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Oct 02, 2024

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Durk Kingma, one of the lesser-known co-founders of OpenAI, yesterday announced that he’ll be joining Anthropic
In a series of posts on X, Kingma revealed that he’ll be working mostly remotely, from the Netherlands (where he’s based), but didn’t say which Anthropic org he’ll be joining — or leading
Kingma’s hiring is yet another talent coup for Anthropic, which recruited OpenAI’s former safety lead, Jan Leike, in May, and another OpenAI co-founder, John Schulman, in August
GIBBI View: Interesting that most of the AI companies try to recruit as many OpenAI employees as possible to improve their AI companies to try to generate more revenues to “survive”

Homage closed the round with investments from Jason Kelce and Kevin Durant through their respective investment firms Winnie Capital and 35V
Homage is based in Columbus, Ohio, where Jimmy and Dee Haslam own MLS’ Crew, and the brand is also popular with the family’s other sports team properties, the Cleveland Browns and Milwaukee Buck
The company is an official licensed partner of the NFL, NBA, WNBA and MLB, as well as numerous colleges and universities. It also creates clothes inspired by pop culture such as The Sandlot, The Big Lebowski and other classic films and TV shows
GIBBI View: Last sunday I wrote here that Kylian Mbapee has invested in a german electronic firm Loewe, where in this moment athletes are more intelligent that the past and they create their own investment firms to invest and manage their money; I’ve said that in the next 5 to 10 years we’ll see that several athletes will become billionaires

Charles Barkley is launching a new production venture with big plans to get into the scripted, documentary, and live programming space
The former NBA star and current TNT Sports analyst will launch Round Mound Media in partnership with EverWonder Studio, with backing from Jeff Zucker’s RedBird IMI
“Round Mound Media is about creating an outlet for my vision to share compelling, original stories meant to captivate audiences across the world,” said Barkley in a statement
GIBBI View: Barkley joins another athletes like Lebron, Messi, Cristiano, and others that create their own production company to create their own content because their image is to “powerful” that bring a lot of customers and generate a lot of revenues

Claudia Sheinbaum was sworn in as Mexico’s first female president Tuesday, promising to safeguard foreign investment as she builds on the legacy of a popular predecessor who wasn’t always friendly to business interests
Sheinbaum took over for outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and pledged to continue her partymate and political mentor’s efforts to improve the lives of Mexico’s poorest people as she delivered her inaugural address in congress
Sheinbaum also promised that private foreign and domestic investments in Mexico will be safe during her government, stressing that it was not just the poor who benefited under Lopez Obrador, but also the business sector
GIBBI View: Sheinbaum had the opportunity to give a better speech to demarcate from AMLO and his ideas but in the beginning she decided to dedicate most of her speech to say thanks to AMLO and not about her big ideas; the ideal scenario would that Sheinbaum did what Zedillo did with Carlos Salinas de Gortari (Zedillo demarcated from Salinas de Gortari and improved the country), demarcates from AMLO and follow her ideas to improve the country, but knowing what AMLO and MORENA did in this 6 years I’m afraid that AMLO will still rule the country snd Sheinbaum will by his muppet

Reddit Communities Will Require Permission To Go Private Or NSFW (Tech Crunch)

Last year, while opposing Reddit’s API changes, a large number of subreddits turned from public to private or turned NSFW (Not Safe for Work) to impact ads on the platform
To prevent this kind of change, Reddit is bringing new rules where moderators will have to submit a request when updating community-type public or private or maturity ratings of SFW (Safe for Work) or NSFW
The social media platform said that it shared this update in advance with Mod Council with more than 100 moderators of different subreddits to get feedback and advice from them
GIBBI View: Something that I’ve learnt is that you can’t mess with your customers/subscribers because if you do this your customers/subscribers are going to organize to try to “fight” against these new “improvements” and you as a company will suffer the consequences

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