CIO
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly emerging as a game changer for enterprises, but turning its potential into measurable value remains a significant challenge. According to a recent IDC study (Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, Wave 4, IDC, April 2024), companies are conducting an average of 37 GenAI proofs of concept (POCs), with only five advancing to production.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Contrary to popular belief, companies can create innovative solutions that address environmental challenges for society while delivering immediate economic benefits for themselves — it doesn’t have to be either or. Nondisruptive creation, an approach to innovation that is comfortably familiar without being fully familiar, could open up a profitable path for industries while you address environmental concerns, allowing you to achieve positive-sum outcomes for your company, your industry, and soci
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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy reunite in a powerful short film using AI and deepfake technology to give fans the emotional farewell they deserve.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
OpenAI's GPT-4o model makes it harder to determine who'll find free ChatGPT adequate and when ChatGPT Plus is worth it. We break down your options to help you decide.
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AWS Machine Learning - AI
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
In the rapidly evolving world of AI, the ability to customize language models for specific industries has become more important. Although large language models (LLMs) are adept at handling a wide range of tasks with natural language, they excel at general purpose tasks as compared with specialized tasks. This can create challenges when processing text data from highly specialized domains with their own distinct terminology or specialized tasks where intrinsic knowledge of the LLM is not well-sui
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Martin Fowler
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
A very powerful new coding assistance feature made its way into GitHub Copilot at the end of October. This new “multi-file editing” capability expands the scope of AI assistance from small, localized suggestions to larger implementations across multiple files. Birgitta Böckeler tries out this new capability and finds out how useful its changes tend to be, and wonders about what feedback loops are needed with them.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Leaders and companies everywhere recognize the transformative potential that AI holds for their business — but very few of them have a systematic plan for how to experiment with and adopt AI at scale. In this article, John Winsor offers one, based on the successful work that he and Jin Paik have done in recent years helping companies experiment with and adopt digital-talent platforms at scale.
Hacker Earth Developers Blog
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Virtual hiring events are becoming vital for modern recruitment, and the hiring world is changing rapidly. As businesses embrace remote-first cultures and global talent pools, virtual recruitment events are a cost-effective, efficient, and scalable way to source and connect with top talent. These events provide an opportunity for employers to do just that and showcase their brand, interact with candidates, and streamline the hiring process, all in a digital environment.
CIO
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
In the face of shrinking budgets and rising customer expectations, banks are increasingly relying on AI, according to a recent study by consulting firm Publicis Sapiens. The Global Banking Benchmark Study 2024 , which surveyed more than 1,000 executives from the banking sector worldwide, found that almost a third (32%) of banks’ budgets for customer experience transformation is now spent on AI, machine learning, and generative AI.
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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?
Xebia
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
dbt (data build tool) has seen increasing use in recent years as a tool to transform data in data warehouses. At Xebia, we have seen a variety of dbt implementations and the challenges encountered when scaling their impact. Whether you have a single dbt project or a multitude of dbt projects, one common challenge is maintaining conventions as the number of contributors to your dbt project(s) grows.
Crunchbase News
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
The Exploration Company locked up a $160 million Series B as the European startup looks to develop its own space capsule to rival SpaceX ’s Dragon. The new round was co-led by Balderton Capital and Plural and brings TEC’s total funding to nearly $230 million, per the company. “Over the past 12 months, we have hit major operational and financial milestones and signed significant service contracts with both space agencies and commercial clients,” said CEO and co-founder Hélène Huby in a statement.
Honeycomb
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
We’ve been talking about observability 2.0 a lot lately; what it means for telemetry and instrumentation, its practices and sociotechnical implications, and the dramatically different shape of its cost model. With all of these details swimming about, I’m afraid we’re already starting to lose sight of what matters. The distinction between observability 1.0 and observability 2.0 is not a laundry list , it’s not marketing speak, and it’s not that complicated or hard to understand.
