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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Thread AI secures $20m to enhance AI workflows
Thread AI, a US-based composable AI infrastructure provider, has raised $20m in its Series A funding round. With the funding, the company aims to transform enterprise AI workflows using its core platform, Lemma. The round was led by Greycroft, with participation from Index Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Plug-and-Play, Meritech Capital, and Homebrew. Founded by former Palantir executives Angela McNeal and Mayada Gonimah, Thread AI offers enterprises the capability to design, deploy, and scale AI-powered workflows. The Lemma platform distinguishes itself from traditional RPA, ETL, or workflow engines by allowing rapid prototyping and deployment of event-driven, distributed AI workflows and agents. Lemma supports unlimited AI models, APIs, and applications within a single platform that is built with enterprise-grade security. This approach accelerates deployment, reduces operational burdens, and simplifies infrastructure while maintaining governance, observability, and seamless AI model upgrades. With these capabilities, Thread AI provides enterprises with the flexibility needed to adapt to the rapidly changing AI ecosystem. It also enhances cross-functionality, enabling organisations to unlock the full potential of AI across their operations. Thread AI emerged from stealth in October 2024, announcing the launch of Lemma and securing $6m in seed funding. Thread AI co-founder and CEO Angela McNeal said: 'Companies today face a frustrating dilemma when implementing AI, either settle for rigid, pre-built applications that force them to fit their business logic into a predefined structure, or invest heavily in talent, infrastructure, and engineering resources to build custom AI workflows from scratch. 'Thread AI offers a flexible platform that lets organizations build AI workflows suited to their operations—without compromising scalability or security.' "Thread AI secures $20m to enhance AI workflows" was originally created and published by Verdict, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Las Vegas grad working to change the world through equality, environmental justice
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Graduation season is around the corner, and 8 News Now is highlighting great grads from across the Las Vegas valley. Lena Lemma is trying to become the change she wants to see in the world. She said attending Faith Lutheran has shaped her interests including the arts and STEM. She's helped lead the school's multicultural club by creating a positive outlook, breaking racial barriers, and hosting a number of events including, food tasting and panel speakers. 'With these events, our main goal is to try to show our students that there are people from every race, every culture that do succeed in these fields,' Lemma stated. Lemma grew up in Ethiopia for the first six years of her childhood. In 2023, she traveled back to Ethiopia and interned at the National Institute of Education and got involved in the Higher Education Readiness (HER) program by helping young girls in rural Ethiopia pursue higher education. 'The HER program focuses on providing these girls supplies such as school books, mentors and teachers where they can go to school on a regular basis and be stable,' Lemma explained. She plans to attend the University of Toronto and study environmental chemistry and help improve drought conditions in other countries. 'My main goal in environmental chemistry is to find a way where we can combine modern technology with what we already do have with Indigenous practices that have been working in the past to create ways that these people in these harder situations survive in a more economically friendly way,' Lemma added. Lemma said focusing on her goals and being able to help others has pushed her to be better every day. 'It does make me proud that I'm getting one step closer each time I move on in my education,' beamed Lemma. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
USA Today
21-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Defending Boston Marathon champion Sisay Lemma drops out
Defending Boston Marathon champion Sisay Lemma drops out Editor's note: Follow along for the latest updates from the Boston Marathon with USA TODAY Sports live coverage. Defending Boston Marathon men's champion Sisay Lemma of Ethiopia will not repeat in 2025. Lemma, 34, surged to an early lead and held off the rest of the field to win last year's race, but he experienced issues with his leg around the 17-mile point as he fell off the pace on Monday. Television coverage showed Lemma stepping off the road and attempting to stretch out his leg. He did not appear to rejoin the pack. One of the favorites in this year's race, Lemma had the fastest personal best in the men's field, having run a 2:01:48 in Valencia, Spain in 2023. The Boston Marathon continues on the 26.2-mile course from Hopkinton to downtown Boston and the iconic finish line on Boylston Street.
