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Electric Sheep raises $21.5M to make off-the-shelf lawnmowers autonomous

TechCrunch

Solutions such as Electric Sheep’s Dexter robot are helping our customers meet demand and better allocate their already scarce labor pool. After making some tough internal decisions to delay launch back in 2020, the robot mower is still MIA. Electric Sheep Robotics’s (yeah, yeah, Philip K. Dick, et al.) Image Credits: Electric Sheep Robotics.

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How AI orchestration has become more important than the models themselves

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As many companies that have already adopted off-the-shelf GenAI models have found, getting these generic LLMs to work for highly specialized workflows requires a great deal of customization and integration of company-specific data. Large language models (LLMs) just keep getting better. From Llama3.1 to Gemini to Claude3.5

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9 IT resolutions for 2025

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To ensure his team can meet the challenges that such growth brings, he has doubled his IT staff and invested in upskilling his team. And hes maturing IT operations and building in more flexibility, seeing both as essential for his departments ability to meet the citys changing and expanding needs. CIOs are an ambitious lot.

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CIOs’ lack of success metrics dooms many AI projects

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Many organizations have launched dozens of AI proof-of-concept projects only to see a huge percentage fail, in part because CIOs don’t know whether the POCs are meeting key metrics, according to research firm IDC. The potential cost can be huge, with some POCs costing millions of dollars, Saroff says.

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Taktile makes it easier to leverage machine learning in the financial industry

TechCrunch

Meet Taktile , a new startup that is working on a machine learning platform for financial services companies. The product works with both off-the-shelf models and customer-built models. This isn’t the first company that wants to leverage machine learning for financial products. It has raised a $4.7

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Bank of America’s big bet on AI started small

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Generative AI is also being used by advisors to prepare for client meetings, saving tens of thousands of hours each year on client engagement and growth. Hari Gopalkrishnan, head of consumer, business, and wealth management technology at BofA, says the key to Ericas success and longevity has been its small size. Gopalkrishnan says.

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Off the Shelf vs Custom Software: Making the Right Choice for Your Business

Trigent

Here’s all that you need to make an informed choice on off the shelf vs custom software. While doing so, they have two choices – to buy a ready-made off-the-shelf solution created for the mass market or get a custom software designed and developed to serve their specific needs and requirements.