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MacKenzie Scott issues $640M in grants to 361 nonprofits through open call process

GeekWire

One year ago, Yield Giving launched an open call to “community-led, community-focused” nonprofits that serve individuals and families of limited means and groups that have faced “discrimination and other systemic obstacles.” Her current net worth is $35.6 The total sum being granted is $640 million.

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Reset the Net Campaign

CTOvision

Fight for the Future , a nonprofit that advocates for digital rights and Internet freedom, is spearheading an anti- National Security Agency protest on June 5 th to Reset the Net. How the Reset the Net protest will actually manifest itself remains to be seen. By ShannonPerry.

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CIT Announces Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund (CRCF) FY2014 Fall Solicitation Awards and Upcoming Solicitation

CTOvision

We were pleased to receive applications in a wide range of technologies and including from colleges and universities new to CRCF. College of William and Mary (Williamsburg), Developing Sonic Net Technology to Reduce the Risks of Bird-Aircraft Collision , Dr. John Swaddle, $99,781. For more information, visit [link] initiatives/crcf/.

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$5M Climate Impact Fund launches to support entrepreneurs tackling the climate crisis

GeekWire

Portland-based nonprofit VertueLab launched its $5 million Climate Impact Fund on Wednesday to support early stage, clean tech entrepreneurs focused on addressing climate change causes and moving to a carbon-free economy. The fund has raised $525,000 so far and is accepting applications from startups seeking capital.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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ChatGPT net worth: Is OpenAI the next tech behemoth?

Dataconomy

“ChatGPT net worth” is one of the most searched queries on the Internet. So, let’s dive in and explore the net worth of ChatGPT! ChatGPT net worth or OpenAI net worth? ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence language model, and therefore it does not have a net worth in the traditional sense.

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OpenAI can translate English into code with its new machine learning software Codex

The Verge

One application users found for GPT-3 was generating code, but Codex improves upon its predecessors’ abilities and is trained specifically on open-source code repositories scraped from the web. The real net effect is a lot of value for the ecosystem”. The real net effect is a lot of value for the ecosystem,” says Brockman. “At

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