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Innovamat tallies up $21M to reinvent math education

TechCrunch

It has been around since 2017, operating initially in Spain before expanding to Italy and several countries in Latin America (Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Brazil and Peru). Innovamat will be using the funding to expand its business. Most recently, it started its first K-5 pilots in the U.S., in New Jersey.

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Terraformation gets $30M to fight climate change with rapid reforesting

TechCrunch

Terraformation’s goal is to restore three billion acres of global native forest ecosystems by scaling tree replanting projects in parallel, scaling the use of existing techniques, and working with all the partners it can. For a little context, the U.S. contains some 2.27BN acres of total land area, per Wikipedia ).

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Google Research, 2022 & beyond: Research community engagement

Google Research AI blog

In 2022, we expanded our research interactions and programs to faculty and students across Latin America , which included grants to women in computer science in Ecuador. Minerva incorporates recent prompting and evaluation techniques to better solve mathematical questions.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ecuador President Rafael Correa and Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo complete the top five list. Many of the techniques required to develop new socio–economic metrics drawing on social data are being pioneered by international development agencies, with citizen–led initiatives playing a pivotal role.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

TechCrunch

DeepMind is using techniques from AlphaGo, DeepMind’s AI system that was the first to defeat a professional human player at the board game Go, to make a ChatGPT-rivaling chatbot called Gemini. But the latter are harder — if not impossible — to run today. Apple is developing AI tools to challenge OpenAI, Google and others.

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