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What to Know about the ‘Qudit’—and How It Could Change Quantum Computing

Ooda Loop

You might be familiar with the qubit, the fundamental unit of quantum information. As its name suggests, a qubit in a quantum computer performs the same function as a bit in a classical computer, with a major difference: Qubits can be treated as a 0 or 1 simultaneously, allowing quantum systems to process information much […] The post What to Know about the Quditand How It Could Change Quantum Computing appeared first on OODAloop.

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Siemens and Accenture launch joint business group to transform manufacturing

CIO

At Hannover Messe 2025,Accenture and Siemens announced an extension of their strategic partnership in the form of the Accenture Siemens Business Group, an Accenture-based joint business unit that will employ 7,000 professionals with manufacturing and IT expertise worldwide. The group will develop software-defined products and factories, combining industrial technology with AI-supported engineering and manufacturing expertise.

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GitHub Copilot – Change the Narrative

Xebia

TL;DR: Chancing the narrative on GitHub Copilot from focus on engineers to focus on a sturdy (DevOps) foundation to be able to go faster. Next frontier: the rest of our organization Premise: current narrative is not helping In my opinion we need to shift the narrative on enabling engineers to use GitHub Copilot. Currently there is a lot of focus on the engineers that can produce code easier and faster using GitHub Copilot.

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Remember when developers reigned supreme? The market for software coding goes soft

CIO

It seems like only yesterday when software developers were on top of the world, and anyone with basic coding experience could get multiple job offers. This yesterday, however, was five to six years ago, and developers are no longer the kings and queens of the IT employment hill. Job titles like data engineer, machine learning engineer, and AI product manager have supplanted traditional software developers near the top of the heap as companies rush to adopt AI and cybersecurity professionals rema

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Harness the power of MCP servers with Amazon Bedrock Agents

AWS Machine Learning - AI

AI agents extend large language models (LLMs) by interacting with external systems, executing complex workflows, and maintaining contextual awareness across operations. Amazon Bedrock Agents enables this functionality by orchestrating foundation models (FMs) with data sources, applications, and user inputs to complete goal-oriented tasks through API integration and knowledge base augmentation.

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Introducing AWS MCP Servers for code assistants (Part 1)

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Were excited to announce the open source release of AWS MCP Servers for code assistants a suite of specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that bring Amazon Web Services (AWS) best practices directly to your development workflow. Our specialized AWS MCP servers combine deep AWS knowledge with agentic AI capabilities to accelerate development across key areas.

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El gasto mundial en IA para 2025 rondará los 644.000 millones de dólares

CIO

La inteligencia artificial (IA) mantiene su popularidad en la lista de prioridades de inversin de las organizaciones. As lo confirma la firma de anlisis e investigacin Gartner al situar el gasto mundial en IA para 2025 en, aproximadamente, 644.000 millones de dlares. Una cifra que constata una tendencia al alza del 76,4% respecto al ya caduco 2024. Las expectativas sobre las capacidades de IA generativa estn disminuyendo debido a las altas tasas de fracaso en los trabajos iniciales de prueba de

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US Marines launch first attack drone unit

Ooda Loop

The U.S. Marine Corps has officially established the Marine Corps Attack Drone Team (MCADT), a new unit tasked with integrating armed first-person view (FPV) drones into frontline operations. The move reflects a growing recognition of FPV drones as an increasingly vital component of small-unit warfare. According to the Marine Corps, MCADT was formed on January […] The post US Marines launch first attack drone unit appeared first on OODAloop.

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In turbulent political times, IT can be a difference maker

CIO

The always-evolving global economy has become hyper-politicized. Despite the old line that the US government is, in all actuality, little more than a military attached to an insurance company, the seldom-of-the-same-mind three anchors on CNBCs Squawk Box recently stated that they cant talk about the economy without talking about American politics specifically tariffs and White House/agency interventions.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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SoftBank And OpenAI Make History With Largest Startup Financing Ever

Crunchbase News

In the history of startup funding, SoftBank s announcement today that it is backing an investment of up to $40 billion in OpenAI is in a league of its own. No other financing even comes close. The next-closest was another OpenAI deal: Microsoft s $10 billion financing in 2023. That was not a traditional startup financing round, however, as the money in it is to be paid over an extended period and includes a strategic partnership.

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El 75% de los bancos aumentará la inversión en tecnología de riesgos

CIO

La incertidumbre econmica global, marcada por la subida de los tipos de inters, las tensiones geopolticas y la inflacin, est obligando al sector bancario a replantear sus estrategias de gestin de riesgos. En este contexto, un nuevo estudio realizado de manera conjunta por FT Longitude y SAS revela que el 75% de los bancos a nivel internacional tiene la intencin de aumentar la inversin en infraestructura de tecnologa de riesgos, lo que supone una subida del 24% con respecto a 2021.

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Radar Trends to Watch: April 2025

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

March has been the biggest month that Trends has ever had. In addition to almost daily announcements about AI, a lot has been going on in programming, in security, in operations (which usually doesnt merit its own topic), and even in quantum computing. Its been a long time since weve had much to say about social media, but with a reboot of Digg, a new attempt at Napster, and alternatives to Facebook and Instagram, were wondering: Has the world tired of the current platform?

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Building resilient and innovative security teams in the age of AI

CIO

The promised land of AI transformation poses a dilemma for security teams as the new technology brings both opportunities and yet more threat. Threat actors are already using AI to write malware, to find vulnerabilities, and to breach defences faster than ever. At the same time, machine learning is playing an ever-more important role in helping enterprises combat hackers and similar.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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AWS App Studio introduces a prebuilt solutions catalog and cross-instance Import and Export

AWS Machine Learning - AI

AWS App Studio is a generative AI-powered service that uses natural language to build business applications, empowering a new set of builders to create applications in minutes. With App Studio, technical professionals such as IT project managers, data engineers, enterprise architects, and solution architects can quickly develop applications tailored to their organizations needswithout requiring deep software development skills.

