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The New York Times wants OpenAI and Microsoft to pay for training data

TechCrunch

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and its close collaborator (and investor), Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content. All rights reserved.

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Strong Compute raises $7.8M seed round to speed up ML training pipelines

TechCrunch

Strong Compute , a Sydney, Australia-based startup that helps developers remove the bottlenecks in their machine learning training pipelines, today announced that it has raised a $7.8 ” Strong Compute wants to speed up your ML model training. . ” Strong Compute wants to speed up your ML model training.

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Rising Team, with $3 million seed, is a platform that combines management tools with training

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But she’s identified a problem that most people managers will all too clearly understand: training and tools to be a great manager are at a shortage. Dulski explained that there are some tools for managers, like surveys from Gallup and Glint, and there are training options, like executive coaches.

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Zoom knots itself a legal tangle over use of customer data for training AI models

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The recent terms & conditions controversy sequence goes like this: A clause added to Zoom’s legalese back in March 2023 grabbed attention on Monday after a post on Hacker News claimed it allowed the company to use customer data to train AI models “with no opt out” Cue outrage on social media.

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Formation raises $4M led by Andreessen Horowitz to train truly ‘exceptional’ software engineers

TechCrunch

Frustrated, she decided to try training engineers to meet her team’s hiring standards by mentoring at a local coding bootcamp. For one, they wanted to offer personalized training to help people not just learn to code, but to become “exceptional” software engineers. 13 investors say lifelong learning is taking edtech mainstream.

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How the Food Industry Is Using Cross-Training to Boost Service

Harvard Business Review

Cross-training employees on a variety of tasks can be a powerful tool for improving operations, as well as for attracting and retaining workers. When employees are cross-trained to perform a variety of both customer-facing and non-customer-facing tasks, they can adjust their work depending on demand and business needs.

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Train Your Brain to Work Creatively with Gen AI

Harvard Business Review

This article offers 12 exercises to help you expand the way you think about prompting GenAI. However, where AI starts to “come alive” is when you create something unique — something that wouldn’t have been achieved without a human and machine collaboration.

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