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CIOs contend with gen AI growing pains

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MIT event, moderated by Lan Guan, CAIO at Accenture Accenture “98% of business leaders say they want to adopt AI, right, but a lot of them just don’t know how to do it,” claimed Guan, who is currently working with a large airliner in Saudi Arabia, a large pharmaceutical company, and a high-tech company to implement generative AI blueprints in-house.

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AARP Innovation Labs takes a holistic approach to age-tech at CES

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AARP Innovation Labs, the incubator program, highlights the many facets of aging in its CES’ virtual presentation with a roster of startups that were divided into five groups: community, clinic, wellness, financial services and housing. AARP Innovation addresses that problem with its selection of “community” startups.

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African healthtech startups in the supply chain segment show rapid growth, spurring a $7M investment initiative

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One way Adeseun reckons that might happen is if B2B e-commerce platforms in retail take an interest in pharmaceutical and health-based products. 60% said theirs was on quality, while 43% of innovators claimed an effect in lowering pharmaceutical and drug prices. Women founders are disadvantaged,” the director said.

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Rethinking digital transformation for the agentic AI era

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AI can also help with customer pilots by, for example in the pharmaceuticals industry, improving patient recruitment and communications during clinical trials. AI agents can accelerate the design process, facilitate more testing scenarios, and integrate customer interactions to ensure the process is more agile and iterative.

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The road to S/4HANA: How CIOs are managing SAP ECC’s end of support

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For this reason, the business case must also weigh in the cost of remaining on legacy platforms, including a lack of innovation from SAP on ECC. SAP is not investing in all of the new innovations like AI, machine learning, and automation for ECC customers, he says.

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Hear how Cambrian BioPharma is reinventing drug (and drug company) development

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The startup Cambrian BioPharma is developing a life-changing technology while pioneering a radical approach to a pharmaceutical company. Cambrian BioPharma bills itself as a new pharmaceutical company with a revolutionary approach to developing and managing drug development. Register here. It’s free to watch and participate.

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Nanome raises $3 million to help scientists get up close with molecular structures in VR

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Nanome is reimagining the way we interact with science at a time when innovation in collaboration is more important than ever before,” said Bullpen Capital General Partner Ann Lai in a press release. But they have plans to use this new funding to expand into pharmaceutical chemistry, synthetic biology, and even education.

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