Boston Globe
18-04-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Defending Boston Marathon champions Hellen Obiri and Sisay Lemma will have plenty of runners hot on their heels Monday
Sisay Lemma, who halted Kenya's four-year streak last April with his runaway triumph, will be going after a distinction of his own. No Ethiopian men's champion ever has repeated. 'I'll be very, very, very happy,' he said. 'It will be exciting.' Lemma's victory here by 41 seconds over countryman Mohamed Esa earned him what he wanted, a ticket to Paris. But after a hamstring injury hobbled him a fortnight before the Games, Lemma conceded his place to Tamirat Tola, who went on to win the gold medal. Advertisement Still, his Boston victory, the first by an Ethiopian in eight years and only the seventh ever, was a breakthrough for Lemma, who'd dropped out of two of his previous three efforts here and finished 30th in the other. 'I might not run like last year, ahead of everybody,' said the 34-year-old Lemma, who was 10th at the Valencia Marathon in December after dealing with knee pain following his hamstring problem. 'But I am hoping I will win.' Advertisement No Ethiopian man ever has repeated as Boston Marathon champion, something Sisay Lemma hopes to change on Monday. Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff In Kenya's Evans Chebet (2:03:00) and John Korir (2:02:44), Lemma (2:01:48) will be challenged by two of the men who pursued him last time. Chebet had won the two previous races, dropping the pack at Heartbreak Hill to prevail by half a minute in 2022, and dashing away in the final mile two years ago. Last year, slowed by an undiagnosed stress fracture, he lost contact with Lemma well before the hills and finished third, more than a minute off the pace. Chebet rebounded to finish second in New York in November for his fifth consecutive podium placement there and here. 'I'm going to use my experience to get the win,' he said. Korir, who placed just behind Chebet last year, went on to win in Chicago in the second-fastest time in race annals. 'Winning Chicago gave me motivation that I can come to Boston and win,' said Korir, who would join brother Wesley, the 2012 titlist, as the only victorious siblings. Also among the contenders are Kenya's CyBrian Kotut (2:03:22) and Ethiopia's Haymanot Alew (2:03:31), who both made the Berlin podium last year. No US man has won here since Meb Keflezighi broke the tape in 2014. But a trio of Americans — Conner Mantz (2:07:47), Clayton Young (2:08:00), and CJ Albertson (2:08:17) — have the goods to all finish in the top 10, which hasn't happened since the 2018 hypothermic sloshfest. Related : 'I want to be in a position to podium in a race like this,' said Mantz, who has top-six placements in Chicago and New York, and was eighth at the Paris Olympics. 'What's that going to take? I don't know. Maybe I'm there now. But I'm going to try for it this time.' Advertisement Obiri, who has reached the podium in her last five majors, is coming off a dream year, which she capped with a runner-up finish in New York. 'I think it will be a good year for me,' she said. 'We have world championships, other marathons coming. So Boston gives me a great indication about the year it will be.' Obiri, who was the first woman to retain her crown here since her countrywoman/idol Catherine 'The Great' Ndereba in 2005, will be in familiar company. Kenya's Sharon Lokedi (2:22:45), countrywoman and two-time victor Edna Kiplagat (2:19:50), and Ethiopia's Buze Diriba (2:20:22), who finished 2-3-4, all are back. So is Ethiopia's Amane Beriso (2:14:58), the reigning world champion who was runner-up here two years ago. 'I am prepared very well,' said Beriso. 'I'm hoping that I will run a very good race.' Lokedi, the surprise New York champion in 2022, sewed up an Olympic spot by coming in second here last year, and went on to place between Obiri and Beriso at the Paris Games. 'It helped with believing in myself, knowing I cannot limit what I can achieve,' Lokedi said. 'It helped to have the confidence to be strong and fight all the way through.' Back for a third go is Emma Bates, the top US finisher at the last two races who was up front last year until an iffy foot finally undid her after the Newton hills and she ended up 12th. 'I want to run really smart,' said Bates, whose 2:22:10 clocking in 2023 is the second-fastest here by an American, eight seconds behind Shalane Flanagan. 'I want to set myself up not only to podium but to win.' Advertisement John Powers can be reached at
