As a equipment specialist in powerline maintenance/construction, I feel our skilled trade will be one of the last to be over taken by Optimus...but, if it happens earlier than I anticipate, then it's win-win...no more risk in my job and the growth in my Tesla stock will have set me up beautifully for such an early exit! The next 5 years is going to be very interesting to watch play out. Popcorn is ready!
Analysts missing by 80% was share price not earnings. I bet their earnings estimates were not far out but the share price is a measure of buyers to sellers. Too many buyers, share price goes up. Too many sellers, share price goes down. This is why Tesla shares over a 4 year period went from peak to trough and back to peak when you yourself said the fundamentals of the company hadn’t changed. In fairness to analysts, easy to value a company but harder to guess share price when it is based purely on sentiment!
Imagine this: you’re sipping coffee on a balcony overlooking a city skyline or lounging on a pristine beach, all while your investments are working their magic. With copytrading, you can finally pursue your passions, travel the world, and create unforgettable memories with your loved ones. It’s all thanks to the power of copytrading and the life you’ve always dreamed of!
I have still to hear anyone talking about the gigantic market that autonomous robots will take understand where the money is coming from. It is the salaries of the people who would buy the products and services that the robots would produce. So they destroy their own market. There will be no customers. You can't just look on one side of the equation, but still these super smart billionaires do just that. I am all for humanoid robots and automation, but this seems to be an enormous blind spot in the analysis.
In my opinion, I think we will not get any rate cuts until something financially or psychologically breaks in the market. I believe the fed is trying to give it's self room to act when it's appropriate to, however, wall street is trying to bully the fed into a corner. Wall street wants lower rates to boost market valuations at the cost of higher inflation for the average middle class consumer. As how unpopular my opinion may be, I think the market and the economy needs to go through a recession to reset everyones sky high expectations and fix the psychological around the inflation argument.for me Bitcoin is the ultimate defence against a tyrannical government.r.. I would like to thank Kerrie Farrell community for being my source of crypto education as I comfortably earned 12.7 BTC. So now I'm ready for New Year....
When menial jobs are handled by robots. The lowest paid employees become unemployed and unnecessary. Worthless? How do they live? Then scale up to midline or office work to become automated truly paperless, the middle class will die. Who will pay to keep society alive and worth living? What point does money become unnecessary? Unneeded? Or as in the now capitalistic plutocracy, the vast majority become undesirable, become the walking dead.
When a patient receives medical care in the U.S., it kicks off a notoriously complex billing process. Providers like hospitals, health systems or ambulatory care facilities submit an invoice called a claim to an insurance company, and the insurer will approve or deny the claim based on whether or not it meets the company's criteria for reimbursement.
If a claim is denied, patients are often responsible for covering the cost out-of-pocket. More than 450 million claims are denied each year, and denial rates are rising, Waystar said.
Providers can ask insurers to reevaluate claim denials by submitting an appeal letter, but drafting these letters is a time-consuming and expensive process that doesn't guarantee a different outcome.
Hawkins said that while there's been a lot of discussion around claims denials recently, AltitudeCreate has been in the works at Waystar for the last six to eight months. The company announced an AI-focused partnership with Google Cloud in May, and automating claims denials was one of the 12 use cases the companies planned to explore.
Waystar has also had a denial and appeal management software module available for several years, Hawkins added.
AltitudeCreate is one tool available within a broader suite of Waystar's AI offerings called AltitudeAI, which the company also unveiled on Monday. AltitudeCreate rolled out to organizations that are already using Waystar's denial and appeal management software modules earlier this month at no additional cost, the company said.
Waystar plans to make the feature more broadly available in the future.
"In the face of all of this administrative waste in health-care where provider organizations are understaffed and don't have time to even follow up on a claim when it does get denied, we're bringing software to bear that helps to automate that experience," Hawkins said.
"Without a strong partner like Amazon and AWS to stand alongside them, to co-develop and support these companies … it's not going to move as fast as we hope," Chris Bischoff, head of global health-care investing at General Catalyst, told CNBC in an interview.
Health systems are strained in the U.S., with staff burnout, growing labor shortages and razor-thin margins. These challenges often seem enticing for enterprising tech startups to tackle, especially as the multi-trillion dollar health-care industry dangles the prospect of large financial returns.
