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GitHub Extends Reach and Scope of Generative AI Ambitions

DevOps.com

GitHub today revealed it is adding support for both the Claude Sonnet 3.5 large language model (LLM) from Anthropic and the Gemini Pro 1.5 LLM from Google to its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for writing code.

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5 Rules for Companies Navigating Geopolitical Volatility

Harvard Business Review

In the last decade, we’ve seen new models of corporate leadership through more challenging geopolitical realities. These models follow five rules for businesses looking to adapt, innovate, and grow: 1) They look for a seat at the table and opportunities to shape their role; 2) They lean into geopolitical “swing states”; 3) They don’t compartmentalize crises; 4) They don’t rely on predictions; they plan around inflection points; and 5) They understand the limits to the power of commerce in geopol

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Why ethical AI should be important to CIOs

CIO

Salima Bhimani has been encouraging the responsible and ethical use of AI for several years as Alphabet’s first chief strategist and director for inclusive and responsible technology, business, and leaders from 2017 to 2023. At Google’s parent company, she worked with moonshot companies such as Waymo, Wing, and X, to shape sustainable businesses and global impact.

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Article: Jump Into the Demoscene; It Is Where Logic, Creativity, and Artistic Expression Merge

InfoQ Culture Methods

The demoscene is a vibrant, creative subculture where you can use mathematics, algorithms, creativity, and a wee bit of chaos to express yourself. In this article, I want to inspire you to grab the opportunity to get your voice and vision on the table, and show you that the demoscene is not only for mathematical wizards.

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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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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed In October: More Accessible Tech And The Ultimate Weed Wacker

Crunchbase News

This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting startup funding deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out last month’s entry here. While the goblins and ghouls make their rounds this month, so have some pretty fascinating startups with funding news. From startups trying to make sure tech is more usable for people with disabilities, to those looking to harness the power of the ocean, there was some eye-catching tech that raised cash this month.

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7 signs it’s time to modernize your IT systems

CIO

Technology continues to advance at a furious pace. That’s great, because a strong IT environment is necessary to take advantage of the latest innovations and business opportunities. The bad news, however, is that IT system modernization requires significant financial and time investments. When addressed properly , application and platform modernization drives immense value and positions organizations ahead of their competition, says Anindeep Kar, a consultant with technology research and advisor

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Restoring collaboration across silos: A case study in effective knowledge management

Agile Alliance

A global Agile team struggled with silos and poor knowledge management but regained efficiency by implementing structured documentation, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring regular updates. The post Restoring collaboration across silos: A case study in effective knowledge management first appeared on Agile Alliance.

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GitHub Removes Data Barriers for EU Enterprises 

Xebia

On October 29, 2024, GitHub, the leading Copilot-powered developer platform, will launch GitHub Enterprise Cloud with data residency. This will enable enterprises to choose precisely where their data is stored — starting with the EU and expanding globally. GitHub’s new solution addresses long-standing concerns for organizations operating under strict regulations, particularly in highly regulated sectors like finance, healthcare, and industries managing sensitive intellectual property.

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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Crusoe Energy, Insider And Biotech Raise Big

Crunchbase News

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2024 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. There may not have been a $1 billion raise this week, but large money deals did abound.

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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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Are enterprises ready to adopt AI at scale?

CIO

Whether it’s a financial services firm looking to build a personalized virtual assistant or an insurance company in need of ML models capable of identifying potential fraud, artificial intelligence (AI) is primed to transform nearly every industry. In fact, a recent Cloudera survey found that 88% of IT leaders said their organization is currently using AI in some way.

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I converted a mini PC running Windows 11 into a Linux workstation, and it blew me away

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

If you're looking for a small form-factor PC that doesn't skimp on performance, the Herk Orion might be just what you need.

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How to get errors logs visible in Google Error Reporting

Xebia

Do you want to know how to get your error logs to appear in Google Error Reporting? In this blog, I will show you how to configure your application’s logging so that errors logged in Google Cloud Logging will automatically appear in Google Error Reporting : By configuring structured logging and adding two properties to the log record, this integration can be done quickly.

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Eye On AI: The Never-Ending AI Valuation Escalation

Crunchbase News

This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. It really never stops. It’s only been a few weeks since OpenAI announced its long-awaited raise of $6.6 billion at a post-money valuation of $157 billion. The Thrive Capital -led raise nearly doubled the San Francisco-based AI giant’s $80 billion valuation from its secondary offering in February.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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AI & the enterprise: protect your data, protect your enterprise value

CIO

In 2018, I wrote an article asking, “Will your company be valued by its price-to-data ratio?” The premise was that enterprises needed to secure their critical data more stringently in the wake of data hacks and emerging AI processes. I wrote, “ It may be even more important for the security team to protect and maintain the integrity of proprietary data to generate true, long-term enterprise value.

