday covering small and mid-market companies. Written rules governing that habit exist at just 36% of them. Read that as a marketing problem and not only a security one. Your team is already…

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Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and Robert Kraft: A ‘Free Palestine’ Chant Blew Up Into a Tour Fallout and a $4 Million Standoff

Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and Robert Kraft: A ‘Free Palestine’ Chant Blew Up Into a Tour Fallout and a  Million Standoff

A rapper going off script at a New Jersey stadium turned into one of the messiest tour dramas this year pulling in a Patriots owner, a pop star, and millions in pledged donations. Macklemore got dropped from the rest of Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour after making pro-Palestinian comments at two MetLife Stadium shows. Since then,…

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Patrick Clancy: Lindsay Clancy’s Former Husband Reveals in First Interview Since Mistrial that He Still Speaks to His Dead Children

Patrick Clancy: Lindsay Clancy’s Former Husband Reveals in First Interview Since Mistrial that He Still Speaks to His Dead Children

Lindsay Clancy’s former husband said in an interview clip set to air late Thursday night that he continues to speak to his three dead children “all the time,” asking them to “help” him cope with his grief. “I talk to them,” Patrick Clancy told CBS correspondent Ross Douthat during his first interview since his ex-wife’s…

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AI Regulation Fight Splits the Industry in Two Camps

AI Regulation Fight Splits the Industry in Two Camps

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang speaking Tuesday at Dreamforce, the annual Salesforce customer conference, argued that the industry needs no new laws governing artificial intelligence. Mark Zuckerberg landed on the same side of the argument this week. Both were responding to Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei, who published an essay days earlier calling for the…

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ICHRA Growth Pushes Thatch to a $1 Billion Valuation

ICHRA Growth Pushes Thatch to a  Billion Valuation

Thatch announced $108 million in new funding at a $1 billion valuation on Tuesday, and every dollar came from backers already on the cap table. Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Index Ventures and The General Partnership all wrote again. The company sells employers a way out of the single company-wide health plan, and more than 5,000…

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White House issues explosive response to UN-backed report claiming US committed war crimes against world’s No.1 sponsor of terror, Iran

White House issues explosive response to UN-backed report claiming US committed war crimes against world’s No.1 sponsor of terror, Iran

The White House came out swinging against a United Nations-sponsored investigation that found “reasonable grounds” to conclude the US committed war crimes in Iran and should pay “full reparations to victims.” “The UN Human Rights Council has accomplished nothing for human rights while spouting unserious nonsense for decades,” said White House principal deputy press secretary…

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2,000-year-old intact Jewish ritual bath pulled from the ground in Israel

2,000-year-old intact Jewish ritual bath pulled from the ground in Israel

A 2,000-year-old Jewish ritual bath unearthed in southern Israel has been extracted from the ground whole, offering evidence that a hitherto unknown Second Temple community existed at the site, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Thursday. The 25-ton bath, or mikveh, was discovered in July in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat, located about 25 miles…

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OpenAI Valuation Talks Reach $1.2 Trillion Before IPO

OpenAI Valuation Talks Reach .2 Trillion Before IPO

Large investors have been sounding out OpenAI on a raise priced near $1.2 trillion, the Financial Times reported Tuesday, attributing its account to people close to the discussions. The talks are early, the figure could move, and the company declined to comment. One detail stands out anyway: investors started these conversations, not OpenAI. I know…

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Treasury Yields Hit 5% and Reset Your Cost of Capital

Treasury Yields Hit 5% and Reset Your Cost of Capital

The 10-year Treasury yield reached 5.04% on Tuesday before settling at an even 5.00%, a level the bond market last touched in 2007. Oil did most of the pushing. The global benchmark crude price traded above $109 a barrel, having sat near $86 only two weeks earlier, and traders read that as inflation arriving through…

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