Hospitals operate in a complex, technology-weary and highly-regulated sector that can be difficult for startups to break into. General Catalyst is hoping to help its companies fast-track the development and go-to-market process by leveraging resources like computing power from AWS.
General Catalyst is no stranger to taking big swings in health-care.
The firm has closed more than 60 digital health deals since 2020, behind only Gaingels and Alumni Ventures, according to a December report from PitchBook. Last January, General Catalyst shocked the industry by announcing that its new business, the Health Assurance Transformation Company, planned to acquire an Ohio-based health system – an unprecedented move in venture capital.
General Catalyst's "deep understanding" of health systems' financial and operating realities made it an attractive partner for AWS, Dan Sheeran, AWS' general manager of Healthcare & Life Science, told CNBC. Sheeran and Bischoff began outlining the collaboration between the two groups after meeting in London around nine months ago.
AWS also has an established presence in the health-care sector. The company offers more health- and life-sciences-specific services than any other cloud provider, according to a release, and it inked other high-profile AI partnerships with GE HealthCare, Philips and others last year.
The partnership between General Catalyst and AWS will stretch over several years, but new tools from Aidoc and Commure are coming in 2025. Aidoc is exploring how it can use the cloud to tap data modalities across pathology, cardiology, genomics and other molecular information, for instance.
Aidoc and Commure were selected to kick off the collaboration because they have both established a product-market fit, are operational and are focused on issues that are a high priority for AWS customers.
"GC has spent a lot of time thinking about how health systems can transform themselves, and we recognize that it's not going to be through 1,000 companies, and we need solutions that are really enterprise grade," Bischoff said. "Amazon shares the same vision, so we are starting with these two."
Though the partnership between General Catalyst and AWS is still in its early days, the organizations said they believe it will help serve as a way to meet the market's growing demand for new solutions.
"Health system leaders who want to realize the benefits of AI now have an easier way to accomplish that," Sheeran said.
Blue Origin has been preparing to launch New Glenn for a few weeks now, and finally rolled the 320-foot-tall rocket out to its launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 9. At that point, the company was targeting a launch on January 12. But over the weekend, the company pushed that target date back one day in order to increase the odds of successfully landing New Glenn’s booster.
New Glenn’s three-hour launch window began at 1AM ET on January 13. The company loaded propellant into the rocket. But it got stuck troubleshooting the unspecified subsystem issue and pushed the launch time back multiple times before calling it off. (Berger reported that it had to do with ice clogging a line that helps vent gas away from the rocket.)
Blue Origin has said the primary goal for New Glenn’s first launch is to “reach orbit safely,” and that anything beyond that “is icing on the cake.” Should New Glenn reach orbit, the rocket will be carrying a demonstrator of its Blue Ring spacecraft, which the company wants to use as a building block for a larger space-based economy.
Sean O’Kane is a reporter who has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the transportation industry, including Tesla and the many startups chasing Elon Musk. Most recently, he was a reporter at Bloomberg News where he helped break stories about some of the most notorious EV SPAC flops. He previously worked at The Verge, where he also covered consumer technology, hosted many short- and long-form videos, performed product and editorial photography, and once nearly passed out in a Red Bull Air Race plane.
Suat Gedikli and Ryan Kottenstette founded Mountain View, California-based Cape in 2014. Kottenstette was previously a senior engineer at BMW, then a principal at Khosla, while Gedikli was a research engineer at robotics tech incubator Willow Garage.
Through partnerships with geospatial image providers, Cape obtains satellite images, then applies in-house algorithms to extract structured data, like whether a property has solar panels and the condition of a roof, and transform it into a structured property information database.
Kottenstette claims that nearly half of top property insurers, as well as some of the world’s leading banks, use Cape to inform their pricing and underwriting strategies.
Cape managed to raise $75 million in venture capital from investors including Formation 8, Pivot Investment Partners, and State Farm Ventures prior to its exit, and the company is cash-flow positive and profitable, according to Kottenstette.
