Budapurst Events

Eccentric tastemaker | Finance Professional @BrenhamZA |

[Budapurst Events @erohtindall]

I stand with myself in these prosperous times🤝

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[Derick @whoaitsderick]

Odysseus spent 7 YEARS at his side chick house, came back home and blamed it on Poseidon 😭😭😭

[Afrikaaner 🇳🇦 @joicehawkings]

Instead of changing the behavior that got them banned in the first place, they advice each other to go ruin another country instead

[Mark Barnes @mark_barnes56]

🇿🇦When people don’t know what they’re doing things get broken … ☹️😡🇿🇦

[Arvind Vaitheeswaran @arvindv]

At 22, Uber sent me to launch cities across India. Week 1: we were setting pricing in a Tier-2 town. Someone said “mark Travis.” Thought they were joking. Did it anyway. An hour later, he replied with questions + observations about a market he’d never been to. All 100% accurate.

[Parker Conrad @parkerconrad]

If Anthropic is right and distillation is impossible to prevent, it follows that the strategic value of anyone opening a lead on frontier model capabilities is short-lived, and national security arguments for protectionism fall apart. If china pulls ahead we can distill them!

[Geoffrey York @geoffreyyork]

A horrific account. “I thought having a passport and permit would save me, but no, I was wrong. I wanted to kill myself. I have lost hope" -- a fully documented foreigner whose home in Soweto was torched by an anti-migrant mob. From a report today by Doctors Without Borders.

[xo.kelo🍒 @Kelo_Mile1]

Sending money back home as the daughter that lives abroad🫶🏻❤️

[Enkosi @_Nkosiiii]

If you're chronically online you'll understand why the Chicken inn Sam Levy's drive through is experiencing VERY HIGH sales lately😂😭

[Null @Vhoyde]

The same ones who couldn't afford bus tickets home? Aight man.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇨🇳 The Pentagon has declared two of China’s top universities—Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University—a threat to U.S. national security, placing both on its blacklist.

[KUTT THROAT⚔️ @Gatsoxo]

Yall love saying BS like this but in reality no rich person wants to put on a brokie

[Has Ahmed @HasAhmed_]

Loooool referrals fees you know. Tell me there isn’t a recession looming when Dubai is offering £600 to refer a friend

[SF @SFAjayi]

This IMF paper on AI and Africa is really good.

So many gems inside

[newZWire @newswireZW]

Baraza Ventures, the company behind leading alcohol retailer Liquor Supplies, is buying Stables Winery, one of the country's largest wine importers, according to a competition filing.

Liquor Supplies, led by Ilan Wiesenbacher, launched in Bulawayo back in 2017.

The group already has a strong slice of Zimbabwe's drinks and dining scene, including Three Monkeys, Smokehouse, and JamTree.

[Bloomberg @business]

"London is compatible with our business."

Mariya Dangote, daughter of Africa's richest man and executive director of Dangote Group's cement and food businesses, tells @jennzaba why the cement unit is targeting London for its secondary listing https://t.co/klkp8ldEWL

[newZWire @newswireZW]

Another Mega takeover?

Mega Market is making a move on another big acquisition, this time Lobels Bakery.

The Competition and Tariff Commission says it is looking at whether the deal would "substantially lessen the degree of competition in Zimbabwe", and also "how the merging parties will operate should the transaction be approved by the Commission and any other related issues.”

Mega Market, owned by Shiraan Ahmed, is currently part of a joint bid for Dairibord.

Lobels would be an easy fit for Mega Market. Last year, it commissioned a US$25M flour mill in Mutare with capacity to process 300 tonnes of wheat a day. It plans to add a 450-tonne-per-day mill and a noodle line.

Lobels' shareholders include private equity firm Takura.

[Apple Hub @theapplehub]

Best look yet at Apple’s upcoming foldable iPhone with a dummy unit!

The iPhone Ultra is going to be amazing 🔥

[𝐊𝖆𝖇𝖊𝖑𝖔🀄️ @ShanksThfc]

She has to unlock that side of me

[Eazee @Eazee]

Years ago I pitched a YG cover to Complex. Months later it leaked online (blame a fellow blogger)…viral moment. YG retweeted, more viral. I was “called into the office” told it wasn’t a good look for the brand lol. Now years later, in time for today’s Verzuz…