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MATR Newsletter – August 12, 2024
The state with the best education wins!




TODAY

City Club Missoula – AI Under the Big Sky: Reviewing the Current State of Artificial Intelligence Monday, August 12, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the latest trend in information technology, driving significant national investment as tech companies race to integrate “intelligent” tools into their products. What does this mean for Missoula?



Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony.  However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.

(Wed. is Pie Night in Missoula)


Today’s MATR Newsletter is sponsored by:

Come Home Montana

MEDA -Montana Economic Developers Association

Great Falls Development Alliance

  • GFDA Top Ten for 8-11-24

    Enjoyed meeting with some important federal and private sector leaders who visited Great Falls this week in regard to significant future projects. Meetings went very well. Have a fantastic week!

    Brett

Montana’s Headwaters Tech Hub

  • Seize Opportunities with Montana’s Tech Hub, Networking Social, New Partners & More

    Success! MPQA’s Integrated Photonics Ecosystem (IPE) component project of the Headwaters Tech Hub was selected for funding. The IPE project will bring silicon photonics capacities to Montana in partnership with MPQA members PHIX and Montana State University enabling the next evolution of commercial photonics sensors deployed in autonomous systems.

Montana Business

Montana Businesses Seeking Investment or For Sale

  • Missoula’s Riverfront Triangle property is for sale

    Missoula’s Riverfront Triangle property is a rare opportunity in one of the west’s quickly growing cities. Zoned for mixed-use development, the five acre site can be used for high density office, retail, hospitality and residential.

Biotech

  • Autism in boys linked to common plastic exposure in the womb

    Prenatal exposure to higher levels of bisphenol A, a plastic commonly found in water bottles and packaging and known to leach into our foods and drinks, has been linked to autism spectrum disorder in boys, according to a new study that also identified the biological mechanism underlying this link.

Funding and Building your Business

  • Is Google a monopoly? The story of Sergey and Larry

    Larry Page and Sergey Brin never liked hanging with reporters. “Larry can be a very sensitive and good person, but he has major trust issues and few social graces,” a former Google PR person once told me. “Sergey has social graces but doesn’t trust people who he thinks don’t approach his level of intelligence.”

The Creative and Cultural Economy

  • The Vermont miracle: How one local platform is rewriting the rules of social media

    At New_ Public, we believe that the design of online social platforms — and what they choose to prioritize — is a big factor in shaping the content, behavior, and real-world impacts of these spaces. Our theory has always been that if digital products and services utilized less extractive business models and were designed to be more prosocial, this would lead to more public-spirited, positive offline outcomes.

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Careers

Transportation



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