SheltieDad

@sheltiedad

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SheltieDad@sheltiedad· 1d

Setting up Too Big To Fail 2.0

Wall Street big names join Nvidia to build $500bn Al financing package
• Landmark lending plan • Big data centre push • Chipmaker's shares wobble • Private capital cultivated

The largest financial groups are working with Nvidia to assemble a $500bn funding package for Al infrastructure devel-opment, in one of Wall Street's most ambitious lending efforts.

A consortium including Apollo Global, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR is entering a partnership with Nvidia to invest in developing Al data centres, six people briefed on the talks told the FT.
The deal was set to be announced imminently, they said. The chipmaker's shares fell about 2.5 per cent after the FT reported the arrangement.

The partnership underscores Nvidia's growing efforts to raise capital for itself

The $5.25tn company has positioned itself at the centre of the Al boom, providing chips, infrastructure and software to a wide array of partners developing the technology. Nvidia's graphics processing units, or GPUs, underpin most of the leading US Ai models.

The chipmaker often provides financial backing to help its Al partners raisedebt in capital markets, which helps. boost Nvidia's own revenue. However, the circular nature of such transactions has raised concerns about concentrated risks in the sector.

Separately, Nvidia is in talks to provide a guarantee for a 10GW data centre in Ohio leased to OpenAl, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The Wall Street deal shows how Nvidia is building relationships with the giants of the private capital industry, which are collectively preparing to invest trillions of dollars of their insur-ance, retail and institutional investor assets into Al infrastructure.

In recent years, private capital groups such as Apollo and Blackstone have structured Al infrastructure deals to help companies such as Anthropic finance their heavy spending on chips and data centres.
dominate the emerging technology
Apollo, Blackstone, Brookfield, B…

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· 2d

Summer in New England is not too shabby at all #Shelties

Shelties in the shade of a picnic table.

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· 5d

Great news to start the day. This can’t go wrong.

Al creates synthetic viruses as biology confronts its Wright brothers moment'
CLIVE COOKSON - LONDON
Scientists in the US have used artificial intelligence to create viruses unknown in nature, a milestone in synthetic biology that promises benefits for healthcare but also raises important biosafety and biosecurity concerns.
Stanford University researchers developed a generative Al programme called Evo 2 that writes new genomes - the genetic instructions for life encoded in
DNA.
They used it to design and make 16 synthetic phages, small viruses that infect bacteria. Phages are sometimes used instead of antibiotic drugs to kill bacteria causing disease.
When tested in their secure lab, the researchers found that these novel phages were more effective at killing the common microbe E. coli than a natural phage that served as a template for Evo 2 to work on. The results were published in Science.
"Our study is a proof of concept showing for the first time that generative design can generate entire functional genomes," said Brian Hie, the project leader: "We chose to work with phages because they are small viruses, well studied, and have broad applications in molecular biology and therapeutics." The approach could be extended to larger organisms such as bacteria and then to more complex forms of life, he
"The importance of Brian Hie's landmark paper cannot be overstated," said Adrian Woolson, a genomics expert who is chief executive of DNA synthesis company Genyro.
"It is biology's Wright brothers moment, where we stop looking over
World Markets
our shoulder at the entities that evolution has created... and are confronted with the vast expanses of future biological possibility!"
For safety, the initial Stanford study was based on a non-pathogenic strain of
E. coli and used a genomic language model that was not trained on viruses capable of infecting the more complex cells that make up animals and plants.
However, the technology could in future encompass a much wider range…

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· 9d

Looks like Iran isn’t the only one shutting down shipping channels. Climate change is too: Gift link

The canal authority has warned clients that the chances of a severe El Niño system had risen to 81% from 25%. For now the canal authority is taking the first steps toward cutting capacity to around 34 vessels a day, down from its normal 36.

But more severe restrictions could be in store, given the history of how El Niño impacts the Panama Canal. In 2023 and 2024, the last time there was an El Niño pattern, transports were sometimes cut in half to 18 a day. This El Niño could be even more extreme than the last one.

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· 11d

My little love. A beautiful stanza in the poem of life. #sheltie

A sable shetland sheepdog enjoy a grassy summer field

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· 17d

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· 20d

@ebwood.bsky.social @beyerstein.bsky.social thank you both for giving me this on my timeline

Guardian headline: Guardian
@theguardian... • 10h
Orcas seen ramming prey so hard it explodes may be playing game

Followed by: Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bs... • 3h
Nor have I been at all sparing of historical whale research, when it has seemed needed.

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· Jul 10

My favorite:

Baude: I agree that we are in unprecedented times, maybe even a constitutional crisis, but if we survive it, the court deserves no small share of the credit.
Vladeck: Exactly the same credit we might give to the arsonist who shows up with a fire extinguisher.

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· Jun 29

The wheelchair crew at Tanglewood for Paul Simon. Pretty beautiful. People from 5 to 95.

Dozens of Tanglewood workers prepare the wheelchairs for Paul Simon’s audience

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· Jun 25

This is huge cause every decent public place in the South has dozens of “No Firearms Allowed” signs at the doors and gates. And it gives normal people a slight feeling of “safety”

Two “No Firearms Allowed” signs from random places. I think the second picture may be from a Civil War battlefield National Historical Park

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· Jun 14

East Cambridge/Elmendorf Baking Festival is a heckuva delicious event.

