Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. It’s been hard to browse tech headlines this week and not read something about billions of dollars being poured into data centers. The world’s largest asset manager, Blackstone Group , reportedly plans to invest $8.2 billion to develop data centers in Spain. Energy and data center company Crusoe Energy Systems announced it raised $3.4 billion dollars in debt financing — and reportedly will raise an additional equi

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Developers unimpressed by the early returns of generative AI for coding take note: Software development is headed toward a new era, when most code will be written by AI agents and reviewed by experienced developers, Gartner predicts. Organizations and vendors are already rolling out AI coding agents that enable developers to fully automate or offload many tasks, with more pilot programs and proofs-of-concept likely to be launched in 2025, says Philip Walsh, senior principal analyst in Gartner’s

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In our busy lives, it’s hard to find enough time to pause and reflect. But if we never make the time, we may just end up running fast in the wrong direction — and this is especially true when it comes to our careers. That’s why, once a quarter, it’s useful to run through this three-step exercise, or do a “career detox.” The first step involves turning inward and asking yourself a series of reflective questions focused on whether you’re still happy with your current path.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

From digital assistants to code generation, many small to medium businesses (SMBs) harbor lofty ambitions for generative AI (GenAI). The next step, however, is just as significant: whether to build their AI initiatives from scratch or simply secure a quick win with an existing AI tool. For a resource-strapped business, this decision comes with a host of considerations, including AI readiness, existing infrastructure, and the amount of value derived, versus the effort required to realize their AI

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business environment, accountability is a key driver of success. Yet, many CEOs struggle to cultivate a culture where accountability is embedded into the DNA of their organization. When accountability is absent, inefficiencies, finger-pointing, and missed goals become all too common. On the other hand, when employees are empowered to take ownership of […] The post 5 Steps Every CEO Needs to Take to Build a Culture of Accountability appeared first on CEOWORLD mag

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Pay-for-performance (PFP) is considered one of the strongest tools to motivate employees, yet despite its popularity, it can sometimes create stress for workers that results in decreased performance, creativity, and engagement. New research suggests that how employees view their supervisor has a role in determining whether workers view PFP as a motivating challenge, leading them to achieve new heights, or a stressful threat that impacts their work.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Un escenario con solera para una cita de carácter pionero internacional. San Mamés se viste de tiros largos durante la celebración de la primera edición de Bizkaia BBVA. Banks in Quantum Days , un evento vanguardista que abre una ventana al futuro al explorar cómo las tecnologías cuánticas pueden llegar a redefinir el mañana del sector financiero. Un hito posible gracias a la cooperación y coordinación de la Diputación Foral de Bizkaia y BBVA, quienes han organizado el primer foro europeo sobre

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Apple's iPhone 16 series ushers in significant updates to both software and hardware. Here are the features that pro users will care about the most.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Según un informe reciente de Gartner, los analistas predicen que la nueva fase de la IA empresarial anunciará sistemas autónomos que requerirán una intervención humana mínima, y que el 75% de los directores de Sistemas de Información (CIO, por sus siglas en inglés) aumentarán sus presupuestos para IA sólo durante este año. A medida que la IA generativa se integre en más dispositivos, dotarla de autonomía en la toma de decisiones dependerá de los datos en tiempo real y de evitar costes excesivos

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

It was a mixed bag for Web3 funding last quarter, although investors in the rocky sector the past few years will probably take that. Web3 startups raised $2 billion in just more than 300 deals last quarter, per Crunchbase data. The dollar number represents a 43% increase from the $1.4 billion raised by such startups in Q3 last year, but a 13% decline from Q2 of this year — which represented the third consecutive quarter of upticks in the sector.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Acumatica has released a new “edition” of its cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) software tailored to the needs of mid-size professional services firms. The number of potential customers for Acumatica’s new functionality — or similar products from competitors — is huge. Globally, the professional services market, including legal, engineering, and consulting services, is expected to reach $6.5 trillion in 2024, according to The Business Research Company.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This article will show you how to use GenAI from your browser to create and run a microservice in about a minute. Here is what you'll learn: Provide a prompt to a cloud-based microservice appliance, and you get a system with a running database, a web app, and an API. Collaborate with stakeholders using the web app. Iterate instantly, to get the requirements right.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

El comercio minorista es dinámico, está en constante cambio y genera una gran cantidad de datos; y a través de la comercialización, las transacciones en tienda, la cadena de suministro, la tecnología digital y la fijación de precios, las oportunidades para aprovechar los datos son infinitas. La venta minorista omnicanal da aún más importancia a la capacidad de gestionar e integrar datos de forma eficaz en toda la empresa.