CIO
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Most IT and business executives recognize the necessity of close alignment. They understand that their strategies, capabilities, resources, and management systems should be configured to support the enterprise’s overarching purpose and goals. But the challenge many executives face is that they tend to focus on how their particular area aligns with overall goals, to the exclusion of other facets of the organization.
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.
Palo Alto Networks
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
2025 will be the “year of disruption” as organizations experience an increase in cyberattacks that halt business operations and impact end users. This disruption will be defined by a rise in mega breaches that take entire enterprise networks offline, driven by supply chain vulnerabilities and attackers reaching new levels of speed and sophistication.
Crunchbase News
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
In the world of startups, the allure of venture capital often overshadows the virtues of bootstrapping. Recent exits of bootstrapped companies — like Text Request ’s acquisition by Commify , Syft Analytics ’ sale to Xero , and Silo.AI ’s exit to AMD — highlight the power and potential of staying self-funded. These examples underscore why more entrepreneurs should consider bootstrapping as a strategic choice, not as a fallback, focusing on sustainable growth which can become effective in times of
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.
CIO
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Many organizations are mortgaging their futures by reallocating IT resources from long-term projects to achieve short-term wins, according to a recent survey of CEOs. Two-thirds of CEOs surveyed by the IBM Institute for Business Value acknowledge raiding long-term IT projects to achieve short-term goals. At the same time, the CEOs surveyed see a focus on short-term performance as the top barrier to innovation.
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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Your boss has read about the power of generative AI and wants you to stop dithering about potential risks and start delivering results.
Crunchbase News
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
U.S. venture funding has ticked higher this year, led by the AI investment boom. But not all geographies have shared equally in the gains. Among the biggest states for startup funding, California has seen by far the largest rise in total investment. Others — including Colorado, New Jersey and New York — are also up for the year, per a Crunchbase analysis of startup funding by state.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
By challenging the conventional wisdom that bigger is always better, we can create space for a healthier, happier economy.
CIO
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Generative AI has the potential to redefine productivity, create novel applications, and reinvent customer experience. But without a strategic approach, you could not only miss out on the promise of this powerful tool, but also drain time, energy, and resources away from other mission-critical initiatives across your organization. To that end, Kristen Backeberg, Director of Global ISV Partner Marketing at AWS, and Val Henderson, President and CRO at Caylent, recently sat down to discuss maybe th
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.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy reunite in a powerful short film using AI and deepfake technology to give fans the emotional farewell they deserve.
Crunchbase News
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
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. Just as the holiday season begins, a sleighful of companies unveiled large funding rounds.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
If you fail to understand the fundamental nature of these tools, you’ll inevitably use them incorrectly.
CIO
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
CIOs feeling the pressure to deploy successful AI projects have a second concern: that they don’t have the money to pull it off. Ninety percent of CIOs recently surveyed by Gartner say that managing AI costs is limiting their ability to get value from AI. In addition, if CIOs don’t fully understand the cost of scaling generative AI, they could miscalculate by 500% to 1,000%, says Hung LeHong, an analyst focused on executive leadership for digital business at Gartner.
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Xebia
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
I hope the title sparked your interested but you might still be puzzled what this blog is exactly about. Let me explain. PKU (Phenylketonuria) is a rare metabolic disorder that requires meticulous dietary planning. Those affected must adhere to a strict low-protein diet to prevent severe health issues. To raise awareness for PKU and to raise money to battle metabolic disorders I’ve created a containerized web app using Streamlit: the PKU Protein Puzzle.
Crunchbase News
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Amazon has agreed to invest another $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic, a ChatGPT rival with its AI assistant Claude. It was just last fall when Amazon agreed to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, a deal that gave the Seattle-based e-commerce and cloud titan a minority stake in the startup. The immediate investment was $1.25 billion, with the remaining $2.75 billion in funding coming earlier this year.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
If the capabilities of AI systems continue to evolve, the technology will radically alter how companies stay ahead of new challengers.
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