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Carta lays off 10% as CTO lawsuit looms

TechCrunch

For those who rely on Carta for a visa, a 30-minute consultation with immigration counsel. As TechCrunch reported earlier today , Carta is suing its former CTO, Jerry Talton, who was fired “for cause” almost three weeks ago, on December 23, according to the company. Severance packages include 2.5

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Ways to ward off a doomed stakeholder management strategy

CIO

As technologies evolve, CIOs still need to build mutual commitment and support for IT initiatives,” says tech consultant and author Gerald Leonard. In our strategic plan, instead of referring to it as shadow IT, we added something called client technologist enablement,” he says.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO

In these uses case, we have enough reference implementations to point to and say, Theres value to be had here.' Weve seen so many reference implementations, and weve done so many reference implementations, that were going to see massive adoption. Take for example that task of keeping up with regulations.

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Agentic AI design: An architectural case study

CIO

Now that we have covered AI agents, we can see that agentic AI refers to the concept of AI systems being capable of independent action and goal achievement, while AI agents are the individual components within this system that perform each specific task. And one million output records in each of the eight files.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

When possible, refer all matters to committees for “further study and consideration” Attempt to make committees as large as possible — never less than five. Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. Blame the previous CTO.

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Three months ago, he was laid off from Twitter. Now, his competing app Spill is funded.

TechCrunch

Like Twitter, Spill will have a live news feed where users can post “spills,” a reference to the phrase “spill the tea.” Terrell has been consulting Black creators about what they’re looking for on Spill, while CTO DeVaris Brown is building an AI moderation model that incorporates Black dialects in its DNA.

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Fintech Roundup: How going Fast and furious can ruin your startup

TechCrunch

Like maybe don’t refer to yourself as a trailblazer when announcing that your company is shutting down). One day later, on December 7, it was revealed that CTO Diane Yu was transitioning from her role as Chief Technology Officer – a position she had just assumed in January 2021 – into an advisory position.

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