Editor’s note:Let’s roundup the top Houston innovation news from the week. Trending Houston tech and startup articles on InnovationMap included introducing the Texas Medical Center’s ongoing cohort, generative AI at Baylor College of Medicine, and more. TMC names latest cohort of health tech innovators for 2024 program Here are the eight companies currently being accelerated … Read more
Google has announced significant updates to its new artificial intelligence (AI), Gemini. Google CEO Sundar Pichai claimed that Gemini has evolved beyond just models to support an entire ecosystem that includes everyday products, APIs, and platforms aiding developers and businesses. The new Ultra 1.0 model will be taking on OpenAI’s GPT-4 which powers the paid version … Read more
You don’t need to drill a hole in your head and implant a microchip in order to lose weight. There are much safer ways of slimming down—including a new class of very promising drugs that make weight-control brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) seem downright perilous in comparison. Conspiracy-peddling billionaire Elon Musk raised the prospect of computer-chip-aided weight-loss … Read more
To the horror and delight of her viewers, one TikTok user is giving rise and grind a whole new meaning. A college student who goes by “MACK Z” on the app closely documents their eccentric nutrition habits, including waking up at around 3 a.m., snacking on raw liver, and drinking fresh coffee mixed with a … Read more
December 4, 2023 Two Iowa-based insurtech conveners create a network of entrepreneurial support Iowa’s insurance industry is synonymous with innovation and collaboration – guiding principles shared by two global insurance accelerators operating in the state. Started in 2014 as the first-of-its-kind in the world, the Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA) has provided insurtech startups with the … Read more
Forum 2023 was held Wikipedia; .Stadler/Bwag On December 1, 2023, at the close of the 15th Annual Global Drucker Forum 2023 in the Hofberg Palace in Vienna, Austria, the Founder and President of the Forum, Richard Straub, made an unusual announcement. Instead of the traditional Drucker Forum announcement of the following year’s topic, he announced … Read more
This article has been edited since it first appeared in print. The college experience often follows a pattern: Students decide on a school, choose a major, snag an internship and, fingers crossed, land a job in their field after graduation — perhaps with a little partying squeezed in along the way. But in recent years, … Read more
GREENWICH, England — Call it the anti-Davos — a major conference where right-wing populists take aim at liberal elites and plan their revolution. Some of the most powerful people in Western politics joined forces for the first Alliance for Responsible Citizenship Conference (ARC) in southeast London this week, from U.S. presidential hopefuls and former Australian … Read more
Ukiah, California, Oct. 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The City of Ukiah, the Ukiah Valley Fire Authority (UVFA), and Pano AI, a leader in early wildfire detection, unveiled a new partnership to deploy Pano AI’s technology in the City of Ukiah to help safeguard the community from the threat of wildfire. This partnership is Pano … Read more
Investment led by Telstra Ventures with participation from KPMG LLP and SYN Ventures COMPANY NEWS: Cranium the leading enterprise AI security and trust software firm, today announced it has raised US$25 million in Series A funding. Telstra Ventures led the round with participation from KPMG LLP and SYN Ventures. Both participating investors previously provided seed … Read more