SoftBank Considers Borrowing $16 Billion to Fund AI

Liverpool draw PSG, Arsenal face PSV, Villa meet Club Brugge in last 16

Liverpool will face Paris St-Germain in the Champions League last-16, while Arsenal take on PSV Eindhoven and Aston Villa will play Club Brugge.

BBC News - Feb. 21

Eric Dixon scores 23 points in Villanova’s 81-66 victory over No. 16 Marquette

Eric Dixon scored 23 points, Jhamir Brickus had 15 of his 21 points in Villanova’s dominating first half and the Wildcats beat No. 16 Marquette 81-66 on Friday night

ABC News - Feb. 21

Charles puts up 16 as McNeese beats Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 73-57

Led by Joe Charles' 16 points, the McNeese Cowboys defeated the Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Islanders 73-57 on Saturday night

ABC News - Feb. 22

Sides scores 16, Sundell sets record, No. 12 K-State women rout rival Kansas 90-60

Taryn Sides scored 15 points, Sernea Sundell set a school single-game record with 15 assists and No. 12 Kansas State celebrated a brief appearance by All-American Ayoka Lee with a 90-60 win over ...

ABC News - Feb. 22

Flagg scores 16 in MSG debut and No. 3 Duke romps to 110-67 blowout of Illinois

Cooper Flagg had 16 points in his Madison Square Garden debut and seven players scored in double figures for No. 3 Duke in a 110-67 blowout of Illinois

ABC News - Feb. 22

Messi nets slick goal against Sporting KC to help send Inter Miami to Champions Cup round of 16

The goal gave Inter Miami a 2-0 lead on aggregate against Sporting Kansas City in the Concacaf Champions Cup.

ESPN - 5d

No. 8 UNC, No. 9 NC State, No. 16 Duke vying to give state's 'Triangle' region 3 NCAA host sites

No. 8 North Carolina, No. 9 N

ABC News - 5d

No. 8 Michigan State stuns No. 16 Maryland on half-court heave from Tre Holloman

Tre Holloman shot this from behind the logo.

Yahoo Sports - 4d

UCLA, Texas, USC, Notre Dame earn No. 1 seeds in second NCAA women’s hoops top-16 reveal

With Selection Sunday less than three weeks away, the NCAA selection committee released the top 16 seeds for the second time this winter. Yet again, UCLA remained as the top overall seed. USC, ...

Yahoo Sports - 3d

Will FA Cup round of 16 bring more upsets? Are there silver linings after USWNT SheBelieves loss to Japan?

Elsewhere on the Golazo Starting XI newsletter, ranking possible Lionel Messi trophies

CBS Sports - 3d

UEFA Champions League round of 16 storylines, schedule: How to watch UCL on Paramount+

Regional matchups between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen headline this week's action

CBS Sports - 1d

F-16 jets scrambled to intercept planes near Mar-a-Lago, NORAD says

NORAD scrambled jets Saturday to intercept three civilian planes that violated temporary flight restrictions near President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

CBS News - 8h

College basketball buy or sell: Will Arkansas, UNC make Big Dance? Dishing on Kentucky's Sweet 16 case

Has Texas Tech separated as the second-best team in the Big 12? Plus a look at Tennessee's case for a No. 1 seed and the heating-up Big Ten Freshman of the Year race.

CBS Sports - 9h

Champions League round of 16 brings massive Madrid Derby and Bayern Munich vs. Bayer Leverkusen showdown

Elsewhere on the Golazo Starting XI, is the FA Cup Manchester City's to lose?

CBS Sports - 4h

16 teams, more campus games, fewer auto-bids: Connelly fixes the CFP

Change is coming to the CFP -- that much is clear -- but some of the ideas on the table should be cast aside.

ESPN - 4h

Video shows Princess Cruises ship tilting in high winds, injuring 16 and emptying pools

A Princess Cruises ship hit rough waters in New Zealand last week, dramatically tilting the ship and leaving sixteen people with minor injuries.

NBC News - 2h

If the best defence against AI is more AI, this could be tech’s Oppenheimer moment

An unsettling new book advocates a closer relationship between Silicon Valley and the US government to harness artificial intelligence in the name of national security. Oscar Wilde’s quip, “Life ...

The Guardian - 1d

AI Assistants Join the Factory Floor

Manufacturers already have the data. LLM-powered tools could help them make use of it.