Boston Globe
14-04-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Your guide to the 2025 Boston Marathon: What to know, how to watch, and more
Wheelchair athlete and Advertisement Fellow 2024 champions An hour after the start of the elite races, the first wave in the field of 30,000 athletes will begin their 26.2-mile pilgrimage from Hopkinton to Copley Square. Here's everything you need to know ahead of Patriots Day, whether you're a competitor or a spectator. Date and how to watch Date: Monday, April 21 TV: WCVB (Channel 5) and ESPN2 Streaming: WCVB, Very Local App Entry list: Start times The race will follow its typical wave-start format, beginning with the men's wheelchair division at 9:06 a.m. Preceding the race start will be the military marchers — members of the Massachusetts National Guard — who will begin their trek from the start line at 6 a.m. Here's the full lineup: Advertisement 9:06 a.m.: Men's wheelchair 9:09 a.m.: Women's wheelchair 9:30 a.m.: Handcycles and duos 9:37 a.m.: Elite men 9:47 a.m.: Elite women 9:50 a.m.: Para athletics divisions 10:00 a.m.: Wave 1 10:25 a.m.: Wave 2 10:50 a.m.: Wave 3 11:15 a.m.: Wave 4 The route Participants will follow Route 135 from Main Street in Hopkinton and wind through Ashland, Framingham, and Natick, then into Wellesley. Related : The marathon continues on Route 16 through Wellesley into Newton, where it turns right onto Commonwealth Avenue (Route 30) through the Newton Hills and bearing right at the reservoir onto Chestnut Hill Avenue. The route then turns left on Beacon Street, continuing into Kenmore Square before rejoining Commonwealth Avenue. The final stretch includes the iconic right turn onto Hereford Street and left onto Boylston Street before finishing near the Hancock Tower in Copley Square. City officials are urging spectators to take public transit, walk, or bike on race day, and the B.A.A. released Many roads along the course will be closed to traffic, and parking will be limited. Last year's race Lemma arrived in Boston for the 128th Boston Marathon having come up short three times in seven years, dropping out in 2017 and 2022 and finishing in 30th in 2019. He put those failures behind him last year, Advertisement 'I'm very happy that I won today, because several times after past races I joked that I was going to come to Boston and redeem myself,' Lemma said after the race. On the women's side, Obiri ran neck-and-neck with fellow Kenyan Sharon Lokedi in the last 2 miles and 'I had a plan to run the race like that,' Obiri said. 'I did a lot of speed work because I knew there would be strong [runners], and they would be waiting on me.' In the men's wheelchair division, a crash in Newton threatened Marcel Hug's record-setting pace, but the Swiss athlete continued his dominance on the Boston course with a 1:15:33 wire-to-wire victory — 1:33 faster than the course standard he set in 2023 — for his seventh Boston win overall. The women's wheelchair race featured a 1:35:11 win from a new and unexpected name, 22-year-old Eden Rainbow-Cooper, who became Great Britain's first Boston champion in the division. Sisay Lemma, winner of the 2024 men's open division, and Hellen Obiri, winner of the women's division, will return to the field this year to defend their titles. Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff Elite fields Obiri and Lemma will face steep competition in their title defenses, as this year's elite fields include 21 men who have run under 2 hours, 9 minutes and 17 women who have run under 2:23. 'Defending a win is never easy, and to win the Boston Marathon twice in a row was hard, but I am happy to have done it,' Advertisement Among the threats to Obiri's three-peat bid are Ethiopia's Amane Beriso and Yalemzerf Yehualaw, whose personal bests top the women's field, at 2:14:58 and 2:16:52, respectively. The top American woman is Keira D'Amato, whose lifetime best of 2:19:12 — set at the Houston Marathon in 2022 — was the national record at the time. She'll have to contend with one of the strongest American fields in Boston history, including Emma Bates ( 'This year is just unbelievably deep,' Lemma's 2:01:48 lifetime best, set in Valencia in 2023, is tops in the men's field, but he'll have to watch out for two-time Boston champion Evans