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Fintech startup Vise brings on Andrew Fong (formerly Dropbox) as CTO

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Vise , a fintech firm that focuses on helping financial advisors rather than automating them out of existence, has today announced that it is bringing on Andrew Fong as its chief technology officer. You can check out the video of their demo here. Fong hails from Dropbox, where he served as VP of Infrastructure Engineering.

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WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down

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Video has worked the same way for a long, long time. And because of its unique qualities, video has been largely immune to the machine learning explosion upending industry after industry. Here’s how it’s worked pretty much since the old days when digital video first became possible. This is stuff like MPEG-2, H.264,

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Thinking of building your own AI agents? Don’t do it, advisors say

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Goldcast, a software developer focused on video marketing, has experimented with a dozen open-source AI models to assist with various tasks, says Lauren Creedon, head of product at the company. The value of DIY agentic AI Still, some companies see opportunity in the build-it-yourself approach.

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This new app is helping Gen Z invest in cars, food, video games and other ‘themes’

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Upon completing graduate school, he began working as investment banker at Goldman Sachs and then as a financial advisor for pro athletes for NBA stars Chris Paul and Stephen Curry as well as Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps and Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman. . from Columbia Business School so that he could work in the field.

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Observe.ai raises $125M, adding Zoom as an investor, to supercharge the contact center market

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Observe.ai — which provides natural language tools to track voice and text conversations, and to provide coaching for subsequent engagements and to use the data for compliance and other reporting requirements — has raised $125 million, funding that it will be using to continue building out its technology and to move into more markets.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

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Theres too much attention on AI for code development, which is actually just a fraction of the whole software development process. But things are going to get really interesting when agents start talking to each other, says Babak Hodjat, CTO of AI at Cognizant. Multi-agent systems Sure, AI agents are interesting.

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Ensure Your Command Center/Ops Center Stays Relevant By Leveraging Wayin: See video of this broadcast media use case

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We have previously written about Wayin (I am proud to be one of their advisors). You can get the gist of this use case by watching the short video here: [link]. By Bob Gourley. Their capabilities continue to evolve to enable organizations to continually improve how social media is used to both understand and engage.

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