Gates, Bezos, & Bloomberg team up to form a joint venture for natural resources
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https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Kobold
>Kobolds were aggressive, inward, yet industrious small humanoid creatures. They were noted for their skill at building traps and preparing ambushes, and mining. They were distantly related to dragons[9] and urds[10] and were often found serving as their minions.
>A kobold was a reptilian humanoid,[12] standing between 2' and 2'6" (60cm – 75cm) tall, weighing 35 to 45 pounds (16 – 20kg), with scaled skin between reddish brown and black in color and burnt orange to red eyes
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WTF were they thinkingk that a minion-like ML/AI resource hoarding company to serve their Human-esque overlords was a good idea:
> * KoBold's purpose is to discover and develop new ethical sources of the critical materials for electric vehicles. KoBold's objective is to make more discoveries of outstanding orebodies by drawing on world-class expertise in exploration geoscience and by developing full-stack exploration technology to use machine learning and other scientific computing techniques to enable highly effective exploration decision-making * Principal investors in KoBol