Chebet, who may be out for revenge. Lemma's win in Boston last year spoiled Chebet's three-peat bid, as the Kenyan settled for third place after winning in 2022 and 2023. John Korir and Albert Korir, also from Kenya, will be back as well, after finishing fourth and fifth, respectively, last year. Among American men, Olympians Conner Mantz and Clayton Young — who finished eighth and ninth, respectively, in last summer's Paris Games — are in the field for Boston. So is CJ Albertson, who finished seventh last year and first among US men. Also in the Boston field will be four runners who finished in the top 10 at last year's US Olympic trials: Zach Panning, Nathan Martin, Reed Fischer, and Colin Bennie. Advertisement Hug has been untouchable in men's wheelchair competitions in recent years as he chases Ernst Van Dyk's record of 10 Boston Marathon wins. Hug's Boston course record of 1:15:33, set last year, was a personal best and is nearly five minutes faster than the second-fastest time in this year's field, which belongs to Great Britain's Johnboy Smith (1:20:05). 'It's simple — I love Boston,' Rainbow-Cooper was a relative unknown before winning Boston a year ago, the first major marathon win of her career. Switzerland's Manuela Schar, a three-time champion, finished in second place behind Rainbow-Cooper last year and is a favorite again this year. Her lifetime best of 1:28:17 (Boston, 2017) is second among racers in this year's field, behind only Susannah Scaroni of the US (1:27:31). For a full list of entries in each of the elite fields, scroll to the bottom of this page. By the numbers 129 — Citizens of 129 countries and all 50 states are set to compete in this year's race — including 4,600 from Massachusetts. 9,500 — More than 9,500 people will volunteer to support the weekend's festivities, from assisting pre-race preparation to doling out bib numbers at the expo to handing out water along the course and more. 6:51 — Time qualifiers for this year's Boston Marathon had to run at least 6 minutes, 51 seconds under the qualifying standard for their age group — a stricter standard than ever. Advertisement $1.13 million — The total prize pool for this year's marathon has once again eclipsed the $1 million threshold. The top prize in the open divisions is $150,000, and the champion in each wheelchair division is now $50,000, up from $40,000 in recent years. Athletes who set a course record can earn a $50,000 bonus. 21 — The number of men in the elite field who have run sub-2-hour-9-minute marathons. Charity runners There are Last year, Henry Richard (second from right), brother of Martin Richard, crosses the finish line during the 2024 Boston Marathon. Danielle Parhizkaran/Globe Staff Grand Marshal information Four-time Boston Marathon winner Bill Rodgers and wheelchair athlete Bob Hall, the first officially recognized wheelchair athlete to race the Boston Marathon, will be the Grand Marshals for this year's marathon and will guide athletes along the course. What's new this year? The BAA unveiled a new look for its Boston Marathon medals this year. The medal has a different shape — a full circle compared to the half-circle atop a rectangular base of past years. The branding for the race's sponsor, Bank of America, is featured less prominently than it was last year New medal unlocked.🦄🏅🔓 — Boston Marathon (@bostonmarathon) 2025 Boston Marathon schedule of events Expo and bib pickup Athletic brands, companies, and other exhibitors will fill the Hynes Convention Center for three days to display, promote, and sell their products. The expo also features running seminars and presentations, guest appearances, and other activities. Race bibs can be picked up during the Expo. The Expo hours are as follows: Friday, April 18 from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, April 19 from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday, April 20 from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Fan Fest Check out City Hall Plaza for appearances from Boston champions, activities, live music, photo ops, and more. The schedule: Friday, April 18 from 3- 8 p.m. Saturday, April 19 from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday, April 20 from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 2025 Boston Marathon elite fields Here's a look at the athletes in each of the four elite fields. 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