Kottenstette said in a blog post that he believes Moody’s, combined with Cape, can bring “a much deeper set” of solutions to carriers’ underwriting workflows and “enable a much more complete view” of risk. Moody’s customers can expect more in-depth, property-specific data, Kottenstette added, including building characteristics, average annual loss estimates, valuations, and more.
Tiger Woods new golf league the TGL...made its debut on ESPN last Tuesday night. The TGL debuted with impressive ratings...and Tiger Woods will made his TGL debut tomorrow night. The TGL will be competing directly against the NBA...and we believe that Tiger Woods and the TGL will outdraw the NBA.
We reveal and react to the debut ratings of the TGL. We discuss the matchups the NBA will be presenting on TNT tomorrow night...and explain why the NBA will be at an extreme disadvantage competing against Tiger Woods and the TGL.
“Moody’s access to broader, more diverse information gives us the ability to further broaden and deepen Cape solutions with the inclusion of additional, orthogonal, risk-relevant input data,” Kottenstette wrote. “Moody’s global scale could accelerate our expansion into international markets, [and its] footprint with financial stakeholders beyond insurance carriers may accelerate the adoption of Cape’s offerings within the mortgage ecosystem and those of other financial stakeholders.”
Cape is Moody’s first acquisition in 2025 — and its 23rd acquisition to date, according to funding database Tracxn. Cape adds to Moody’s other property-insurance-related mergers and acquisitions, including Praedicat, a provider of casualty insurance analytics, and RMS, a climate and natural disaster risk modeling firm.
Today, I’m pleased to share that CAPE has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Moody’s. This is an exciting milestone after a decade of company-building. Since founding CAPE Analytics 10 years ago, we have developed a leading artificial intelligence platform that delivers proprietary, instant, and accurate risk insights for property at the individual address level—at a global scale. Today, nearly half of the top 50 U.S. property insurers, as well as some of the world’s leading banks, look to CAPE to help them align their pricing and underwriting of properties with their business strategy.
Along the way, I’ve felt fortunate to lead a fantastic team through a grand adventure filled with rich, unique experiences, including both Type 1 and Type 2 fun. Type 1 fun – enjoyable in the moment – included seeing our product become the market leader, setting sales records, successful capital raises, and working with many wonderful colleagues – in some cases celebrating weddings and the arrival of newborn children. Type 2 fun – difficult in the moment but rewarding in retrospect – included surviving a global pandemic, navigating the rapid interest rate increases of 2022 and 2023, and managing our transition to cashflow positive & profitable growth.
Today, CAPE has established a strong business with a set of unique capabilities that offer our clients important advantages:
We have built what we believe is the strongest AI team in the business, including many team members with PhDs or advanced degrees in math, physics, or related hard sciences.
We have developed proprietary models which, in carrier test after carrier test, are shown to be the most predictive of risk, and have been developed and trained on a broad set of input data.
We have been entrusted with a large body of proprietary loss information shared by many of our clients, which aid in our testing & development, ensuring that our models remain the most predictive of loss.
We’ve built a broad, deep, and long-tenured intellectual property portfolio.
Finally, we have a practice of proactive regulatory engagement resulting in a deep track record of approvals from State Departments of Insurance supporting our offerings.
The net effect of this is something we think of as a flywheel of sorts: having established a broad and deep set of client relationships, we benefit from rich client feedback; while our leading AI platform and internal tools, in turn, enable us to iterate our product offerings with both speed and a high degree of impact.
Now, CAPE is beginning a new chapter as part of Moody’s, and I could not be more excited about the potential this holds. Moody’s is a unique partner for CAPE in several regards:
First, Moody’s – with its leading catastrophe modeling platform – offers a unique complement to CAPE’s address-level vulnerability and enables a much more complete view of risk.
Second, Moody’s global scale could accelerate our expansion into international markets.
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!summarize #renault #ev
As a equipment specialist in powerline maintenance/construction, I feel our skilled trade will be one of the last to be over taken by Optimus...but, if it happens earlier than I anticipate, then it's win-win...no more risk in my job and the growth in my Tesla stock will have set me up beautifully for such an early exit! The next 5 years is going to be very interesting to watch play out. Popcorn is ready!