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How DPDP Act will define data privacy in the digital-first world

CIO

In CIOs 2024 Security Priorities study, 40% of tech leaders said one of their key priorities is strengthening the protection of confidential data. Cohesive, structured data is the fodder for sophisticated mathematical models that generates insights and recommendations for organizations to take decisions across the board, from operations to market trends.

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I've been kidnapped by Robert Caro

Martin Fowler

I've always enjoyed reading, and for most of my life I've particularly enjoyed reading history. I've head many great things about Robert Caro's books, but was deterred by their size. Finally, with his first book newly available as an ebook, I decided to dip my toes in. The books are too good for me to escape.

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Taming the cost of AI: Is FinOps the answer?

CIO

As artificial intelligence (AI) services, particularly generative AI (genAI), become increasingly integral to modern enterprises, establishing a robust financial operations (FinOps) strategy is essential. AI services require high resources like CPU/GPU and memory and hence cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud provide many AI services including features for genAI.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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ImageRunner: A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Impacting GCP Cloud Run

Tenable

Tenable Research discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that is now fixed and which we dubbed ImageRunner. At issue are identities that lack registry permissions but that have edit permissions on Google Cloud Run revisions. The vulnerability could have allowed such an identity to abuse its Google Cloud Run revision edit permissions in order to pull private Google Artifact Registry and Google Container Registry images in the same account.

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Modern app delivery requires a continuous approach to security

CIO

At the Tanzu Division of Broadcom , we focus on how our customers can get the most out of cloud native environments while protecting against the slew of new vulnerabilities and attacks targeting their critical business apps. As important as prevention is, reducing the time it takes to recover from a breach or other issues is just as critical, if not more.

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Scrum for Cats: An Agile Framework that Fits the Feline Philosophy

Agile42

At agile42, we’ve always believed that Agile should adapt to its practitioners – not the other way around. After years of observing our feline colleagues (who, let’s be honest, already run our households with ruthless efficiency), we realized: cats are the ultimate Agilists. They iterate (paw at a toy, lose interest, repeat), self-organize (usually atop your keyboard), and deliver MVPs (Minimum Viable Playthings, like that weird moth they keep batting at on your television scre

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The DevOps Bottleneck: Why IaC Orchestration is the Missing Piece

DevOps.com

If you work in DevOps, youve heard it a thousand times: Do more with less. More automation, more security, more reliabilitybut with the same (or fewer) people. Meanwhile, your development teams keep growing, pushing out new features at breakneck speed. Yet somehow, the infrastructure team is supposed to scale magically to keep up.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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Platformization Maximizes Security Efficacy & IT Operations Efficiency

Palo Alto Networks

Security and technology teams are under increasing pressure to strengthen their organizations cybersecurity posture. The need to improve defenses and business resilience is urgent. According to the National Cybersecurity Alliance , ransomware attacks, identity theft, assaults on critical infrastructure and AI-powered scams are all expected to escalate in 2025.

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US-Based Agility Robotics to Raise $400 Million, SoftBank to Participate

Ooda Loop

Agility Robotics, an Oregon-based robotics company, is raising $400 million at a pre-investment valuation of $1.75 billion, The Information reported. The venture arm of private equity firm WP Global Partners is leading the fundraising, in which SoftBank is also slated to participate. This investment reflects growing interest in robotics due to advancements in AI.

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Creating a Launch Checklist

Perficient

Are you a PM or BA who has been assigned a project or platform that is new to your company? If so, you may find that theres a learning curve for everything that needs to be executed, especially when it comes to the launch. Not all platforms are the same; they can require different steps to go live. Below is a list of steps I take when creating a launch checklist.

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Assisted Driving Tech in Focus After Fatal Electric Car Crash in China

Ooda Loop

Chinas Xiaomi, a consumer electronics giant turned automaker, said it is cooperating with a police investigation into a fatal crash involving one of its electric vehicles while the driver was using the cars autonomous driving features. A Xiaomi SU7 sedan drove into a concrete guardrail on an expressway in eastern China late on Saturday night […] The post Assisted Driving Tech in Focus After Fatal Electric Car Crash in China appeared first on OODAloop.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.

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Tips for building top performer teams

Perficient

There’s no doubt that every Director or Manager wants a high-performance team that delivers the best results and allows them to focus on building new business opportunities. Come on, let’s face it! If we were comparing a work team with a sports team, who wouldn’t want to have a Barcelona Soccer Club, the Dodgers baseball team, or the Philadelphia Eagles in American football?

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Lightmatter releases new photonics technology for AI chips

Ooda Loop

Lightmatter, a startup valued at $4.4 billion, on Monday released two pieces of technology aimed at speeding up the connections between artificial intelligence chips. Instead of moving information between computer chips as electrical signals, Lightmatter’s technology uses optical connections and what are known as silicon photonics to move the information using light.

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Optimizing AI Efficiency: How We Leverage Prompt Caching for Faster, Smarter Responses

InnovationM

Introduction Lets face itLLMs (Large Language Models) are amazing, but theyre also computationally expensive. Every time a user makes a request, the model fires up, processes vast amounts of data, and generates a response from scratch. This is great for unique queries, but for frequently repeated prompts? Not so much. This is where Prompt Caching comes in.