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Bezos Academy, funded by Jeff Bezos’ $2B ‘Day One Fund,’ launches first free school in Seattle area

GeekWire

The nonprofit, backed by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ $2 billion Day One Fund , will open a new school on Oct. Day One” is a reference to Bezos’ mantra at Amazon, that it’s essential to approach every day with the enthusiasm and energy of a new venture because it’s “always Day One.”. 19 in Des Moines, Wash.,

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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

CIO Business Intelligence

And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit. In 2020, Microsoft became the first to license OpenAI’s Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI software for inclusion in its own products and services.

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NJVC® Introduces Cloudcuity? AppDeployer to Create and Sell

Cloud Musings

AppDeployer also is available as a licensed product for deployment in customers’ own clouds. government and commercial and academic organizations to build apps for a wide variety of functions, including catalog management, nonprofit management, team management and collaboration and long-term care logistics. Popular Pages.

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Bill Gates’ TerraPower will build its first next-gen nuclear reactor in Wyoming

GeekWire

Reuters cited an earlier figure of $1 billion, while Gates referred to a “$4 billion demo plant” in the GeekWire interview. John Barrasso co-sponsored legislation that became a law in 2019 that created a path to licensing advanced nuclear reactors. The cost of building the pilot plant is unclear.

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Why Fox News is having a day-long meltdown over Dr. Seuss

Vox

A Fox News reporter asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki a question during Tuesday’s briefing about why Biden didn’t mention Dr. Seuss in his statement commemorating Read Across America Day, and Fox News then tried to spin Psaki’s response (she referred the reporter to the Department of Education) as some sort of scandal.

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