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Banks bet on AI to deliver digital efficiencies

CIO

In the face of shrinking budgets and rising customer expectations, banks are increasingly relying on AI, according to a recent study by consulting firm Publicis Sapiens. Marketing and customer service: Nearly half (49%) of bankers surveyed said they use gen AI within their marketing or customer service operations.

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Gen AI in 2025: Playtime is over, time to get practical

CIO

Nearly nine out of 10 senior decision-makers said they have gen AI pilot fatigue and are shifting their investments to projects that will improve business performance, according to a recent survey from NTT DATA.

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Growth marketing experts survey: How would you spend a $25,000 budget in Q1 2022?

TechCrunch

A new year is quickly approaching, which brings new resolutions — and new budgets. Provide a recommendation in this quick survey and we’ll share the results with everybody. If we were advising one of our early-stage startups how best to deploy their $25,000 marketing budget for Q1 2022, here’s what we’d suggest.

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Growth marketing experts survey: How would you spend a $75,000 budget in summer 2022?

TechCrunch

In November, we reached out to marketers to learn how they would spend a $25,000 budget in Q1 2022. We followed up with a few marketers from our previous survey and reached out some more to see how they would spend a $75,000 budget in summer 2022. Imagine you have a $75,000 budget going into summer 2022. A B2B startup?

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Companies look to sell off assets to pay for AI investments

CIO

Nine of 10 CIOs surveyed by Gartner late last year expressed concerns that managing AI costs was limiting their ability to get value from AI. Until now, many companies have cut costs in other areas, laid off staff, or raided the budgets of other departments to pay for AI projects. The interest in funding AI projects isnt slowing down.

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2025 IT headcount expectations lowest in over a decade

CIO

That may be a key tension unfolding for the 2025 IT hiring market, as evidenced by IT recruitment firm Harvey Nash stepping back from the ramifications of its own recent survey of CIOs, who were decidedly pessimistic about IT hiring in the new year. If you pay the right price, you certainly have a better chance of attracting that talent.”

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Psychedelic investor survey, 6 issues VCs look for, hiring on a budget

TechCrunch

Hiring top startup talent on a budget during the Great Resignation. Budgeting and planning for your first digital product. Budgeting and planning for your first digital product. “But if you’re a Series A or a seed startup, and they’re also interviewing at Google and Netflix and Facebook, there’s something off there.”.

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