Jeff Bezos buys a third mansion on an exclusive island in Miami Beach for 90 million

 

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and the second largest fortune in the world, bought a new property - his third - for 90 million dollars (83 million euros) on the exclusive island of Indian Creek, known as the 'Billionaires' Bunker' and located in Miami Beach, in Biscayne Bay in southern Florida (USA), national media reported this Tuesday.

The transaction was carried out off-market and, according to Bloomberg, the tycoon plans to reside in this six-bedroom mansion while demolishing the other two houses he previously bought on this island.

Property records show the luxury home last sold in 1998 for $2.5 million.

"That's the hottest place (Indian Creek) in the country right now. If there's one thing rich elites want, it's a little exclusivity," a source familiar with the area's real estate sector told the New York Post.

Bezos, 60, acquired two other properties in October and June 2023 for $79 and $68 million, respectively, located in the "Billionaires' Bunker."

The town of Indian Creek, with only 41 residential lots, has a country club, its own police department and is home to personalities and magnates such as Jeffrey Soffer, Carl Icahn, Tom Brady, Julio Iglesias, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump .

Jeff Bezos also has other properties in Washington, Maui and Beverly Hills, which he bought, the latter, for $165 million in 2020, according to Bloomberg.

The Amazon founder, who since resigning as CEO in 2021 has been enjoying the good life with his fiancée, former journalist of Mexican origin Lauren Sánchez, was looking to acquire property in Indian Creek.

Bezos and Sánchez, born into a Mexican-American family in Albuquerque, New Mexico, first went public with their relationship in 2019. Since the two began dating, they have kept the details of their life together private, although They have been photographed at some events.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Jeff Bezos has a fortune of $203.7 billion.

Bezos has sold Amazon shares worth about $8.5 billion in recent months, after "not getting rid of company shares since 2021," Bloomberg reported.

The founder of the space company Blue Origin is also the owner of one of the most expensive superyachts in the world, the Koru, the luxurious three-masted schooner valued at $500 million that is considered the largest in the world.

Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj and 200 other artists ask that AI respect their rights

 Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Camila Cabello and around 200 other musical artists published an open letter this Tuesday in which they ask Artificial Intelligence (AI) developers and technology companies that they do not use this tool to "infringe and devalue the rights of human artists."

Artist Rights Alliance (ARA), a non-profit organization run by artists to defend their rights, was in charge of sharing the letter with the support of well-known names in the industry to warn about the use of musical works without permission by AI companies.

"We call on all digital music platforms and music-based services to commit to not developing or deploying AI music generation technology, content or tools that undermine or substitute the human artistry of composers and artists or deny us a fair compensation for our work," the artists demand in the letter.

In this sense, the writing highlights two trends in which songs are used illicitly: to train and produce AI "imitators" and to dilute royalty obligations using the sound of these algorithms.

Music creators also talk about threats such as voice cloning, since the arrival of AI allows a vocal sample to be used to transform songs into others that sound like a human artist without being one.

"The unethical use of generative AI to replace human artists will devalue the entire music ecosystem, for both artists and fans," ARA CEO Jen Jacobsen said in a statement.

Sam Smith, HYBE, Jon Bon Jovi, Norah Jones, Pearl Jam, REM, Chuck D and Kate Hudson are other signatories of the letter.

Already in October 2023, three major music publishers - Universal Music Publishing Group, Concord Music Group and ABKCO - sued the AI ​​company Anthropic, alleging that it infringed the copyright of the song lyrics, as detailed by The Hollywood Reporter. .

Also in the cultural sector, Hollywood actors began a strike in July 2023 - which lasted for more than 100 days - to, among other reasons, achieve regulation in the use of AI, considering it an "existential threat."

A controversial Hollywood decision led to King Kong being banished for 40 years

 King Kong is one of the mythical figures of adventure cinema and one of the icons of popular culture. The success of the original 1933 film and its legacy has allowed this giant ape to continue being one of Hollywood's main bets, as well reflected in Peter Jackson 's remake or the cinematographic universe that makes up titles such as Kong: Skull Island or Godzilla and Kong: The New Empire . However, the prestige of this creature has not always stood tall, since a controversial decision in the 1930s ruined its future in cinema for many years.

It all has to do with the way RKO , the classic Hollywood studio behind King Kong, handled the success of the first film. The company, to which we also owe classics like Citizen Kane or It's a Wonderful Life! , was not going through a good economic time and was facing a reputation crisis due to a lack of quality in its titles. Acclaimed releases such as Glory of a Day or The Four Little Sisters , both starring Katherine Hepburn , helped calm the waters, although it was the success of King Kong that gave them the key to salvation.

