Emily Messer inaugurated as Texas Wesleyan University’s 21st president
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Emily W. Messer, the first female president in the 134-year history of Texas Wesleyan University, was inaugurated on Friday during a ceremony at the Martin University Center. Messer started in July 2023, coming from Jacksonville State in Alabama, where she was the vice president for advancement and enrollment management. She has spent two decades in higher education and is the university’s 21st president.
Go Digit, an Indian insurance startup, has raised $141 million from dozens of investors as part of an initial public offering that starts on Wednesday. Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Bay Pond, Mirae Asset Management, Steadview Capital, and HSBC, as well as Indian mutual funds operated by SBI, ICICI, Axis, Tata and Edelweiss served as anchor backers for the IPO, Go Digit disclosed in a filing to the stock exchange.
Climate change is not just about removing carbon from the atmosphere or making more fuel efficient cars. It’s also about the food we eat. It recently closed on $187 million in capital commitments for its PeakBridge Growth Fund II to invest in innovation in those areas.
Accion, a global nonprofit, announced on Tuesday the launch of the Accion Digital Transformation Fund, a $152.5 million fund for large financial institutions, including microfinance serving small businesses currently excluded from the world’s financial system. The firm said in a statement that it will provide growth capital and strategic support to these companies for “digital transformation.” For over six decades, the nonprofit has been active in the financial services sector: first, by developing and scaling solutions tailored to small business orders, smallholder farmers, and women; second, by providing investments and advisory services to traditional financial institutions and microfinance companies, which in turn create accessible products.
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's longtime chief scientist and one of its co-founders, has left the company. "This is very sad to me; Ilya is easily one of the greatest minds of our generation, a guiding light of our field, and a dear friend," Altman said. Replacing Sutskever is Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI's director of research.
It ran 110 minutes, but Google managed to reference AI a whopping 121 times during Google I/O 2024 (by its own count). CEO Sundar Pichai referenced the figure to wrap up the presentation, cheekily stating that the company was doing the "hard work" of counting for us. Gemini and its various iterations stole the spotlight (after preshow warmup act Marc Rebillet was finished with it).
Google says it has developed a new family of generative AI models "fine-tuned" for learning: LearnLM. A collaboration between Google's DeepMind AI research division and Google Research, LearnLM models — built on top of Google's Gemini models — are designed to "conversationally" tutor students on a range of subjects, Google says. LearnLM is already powering features across Google products, including in YouTube, Google's Gemini apps, Google Search and Google Classroom.
Mobile app developers, including Patreon and Grammarly, are already integrating with Gemini Nano, its smallest AI model, the company announced during the Google I/O 2024 developer keynote on Tuesday. The companies, along with other select developers, were invited to work with Gemini Nano through an early access program announced last year, the company said. In the coming months, Google says it will open up the Gemini Nano model to more developers.
First Lady of California Jennifer Siebel Newsom and US Women's National Team member Tobin Heath sat down at the MAKERS Conference to discuss the gender wage gap and the work that is being done to close it.
On today's episode of the Exempt List, John Shipley of Jaguar Report joins Charles McDonald to talk about Jared Goff's huge extension, Trevor Lawrence's contract situation, Antoine Winfield Jr. becoming the highest paid defensive back ever, and the Falcons questionable offseason.
Gottlieb's repeatedly courted controversy in his media role and will reportedly continue to host his nationally syndicated radio show while coaching Green Bay.
It’s that moment you’ve been waiting for all year: Google I/O keynote day! Google kicks off its developer conference each year with a rapid-fire stream of announcements, including many unveilings of recent things it's been working on.