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Why thinking like a tech company is essential for your business’s survival

CIO

To thrive in todays business environment, companies must align their technological and cultural foundations with their ultimate goals. This requires reflecting on the fundamental question: Why does your business exist? The answer informs how you integrate innovation into your operations and balance competing priorities to drive long-term success. At Brown & Brown, we constantly focus on articulating the value of technology in terms of business outcomes.

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Meet the People Behind the Agile2025 Conference Program

Agile Alliance

Our conference program team met on-site recently in Denver to put together the agenda for Agile2025. The team worked to ensure the selected sessions for each of our conference tracks flowed together to create an incredible three-day learning event. We asked the team to share one thing about the event that they are most excited about. The post Meet the People Behind the Agile2025 Conference Program first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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You still don’t need a feature store

Xebia

As a consultant you get to deal with a wide variety of tooling and implementations, not all done right. Once, I spent 6 months refactoring a feature store implementation. This was necessary because both the design choice and implementation were wrong. The implementation was a over-engineered custom Feast implementation using unsupported backend data stores.

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Rise Of AI Drives US Growth In New Unicorns

Crunchbase News

The number of new unicorn companies ticked up in 2024, driven largely by U.S.-based AI companies, an analysis of Crunchbase data shows. The Crunchbase Unicorn Board added 110 companies globally last year, up from 100 in 2023, with the U.S. seeing a jump from 42 to 65 new unicorns. This increase is attributed to U.S. leadership in AI, with notable companies including xAI , Infinite Reality and Perplexity joining the unicorn ranks.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Microsoft’s March 2025 Patch Tuesday Addresses 56 CVEs (CVE-2025-26633, CVE-2025-24983, CVE-2025-24993)

Tenable

6 Critical 50 Important 0 Moderate 0 Low Microsoft addresses 56 CVEs, including seven zero-day flaws, with six of those being exploited in the wild. Microsoft patched 56 CVEs in its March 2025 Patch Tuesday release, with six rated critical, and 50 rated as important. This months update includes patches for: NET ASP.NET Core & Visual Studio Azure Agent Installer Azure Arc Azure CLI Azure PromptFlow Kernel Streaming WOW Thunk Service Driver Microsoft Local Security Authority Server (lsasrv) Mi

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Eclipse Foundation to Release Open Source IDE Infused with AI Agents

DevOps.com

The Eclipse Foundation today made available an alpha release of an instance of its open source Theia integrated development environment (IDE), that provides access to artificial intelligence (AI) agents that will automate a wide range of coding tasks on behalf of application developers.

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How GoDaddy built a category generation system at scale with batch inference for Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

This post was co-written with Vishal Singh, Data Engineering Leader at Data & Analytics team of GoDaddy Generative AI solutions have the potential to transform businesses by boosting productivity and improving customer experiences, and using large language models (LLMs) in these solutions has become increasingly popular. However, inference of LLMs as single model invocations or API calls doesnt scale well with many applications in production.

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Google, Stanford And The IDF: Professional Backgrounds Of Unicorn Founders

Crunchbase News

Before Jensen Huang co-founded Nvidia , he was a dishwasher at Denny’s, but most unicorn founders get their start in far more predictable places. The Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative team and I analyzed 2,791 founders behind 1,110 U.S.-based VC-backed unicorns to understand their professional backgrounds. The data shows that they developed their skills at tech giants, elite universities and even military organizations.