Analysts missing by 80% was share price not earnings. I bet their earnings estimates were not far out but the share price is a measure of buyers to sellers. Too many buyers, share price goes up. Too many sellers, share price goes down. This is why Tesla shares over a 4 year period went from peak to trough and back to peak when you yourself said the fundamentals of the company hadn’t changed. In fairness to analysts, easy to value a company but harder to guess share price when it is based purely on sentiment!
Imagine this: you’re sipping coffee on a balcony overlooking a city skyline or lounging on a pristine beach, all while your investments are working their magic. With copytrading, you can finally pursue your passions, travel the world, and create unforgettable memories with your loved ones. It’s all thanks to the power of copytrading and the life you’ve always dreamed of!
I have still to hear anyone talking about the gigantic market that autonomous robots will take understand where the money is coming from. It is the salaries of the people who would buy the products and services that the robots would produce. So they destroy their own market. There will be no customers. You can't just look on one side of the equation, but still these super smart billionaires do just that. I am all for humanoid robots and automation, but this seems to be an enormous blind spot in the analysis.
In my opinion, I think we will not get any rate cuts until something financially or psychologically breaks in the market. I believe the fed is trying to give it's self room to act when it's appropriate to, however, wall street is trying to bully the fed into a corner. Wall street wants lower rates to boost market valuations at the cost of higher inflation for the average middle class consumer. As how unpopular my opinion may be, I think the market and the economy needs to go through a recession to reset everyones sky high expectations and fix the psychological around the inflation argument.for me Bitcoin is the ultimate defence against a tyrannical government.r.. I would like to thank Kerrie Farrell community for being my source of crypto education as I comfortably earned 12.7 BTC. So now I'm ready for New Year....
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!summarize #losangeles #weather #winds #wildfires
!summarize #wildfire #losangeles #county
!summarize #losangeles #california #fire #winds
When menial jobs are handled by robots. The lowest paid employees become unemployed and unnecessary. Worthless? How do they live? Then scale up to midline or office work to become automated truly paperless, the middle class will die. Who will pay to keep society alive and worth living? What point does money become unnecessary? Unneeded? Or as in the now capitalistic plutocracy, the vast majority become undesirable, become the walking dead.
!summarize #winds #losangeles #wildfires
When a patient receives medical care in the U.S., it kicks off a notoriously complex billing process. Providers like hospitals, health systems or ambulatory care facilities submit an invoice called a claim to an insurance company, and the insurer will approve or deny the claim based on whether or not it meets the company's criteria for reimbursement.
If a claim is denied, patients are often responsible for covering the cost out-of-pocket. More than 450 million claims are denied each year, and denial rates are rising, Waystar said.
Providers can ask insurers to reevaluate claim denials by submitting an appeal letter, but drafting these letters is a time-consuming and expensive process that doesn't guarantee a different outcome.
!summarize #karenbass #losangeles #mayor #wildfire
Hawkins said that while there's been a lot of discussion around claims denials recently, AltitudeCreate has been in the works at Waystar for the last six to eight months. The company announced an AI-focused partnership with Google Cloud in May, and automating claims denials was one of the 12 use cases the companies planned to explore.
Waystar has also had a denial and appeal management software module available for several years, Hawkins added.
AltitudeCreate is one tool available within a broader suite of Waystar's AI offerings called AltitudeAI, which the company also unveiled on Monday. AltitudeCreate rolled out to organizations that are already using Waystar's denial and appeal management software modules earlier this month at no additional cost, the company said.
!summarize #markzuckerberg #meta #jimmykimmel #hollywood
Waystar plans to make the feature more broadly available in the future.
"In the face of all of this administrative waste in health-care where provider organizations are understaffed and don't have time to even follow up on a claim when it does get denied, we're bringing software to bear that helps to automate that experience," Hawkins said.
"Without a strong partner like Amazon and AWS to stand alongside them, to co-develop and support these companies … it's not going to move as fast as we hope," Chris Bischoff, head of global health-care investing at General Catalyst, told CNBC in an interview.
Health systems are strained in the U.S., with staff burnout, growing labor shortages and razor-thin margins. These challenges often seem enticing for enterprising tech startups to tackle, especially as the multi-trillion dollar health-care industry dangles the prospect of large financial returns.