Wired - Feb. 24

Help is coming in the AI copyright wars

Artificial intelligence companies must decide how to pay for the human-generated content they need

Financial Times - 4d

Immutable-backed Inevitable Games Fund grows 180% in 9 months

Immutable, with King River Capital and Polygon Labs, described naugural returns on liquid investments of the Inevitable Games Fund.

VentureBeat - Feb. 20

Guterres to propose UN assumes funding for mission struggling to fight gangs in Haiti

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres says he will request that the United Nations assumes funding for the structural and logistical expenses of a multinational force in Haiti that is struggling ...

ABC News - Feb. 20

Trump administration takes aim at $4B in funding for California high-speed rail

The Trump administration is investigating delays and cost overruns in California’s high-speed rail project

ABC News - Feb. 20

These tips for investing in mutual funds and ETFs will up your money game

Don’t miss these top money and investing features.

MarketWatch - Feb. 21

International aid groups axe thousands of jobs in wake of Trump funding freeze

Fears that cuts will ‘decimate’ ability to react to crises as sector loses expertise and skills at every level, report finds. Some of the world’s largest aid organisations are axing thousands of ...

The Guardian - Feb. 21

US Senate passes budget resolution to fund Trump’s deportation plan

Bill approving $175bn for border security and extra $150bn for Pentagon faces tough challenge in House. US politics live – latest updates The US Senate has passed a budget resolution that ...

The Guardian - Feb. 21

Trump threatens to withhold federal funds from Maine over transgender athletes

President Trump is threatening to withhold federal funds from Maine if it continues allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls’ and women’s sports in defiance of a recent executive order. ...

The Hill - Feb. 21

Trump Administration Takes Aim at $4B in Funding for California High-Speed Rail

The controversial transportation project is long-delayed. Can it stay on track?

Inc. - Feb. 21

DOGE Cuts Hit Federal Workers Who Aren’t Funded by Taxpayers

Fees paid to agencies like the Food and Drug Administration and the FDIC fund part of their workforces, so cutting those jobs doesn’t save any tax money.

Inc. - Feb. 21

White House restores 9/11 health program funding after uproar

The White House restored funding for the 9/11 first responder survivors' health program after an uproar from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle ensued following the Department of Government ...

The Hill - Feb. 21

Judge Extends Block to Huge Cuts in National Institutes of Health Research Funding

Healthcare organizations and 22 states have sued to stop the cuts. The case is expected to reach the Supreme Court.

Inc. - Feb. 21

Farmers hit by a federal funding freeze scramble to respond ahead of spring thaw

Farmers are struggling to make critical decisions ahead of the spring thaw, as billions of dollars in promised payments remain frozen by the Trump administration.

NBC News - Feb. 22

VC backed by Cambridge university launches £100mn start-up fund

Cambridge Innovation Capital’s fund counts Aviva Investors and an arm of British Business Bank as backers

Financial Times - Feb. 23

Singapore fund managers face lengthy licence wait amid surge in applications

Demand partly driven by Chinese quants expanding abroad after crackdown at home

Financial Times - Feb. 23

Trump halts medical research funding in apparent violation of judge’s order

Health department orders NIH to hold Federal Register submissions – critical step in process for funding studies. The Trump administration has blocked a crucial step in the National Institutes of ...

The Guardian - Feb. 23

NIH funding cuts imperil lifesaving drugs and US prosperity

Capping indirect funding will decimate biomedical research, which has been the engine of the U.S. economy and the envy of the world.

The Hill - Feb. 23

Startup founders are turning to 'seed-strapping' in a difficult funding environment

Seed-strapping is the "Goldilocks version" of bootstrapping and venture capital, Josh Payne of OpenSky Ventures tells CNBC.

CNBC - Feb. 23

Former Jupiter star Ben Whitmore launches first fund at new venture

Brickwood’s UK Value Fund will focus on underpriced UK companies

Financial Times - Feb. 24

As federal funding dries up, states turn to opioid settlement money

Uncertainty over funding for federal safety net programs may lead some state officials to turn to opioid settlement dollars to make up the difference.

CBS News - Feb. 24

Most conservation funds go to large vertebrates at expense of ‘neglected’ species

Study shows funding bias towards animals like rhino while other endangered species including amphibians and algae disregarded. Most global conservation funds go to larger, charismatic animals, ...

The Guardian - Feb. 24

New Tips ETF aims to solve the funds’ Achilles heel

In 2022, Bloomberg’s total return Tips index lost almost 12%, even though US inflation hit 6.45%

Financial Times - 6d

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