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Prewave pulls in $20M as supply chain tech investments remain on VC radars

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Despite the investor caution narrative permeating the startup world throughout the economic downturn, certain startup-types have been a little more impervious to market conditions. For its latest cash injection, Prewave has also attracted European VC heavyweight Creandum , which has previously backed the likes of Spotify, Klarna, and iZettle.

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

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Every time you look something up in Google or Bing, you’re helping to train the system. When you click on a search result, the system interprets it as confirmation that the results it has found are correct and uses this information to improve search results in the future. Chatbots work the same way. Amazon Comprehend.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

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Atrium (2017-2020). Atrium, a 100-person legal tech startup founded by Justin Kan, shut down in March after failing to find an efficient way to replace the arduous systems of law firms. Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system.

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IT’s ‘war for talent’ is a losing battle

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In The Talent Delusion: Why Data, Not Intuition, Is the Key to Unlocking Human Potential , from 2017, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic explains that “All organizations have problems and they nearly always concern people.” This means creating a culture where people want to work and establishing systems for work that people want to do.

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10 most in-demand generative AI skills

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Upwork analyzed data from its platform, examining the types of projects companies hired freelancers for thus far this year, to identify the most sought-after AI skills on the market. Here are the top 10 generative AI skills companies are seeking today, according to Upwork. Generative AI, Hiring, IT Skills

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Join Yext’s Howard Lerman for a live Q&A right now

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I want to know at what stage did Howard begin to consciously prep Yext for an IPO — the company went public in 2017 — and how long until he felt the company was ready? We’ll also get Howard’s take on the public markets in 2020 and whether he was happy with Yext’s IPO timing.

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OpenAI rival AI21 Labs raises $64M to ramp up its AI-powered language services

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The enterprise is bullish on AI systems that can understand and generate text, known as language models. ” AI21 Labs was co-founded in 2017 by Goshen, Shashua, and Stanford University professor Yoav Shoham. The company’s questionable recent marketing stunt doesn’t instill enormous confidence.