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Digital transformation 2025: What’s in, what’s out

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2025 will be the year when generative AI needs to generate value, says Louis Landry, CTO at Teradata. Other coding efficiencies and improvements in developer experience should give CIOs new incentives to drive stronger software development practices and reduce technical debt.

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Latent AI, which says it can compress common AI models by 10x, lands some key backing

TechCrunch

Steve Jurvetson, the veteran investor and cofounder of Future Ventures, says to “think of face-detection algorithms running locally within security cameras or appliances, or Siri-like voice interfaces working instantly, even when there’s no network connectivity.”

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Kudos, with its cotton-based, eco-friendly diaper, soaks up $2.4 million in seed funding

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Cofounder and CEO Amrita Saigal says that Kudos is the first and only disposable baby diaper to earn the cotton natural seal from Cotton Inc. Saigal actually left a career at P&G, which is where she met Kudos’ diaper engineering advisor Jim Keighley (her former boss at P&G). million seed round of financing today.

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Traceable AI nabs $60M to secure app APIs using machine learning

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The new capital values the company at more than $450 million post-money, and CEO Jyoti Bansal — who’s also the cofounder of BIG Labs and Unusual Ventures — says that it’ll be put toward product development, recruitment, and customer acquisition. billion) and Harness (which recently raised a $230 million Series D). .”

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SonarSource raises $412M to scan codebases for bugs and vulnerabilities

TechCrunch

Recently, they’ve begun to realize and recognize that source code is the key component of their software — source code dictates how software will behave and also perform — and as such must receive good care,” SonarSource CEO Olivier Gaudin told TechCrunch via email. ” Detecting issues in source code.

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nextmv raises $8M Series A to increase accessibility to its automation optimization tech

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Other investors include Github CTO Jason Warner, Seamless founder Jason Finger, Stripe COO Claire Johnson, Ankit Agarwal from Greenhawk Capital, as well as other institutional investors such as 2048 , Dynamo , and Atypical. FirstMark , an existing investor, doubled down on nextmv and led the Series A. nextmv picks up $2.7M

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How Ryan Reynolds and Mint Mobile worked without becoming the joke

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He also cofounded marketing agency Maximum Effort alongside George Dewey, which has made its own impact over the past several years. He brought on the head of mobile technology to explain what 5G actually is, and after hearing the technical explanation, happily said “We may never know, so we’ll just give it away for free.”

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