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Diving deeper into using the Strangler Fig with Mobile Apps

Martin Fowler

Matthew Foster and John Mikel Amiel Regida dive into the details of incrementally modernizing a legacy mobile application. They look a t how to implant the strangler fig into the existing app, setting up bi-directional communication between the new app and the legacy, and ensuring effective regression testing on the overall system.

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New Relic Relies on AI Agents to Launch Intelligent Observability Platform

DevOps.com

New Relic this week unfurled a revamped observability platform based on an artificial intelligence engine that enables anyone from application developers to business analysts to employ natural language to surface insights.

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Roadmap For Exits: How AI Startups Can Break Through 

Crunchbase News

By Priya Saiprasad It’s no surprise that the AI market has skyrocketed in recent years, with venture capital investments in artificial intelligence totaling $332 billion since 2019, per Crunchbase data. However, as AI booms, exit value in the United States is plummeting. M&A for venture-backed companies totals just $47 billion so far in 2024, down from $148 billion in 2021, Crunchbase data shows.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Why CIOs need a two-tier approach to gen AI

CIO

CIOs failing to gain organizational traction with generative AI might want to rethink how they are introducing the technology — and how they are honing their AI strategies to suit. When IT leaders consider generative AI, they should create separate strategies when rolling out productivity-enhancing AI tools than when deploying business-case-driven AI solutions, according to new research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Track, allocate, and manage your generative AI cost and usage with Amazon Bedrock

AWS Machine Learning - AI

As enterprises increasingly embrace generative AI , they face challenges in managing the associated costs. With demand for generative AI applications surging across projects and multiple lines of business, accurately allocating and tracking spend becomes more complex. Organizations need to prioritize their generative AI spending based on business impact and criticality while maintaining cost transparency across customer and user segments.

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AI Is Transforming the Startup Landscape

Harvard Business Review

The startup ecosystem is shifting due to the rise of artificial intelligence. AI favors larger companies, necessitating a change in mindset for startups from disruption to transformation. While startups will face challenges in accessing sufficient data and computing power, they still have opportunities to innovate by providing AI-driven services directly to consumers.

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Crowdbotics Integrates AI Platform for Requirements Docs with GitHub Copilot

DevOps.com

Crowdbotics today made available an extension for GitHub Copilot that makes it simpler to generate code using higher-quality requirements documents. Unveiled at the GitHub Universe 2024 conference, this extension provides a simpler method to invoke an AI platform that Crowdbotics created to convert plain language descriptions of applications into a requirements document.

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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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The future of Gen AI in analytics

CIO

As businesses increasingly rely on digital platforms to interact with customers, the need for advanced tools to understand and optimize these experiences has never been greater. Enter Gen AI, a transformative force reshaping digital experience analytics (DXA). Gen AI allows organizations to unlock deeper insights and act on them with unprecedented speed by automating the collection and analysis of user data.

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Why organisations need an ML Solutions Architect

Xebia

Machine learning (ML) projects often fail despite the strong focus companies have on implementing MLOps 1. In my experience this often comes from these three common issues. Misaligned business and technical goals Insufficient risk mitigation Lack of maturity Misaligned business and technical goals hinder effective collaboration. This results in ML solutions built in search of a problem rather than ML solutions focussed on delivering value.

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How to Lead When the Future Feels Unpredictable

Harvard Business Review

Three ways to help your colleagues — and yourself — cope during liminal times.

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Instabug Leverages Generative AI to Automatically Fix Mobile Applications

DevOps.com

Instabug today revealed it has added an ability to both analyze mobile application crash report data and source code, to better pinpoint the root cause of issues accurately, which it then feeds into a proprietary generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, dubbed SmartResolve, that automatically generates the code needed to resolve it.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Ways to ward off a doomed stakeholder management strategy

CIO

While new technologies have shifted priorities, the need to manage stakeholders has not, says Krishna Prasad, CIO of technology services business UST. And with AI used in almost every part of the business, stakeholders have become much more tech savvy, reducing their dependency on IT departments. But as a result, anybody could then expose a lot of company data inadvertently.

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How to analyze VPC flow logs and find suspicious destinations from the command line

Xebia

In this blog I will show you how you can easily analyse the VPC flows logs and find suspicious internet destinations, from the command line. The process goes through the following 5 steps. Retrieve flow log to a text file Limit the flow log to NAT gateway traffic Removing traffic to own public IP addresses Removing traffic to Datadog Analyze the remaining flow logs But first, what can we find in a VPC flow log?

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iOS 18.1 update triggers eruption of iPhone battery life complaints - what to know

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Keep calm and carry a power bank.

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