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China’s Major AI Hubs: Cities Leading in Policy, Innovation, Hardware, and Research

Ooda Loop

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s (ODNI) 2024 Annual Threat Assessment identifies the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as a significant competitor in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI).The assessment underscores China’s strategic intent to leverage AI advancements to bolster its military capabilities, enhance economic competitiveness, and expand its global influence.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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How to know a business process is ripe for agentic AI

CIO

This could be the year agentic AI hits the big time, with many enterprises looking to find value-added use cases. A key question: Which business processes are actually suitable for agentic AI? Business consulting firm Deloitte predicts that in 2025, 25% of companies that use generative AI will launch agentic AI pilots or proofs of concept, growing to 50% in 2027.The firm says some agentic AI applications, in some industries and for some use cases, could see actual adoption into existing workflow

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Key Cybersecurity Considerations for Financial Institutions

Palo Alto Networks

Financial Institutions Are Facing Growing Security Challenges Financial organisations face unprecedented cybersecurity challenges that threaten their operations, reputation and customer trust. Together, Palo Alto Networks and IBMs experts share their top cybersecurity considerations in a new, compelling vodcast series. Consideration 1: Navigating the Fiscal Implications of Cyberthreats and Operational Complexity Our first episode explores the most pressing threats to UK financial institutions, i

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Benchmarking Amazon Nova and GPT-4o models with FloTorch

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Based on original post by Dr. Hemant Joshi, CTO, FloTorch.ai A recent evaluation conducted by FloTorch compared the performance of Amazon Nova models with OpenAIs GPT-4o. Amazon Nova is a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models (FMs) that deliver frontier intelligence and industry-leading price-performance. The Amazon Nova family of models includes Amazon Nova Micro, Amazon Nova Lite, and Amazon Nova Pro, which support text, image, and video inputs while generating text-based output

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Storytelling Is The ‘Make Or Break’ Skill Founders Are Lacking

Crunchbase News

By Liza Vilnits Layoffs and business closures have become so common in the past few years that reporters have created newsletters and columns solely focused on the updates. The sentiments I hear from founders across sectors (and VCs, actually) are the same: its still tough out there right now. The latest data shows that 2025 will likely be another year of failed startups.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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560,000 People Impacted Across Four Healthcare Data Breaches 

Ooda Loop

Over 560,000 people were impacted by four data breaches to healthcare organizations disclosed last week. The impacted organizations were Hillcrest Convalescent Center, Gastroenterology Associates of Central Florida, Community Care Alliance, and Sunflower Medical Group. The largest attack was conducted upon Sunflower by the Rhysida ransomware group. Attackers obtained Social Security and health insurance information.

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ServiceNow to acquire Moveworks to strengthen agentic AI and enterprise search

CIO

ServiceNow has announced plans to acquire AI firm Moveworks in a $2.85 billion deal, highlighting the growing enterprise shift toward AI-driven automation to enhance IT operations and service management efficiency. The acquisition will combine ServiceNows agentic AI and automation strengths with Moveworks frontend AI assistant and enterprise search technology to unlock new experiences for every employee for every corner of the business, ServiceNow said in a statement.

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Bridging the Dev and SecOps Gap: How Intelligent Continuous Security Enables True End-to-End Security

DevOps.com

Intelligent Continuous Security (TM) (ICS) is the next evolution harnessing AI-driven automation, real-time threat detection and continuous compliance enforcement to eliminate these inefficiencies. ICS extends beyond DevSecOps to also close security gaps with SecOps, ensuring end-to-end continuous security across the entire software lifecycle.

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Exploring creative possibilities: A visual guide to Amazon Nova Canvas

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Compelling AI-generated images start with well-crafted prompts. In this follow-up to our Amazon Nova Canvas Prompt Engineering Guide , we showcase a curated gallery of visuals generated by Nova Canvascategorized by real-world use casesfrom marketing and product visualization to concept art and design exploration. Each image is paired with the prompt and parameters that generated it, providing a practical starting point for your own AI-driven creativity.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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An Analogy for Software Development

Code Simplicity

Sometimes, I have to explain software development to people who are not software developers. Over the years, I have come up with an analogy that explains what software development is like and its processes. I have successfully used it to explain software development to a 9-year-old kid, including advanced concepts like cybersecurity and so forth. I figure others might benefit from it, so here it is: Imagine that you live in a world without computers.