Tri-color Sheltie in front of East Cambridge’s famous LIVE POULTRY Fresh KILLED sign

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· Jun 14

Boston’s @mayorwu.boston.gov wore the banned shirt. And got a shout-out from Mbappe

Mayor Wu at the Team Haiti celebration wearing the original Haiti uniform that FIFA banned

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· Jun 13

This beautiful

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· Jun 13

Look at @MayorWu wearing the banned Haitian uniform #Haiti #WorldCup

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· Jun 12

You can’t fail your way out of that club. Today’s Financial Times

Ruemmler to advise Goldman on her replacement–FT

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· Jun 9

Chickie at home

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· May 31

Afternoon Chickadee visit #Birds

Chickadee perched on outdoor string of lights.

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· May 28

He’s modernizing the teachings of this man:

4th century Mosaic portrait of Saint Ambrose of Milan

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· May 23

Old shelties are one of life’s most beautiful gifts

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· May 18

It’s a 24/7/365 non-stop scam operation from the Trump family.

Trump Jr venture firm touts 'patriotic capitalism' after assets surge to $3.5bn
FINANCIAL TIMES ALEX ROGERS - WASHINGTON
GEORGE HAMMOND - SAN FRANCISCO

Donald Trump Jr's venture capital firm is building an investment empire around "patriotic capitalism", in the latest effort by an entity tied to the president's family to capitalise on his America-first agenda.
1789 Capital, which counts Trump Jrasa partner, told the FT that its assets under management had jumped from $200mn to $3.5bn over the past year after going on a dealmaking spree with many of the leading privately held Al companies. Paul Abrahimzadeh, a 1789 Capital partner, said the goal was to reach $10bn in the next few years.

He pitched the firm as a new Carlyle Group, the investment firm known for its contacts in Washington and once nicknamed "the ex-president's club" after previously counting George HW
Bush as an adviser.
"Understanding the political landscape is important when you're allocating capital," said Abrahimzadeh. "If you're sitting in [Silicon] Valley, it may not be a core competency but founders want and need to understand geopolitical and macro factors that impact their businesses."

The plans for Florida-based 1789 Cap-ital, which Abrahimzadeh described as building a "generational American financial platform", are the latest example of how entities with ties to Donald Trump's family are benefiting from the president's policies, particularly his vocal support for Al and defence companies.

Abrahimzadeh said the "enduring thesis" of 1789 Capital was to "only invest in America".
"We were the first fund to commit to driving American exceptionalism in the private market: "Patriotic Capitalism"," he said.

Over the past year, 1789 Capital has bought stakes in some of the most sought-after late-stage private compa-nies: software company Databricks, expense management start-up Ramp, HR platform Deel, data centre company Crusoe, chip designer Grog and frontier lab Reflection Al, according to Pitch…

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· May 7

The US doesn’t need to worry about the Strait of… …oh oh our oil companies are selling American! Oil to the rest of the world!?!

Today’s Financial Times front page: Record US fuel exports yield bonanza for oil groups but pose risk to Trump

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· May 1

There was major news this week.

Financial Times front page Thursday April 30. “Oil price surges after Trump warns he ‘does not want’ to lift blockade on Iran”

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· Apr 20

She’s 13 now but here’s a golden oldie.

The famous Motif #1.
No not the red boathouse in Rockport, MA. A sable sheltie licking her chops after a tasty treat.

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· Apr 20

Soul-touching deep brown eyes look wistfully at something…most likely a treat. While a sable shelter poses on a green shag carpeted chair? It doesn’t matter. Just pure beauty.

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· Apr 9

A month ago Trump announced a new $300 billion refinery. The guy building “America First Refining” has proposed and failed same thing three times. The major backer India’s Relient Industries committed…$40M. Everything is a scam with this guy.

$Trump's 'historic $300bn refinery deal' attracts scrutiny after $40mn outlay FT REPORTERS A Texas refinery trumpeted by President Donald Trump as a "historic $300bn deal" will involve a modest initial outlay of about $40mm by Reliance Industries, according to two people familiar with the matter. The project in Brownsville is intended to be the first new refinery in the US for 50 years. But more than three weeks after Trump thanked Reliance for its "tre-mendous investment", India's largest company has made no public announcement. The reason, according to those in India familiar with the project's details, is that Reliance's initial investment will be only a fraction of Trump's headline figure and does not reach the bar for a stock exchange notification. Reliance Industries said it could not provide specifics because of strict confidentiality agreements. It added: "Reliance group has investment and will be involved in various aspects of the Brownsville refinery." Trump unveiled the project from a little-known company called America First Refining on Truth Social in March. AFR said that it had "received a nine-figure investment from a global super-major at a 10-figure valuation".$

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· Apr 7

An Iranian response to “civilization will end”

Photography by Gohar Dashti shows flowers growing inside a home abandoned during the Iran-Iraq war

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· Apr 4

Great Britain’s electric grid may run fossil fuel free this weekend!

Times of London mountain charts showing steep decline in use of fossil fuels in Great Britain from 2010 (70-80%) to 2025 (25%)

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· Apr 4

We’re better together

Through the impasse, the New England union had only a 6 percent callout rate, compared to 30 to 40 percent at some airports, Gayzagian said, while the officers toiled without pay. Of the 1,000 TSA officers represented by his local, only around 30 quit their jobs in February and March.
Inspired in part by social media, travelers gave gift cards to the workers, usually by providing the donations to TSA management or the union.
Airport concessionaires gave officers free food, and Massport provided gas cards and waived parking fees. The Greater Boston Food Bank connected the union to New England food banks so the TSA officers could find local resources.
"The public support was really quite amazing,"
Gayzagian said.

SheltieDad@sheltiedad· Mar 10

Thanks Trump!