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CIOs are bullish on AI agents. IT employees? Not so much.

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Frontline AI practitioners have likely seen the amount of customization, quality assurance, and maintenance required to make a somewhat functional agentic workflow, Mikhailov says. Deployment takes a lot of work Some of the resistance is likely coming from IT professionals who comprehend the work needed to deploy them, Mikhailov says.

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Mobot secures capital to grow its fleet of robots that bug-test mobile apps

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And to some outfits, the highest-quality testing simply isn’t available, either due to logistics reasons or the relentless push to reach release. She says demand for quality assurance testing in the mobile space hasn’t waned as companies continue to ship new apps and updates to existing apps. million. . ”

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Wikifactory has raised $4.5M for its ‘GitHub for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely

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With the investment, the company will build a “quality-assured” manufacturing marketplace, as well as mirrored servers in China to open access to its hardware capital, Shenzhen. The “impact” aspect of Wikifactory’s playbook is that it involves less shipping and less costly inventories being required.

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QA Wolf exits stealth with an end-to-end service for software testing

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.” Perl argues that one of the most complex challenges in building software today is the cost — the people, time, infrastructure cost — to test code from an end user’s perspective. Indeed, Statista found that organizations spent around 23% of their annual IT budgets on quality assurance and testing between 2012 and 2019.

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How BQA streamlines education quality reporting using Amazon Bedrock

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BQA oversees a comprehensive quality assurance process, which includes setting performance standards and conducting objective reviews of education and training institutions. For those interested in exploring the technical details further, the full code for this implementation is available in the following GitHub repo.

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Z Fellows wants to give you $10K to launch a crypto startup

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He’s looking for startups working on crypto infrastructure, NFTs, DAOs, DeFi protocols and gaming. Given that Z Fellows doesn’t require the same amount of buy-in as a Y Combinator, quality assurance could be an issue. Z Fellows offers $10k to stop what you’re doing for a week and work on a side project.

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Blockchain gaming survey: 7 investors discuss regulation, opportunities and NFT hype

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Interestingly, at least one investor noted that growth wasn’t a key consideration: “We tell our companies to really think about the missing pieces, particularly in gaming infrastructure,” said Banafsheh Fathieh, head of investments, Americas at Prosus Ventures.