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TSMC expands investments in the U.S. to $165 billion with new fabs and R&D center

Ooda Loop

On Monday, TSMC announced plans to invest $100 billion to expand its manufacturing capacity in the United States. The funds will go toward three additional fabs, two advanced packaging plants, and a major R&D facility. Tom’s Hardware spoke with the company to learn more about its plans. The extra $100 billion investment adds to TSMCs […] The post TSMC expands investments in the U.S. to $165 billion with new fabs and R&D center appeared first on OODAloop.

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With critical thinking in decline, IT must rethink application usability

CIO

Usability in application design has historically meant delivering an intuitive interface design that makes it easy for targeted users to navigate and work effectively with a system. Presentation and interactivity remain the baseline for strong usability, but as critical-thinking skills decline, IT may need to go deeper when considering usability of the tools it designs by also including simplified system and business processes as core elements of usability in order to reduce the chance of human

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Consortium Driving OpenStack to Become Arm of The Linux Foundation

DevOps.com

The Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra), which oversees the development of the open source OpenStack cloud computing framework, this week agreed to become an arm of The Linux Foundation as part of an effort to foster more collaboration with maintainers of projects such as Kubernetes and the Linux operating system.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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Creating asynchronous AI agents with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

The integration of generative AI agents into business processes is poised to accelerate as organizations recognize the untapped potential of these technologies. Advancements in multimodal artificial intelligence (AI), where agents can understand and generate not just text but also images, audio, and video, will further broaden their applications. This post will discuss agentic AI driven architecture and ways of implementing.

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You Can’t Put A Price On Greatness

Crunchbase News

Consider this dilemma: Venture capital is the pursuit of outliers, and yet startups mostly get market-based prices using comparable companies. This contradiction creates problems on both sides of the table. Founders are sucked into cherry-picking market data to justify the terms they want to get, while investors manipulate comparables to suit the price they want to pay.

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International Women’s Day 2025

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Were at a crossroads in the US with diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Opponents have neutralized the concept by reducing it to a series of letters that can be easily vilified and rooted out by a new generation of government censors. But those who do that are missing the point. Diversity, equity, and inclusion isnt about having a DEI manager who ensures that target numbers are hit.

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T200: Empowering women to build C-level IT careers

CIO

CIOs and other digital leaders play a critical role in shaping the future of their organizations. Now more than ever, future-proofing the business requires developing a robust pipeline of IT leaders prepared to step up as the next generation of strategic partners and innovation anticipators. A number of nonprofits are working to help prepare these emerging leaders for the next phases in their career journeys, providing the connections, education, mentorship, and professional support they need to

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Responsible Design Starts within the Institution

Perficient

The global business landscape is complex, and responsible design has emerged as a critical imperative for organizations across sectors. It represents a fundamental shift from viewing design merely as a creative output to recognizing it as an ethical responsibility embedded within institutional structures and processes. True transformation toward responsible design practices cannot be achieved through superficial initiatives or isolated projects.

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Optimize hosting DeepSeek-R1 distilled models with Hugging Face TGI on Amazon SageMaker AI

AWS Machine Learning - AI

DeepSeek-R1 , developed by AI startup DeepSeek AI , is an advanced large language model (LLM) distinguished by its innovative, multi-stage training process. Instead of relying solely on traditional pre-training and fine-tuning, DeepSeek-R1 integrates reinforcement learning to achieve more refined outputs. The model employs a chain-of-thought (CoT) approach that systematically breaks down complex queries into clear, logical steps.

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Chip Startup Celestial AI Hits $2.5B Valuation

Crunchbase News

Optical interconnectivity startup Celestial AI raised a $250 million Series C1 round led by Fidelity Management & Research Co. at a reported $2.5 billion valuation. The fresh cash comes almost exactly a year after the company locked up a $175 million Series C led by Thomas Tull s US Innovative Technology Fund. The Santa Clara, California-based startups photonic fabric platform helps separate compute and memory, making processing extensive AI faster and providing more energy-efficient computi