!summarize #lucasfilm #disney #starwars #hollywood
Hospitals operate in a complex, technology-weary and highly-regulated sector that can be difficult for startups to break into. General Catalyst is hoping to help its companies fast-track the development and go-to-market process by leveraging resources like computing power from AWS.
General Catalyst is no stranger to taking big swings in health-care.
The firm has closed more than 60 digital health deals since 2020, behind only Gaingels and Alumni Ventures, according to a December report from PitchBook. Last January, General Catalyst shocked the industry by announcing that its new business, the Health Assurance Transformation Company, planned to acquire an Ohio-based health system – an unprecedented move in venture capital.
!summarize #deaths #losangeles #wildfires
General Catalyst's "deep understanding" of health systems' financial and operating realities made it an attractive partner for AWS, Dan Sheeran, AWS' general manager of Healthcare & Life Science, told CNBC. Sheeran and Bischoff began outlining the collaboration between the two groups after meeting in London around nine months ago.
AWS also has an established presence in the health-care sector. The company offers more health- and life-sciences-specific services than any other cloud provider, according to a release, and it inked other high-profile AI partnerships with GE HealthCare, Philips and others last year.
!summarize #palisades #wildfire #california #winds
The partnership between General Catalyst and AWS will stretch over several years, but new tools from Aidoc and Commure are coming in 2025. Aidoc is exploring how it can use the cloud to tap data modalities across pathology, cardiology, genomics and other molecular information, for instance.
Aidoc and Commure were selected to kick off the collaboration because they have both established a product-market fit, are operational and are focused on issues that are a high priority for AWS customers.
"GC has spent a lot of time thinking about how health systems can transform themselves, and we recognize that it's not going to be through 1,000 companies, and we need solutions that are really enterprise grade," Bischoff said. "Amazon shares the same vision, so we are starting with these two."
!summarize #winds #losangeles #wildfires #california
Though the partnership between General Catalyst and AWS is still in its early days, the organizations said they believe it will help serve as a way to meet the market's growing demand for new solutions.
"Health system leaders who want to realize the benefits of AI now have an easier way to accomplish that," Sheeran said.
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!summarize #ronnyjackson #congress #texas #california #money
Blue Origin has been preparing to launch New Glenn for a few weeks now, and finally rolled the 320-foot-tall rocket out to its launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida on January 9. At that point, the company was targeting a launch on January 12. But over the weekend, the company pushed that target date back one day in order to increase the odds of successfully landing New Glenn’s booster.
New Glenn’s three-hour launch window began at 1AM ET on January 13. The company loaded propellant into the rocket. But it got stuck troubleshooting the unspecified subsystem issue and pushed the launch time back multiple times before calling it off. (Berger reported that it had to do with ice clogging a line that helps vent gas away from the rocket.)
!summarize #tigerwoods #tgl #golf #nba #ratings
Blue Origin has said the primary goal for New Glenn’s first launch is to “reach orbit safely,” and that anything beyond that “is icing on the cake.” Should New Glenn reach orbit, the rocket will be carrying a demonstrator of its Blue Ring spacecraft, which the company wants to use as a building block for a larger space-based economy.
Sean O’Kane is a reporter who has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the transportation industry, including Tesla and the many startups chasing Elon Musk. Most recently, he was a reporter at Bloomberg News where he helped break stories about some of the most notorious EV SPAC flops. He previously worked at The Verge, where he also covered consumer technology, hosted many short- and long-form videos, performed product and editorial photography, and once nearly passed out in a Red Bull Air Race plane.
Suat Gedikli and Ryan Kottenstette founded Mountain View, California-based Cape in 2014. Kottenstette was previously a senior engineer at BMW, then a principal at Khosla, while Gedikli was a research engineer at robotics tech incubator Willow Garage.
Through partnerships with geospatial image providers, Cape obtains satellite images, then applies in-house algorithms to extract structured data, like whether a property has solar panels and the condition of a roof, and transform it into a structured property information database.
!summarize #elonmusk #tesla
Kottenstette claims that nearly half of top property insurers, as well as some of the world’s leading banks, use Cape to inform their pricing and underwriting strategies.
