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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

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To help address the problem, he says, companies are doing a lot of outsourcing, depending on vendors and their client engagement engineers, or sending their own people to training programs. And with all the competition for AI talent, some companies are taking a different approach to recruiting.

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Activeloop snags $5M seed to build streaming database for AI applications

TechCrunch

. “[We are] introducing a database for AI, specifically a storage layer that helps to very efficiently store the data and then stream this to machine learning applications or training models to do computer vision, audio processing, NLP (natural language processing) and so on,” Buniatyan explained.

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How prioritizing training and mentorship retains talent

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At Discover ® , on-the-job training and mentorship are key components of how Discover cultivates and nurtures talent from within. Hear from three different employees about the unique training programs and opportunities they’ve had to develop their careers at Discover. I want to continue to help others access those same opportunities.”

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HiddenLayer emerges from stealth to protect AI models from attacks

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According to Gartner, 30% of all AI cyberattacks in 2022 will leverage these techniques along with data poisoning, which involves injecting bad data into the dataset used to train models to attack AI systems. As in any industry, fighting security threats is a never-ending task. ” (Cook is unaffiliated with HiddenLayer.) .

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Nana nabs $6M for an online academy and marketplace dedicated to appliance repair

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Founder and CEO David Zamir is not actually an Uber alum, but one of his first employees, VP of Engineering Oliver Nicholas, is an early Uber engineer, and the company has also found a lot of traction of Uber drivers this year, after many found themselves out of work after the chilling effect that the pandemic had on ridesharing.

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Andela begins global expansion in 37 countries months after going remote across Africa

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Andela, which builds engineering teams tapping African talent, goes fully remote and opens to the wider continent. When Andela launched in 2014, it built hubs in Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda to source, vet and train engineers to be part of remote teams for international companies.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. And, as a fully remote company, we have a lot of flexibility in where we hire. The founders were immersed in XP, and XP is where we want to return, but there was a period of time where the company grew quickly and lost that XP culture.