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Melinda French Gates’ mentor on lifting up women
There is no doubt that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the most influential philanthropies in the world. Despite co-founder Melinda French Gates’s resignation and a new $1 billion pledge to initiatives supporting women, girls, and reproductive rights, there’s a lot to learn from her leading role in the foundation. In April, Yahoo Finance sat down with Patty Stonesifer, French Gates’ friend, mentor, and founding CEO of the Gates Foundation, who also once served as interim CEO of the Washington Post. French Gates and Stonesifer met at Microsoft (MSFT). Reflecting back on their days at the tech company, Stonesifer said she and French Gates leaned on each other in the face of the company’s male-dominated leadership. When asked to join the Gates Foundation, Stonesifer said the opportunity was “just irresistible.” To see the full Lead This Way episode, click here.
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The Top US Economic Indicator Every Investor Should Know
We recently compiled a list of the Top 15 U.S. Economic Indicators Every Investor Should Know and in this article we will talk about the top US economic indicator every investor should know. Why Invest in Stocks? There are a variety of investing options available including stocks, bonds and real estate. However, investing in stocks […]
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New AI battle adopts old price war strategy as Chinese tech giants keep start-ups at bay behind the Great Firewall
In the 18 months since Microsoft-backed OpenAI launched ChatGPT, Chinese tech firms large and small have rallied around a singular goal - besting the San Francisco-based start-up with their own Chinese-language chatbots. The results have been mixed, with some tech giants claiming to have better results than GPT-4, OpenAI's most advanced model, with Chinese queries. But with a deluge of more than 200 Chinese large language models (LLMs) - the tech powering these chatbots - from a slew of companie