Upon its release on March 2, 1933, it grossed more than $10 million at the box office against a production cost of only $670,000 (via Heritage Auctions ). This led to stratospheric profits as the idea arose of turning King Kong into an adventure franchise, like other successes of those years such as Johnny Weissmuller 's Tarzan . However, they jumped into the pool too soon.

They did not wait even a year to develop these plans, since RKO set the release date of the King Kong sequel for Christmas 1933, that is, only nine months after the debut of the original. Obviously, getting a big production off the ground in such a short time is an impossible mission, so the project, which was titled Son of Kong , had to deal with a lower budget, a tight shooting schedule, recycled special effects and a script without Polish .

In the film we were presented with another adventure in which Carl Denham, the explorer played by Robert Armstrong in the previous film, organizes another expedition to Skull Island in search of new discoveries. There he will discover Kong's son, a white gorilla who will soon sympathize with them and help them overcome the new dangers of the place.

A penumbral eclipse of the Moon, visible throughout America, will reduce the satellite's brightness

 On March 25, a penumbral lunar eclipse will take place that will be visible throughout America, eastern Oceania, western Africa and Europe.

This type of eclipse occurs when the Moon (full), the Earth and the Sun are aligned and the Earth's satellite enters the twilight zone projected by the Earth.

When this happens, the Moon stops receiving light from the Sun because the Earth blocks the sun's rays, so its luminosity drops and it looks a little dark.

According to data from the National Astronomical Observatory (OAN), the eclipse will last 4 hours and 37 minutes and will leave 96% of the lunar diameter in darkness.

The eclipse will begin at 4 hours and 53 minutes GMT time, and will be visible especially in America, and with less intensity in Africa and Europe.

The event will end at 9 hours and 32 minutes GMT, after having been visible in the last phases in America and Oceania.

The next eclipse, which will take place on April 8, will be a total solar eclipse in Mexico, the central United States and eastern Canada, and a partial eclipse in North America and Central America.

As for the Moon, the next eclipse will be partial and can be seen after the summer, on September 8, according to the OAN.

The Most Liked 50 TikTok Videos of All Time!

 TikTok, the hub of spontaneous creativity and amusing content, has birthed numerous viral videos over the years. Let's delve into the top 10 most-liked TikTok videos that have captured the hearts of millions worldwide:

10. Cat pawing at a camera by British Promise Cats (37.4 million likes)

https://www.tiktok.com/@britishpromise.cats/video/6839416095586159878

Watch as a playful ginger cat attempts to explore a cylindrical cardboard tube in this candid moment by British Promise Cats. Despite its failed attempts, the cat's antics are undeniably adorable.

9. Banana peeling by Khabane Lame (37.9 million likes)

Senegalese-born Khabane Lame showcases his wit and humor by demonstrating the simplest way to peel a banana. In a world of life hacks, Lame's approach to everyday tasks is refreshingly straightforward.

8. Adrian Chateau Wiles’s dog barking video (40.7 million likes)

Adrian Chateau Wiles engages in a hilarious exchange with her dog, attempting to communicate through barks. The bewildered expression on the dog's face turns this ordinary moment into pure entertainment.

Which country in South America surpasses China with its Internet speed?

 Having the internet has become almost a necessity for human beings. Through this medium we can communicate, inform ourselves and also entertain ourselves. And, of course, when leaving home it is necessary and vital that it can work as quickly as possible. In this context, we will tell you in this note which is the South American country that surpasses China in terms of internet speed and other equally relevant details.

Lauren Sánchez, proud mother, saw her son debut as a model in Milan with Jeff Bezos

 

In the men's fashion week in Milan, we have been able to see many celebrities attending the shows, such as Miguel Ángel Silvestre.

One of the famous couples we saw walking through the Italian city was Lauren Sánchez and her fiancé, Jeff Bezos, who took their seats in the front row of the Dolce & Gabbana.

Amazon warns employees that they must return to in-person work to qualify for promotions

 

Amazon has warned its employees that, in order to be promoted, they must comply with the requirement of working in person at least three days a week, at a time of strong internal resistance to leaving. teleworking.

"Like any company, we hope that employees who are being considered for a promotion comply with the company's alignments and policies," one of Amazon's spokespersons, Barbara Agrait, explained in an e-mail to EFE, asked about the teleworking issue.

Office employees who do not work in person three or more days a week will be promoted only if additionally approved by a manager.

