| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.01.2024 | First look: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt launches new science charity | Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy are spinning out a new philanthropic venture called Schmidt Sciences to fund unconventional areas of exploration in science and tech.
Why it matters: The new organization evolved from the sc... |
| 14.12.2023 | OpenAI thinks superhuman AI is coming — and wants to build tools to control it | While investors were preparing to go nuclear after Sam Altman’s unceremonious ouster from OpenAI and Altman was plotting his return to the company, the members of OpenAI’s Superalignment team were assiduously plugging along on the problem o... |
| 03.11.2023 | Meet the founder: How Deep Science Ventures’ Dr. Thane Campbell built a PhD program for the deeptech era | All too often, well-trained PhDs wind up in a field that has nothing to do with their chosen discipline, says Dr. Thane Campbell, Dean of Deep Science Ventures‘ Venture Science Doctorate program. “People get disillusioned and then they’re n... |
| 15.08.2023 | First look: Eric Braverman leaves as CEO of Schmidt Futures | Eric Braverman is leaving as CEO of Schmidt Futures, the philanthropic initiative co-founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, to pursue his own charitable venture.
Why it matters: Schmidt Futures — with the mission of mobilizing talent and buildi... |
| 25.07.2023 | Recruitment startup inploi raises £1.35 million as it fixes the world of hiring | Today talent attraction technology scale-up,inploi, announced it raised a £1.35 million round to develop its growth team and accelerate the go-to-market strategy for its SaaS offering ahead of a planned expansion into the US.
inploi was fou... |
| 13.05.2023 | Why Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Is Betting Big On The $1T US Bioeconomy | John Cumbers, George Church, and Eric Schmidt at the SynBioBeta conference.SynBioBeta |
| 04.05.2023 | The Schmidt Science Fellows For 2023 Are Announced | Meet the Schmidt Science Fellows for 2023.Schmidt Science Fellows |
| 01.05.2023 | Trust Can Supersede Bureaucracy: When New York City and the United Nations Confronted Covid | United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres receiving his first Covid-19 vaccination at the ... [+] Adlai E. Stevenson High School in the Bronx, accompanied by NYC Commissioner for International Affairs Penny Abeywardena and NYC healt... |
| 24.01.2023 | Keep On Truckin’: The Inmate-Turned-CEO Changing Lives While Keeping America Moving | When Jason Wang was a teenager, he seemed destined for a prison cell, not the boardroom. Yet as ... [+] founding CEO of FreeWorld, he is breaking the cycle of poverty and recidivism.Jason Wang booking photo |
| 27.12.2022 | Inaugural $50,000 Quad Fellowships Awarded To 25 American Students | The inaugural class of 100 Quad Fellows from Australia, Japan, India and the United Sstes has been ... [+] announced. getty |
| 22.11.2022 | inCitu raised $2MM to democratize City Planning via Augmented Reality | 415-Madison-Ave-NYC "Cities worldwide must adapt fast and effectively to the 21st century urban changes. inCitu is poised to help democratize and revolutionize how citizens visualize the future of their own neighborhoods and cities&quo... |
| 20.11.2022 | Democracies Must Empower a Biotech Future for All | Editor’s Note: Although the science of biotechnology is moving forward at breakneck speed, regulation, diplomatic agreements, and other forms of control remain limited at best. Stanford University’s Megan Palmer, Georgetown’s Andrew Imbrie ... |
| 05.10.2022 | Schmidt Futures, Rhodes Trust and AIMS Announce Second Cohort of Rise Global Winners | Global Program Expands its Community of Next Generation Leaders to 22 New Countries
We celebrate our Ghanaian Global Winner, and look forward to continuing to empower them as they harness their talents and..., become the next generation of ... |
| 12.09.2022 | White House Unveils Strategy To Grow Trillion Dollar U.S. Bioeconomy | White House Inks Strategy to Grow Trillion Dollar US BioeconomyDall-e x John Cumbers |
| 10.06.2022 | The 2022 Cohort Of Schmidt Science Fellows Has Been Selected | Eric and Wendy Schmidt, co-founders of Schmidt Futures. The 2022 cohort of Schmidt Science Fellows ... [+] has been announced, featuring 29 recent PhD’s identified as some of the most outstanding early-career scientists in the world. www.sp... |
| 16.05.2022 | Why Providing Early Access To Software Engineering Internships Is Key To Bringing About Equity In Tech? | David Thompson, Tech Times 16 May 2022, 11:05 am
(Photo : ThisisEngineering RAEng on Unsplash)
Summer internships during college are becoming increasingly valuable opportunities not only for hand-on experience, but also for the possibility ... |
| 30.03.2022 | The real scandal behind billionaire Eric Schmidt paying for Biden’s science office | Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has faced a backlash since Politico reported earlier this week that he indirectly funds and wields unusually heavy influence over an important White House office tasked with advising President Joe Biden’s admi... |
| 17.03.2022 | Schmidt Futures Announces Opening of Applications for Quad Fellowship in partnership with Australia, India, Japan, and the United States | Applications Open Today for First-Of-Its-Kind Scholarship that Will Fund Master's and Doctoral Degrees for 100 Exceptional STEM Fellows from the Quad Nations
Fellows Will Receive Access to Unparalleled Benefits Including Tuition Support, Le... |
| 25.10.2021 | Schmidt Futures and Rhodes Trust Announce First Cohort of "Rise" Global Winners: These One Hundred 15 - 17 Year Olds Represent "Hidden Brilliance" Working in Service of Others | Hailing from 42 Countries, Winners Receive Access to a Lifetime of Benefits Including Scholarships, Mentorship, Career Development Opportunities, and Funding for Future Ventures for Public Benefit
Rise is the Anchor Program of a $1 Billion ... |
| 25.10.2021 | Schmidt Futures and Rhodes Trust Announce First Cohort of "Rise" Global Winners: These One Hundred 15 - 17 Year Olds Represent "Hidden Brilliance" Working in Service of Others | NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Schmidt Futures, in partnership with The Rhodes Trust, today announced the inaugural cohort of 100 Global Winners for Rise, a global initiative that finds brilliant people who need opportunity and sup... |
| 11.05.2021 | Former Google CEO Schmidt says AI ‘will have its biggest impact’ in health care | For the myriad applications of artificial intelligence, Eric Schmidt, the onetime Google CEO, sees one area where it’s poised to unleash the most sweeping changes.
