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ServiceNow to acquire Logik.ai to boost CRM portfolio

CIO

ServiceNow is acquiring Logik.ai and its configure, price, quote (CPQ) solution to expand its customer relationship management (CRM) product portfolio and accelerate its momentum in sales and order management. Logik.ai, founded in 2021, provides a product that integrates artificial intelligence and an advanced rules engine to streamline the transaction management cycle.

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The Impact of April 2 Tariffs on IT Spending

IDC

The wave of new tariffs introduced by the US administration will drive up technology prices, disrupt supply chains, and weaken global IT spending in 2025. Not only will these tariffs have a direct inflationary effect on technology prices in the US, but growing concerns about a broader economic slowdown will lead to weaker investment by [.

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Siemens and Accenture launch joint business group to transform manufacturing

CIO

At Hannover Messe 2025,Accenture and Siemens announced an extension of their strategic partnership in the form of the Accenture Siemens Business Group, an Accenture-based joint business unit that will employ 7,000 professionals with manufacturing and IT expertise worldwide. The group will develop software-defined products and factories, combining industrial technology with AI-supported engineering and manufacturing expertise.

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GitHub Copilot – Change the Narrative

Xebia

TL;DR: Chancing the narrative on GitHub Copilot from focus on engineers to focus on a sturdy (DevOps) foundation to be able to go faster. Next frontier: the rest of our organization Premise: current narrative is not helping In my opinion we need to shift the narrative on enabling engineers to use GitHub Copilot. Currently there is a lot of focus on the engineers that can produce code easier and faster using GitHub Copilot.

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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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Harness the power of MCP servers with Amazon Bedrock Agents

AWS Machine Learning - AI

AI agents extend large language models (LLMs) by interacting with external systems, executing complex workflows, and maintaining contextual awareness across operations. Amazon Bedrock Agents enables this functionality by orchestrating foundation models (FMs) with data sources, applications, and user inputs to complete goal-oriented tasks through API integration and knowledge base augmentation.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO

Last summer, a faulty CrowdStrike software update took down millions of computers, caused billions in damages, and underscored that companies are still not able to manage third-party risks, or respond quickly and efficiently to disruptions. It was an interesting case study of global cyber impact, says Charles Clancy, CTO at Mitre. In response to the outage, 84% of companies are either considering diversifying their software and service providers, or are already doing so, according to a survey by

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How to improve your planning and forecasting using some math and AI – part 2

Xebia

Intro In the previous article , we analyzed how bad people are at their estimates and checked if probabilistic methods work for solving complex problems. Now, let’s try to use this knowledge with AI! Large Language models & Math LLMs are not designed to make complicated calculations; their role, in simple words, is to predict the most suitable, most probable order of words as their answer.

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Introducing AWS MCP Servers for code assistants (Part 1)

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Were excited to announce the open source release of AWS MCP Servers for code assistants a suite of specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that bring Amazon Web Services (AWS) best practices directly to your development workflow. Our specialized AWS MCP servers combine deep AWS knowledge with agentic AI capabilities to accelerate development across key areas.

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Global Venture Funding In Q1 2025 Indicate Strongest Quarter For Investment Since Q2 2022 

Crunchbase News

Funding key findings Both the largest funding round for a venture-backed company and the largest acquisition of a venture-backed company ever occurred in Q1 2025, reflecting a warming startup environment and marking the strongest quarter for venture investment since Q2 2022. OpenAI raised the largest private round ever in Q1 2025, a $40 billion funding that values the company at an unprecedented $300 billion.

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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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Copyright-Aware AI: Let’s Make It So

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

On April 22, 2022, I received an out-of-the-blue text from Sam Altman inquiring about the possibility of training GPT-4 on OReilly books. We had a call a few days later to discuss the possibility. As I recall our conversation, I told Sam I was intrigued, but with reservations. I explained to him that we could only license our data if they had some mechanism for tracking usage and compensating authors.

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Remember when developers reigned supreme? The market for software coding goes soft

CIO

It seems like only yesterday when software developers were on top of the world, and anyone with basic coding experience could get multiple job offers. This yesterday, however, was five to six years ago, and developers are no longer the kings and queens of the IT employment hill. Job titles like data engineer, machine learning engineer, and AI product manager have supplanted traditional software developers near the top of the heap as companies rush to adopt AI and cybersecurity professionals rema

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My Team is the Underdog! How do I Motivate Them Now? #AskingforaFriend

Let's Grow Leaders

Asking for a Friend: How Do You Inspire Your Team When They’re the Underdog? You know that feeling. The buzzer just sounded. You and your scrappy band of underdogs are stepping onto the court, and its clear the other guys are taller, faster, and, lets be honest, a whole lot shinier. You’re the 16th seed. Theyre the number one. But this isn’t March Madnessthis is Tuesday morning.

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US Marines launch first attack drone unit

Ooda Loop

The U.S. Marine Corps has officially established the Marine Corps Attack Drone Team (MCADT), a new unit tasked with integrating armed first-person view (FPV) drones into frontline operations. The move reflects a growing recognition of FPV drones as an increasingly vital component of small-unit warfare. According to the Marine Corps, MCADT was formed on January […] The post US Marines launch first attack drone unit appeared first on OODAloop.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Founders, Here’s How Not To Be Thrown Overboard After A Big Fundraise

Crunchbase News

By Dan Lifshits Raising capital is an inevitable step for almost any startup founder unless youre building a business that is profitable from day one. However, a big raise comes with big responsibility not just for the capital itself, but also for maintaining solid investor relations. This involves clear, transparent communication, as otherwise, you risk being nothing more than a bystander, watching your idea come to life or fall apart without you.