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Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The H20 Tri headphones are perfect for outdoor activities - and they deliver actual bass! Plus: You can leave your phone at home and still listen to your music on the go.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The winners of the CIO50 Awards 2024 have been unveiled at a gala awards ceremony in Sydney. Australia’s most impactful technology leaders and their teams, along with the country’s leading cybersecurity executives, were honoured at the joint CIO50 and CSO30 Awards at the Shangri-La Hotel on Thursday night. Chief technology and innovation officer for Transport for NSW Kurt Brissett took out the CIO50 top spot.

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Symantec

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Recently established RansomHub group overtakes LockBit to become most prolific ransomware operation.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Liberty Dental Plan insures about 7 million people in the United States as a dental insurance company. We are owned by a private equity company and Anthem, which is now called Elevance Health. Our job is to take care of all 7 million members of our members. So, my primary job as senior VP of health plan operations as well as being the CIO is to take care of technology and cybersecurity.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

OCTOBER 17, 2024

With the advent of generative AI and machine learning, new opportunities for enhancement became available for different industries and processes. During re:Invent 2023, we launched AWS HealthScribe , a HIPAA eligible service that empowers healthcare software vendors to build their clinical applications to use speech recognition and generative AI to automatically create preliminary clinician documentation.

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Crunchbase News

OCTOBER 17, 2024

It has been sluggish on the M&A front in most sectors all year — and cybersecurity is no different. However, on Thursday New York-based data security startup Cyera bought data loss prevention firm Trail Security for $162 million. Trail had been backed with more than $35 million of funding from the likes of Lightspeed Venture Partners , CRV and Cyberstarts.

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DevOps.com

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The role cybersecurity teams play in ensuring applications are secure is about to become a lot more proactive in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Microsoft's official 24H2 update for Windows 11 is saddled with a bunch of annoying and disruptive bugs. Here's what you may encounter if you jump to the new version right now.

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LaunchDarkly

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In this tutorial, we’ll build an ExpressJS demo app that has the flexibility to toggle extra verification layers on during spam attacks. This demo combines Twilio Verify, a fraud verification API that can be used across many communications channels, with LaunchDarkly feature flags. Take that, spammers.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Samsung T5 Evo 4TB portable SSD is almost $200 off at Amazon, saving you 46% on all the storage space you'll need for games, documents, photos, and videos. But you'll have to hurry, you might not see an SSD deal this good again until Black Friday.

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David Heinemeier Hansson

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We finished pulling seven cloud apps, including HEY , out of AWS and onto our own hardware last summer. But it took until the end of that year for all the long-term contract commitments to end, so 2024 has been the first clean year of savings, and we've been pleasantly surprised that they've been even better than originally estimated. For 2024, we've brought the cloud bill down from the original $3.2 million/year run rate to $1.3 million.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

OnePlus launched one of the worst smartwatches ever in 2021, so I was pleasantly surprised to find the OnePlus Watch 2 beats Google in almost every respect. It's currently $50 off on Amazon.

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Ooda Loop

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Scientists hope body tissues grown in labs will become a familiar sight in medicine. Researchers around the world are working to grow heart valves, lungs and more from human cells.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

OpenAI and Nvidia are leading the AI craze, but with so much untapped potential in this booming market, who knows what the future will hold? A new 'State of AI' report makes some predictions.

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Ooda Loop

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Facebook owner Meta, opens new tab said on Thursday it had teamed up with Blumhouse Productions, the Hollywood company behind popular horror films such as “The Purge” and “Get Out,” to put its new generative AI video model Movie Gen to the test.

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