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3 steps to get your data AI ready

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While many organizations have already run a small number of successful proofs of concept to demonstrate the value of gen AI , scaling up those PoCs and applying the new technology to other parts of the business will never work until producing AI-ready data becomes standard practice. This tends to put the brakes on their AI aspirations.

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10 tips for de-risking hardware products

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million fundraise , I asked company founder Narek Vardanyan what he thinks are the biggest pitfalls in hardware development. You need to make sure that the data you’re tracking is coming from the right types of people,” Vardanyan said. Last week, when I wrote about Prelaunch.com’s $1.5

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Spatial Labs, a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, closes $10M seed round

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Spatial Labs , a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Marcy Venture Partners, the firm co-founded by Jay-Z. Per Crunchbase data, only 1% of all VC funds were allocated to Black founders last year; out of the $21.5

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The mainframe’s future in the age of AI

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If there’s any doubt that mainframes will have a place in the AI future, many organizations running the hardware are already planning for it. Many Kyndryl customers seem to be thinking about how to merge the mission-critical data on their mainframes with AI tools, she says. I believe you’re going to see both.”

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Launch startup Stoke Space rolls out software tool for complex hardware development

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Stoke Space , a company that’s developing a fully reusable rocket, has unveiled a new tool to let hardware companies track the design, testing and integration of parts. The new tool, Fusion , is targeting an unsexy but essential aspect of the hardware workflow. Fusion is particularly relevant to startups.

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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data

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“We look at every business individually and guide them through the entire process from planning to predicting costs – something made far easier by our straightforward pricing model – to the migration of systems and data, the modernization and optimization of new cloud investments, and their protection and ideal management long-term,” he says. “We

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Vast Data lands $118M to grow its data storage platform for AI workloads

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Vast Data, to make an obvious pun, is raising vast sums of cash. The New York-based startup, which provides a scale-out, unstructured data storage solution designed to eliminate tiered storage (i.e.

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