“When I try to market the importance of AI, I say that AI will have its bigg... |
| 15.01.2021 | The Last Mile Education Fund is helping low-income women complete tech degrees | A car breaking down. Trouble making rent. Losing second (and third) jobs. Needing a laptop.
Those are just a few of the hurdles to complete software engineering degrees that a group of women talked about at a virtual event Wednesday. These ... |
| 14.01.2021 | Schmidt Futures Announces Applications Open For Rise, A Global Talent Program For Outstanding Young People Building A Better World | Rise seeks to identify talented young people, ages 15 to 17, from around the world who have the ... [+] potential to use their talents to tackle the world's most pressing issues.Schmidt Futures |
| 18.11.2020 | Techstars grad WattBuy raises $3.25M to help households shop for electricity providers | WattBuy founders Naman Trivedi and Ben Hood.(WattBuy Photo)
WattBuy raised $3.25 million to expand its database tool that collects and shares energy rates in unregulated states where residents and businesses can shop around for their electr... |
| 16.11.2020 | Schmidt Futures and Rhodes Trust Launch Global "Rise" Program to Find the Next Generation of Leaders and Support Them for Life
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| 24.03.2020 | ‘We didn’t follow through’: He wrote the Ebola ‘lessons learned’ report for Obama. Now he weighs in on coronavirus response | Christopher Kirchhoff knows how to assess the U.S. government’s response to a public health crisis.
Kirchhoff, an aide at the Pentagon who moved to the White House during the height of the West African Ebola outbreak, was tapped to write a ... |
| 09.05.2019 | Remake Learning Days Celebrate Hands-On Learning Through Free Events | Welcome to Remake Learning Days Across America (RLDAA), a celebration of nearly 850 hands-on learning events continuing to the end of May on topics relating to arts, making, the outdoors and technology. The majority of events are free, loca... |
| 10.04.2019 | Innovation Endeavors debuts Deep Life, an incubator focused on the intersection of life science and computer science | Innovation Endeavors, the fund backed by Google’s Eric Schmidt, has for years now been taking a novel approach to working on difficult and still-evolving problems, like cybersecurity and food shortages: it sets up incubators that bring toge... |
| 17.06.2018 | Inspire Idaho promotes low-cost tech training programs for both urban and rural residents | Tech executives like Google’s Sundar Pichai have become fond of saying that in the future, people will have to become continuous learners in order to keep up with the pace of technological change in the workforce. But many current workforce... |
| 17.06.2018 | Inspire Idaho promotes low-cost tech training programs for both urban and rural residents | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Tech executives like Google’s Sundar Pichai have ... |
| - | Eric Schmidt plans to give A.I. researchers $125 million to tackle ‘hard problems’ | The funding will aim to support research into “hard problems” in AI, including bias and safety.
It will be co-chaired by Schmidt, and James Manyika, Google’s new head of technology and society.
Payouts are set to be made to individual acade... |
| - | EGEB: Honolulu files lawsuit against 10 oil and gas companies | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Honolulu files a lawsuit against oil and gas companies for monetary damages due to climate change.
The US gets a public database that will comprehensively collect and maintain all electricity r... |
| - | Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the world's biggest problem: 'If we don't address climate change, we really will be toast' | Since leaving Google, Eric Schmidt has focused his energy on tackling big global problems — and none, he says, are as pressing as climate change.
"If we don't address climate change, we really will be toast," Schmidt, Google's for... |
| - | Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says he's invested 'a little bit' in crypto — but he's more interested in the future of Web3 | Ex-Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt says he's invested "a little bit" of money into cryptocurrencies — but for him, the most interesting part of blockchain isn't virtual currency. It's Web3.
"A new model [of the internet]... |
| - | Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt on working with Steve Jobs, handling criticism and finding his management style | This story is part of the Behind the Desk series, where CNBC Make It gets personal with successful business executives to find out everything from how they got to where they are to what makes them get out of bed in the morning to their dail... |
