A complete guide to all 21 major amendments to BlackRock ’s latest ETF filing
BlackRock recently filed an updated S-1 form for its proposed Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), the iShares Bitcoin Trust, revealing seed funding of $100,000. In total, the company made 21 notable amendments on Dec. 4 to address various factors related to the Trust’s structure, operations,…#blackrock #bitcoinexchange #isharesbitcointrust #trust #primebroker #ripplesxrp #seedcapitalinvestors #bitcoin #xrp #enhancedaml (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
New capital infusion puts Farmless on path to first alternative protein products
Farmless, a Dutch startup working on alternative protein sources via fermentation technology, closed on €4.8 million in seed funding. The new investment also comes seven months after Farmless raised a €1.2 million pre-seed round. The new capital will go toward building a pilot brewery in Amsterdam…#dutch #amsterdam #adnanoner #jankamps #worldfund #vorwerkventures #farmless #pitchbook #nadinegeiser (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Intergenerational Impact of Nuclear Testing in Polynesian States
Communities affected by nuclear testing, many originating from island nations in the South Pacific, share their experiences at the Nuclear Survivors Forum. Credit: ICAN / Haruka SakaguchiBy Naureen HossainUNITED NATIONS, Dec 5 2023 (IPS) The language used in the Treaty of the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) is unambiguous on its focus of the grave humanitarian impact of nuclear weapons. The TPNW also recognizes the influence of the public conscience “in the furthering of the principles of humanity as evidenced by the call for total elimination of nuclear weapons”.
This public conscience has been shaped by what w...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - December 5, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Naureen Hossain Tags: Asia-Pacific Civil Society Environment Global Headlines Health Human Rights Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
Africa: COP28 - Bring the Vulnerable to 'Front of the Line' for Climate Funding
[UN News] Advocates showcased the devastating impacts of climate upheaval on their communities at COP 28 on Monday as the focus of the world's largest climate gathering turned to financial support for those most at risk - first and foremost youth and women in developing countries. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 5, 2023 Category: African Health Tags: Africa Climate Environment External Relations Health and Medicine International Organizations and Africa Source Type: news
Mistral AI Raises $487M in Round Led by Andreessen Horowitz
French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is set to raise about €450 million ($487 million) in its latest funding round. The round includes investments from prominent companies such as Nvidia and Salesforce, and is expected to value Mistral AI at around $2 billion, making it a strong…#mistralai #nvidia #openai #andreessenhorowitz #mistralais #googlesdeepmind #meta #mistral #mistral7b #arthurmensch (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Spotify ’s Layoffs and Uber Joins S & P 500: Tech Grows Up
Where’s the cake? Today marks The Information’s 10th birthday, which is a milestone for any news startup, and even more so for one that has never raised outside funding. (That’s what you call bootstrapping.) Those of us who’ve been here through most or all of the past decade truly have empathy for…#takeuber #spotify (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Fidelity Backs AI Infrastructure Startup at $9 Billion-Plus Valuation
Vast Data, an AI software and storage startup backed by Nvidia, raised a new funding round led by Fidelity Investments and including participation of venture capital firms NEA and Bond. The round values Vast Data at more than $9 billion, people familiar with the matter said, compared to its…#vastdata #nvidia #fidelityinvestments #nea #bond (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on the next GOP debate and how Trump is avoiding attacks
NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Amna Nawaz to discuss the latest political news, including how Trump is avoiding attacks from other Republican candidates by skipping the debates and President Biden's battle for funding for Ukraine.#tamarakeith #amywalter #cookpoliticalreport #amnanawaz #trump #ukraine (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Virgin Galactic shares plunge as Branson rules out further funding
British billionaire alarms investors by stating space tourism company has enough cash to operate ‘on its own’Shares in the space tourism group Virgin Galactic tumbled on Monday after its founder, Sir Richard Branson, ruled out further funding.The British billionaire alarmed investors by stating in an interview that the loss-making business has enough cash to operate “on its own”, weeks after it announced job cuts and a pause in commercial flights from next year in an effort to save cash.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 4, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Callum Jones in New York Tags: Virgin Galactic Business Richard Branson Source Type: news
SED-UMETRICS Linkage Technical Report
This report documents the methodology and technical approach and summarizes results of linking Survey of Earned Doctorates ( SED ) data collected by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics ( NCSES ) within the National Science Foundation to a new source of research data ( UMETRICS [ Measuring the Impacts of Research on Innovation, Competitiveness, and Science ] ) processed by the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science ( IRIS ) . This data linkage research shows it is feasible to combine the two data sources, even though differences exist in coverage of populations and time periods and they have...
Source: NSF - Statistics on U.S. Science and Engineering Resources - December 4, 2023 Category: Statistics Source Type: news
Research Funding for U.S. Doctorate Recipients at Research-Intensive Institutions
New research data suggest that 51 % of science and engineering ( S&E ) doctorate recipients who graduated from U.S. research-intensive institutions between academic years 2014 and 2017 received research funding during their graduate studies. Among those S&E doctorate recipients that linked to the administrative records of research funding, 42 % received research funding solely from federal funders. Data are from a new resource, SED-UMETRICS linked data. The Survey of Earned Doctorates ( SED ) is an annual census of research doctorate recipients conducted by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics within ...
Source: NSF - Statistics on U.S. Science and Engineering Resources - December 4, 2023 Category: Statistics Source Type: news
Jellyverse Lands $2M in Seed Funding to Accelerate DeFi 3.0 Revolution
Coinspeaker Jellyverse Lands $2M in Seed Funding to Accelerate DeFi 3.0 Revolution Jelly Labs AG and Fintonomy LTD, the companies developing the initial protocols for Jellyverse, a decentralized finance network built on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible layer-2 DeFiMetaChain (DMC),…#fintonomyltd #coinspeaker #jellylabsag #defichainaccelerator #santiagosabater #jellyswap #dex #jellystake #dubbedjusd #lusd (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
AssemblyAI, which lets companies build AI speech models, raised $50M led by Accel, bringing its total funding to $115M, and says it now has 4K paying customers
Companies are betting big on generative AI to gain a competitive edge. But adoption challenges remain. According to a recent survey from EY, a significant portion of businesses looking to embrace generative AI say that the field’s rapid progress — and the surge in vendors claiming to have AI…#ey #mittechreview #api #dylanfox #keithblock #github #natfriedman #danielgross #insightpartners #ycombinator (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
UK military faces $22 billion equipment shortfall, watchdog says
Britain's armed forces face an equipment funding shortfall of 17 billion pounds ($21.6 billion) over the next 10 years, a public spending watchdog said on Monday, a concern for defence chiefs at a time of heightened geopolitical risks. The National Audit Office (NAO) put the estimate for the…#nationalauditoffice #nao #ministryofdefence #ukraine #grantshapps #mod #garethdavies (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Recovery through reform: launch paper of the Future Public Services Taskforce
Demos - TheFuture Public Services Taskforce, led and delivered by Demos, will produce a cross-cutting public service reform strategy for central government. This could become the first cross-cutting public service reform white paper since 2011. This launch paper describes the context facing public services today and how the Taskforce will respond to that context. This paper argues that additional funding alone will not deliver a public services recovery; there must also be reform. Additionaly these reforms require a coherent vision from the centre of government to galvanise the system, allocate resources and push thr...
Source: The Kings Fund - Health Management Specialist Collection - December 4, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Legislation and reform Source Type: news