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Radar Trends to Watch: April 2025

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

March has been the biggest month that Trends has ever had. In addition to almost daily announcements about AI, a lot has been going on in programming, in security, in operations (which usually doesnt merit its own topic), and even in quantum computing. Its been a long time since weve had much to say about social media, but with a reboot of Digg, a new attempt at Napster, and alternatives to Facebook and Instagram, were wondering: Has the world tired of the current platform?

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What is S/4HANA? SAP’s latest ERP system explained

CIO

What is S/4HANA? S/4HANA is SAPs latest iteration of its flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. The successor to SAP ECC, S/4HANA is built on an in-memory database and is designed to enable real-time data processing and analysis for businesses. It is available both in a cloud-based SaaS and an on-premises version. The abbreviation S/4HANA sounds cryptic but fits seamlessly with its predecessors.

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Social Media Engagement in Early 2025

Martin Fowler

A few years ago, whenever I published a new article here, I would just announce it on Twitter, but since the Muskover its importance has declined, and now I post updates to several services. To compare engagement on these services, I've looked at reposts, likes, and replies to two dozen of my recent posts.

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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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Fired or Not, Former Feds Need to Be Aware of Online Intelligence Approaches

Ooda Loop

Recent reporting has revealed that China appears interested in exploiting recent cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to the U.S. federal workforce by targeting individuals that have been let go with promises of employment in the hopes of obtaining classified information. According to a researcher from a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, Chinese intelligence has allegedly […] The post Fired or Not, Former Feds Need to Be Aware of Online Intelligence Approaches appea

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SoftBank And OpenAI Make History With Largest Startup Financing Ever

Crunchbase News

In the history of startup funding, SoftBank s announcement today that it is backing an investment of up to $40 billion in OpenAI is in a league of its own. No other financing even comes close. The next-closest was another OpenAI deal: Microsoft s $10 billion financing in 2023. That was not a traditional startup financing round, however, as the money in it is to be paid over an extended period and includes a strategic partnership.

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John Snow Labs Releases Generative AI Lab 7.0 to Help Domain Experts Evaluate and Improve LLM Applications and Conduct HCC Coding Reviews

John Snow Labs

John Snow Labs, the AI for healthcare company, today announced the release of Generative AI Lab 7.0. The update enables domain experts, such as doctors or lawyers, to evaluate and improve custom-built large language models (LLMs) with precision and transparency. New capabilities include no-code features to streamline the process of auditing and tuning AI models.

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Vecttor automatiza su flota con una solución de llave digital

CIO

Vecttor, filial del grupo Cabify, da un paso ms en su apuesta por la innovacin y digitalizacin junto aTelefnica Techy la empresa de soluciones de transporte conectado Geotab. La compaa de vehculos VTC implementar, de la mano de ambos partner tecnolgicos, la solucin Keyless para optimizar su eficiencia operativa y seguir avanzando hacia una movilidad ms sostenible y segura.

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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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AWS App Studio introduces a prebuilt solutions catalog and cross-instance Import and Export

AWS Machine Learning - AI

AWS App Studio is a generative AI-powered service that uses natural language to build business applications, empowering a new set of builders to create applications in minutes. With App Studio, technical professionals such as IT project managers, data engineers, enterprise architects, and solution architects can quickly develop applications tailored to their organizations needswithout requiring deep software development skills.

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I've been kidnapped by Robert Caro

Martin Fowler

I've always enjoyed reading, and for most of my life I've particularly enjoyed reading history. I've head many great things about Robert Caro's books, but was deterred by their size. Finally, with his first book newly available as an ebook, I decided to dip my toes in. The books are too good for me to escape.

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The DevOps Bottleneck: Why IaC Orchestration is the Missing Piece

DevOps.com

If you work in DevOps, youve heard it a thousand times: Do more with less. More automation, more security, more reliabilitybut with the same (or fewer) people. Meanwhile, your development teams keep growing, pushing out new features at breakneck speed. Yet somehow, the infrastructure team is supposed to scale magically to keep up.

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Scrum for Cats: An Agile Framework that Fits the Feline Philosophy

Agile42

At agile42, we’ve always believed that Agile should adapt to its practitioners – not the other way around. After years of observing our feline colleagues (who, let’s be honest, already run our households with ruthless efficiency), we realized: cats are the ultimate Agilists. They iterate (paw at a toy, lose interest, repeat), self-organize (usually atop your keyboard), and deliver MVPs (Minimum Viable Playthings, like that weird moth they keep batting at on your television scre

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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What to Know about the ‘Qudit’—and How It Could Change Quantum Computing

Ooda Loop

You might be familiar with the qubit, the fundamental unit of quantum information. As its name suggests, a qubit in a quantum computer performs the same function as a bit in a classical computer, with a major difference: Qubits can be treated as a 0 or 1 simultaneously, allowing quantum systems to process information much […] The post What to Know about the Quditand How It Could Change Quantum Computing appeared first on OODAloop.

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ImageRunner: A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Impacting GCP Cloud Run

Tenable

Tenable Research discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that is now fixed and which we dubbed ImageRunner. At issue are identities that lack registry permissions but that have edit permissions on Google Cloud Run revisions. The vulnerability could have allowed such an identity to abuse its Google Cloud Run revision edit permissions in order to pull private Google Artifact Registry and Google Container Registry images in the same account.

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AI Image Startup Runway Raises At $3B

Crunchbase News

New York-based Runway raised $308 million in a new round at about double its valuation from less than two years ago. The new round led by General Atlantic values the AI video startup at more than $3 billion, per reports. In June 2023, the company raised a $141 million extension to its December 2022 $50 million Series C from Google , Nvidia , Salesforce Ventures 1 and others at a reported $1.5 billion valuation.

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