Author: Verum

Password managers, despite their essentiality to internet life, are unremarkable.

March is Endometriosis Awareness Month. It was started in 1993 by the Endometriosis Association to bring awareness to this inflammatory condition. In endometriosis, tissue that is similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside of the uterus. Symptoms may include painful periods, irregular or heavy bleeding, digestive issues, pain with sex, and difficulty getting pregnant. While the organs most commonly affected include the ovaries, fallopian tubes and tissue lining the pelvis, endometriosis can extend to parts of the body beyond the pelvis.

The last 96 hours have been one of the most manic & momentous in my last decade in venture capital. Silicon Valley Bank, once a stalwart of its namesake Silicon Valley was put into receivership by the Federal Government Insurance Corporation.

I attended a small event in Redmond, Washington, in early February, where Microsoft introduced the new Bing powered by ChatGPT—the first of many recent AI innovations that promise to forever change the conversation about AI. I believe it launched a transformational change in technology not seen since the introduction of the modern internet, not just with AI chatbots, but with how large language models (LLMs) will affect many aspects of our lives. Microsoft waved the proverbial green flag that day, and from that point the AI race has heated up in a way I’m not sure anyone could have predicted.

I use two phones, one iPhone and one Android. I’m sure there are many like me who have separate work and personal phones. Thanks to everything being on the cloud, our emails, photos, and more can be accessed on both the devices simultaneously. But that wasn’t the case with WhatsApp until recently. And it used to bother me a lot. You needed to rely on tricks to use the same WhatsApp account on two phones. However, the messaging service has improved with recent updates and now allows you to use WhatsApp on two phones with the same number. Here’s how-

Key Takeaways OpenAI has released the latest version of their AI chatbot, ChatGPT-4 Microsoft stock is up 6.5% this week off the back of the release, after the company announced a $10 billion, multi-year equity and partnership deal with OpenAI OpenAI has received some criticism surrounding the secrecy of the details of the release, after transitioning from a not-for-profit to a for-profit company. Just as the conversation around ChatGPT had begun to die down, the next generation of the natural language processing software, GPT4, has been released. It offers up improvements in scope and capabilities of the model, with proponents…

It might feel like dodging bullets but the banking crisis of the last days is actually great news for investors.

Two U.S. bank failures sent Wall Street investors scurrying for the perceived safety of the bonds markets this week, providing the real estate industry with an unexpected boon on the brink of its busiest season: the lowest mortgage rates in three weeks.

In 2023, I want to address some things that—as a business owner and investor—am seeing, hearing, or grappling with in today’s work place.