Since before the pandemic, administrative workers can request to work remotely, and each case is evaluated by the company itself.

Tensions between the corporation and its workers began last February, when Amazon ordered its 350,000 employees to return to in-person work starting in May.

Thousands of workers signed a petition against the mandate and called a strike to ask the company for more flexibility with remote work.

In July, the media Insider accessed some leaked messages in which Amazon proposed making employees sign a "voluntary resignation" if they did not travel to the in-person centers where its teams work.

The technology company opted for personnel cuts after the pandemic boom, and since autumn 2022 it has laid off 27,000 workers in its cloud computing, advertising and retail divisions, among others.

In addition, it has opposed the unionization of its employees for many years, stating that it prefers to maintain a personal and non-mediated relationship with them.

OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, fires its top executive for lack of "trust"

 

The American artificial intelligence company OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, announced this Friday the dismissal of Sam Altman as CEO and member of the board of directors after having lost the "trust" of this body .

The board of directors today released a statement about a "leadership transition" in which it indicated that it has concluded that Altman "was not consistently honest in his communications" with the body, which "impaired his ability to exercise his responsibilities."

The trick to deactivate the viewing of an Instagram chat

 

The Meta social network has several functions that not all users know about. All the details.

Instagram hides several tricks within its configuration, which improve the user experience within the  Meta social network. A specific example is the option to hide “viewing” of private messages, which can be done in simple steps.

Chatbots Might Be 'Hallucinating' More Often Than Many Realize

When San Francisco startup OpenAI debuted its online chatbot ChatGPT late last year, millions were captivated by the quasi-human way it answered questions, wrote poetry and conversed on almost any topic. But what most people took a while to realize is that this new type of chatbot often makes things up. ‌ When Google introduced a similar chatbot several weeks later, it generated meaningless data about the James Webb Space Telescope. The next day, Microsoft's new Bing chatbot offered all kinds of false information about Gap, Mexican nightlife, and singer Billie Eilish. Then, in March, ChatGPT cited a half-dozen bogus court cases while drafting a 10-page legal brief that a lawyer filed before a federal judge in Manhattan. ‌ Now , a new startup called Vectara, founded by former Google employees, is trying to find out how often chatbots deviate from the truth. The company's research estimates that even in situations designed to prevent this from happening, chatbots make up information at least 3 percent of the time and up to 27 percent. ‌ Experts call this chatbot behavior “hallucination.” 

Digital onboarding: why is the registration process abandoned in digital channels?

In today's digital era, the seamless incorporation of clients and new users into the digital platforms of banks and retailers stands as a crucial factor for competitive differentiation and revenue growth. This digital transformation allows broader accessibility to products and services, eliminating the need for physical visits to brick-and-mortar branches. However, a significant challenge arises in the form of complexities associated with digital onboarding, leading to high rejection rates and user abandonment during the process.

The Onboarding Challenge:

According to data from the financial sector, a mere 15% to 35% of individuals who initiate the onboarding process successfully complete it. This issue extends beyond banking, affecting 90% of companies globally across various sectors, resulting in the loss of potential customers. Whether in finance, retail, or service industries, the incorporation of digital tools demands a user-centric approach to overcome the hurdles of lengthy procedures, lack of visibility, and security concerns.

Understanding User Interactions:

To address these challenges, companies must prioritize the user experience, comprehending how individuals interact with digital channels. Speed, efficiency, security, and trust are paramount to ensure successful onboarding. Veritran, recognizing the significance of the user's initial impression, emphasizes creating friendly and intuitive applications.

International-class talents, stocks of the third world: which sector suffers the loss of a multimillion-dollar business

Although the Knowledge Economy Law offers various incentives to the sector, there is a sub-field in which Argentina has world-class talent that is fighting to survive.

This is the video game industry , one of the most affected by the stocks . Almost 90% are made up of micro and small companies that, not having the resources to overcome the crisis, must sell double or triple to maintain their operation and their place in the global market.

It is the entertainment industry with the highest turnover globally: US$160 billion annually (vs. US$19 billion for cinema). Workmotion assures that Argentina can be a key player:

• It is the main country globally to hire junior talent

• It is the third most important to look for senior developers

He also highlights the problem of the dollar: " Local salaries are 75% lower on average among the 25 countries with the highest GDP."

