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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

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What happened In CrowdStrikes own root cause analysis, the cybersecurity companys Falcon system deploys a sensor to user machines to monitor potential dangers. The company released a fix 78 minutes later, but making it required users to manually access the affected devices, reboot in safe mode, and delete a bad file. Trust, but verify.

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Unlocking the full potential of enterprise AI

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Research from Gartner, for example, shows that approximately 30% of generative AI (GenAI) will not make it past the proof-of-concept phase by the end of 2025, due to factors including poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, and escalating costs. [1] Reliability and security is paramount.

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Agents are here — but can you see what they’re doing?

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For example, AI agents should be able to take actions on behalf of users, act autonomously, or interact with other agents and systems. As the models powering the individual agents get smarter, the use cases for agentic AI systems get more ambitious and the risks posed by these systems increase exponentially.

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Nigerian agritech startup Releaf secures $4.2M to scale its food processing technology

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And though Nigeria’s food processing systems have a keen resemblance to the West with respect to big factories and huge economies of scale in high-demand cities, farmers still suffer from poor logistics networks. When the pair started the company in 2017, the idea behind Releaf was not concrete yet as the team, based in the U.S.,

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Insurance Technologies: 13 Disruptive Ideas to Change Insurance Companies with Telematics, Blockchain, Machine Learning, and APIs

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Have you ever tried to check your insurance claim status? While some insurance carriers have made significant modifications courtesy of disruptive digitalization (we’ve already discussed this topic in our whitepaper), most companies trail behind. trillion – needs to urgently change the ways of business development.

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Ghost Financial whips up new capital into finance tools for ghost kitchens

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So to get in front of the demand and further develop Ghost Financial’s first two core products, the company took in a $2.5 million pre-seed round to build engineering and marketing teams. Image Credits: Ghost Financial. Meyer cited research showing that by 2030, ghost kitchens will be a $1 trillion industry.

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Making AI real: It takes a CAIO

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This is a significant change moment,” says Rich Wiedenbeck, CAIO of Ameritas, an insurance and financial services company headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska. Of those, nearly half (49%) said that leader will be part of the C-suite executive team. Reporting to Wiedenbeck is a team of some 20 people, mainly technologists.