Cape managed to raise $75 million in venture capital from investors including Formation 8, Pivot Investment Partners, and State Farm Ventures prior to its exit, and the company is cash-flow positive and profitable, according to Kottenstette.
Kottenstette said in a blog post that he believes Moody’s, combined with Cape, can bring “a much deeper set” of solutions to carriers’ underwriting workflows and “enable a much more complete view” of risk. Moody’s customers can expect more in-depth, property-specific data, Kottenstette added, including building characteristics, average annual loss estimates, valuations, and more.
Tiger Woods new golf league the TGL...made its debut on ESPN last Tuesday night. The TGL debuted with impressive ratings...and Tiger Woods will made his TGL debut tomorrow night. The TGL will be competing directly against the NBA...and we believe that Tiger Woods and the TGL will outdraw the NBA.
We reveal and react to the debut ratings of the TGL. We discuss the matchups the NBA will be presenting on TNT tomorrow night...and explain why the NBA will be at an extreme disadvantage competing against Tiger Woods and the TGL.
“Moody’s access to broader, more diverse information gives us the ability to further broaden and deepen Cape solutions with the inclusion of additional, orthogonal, risk-relevant input data,” Kottenstette wrote. “Moody’s global scale could accelerate our expansion into international markets, [and its] footprint with financial stakeholders beyond insurance carriers may accelerate the adoption of Cape’s offerings within the mortgage ecosystem and those of other financial stakeholders.”
Cape is Moody’s first acquisition in 2025 — and its 23rd acquisition to date, according to funding database Tracxn. Cape adds to Moody’s other property-insurance-related mergers and acquisitions, including Praedicat, a provider of casualty insurance analytics, and RMS, a climate and natural disaster risk modeling firm.
!summarize #billmaher #joncryer #race
!summarize #denver #mall #stabbing #arrest #crime
Today, I’m pleased to share that CAPE has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Moody’s. This is an exciting milestone after a decade of company-building. Since founding CAPE Analytics 10 years ago, we have developed a leading artificial intelligence platform that delivers proprietary, instant, and accurate risk insights for property at the individual address level—at a global scale. Today, nearly half of the top 50 U.S. property insurers, as well as some of the world’s leading banks, look to CAPE to help them align their pricing and underwriting of properties with their business strategy.
Along the way, I’ve felt fortunate to lead a fantastic team through a grand adventure filled with rich, unique experiences, including both Type 1 and Type 2 fun. Type 1 fun – enjoyable in the moment – included seeing our product become the market leader, setting sales records, successful capital raises, and working with many wonderful colleagues – in some cases celebrating weddings and the arrival of newborn children. Type 2 fun – difficult in the moment but rewarding in retrospect – included surviving a global pandemic, navigating the rapid interest rate increases of 2022 and 2023, and managing our transition to cashflow positive & profitable growth.
!summarize #flightattendent #stabbing #murder #denver
Today, CAPE has established a strong business with a set of unique capabilities that offer our clients important advantages:
We have built what we believe is the strongest AI team in the business, including many team members with PhDs or advanced degrees in math, physics, or related hard sciences.
We have developed proprietary models which, in carrier test after carrier test, are shown to be the most predictive of risk, and have been developed and trained on a broad set of input data.
We have been entrusted with a large body of proprietary loss information shared by many of our clients, which aid in our testing & development, ensuring that our models remain the most predictive of loss.
We’ve built a broad, deep, and long-tenured intellectual property portfolio.
Finally, we have a practice of proactive regulatory engagement resulting in a deep track record of approvals from State Departments of Insurance supporting our offerings.
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The net effect of this is something we think of as a flywheel of sorts: having established a broad and deep set of client relationships, we benefit from rich client feedback; while our leading AI platform and internal tools, in turn, enable us to iterate our product offerings with both speed and a high degree of impact.
Now, CAPE is beginning a new chapter as part of Moody’s, and I could not be more excited about the potential this holds. Moody’s is a unique partner for CAPE in several regards:
First, Moody’s – with its leading catastrophe modeling platform – offers a unique complement to CAPE’s address-level vulnerability and enables a much more complete view of risk.
Second, Moody’s global scale could accelerate our expansion into international markets.
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