Video game industry: the present of Argentina

According to data from the Observatory of the Argentine Video Game Development Industry, in Argentina :

• There are 19 million players (40% of the population)

• There are 126 developer studios, which employ 1,646 professionals

• 43 small and 10 large games released in 2022

• Sells 35% to the US and Canada, 12% to Europe, 42% to Argentina

ChatGPT suffers “major outage”, artificial intelligence system fails

 ChatGPT is down due to a “major outage.”

Anyone who tried to use the AI ​​system saw a warning that it was "at capacity right now." The error page also includes a rap written by ChatGPT about the status of ChatGPT, which begins with the phrase "Yeah, yo, what's up ChatGPT fam . "

But on its status page, creators OpenAI said it was suffering a "major outage" that was being urgently investigated. The latest update stated that engineers had "identified an issue" in the system and were working to fix it.

This is the first major disruption to the system in months. 

Apple pauses development of software updates to fix bugs

 In a rare move, Apple Inc. paused development of next year's software updates for iPhone, iPad, Mac and other devices intended to eliminate flaws in the code.

Who is Mark Mateschitz, the richest millennial in Europe

 Red Bull heir, Mark Mateschitz , is one of the youngest billionaires in the world and the richest millennial in all of Europe. The young man, 31, has received only this month a dividend of 582 million euros as the first payment since he inherited the Austrian energy drink empire after his father, Dietrich Mateschitz, died in October 2022.

Red Bull distributed half of last year's €1.56 billion profits to shareholders and paid Mark Mateschitz, who owns 49% of the company, a total of €582 million. Thailand's Yoovidhya family owns 51 % remaining. Last year the Austrian drinks giant sold a total of 11.6 billion cans of Red Bull and recorded revenue of 9.835 million euros.

What are WhatsApp States for? The surprising usefulness that a concierge gives you

 “Pedro Albañil” has seen your State. Yes, friend, we've all been there. WhatsApp is that tool that is as necessary as it is annoying; For many, it's like applying sunscreen before going to the beach: at the moment it annoys you, but then you realize that you need it. In this mixed bag we discover that any of our contacts can see our Status and, when this happens, we wonder... What are they really for?

We traveled to Madrid to discover a surprising utility that gives true value to the function. Mauro Fuentes —the well-known @fotomaf on Twitter— advances it to us casually : “The doorman [concierge] of my building is digitalized and notifies us through WhatsApp Stories , olé for him,” he writes. Wait, can WhatsApp Statuses have a real function beyond knowing who has gossiped about your vacation photo?

- “Mauro, we have to talk about your goalkeeper,” I attack him unexpectedly.

And agree. The questions are piling up. How it all started? Everything had its origin in a first State published by the caretaker of this community of neighbors in the capital of Spain. We do not know if it was the first, but Mauro shared it on Twitter announcing that his doorman was “going digital”: “It is to inform you that the cleaning of facades, pool and garbage cans will be carried out in the mornings,” we can read in one of his entries. .

It must be recognized that this is a real use of a function that you might assume to be trivial. We wanted to approach the WhatsApp blog to understand what use they expected in the company:

“Status is a popular tool for sharing ephemeral updates with friends and close contacts on WhatsApp.”

And we have stayed the same, but this is not bad: the company offers the platform and it is the user who decides how to use it.

These are the reasons why Jeff Bezos decided to move to Miami

 The founder of Amazon announced that he will leave Seattle to settle in Florida, where he lived with his family when he was younger

The American businessman and tycoon, Jeff Bezos , announced through his Instagram account that he will leave the city of Seattle, in Washington DC, and will relocate to the city of Miami , in Florida . The announcement surprised the followers of Amazon 's also majority shareholder .

In his letter, Bezos said that “Seattle has been my home since 1994, when I started Amazon in my garage. That's my dad behind the camera in this video, touring Amazon's first 'office'. My parents have always been my greatest supporters. Recently, they moved to Miami, the place we lived when I was younger.”

Amazon founder Bezos plans to move from Seattle to Miami

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said on Thursday he was moving from Seattle to Miami , his hometown, to be close to his parents and the operations of his space company Blue Origin in Cape Canaveral.

"As exciting as the move is, it is a difficult decision for me. Seattle, you will always have a piece of my heart ," the billionaire said in an Instagram message on Thursday.

Writing a diary on your mobile phone, a psychological help available to everyone

 Those of us who have kept a diary on our mobile phone constantly for years can confirm that it is beneficial for mental health.

Those of us who have been writing a diary continuously on our mobile for years can attest: it is magical for mental health. No, it is not a joke or an exaggeration: when you capture your experiences in a diary, in some way, you release pressure and reduce the weight of experiences that, in some way, you may have exaggerated.